Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-03-14

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The greatest Outrage on public de.
cency, ana the imeanest eGort to muz.
zle the press, was made few days ago
in Frankfort, the perpetrator being
no less a notorious parsonage than the
Governor Of Kentucky, whom the
good people Of the State elected to
see that The laws we're executed, not to
break them after the manner Of cut
throat or black leg. The whole story
in q mt shell Is that Mr.. Joseph
Eakins, acting under orders from the
head Of bic paper, the Louisville Com
mercial, went to Secretary Of State
Blackburn, and asked to be Informed
as to the number and amount Of fines
RENTED against Louisville gamblers.
Oa the fimsy excuse that be had not
time TO attend to such requests. be re-
fused the young man, nor would he
allow him TO examine the books in his
presence. In his dispatch to this pa
per the next day he told of the refusal
and added the very natural supposition
that there was evidently something
which must not be brought to light,
concealed in the lids Of that book.
Next day the Governor attacked
the correspondent, and with stick
in hand, delivered the most disgrace.
full volley of oaths at him ever strung
together, threatening at the same time
to break his back. The correspondent,
respecting his age and position, fell
back in good order, though he would
have been justi6abIe 10 the eyes Of the
law in resorting 10 the most forcible
means at his disposal to prevent the
assault. But the browning act Of the
great outrage is yet to be told. Jim
Blackburn, by the grace of his
brother Secretary of State, in company
with a pal, laid in wait for the re-
porter at the telegraph Office, and told
him if he sent a word OF what had
passed between him and the Governor
that day it would be at his own per-
sonap peril, Well may the Commercial
inquire ''if there is a Gar among us,
and well may it add: We would be
sneaking ours indeed il we allowed
braves of any clique to fright us from
our right or scare us from our duty. We
denounce their conduct as a gross out
rage on the special proprieties Of their
position, and on all the proprieties of
civilized life; we insist on the right of
the public to knowledge Of what
public records contain, and we reiter-
ate our opinion that the refusal to
show public record to the public
gives proper occasion for suspicion
that its publication would disclose facts
not pleasant for the custodians of that
record TO have known.
SERGEANT MASON, who sought no
Ioriety by shooting at Guiteau last
September, has just been tried by
Court Martial on the charge and SEN
teneed 10 be dishonorsbly discharged
from the army, with the loss Of all
pay aad allowance now due, and to
,e confined in the penitentiary at AL,
ANY, N. Y, at hard labor for eight
ears. A pretty severe, but withal a
ust sentence. Mason's business was
o guard Guiteau and see that no
arm came to him from mobs or out
ide force Of any kind, but instead, he
onceived of the cowardly aud unsOl-
ierly act to kill his prisoner and was
My prevented therefrom by the un-
readiness of his aim. His act was
neaner even than that of the misera-
lie assassin, since 1t was devoid of
ny of the Immediate dangers that it
'ould be supposed would naturally at
end the shooting Of a President. in a ,
'ublic place. and the sentence ought !
o be carried 10 the very letter.
The republican members of the