Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-03-24
PRESIDENT HOWELL THREATENED
WITH IMPEACHMENT.
Vice President Kelly Takes the Chair-A
johnson Brings In Politics.

citement, as the members removed
their tobacco guilds, hung up their
overcoats and quietly took their usual
seats, while President Howell pro
ceeded to rap the Bald-headed Club
to order. Everybody believed some
thing would happen before the ses-
sion was ended, as the newspaper
correspondents used to say at Frank
fort, "before the war" And there
was no disappointment. Something
did happen.
No sooner had the President laid
down the gold-rim med and diamond
studded gavel, than Col. Joe ivy
man got up, arose and assumed a
standing position. Taking an Irish
potato from his pocket and looking
it square in the eyes, he threw the
following bomb:
"Mr. PRESIDENT will still address
you by that title until the the truth
is Known am informed that a
bald-headed man named Mcintosh
was sent to the penitentiary last week,
and that you sat quietly by, with a bald
headed Judge on the bench and sever
al bald-headed men on the jury, and
did not lift a finger or raise that
voice of yours, that you love so much
to hear, to keep the prisoner from
falling into the clutches of the law.
1t is true he was not a member of
this Club, but no bald-headed man
ought to be sent to any place where
he will be forced to associate with
hairy headed convicts. Unless you
can prove that you did all in your
power to keep Mcintosh out of the
penitentiary, / propose to move, here
and now, that you be impeached. l
will give you one minute to collect
your thoughts and prove your inno-
cence."
"Your information is strictly cor
rect" said Col. Howell, as he elevated
himself to a perpendicular attitude.
1.-THE unfortunate individual for
whom you show such praiseworthy
compassion violated the eleventh |
commandment and allowed himself |
to get caught. He was defended by
Col. Walter Southall, member of
this Club, tried by jury of his peers
and their decision was that he should
be deprived of his liberty and placed
in durance vile. He was not my
client and his misfortune is due
to the fact that he failed to
employ me as his counsel. As to the
business, just crack your
whip and let 'er go Gallagher"
Col. Twyman accepted the chal
enge and at once drew up articles of
A committee with the
mover as Chairman was designated {
md formal trial will take place at
he next meeting.
In the meanwhile Col. Howell was !
equired to vacate the Chair and Col. 1
Walter Kelly, the Vice President, was l
allied upon to preside.
Col. Kelly stated upon assuming
be chair that it afforded him pleas
re to announce that Gov. Bradley
ad appointed Judge j. 1. Landes,
lember of this Club, judge of the "
,ourt of Appeals. Judge Landes was "
lready straining himself black in the !;
ace drawing the salary which = :"
to SIG day for the 3l3 II
-Ork DAYS in a wear, =
Col. J. Woodbridge here interrupt n
Col. Kelly to express his surprise =,
lat Republican like Judge Landes ~
ould allow himself to be put on a y,
) to basis-$l6 a day to l man. .,
This joke brought down the house. ~ q,
his must of course be taken in a fig O.
rative sense. 1t did not literally =;
ring down the house, which was a 70
lbstantial brick structure. The idea :"
tempted to be conveyed is that it ~
rought bown storm of applause, as 81,
Q literary characters say, from the in
,ople in the house. 70
Col. Kelly then resumed the thread -
his discourse and explained that w
ldge Landes' first opinion was in 70
uIe case. 1t was not one of those 30
ules accompanied by 40 acres of To
nd that the Republicans didn't tn
We the negroes, but plain, every w
" mule that came to grief from 81
iiision with railroad locomotive, :
he mule was dead when he got into q
Q courts and although he had not ~.
t read the opinion, Col. Kelly said oe
was satisfied that Judge Landes Fl
d decided that the mule was still Of
,ad. n,
Of mules" put in h.
D. w. Il. Bonte at this point, "re- NJ
inds me that l would like to know f.