Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-06


 Pirates Black Rag.
 might with truth retort that I had found the old Democratic ship with sails dismantled. with ne flag at it's j our state. I want also to state that there is class of Democrats to whom l do not care to address myself; that class is usually to be found in the shadow of the county offices and cor ner groceries, and with a few honor able exceptions belong body and soul to the party machine as absolutely eS any African belonged 60 his master in the old days of slavery
 Of course l an not wasting any time talking to Democrats of that ilk. but to the great mass of honest Democrats who don't want office, who don't eX peet office. who only want to know the way of the truth that they may walk therein, who only ask to know the facts, that they may go to the polls and vote as intelligent, patriotic Gtti, mastneaG save the DIack nag or 8 pirate, and manned by motley crew Of free-bo0ters, so infinitely meaner than any Republican in Kentucky knows how to be. that to talk about Republicanism would be tame and commonplace indeed.
 But 1 am not here to talk politics, and my purpose is to address myself to Democrats. alone, to reason with them about the duty which we, as Democrats, owe to oar party and that higher duty which .ge, as citizens, owe ze0s. To xese men I dc W:tnt to talk, and to them alone.
 The questions presented to the pe0 pie of Kentucky for settlement this fall are the gravCgt that ever confront ed q free people. In their presence all questions of finance, of tariffs and trusts. of imperialism and expansion. fade into insignifieance, and if the peo- pie of Kentucky could realize the puf pose of this Music hall nominee, and know the men that he is gathering about him to aid in his plan to make all the people of Kentucky his political slaves, even as he has already made the people of his own town his polit- ieal serfs, the alarm bells would ring out in every hamlet in our common wealth. and on every hillside our peo- pie would spring to arms, determined to be free. stirred by the presence Of danger, as they have not been since the dark days of the sixties, when wars rude alarm proclaimed the great struggle between the states.
 A terrific indictment has been pre- sented against the nominee of the Mu- sic hall convention, and it demands at his hands a serious and candid answer. and 1 submit to your intelligence if he has made such an answer, or any answer at all. That indictment says, MT. Goebel, you are charged with the formation and execution of a cOnspir- aey to rob the people of various coun- ties of the commonwealth, of the rep resentatives freely chosen by them selves and sent to Louisville to record their will. and with having substituted in their place your own chosen crea- lures, not to do their wish. but your will. What say you MT. Goebel, to this grave charge, which, if true, is ab- 5olutely destructive of free represen- tatiye government, guilty or not guilty?
 You are charged, Mir. Goebel, says the indictment, by one of your fellow candidates for the nomination for the high office of governor; that at Louis vile you deliberately betrayed him with a lie, and that through the agency of that lie you secured the nomination.; an infamous charge, which, if true, not only renders you unworthy of the sup port of any citizen, but absolutely unfit for the association of gentlemen. What say you, Mir. Goebel, guilty or not guilty?
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 And the piping treble of this politi- cal soubrette makes answer: The L. &5 N. will get you if you don't watch out, " and that, my friends, is the only answer you get to these charges of infamy and dishonor. want to say to MT. Goebel's credit, and it is about the only thing on earth that can be said to his credit. that he has too much respect for the intelli- gence of the people to even attempt a defense of himself. or of the conven- ton that gave birth to his nomination.
 But his running mate, Senator Blackburn, breaks lance for his chum Say what you may of Senator Goebel says Blackburn, mo man ever remind you that that defense is the only defense that any man living or dead ever made of Ben Butler in his palmy days, and it is most appropriate that our distinguished and voiceful senator should go back into the realms of ancient history and resurreet that decayed defense for a man, who for all that is dastardly in public methods and public morals, makes Ben Butler look like common everyday Sunday school teacher But l don't want to do even Goebel an injustice, and I believe he has attempted another defense of him. self.
 A gentleman from his own town, Theodore Hallam, drew a word picture of him which, if at all lifelike, shows him absolutely unworthy of anybody's support. In a speech at Bowling Green he answered those charges in his own brilliant and inimitable fashion, ar- swered them like great lawyer and statesman that he is, answered them all in one paragraph by saying that one of Hallam's brothers had been in the penitentiary Those of you who read the newspapers-of course, those of you who only read the Courier Journal and Times don't know what is going on in the state-but those who read the newspapers have witnessed the evolution of that baseless false- hood, while incontestible and incontro~ vertible testimony has consigned it's author to the ranks of common slam