Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-16
THE FIGHT IN KENTUCKY.

When the democratic bear-garden con-
! vention was held in Louisville, b Goe-
bells nomination for governor Of Ken
lucky was brought about through intim-
! idation and fraud, the Inter Mountain
took occasion to c~riticise the undue haste
with which his candidacy was endorsed
by the democratic press of Montana Bns
the voice of the democracy is considered
the voice of God, by those who draw no
distinction between an honest and a
dishonest convention. The support
which Goebel receives in Montana will
do little to offset the detection in his own
state. The better class of democrats are
making it very sultry for the nominee.
A dispatch under date of the 14th instant
says:
A special to the Tribune from Louis
vile, KY, says the thermometers of Ken
lucky during the past two weeks have
registered never less than 80 during the
day and have been making daily century
runs, sometimes going as high as 1O5.
But even with this suggestion of hades
ana TOBACCO the weather Is not quite as
hot as the campaign, which waxeth more
and more merry as the mercury climbs
the tube.
Theodore Hallam, who is ranging over
the state, engaged in the cheerful task
of stirring up the Goebel branch Of the
menagerie, started the ball rolling when
in his first speech for Brown he said,
among other things, that he did not
know how old Goebel was, that he had
known him over 20 years and that he
had always looked the same. He, then
said that he had never been able to find
any record Of Goebel' birth and init
mated that he was never born, but
comes fitting to earth on bat-like
wings, say once every hundred years, to
work what mischief he can and then re-
tire" as@4,r.
Colonel w. c.. P. Breckenridge in the
Lexington Herald and ex-Congressman
w. c. Owens, the man who defeated
Breckenridge in that memorable cam
paign in he old Ashland district when
the women prayed all day of the election
for Breckinridge's defeat, have been
united in this fight on the side of Brown,
and are also making Goebel have an in
r teresting a time as it is in their power
to give. Goebel therefore took it upon
himself to crush all three in a bunch in Il
l speech delivered recently. He began
with Hallam.
lie says i nave MOI cndnSoU my dp-
' pearance in 20 years, does hep the can
y didate remarked from the stump. well,
if l had led q life of drunkenness and
debauchery maybe l would have a face
e like a piece of cancerOus beefsteak. Poor
Theodore! 1 will say nothing of the
money l put up to send him to a Kelley
institute, and l never had a brother in
the penitentiary."
Goebel then took up Owens and said
Owens was angry because he himself,
when in the state senate, had favored
some anti-gambling measures (which in
y t~erfered with Owens business"
Colonel w. c. POLAR Breckenridge
e I will only mention the name," he re-
{ marked of the silver-tongued orator.
To these pleasant rejOinders the three
were not slow to reply. Colonel Breckin.
with a dignified retort. Among other
things he said: "POor Goebel! one of the
saddest things to the hunter is to see q
snake writing in agony from the poison
9 it has injected into itself in mad an6
bootless passion"
r Owens came back from the stump. 81
v have convicted him of being a liar, THE
and murderer" he remarked. after hi
had stated his premises in language jus
as strong.
When it came Hallam's time to reply
!" GOebel discovered that he had made al
awful break. Hallam began his speech