Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-11-08
Pirate's Black Ran.

As my queStoners choose to phrase if
 Pirates Black Rag.
 might with truth retort that I had round the old Democratic ship with
 sails dismantled, with ru fag at its
 ; our. state. 1 want also to state that there Is a class of Democrats to whom do not care to address myself. that class IS usually to be found in the shadoW of the county offices and cor Ter gFoceFles, and with few honor- aDle exceptions belong body and sonl to the party machine as absolutely e any African belonged to his master in the old days of slavery.
 OI course an not wasting any time taking to Democrats of that ilk. but 10 the great mass of honest Democrats who don't want office, who don't ex pect office. who only want to know the way of the truth that they nav walk therein, who only ask to knOr the facts, that they may go to the moi \ and vote as intelligent, patriotic eft. masthead save the DiacK nag or a pirate and manned by a motley crew Of free7bOoters, so infinitely meaner than any Republican in Kentucky knows how to be, that to talk about Republieanism would be tame and commonplace indeed
 But 1 am not here to talk politics. huQTGSS l to Democrats alone to reason with them about the duty which we, as Democrats, owe to oar party, and that higher duty which 0e, as citizens, owe zens To Erese men dc want tc talk. and to them alone.
 The questions presented to the peo pie of Kentucky for settlement this fall are the grayeGt that ever confront ed free people. Tn their presence all questions of finance, of tariffs and trusts, of imperialism and expansion, fade into insignifeance, and if the peo- | pie of Kentucky could realize the pur- 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 cur 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 i struggle between the states.
 A terrific indictment has been pre- scented against the nominee of the Mu- sic hall convention, and it demands at his hands a serious and candid answer, and l submit to your intelligence if he has made such an answer or any | answer at all. That indictment says, Mir Goebel you are charged with the formation and execution of a eonspir- acy to rob the people of various eoun- 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. Mr. Goebel, to this grave charge, which, if true, is ab solutely destructive of free fepresen- tative 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 SUD- port of any citizen, but absolutely unfit l for the association of gentlemen. What say you, MT. Goebel, guilty or not guilty?
 l.. 6 N. Goblin.
 And the piping treble of this politi- cal sOubrette makes answer: The L. & N will get you if you don't watch out, and that, my friends, l is the only answer you get to these f charges of infamy and dishonor. I want to say to MT. Goebel's credit, and l it is about the only thing on earth that can be said to his credit that he ] has too much respect for the inteli- I gence of the people to even attempt I ,e h Nf ha l tion that gave birth to his nomination.
 But his running mate, Senator Blackburn, breaks a lance for his ehum Say what you may of Senator I Goebel" says Blackburn, mo man ever said he was a fool" My friends, need I remind you that that defense is tho 1 only defense that any man living or dead ever made of Ben Butler in his palmy days, and it is most appropriate 1 that our distinguished and voicefui senator should go back into the realms of ancient history and resurrect that decayed defense for man, who for all that is dastardly in public methods and public morals, makes Ben Butler look i like a common everyday Sunday school i teacher But 1 don't want to do even Goebel an injustice, and 1 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, ap- swered them like a 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 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 us