Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-11-08
fUL ;. -. 1 ARRAIGNMENT --- |..,1oR eoEBEL BY Ex- ''..eaFssMAN W. c.
 OWEN
,vrIJCEY POLITICS.

r,e of Kenton's Tortuous
 bsal Career Traced Step
 by Step,
 , nusIc hall at Louisville, Sat- Il ,Isht, and from the same stage
 william Goeba1 assumed to ae-
 animation, which, as MT. Hal
 bs conferred upon himself, "
 a ". c. Owens delivered to a T ,nd enthusiastic gathering a N rbich was masterly and log raIgnment of the sham, the X inc base8t of rascality that re-
 n 3oebel being presented as 8
 sIe for governor of Kentucky.
 rrths were driven home hard,
 array of facts presented with
 snrage characteristic of the fa- # nator. The shady transactions
 fraudulenteandidate were placed # ssareblight and disclosed in
 ssr shamefulness. Broadsides l ,so hurled by Hon. J. T. o'Neal \ Hon Theodore Hallam. Each
 shaft was enthusiastically ap- \ Al by the thoroughly delighted
 les MT. Owens speech follows: $ great aadience is a magnificent 5r to the questions asked Ken \ turing the current week. The card of the desperate con- sss has been played. MT. Bryan < 5sne and gone. Their big gun has S fred and after a careful survey
 s situation, l am glad to be able Nft that there are none dead, and iF wounded. In fact, nobody l to be seriously hurt, unless, in- I i vas the man behind the gun asa in aIl America held a higher \ han Mr. Bryan; his true friends ! n enthusiasm, had exalted him \ men and they will never cease sget that when he entered Ken ] Ae left his pedestal behind him. ane all the way from Nebraska Ig down into the foulest political i E9l that ever offended the nostrils aecent people, only to tell that that if they bolted they must I he responsibility of their own Who is it in all our ranks that 10 lit that gauntlet or hesitates | itloW? Who is it so benighted |is did not know in advance the truth of that proposition? :? The |s that march in the ranks of | Democracy today are made up |H who fully understand and ap- Ea the responsibilities of life. Bryan says it is degrading for |faoerats of Kentucky to be diff
 about small personal matters lae great conflict of 1900 is just K us. Mr. Bryan knows that the |la matters about which we differ aea tlldes as truth, honor and HsOa on tue oae side, and false .lalla and treachery on the other. Agscts, too in that fight of 1900, .lle standard bearer of the Dem " party. He is therefore saying ' 4, lfeenien of Kentucky; 1t is sAlg to be differing about such & truth, honor and manhood '4y erection is in peril.
 bryan Dodge9 the Issue.
 lAr ~. Bryan, go ] aek to your west lsae bearing the cheering mes- " glae sturdy manhood that finds " M oh Nebraska s plains that no sss ssslaa faltered in his high pur- '9Fedase Of your spacious and elo- .ri peas Of political expediency, I,. ssa your great reputation and ss sS lalled to win them from the .3 ,ss 9l right. Tell them that you @l ss laa taught us too well the X \. 9ae hour, and we would not gs sifen song that the necessi- saaS SsagaSSs,iaeed and dishonored polit- RSsss RpSsa had lured you to sing. No, Tiial, Tt, your coming has availed ,1 Sash n you lodged the straight x 9questions Dropounded by Gov
 GsoNn io, you entered a plea of bs aoi your client, and he will nri,t mi ll . position to enable that PPlia,sly Print.y named Courier Journal s r,lIs anaIs company to connect beol eolt{act under the Chinn , i ppsss ny judgment the importation 4 Jsgan nss was only 8 pretense to ss 5,a 5p,atp9se, and because of that sbes Se are standing tonight with lrina i5os9o@ of a great crime, and 1fdnr q IJI Ol l1G DdllOIt issI f,aa q free government.
 Snsa4 ass land the people get such a .qga1 ai 1 as they merit, and if the Des,,hiA kentucky idly or indiffer- eror U 5ae perpetration of this fas E 5 then they deserve to be
 '1sy are already slaves at sanaaappy conditions surrounding Iogslatlc Ioree5l party in Kentucky ajif3eus upon us a campaign of aVs' nat !. which, regret as we may, Tbo Se T We would avoid. Those trailp tp refuse to follow in the all fo of the convention held in neoaIs agsi It due the intelligence t5 talgPie fba. that we give reasons for ana rlat ilmpels us to our present al a nnetlh those reasons being the 'egal asll.lltshess of the nominee and the ny and invalidity of his Qonien summation, the discussion lriIg ie o or political questions, is
 excluded and we are shut