Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-06
AWFUL ' ARRAICNMENT OF SENATOR GOEBEL BY EX- CONGRESSMAN w. c.
 OWEN.
KENTUCKY POLITICS.
The King of Kenton's Tortuous Political Career Traced Step
 by Step,

In the Music hall at Louisville. Sat- urday night, and from the same stage which William GoekeI assumed to ac- cept a nomination, which, as MT. Hal lam says. he conferred upon himself. !" the Hon. w. c. Owens delivered to a large and enthusiastic gathering a speech which was masterly and log ical arraignment of the sham, the fraud, the basest of raseality that re- suited in Goebel being presented as a candidate for governor of Kentucky.
 Plain truths were driven home hard. and an array of facts presented with the courage characteristic of the fa- nous orator The shady transactions of the fraudulent candidate were placed under a searcklight and disclosed in all their shamefulness. Broadsfdes were also hurled by Hon. J. T. 0,Neal and Hon. Theodore Hallam. Each telling shaft was enthusiastically ap- plauded by the thoroughly delighted audience. MT. Owens speech follows:
 This great audience is a magnificent answer to the questions asked Ken lucky during the current week. The last trump card of the desperate con- sDiratefs has been played. MT. Bryan has come and gone. Their big gun has been fired and after q careful survey Ff 8l f0 Ina ab lp to report that there are none dead, and but few wounded. In fact nobody seems to be seriously hurt, unless, in- deed it was the man behind the gun ["
 No man in all America held higher place than MT. Bryan; his true friends in their enthusiasm, had exalted him above men, and they will never cease to regret that when he entered Ken lucky he left his pedestal behind him.
 He came all the way from Nebraska to step down into the foulest political cesspool that ever offended the nostrils of a decent people, only to tell that people, that if they bolted they must take the responsibility of their own act Who is It in all our ranks that fears to lift that gauntlet or hesitates to lift it now? Who is 1t so benighted that he did not know in advance the whole truth of that proposition? The legions that march in the ranks Of honest Democracy today are made up of men who fully understand and ap- preeiate the responsibilities of life.
 MfaaBryau says 1t Is degrading for the Democrats Of Kentucky to be diff fering about small personal matters when the great conflict of 1900 is just before Us. Mir. Bryan knows that the personal matters about which we differ are such trifies as truth. honor and manhood on the oue s.de and false a5,1a He expects, too. in that fight Of 1900, to be the standard bearer Of the Dem ocratic party. He is therefore saying to the freenlen of Kentucky: It is degrading to be differing about such trifies as truth, honor and manhood when my election is in peril
 Bryan Dodgef the Issue.
 Oh. MT Bryan, go ack to your west ern home, bearing the cheering mes sage to the sturdy manhood that finds home on Nebraska's s plains that no Kentuckian faltered in his high pur- pose because of your spacious and elo- quent pleas of political eXpediency, that even your great reputation and abilities failed to win them from the pathway of right. Tell them that you yourself had taught Us too well the duty of the hour and we would not heed the siren song that the neeessi- ties of disgraced and dishonored polit- ical thugs had lured you to sing. No, MT. Bryan, your coming has availed not When you lodged the straight forward questions propeunded by Gov ernor Brown you entered a plea of guilty for your client, and he will '%'ier. be in a position to enable that
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 But in my Judgment the importation of MT. Bryan was only a pretense to cover purpose, and because of that purpose we are standing tonight with in the shadow of great crime, and that crime is the rape of the ballot, the murder CT free government
 In a free land the people get such government as they merit, and if the people of Kentucky idly or indiffer- ently permit the perpetration of this great wrong. then they deserve to be slaves, for they are already slaves at heart
 The unhappy conditions surrounding the Democratic party in Kentucky have forced upon us a campaign of personalities. which, regret as we may, we can not if we would avoid Those of us who refuse to follow in the slimy trail of the convention held in this hall feel it due the intelligence of the people that we give reasons for the faith that impels us to our present course. and those reasons being the personal unftness of the nominee and the irregularity and invaldity of his title. toHlae nomination. the discussion
 rinic or political questions, is 1 lnes ssariig excluded and we are shut