Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-06
Ranhed- -hn Remaerats.

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 He said that l had applied to Presi- dent Mckinley for a position and he supposed after this race was over 1 would apply again. That was an at tempt to make the people believe that I was applying for Republican patron age. and was, therefore, a Republican,. When he made that statement he knew that l had applied for a position as member of the interstate commerce commission a position which, under the laws of the United States, belongs to the Democratic party the term of a Democratic party having expired. He could have found out too, with lit tie trouble that for that position
 had the endorsement of every Demo cratic congressman in the United States.
 When he was through with this ter rife thrust he said that some years ago he eXerted all his influence and great talents to put on the statute books Of Kentucky taw that made the setting up of faro tables, roulette tables and other gambling machines a felony. that that iaterfered with my busipess auI tnererore was against nIm. M9 iiands. so far as it concerns ne pei- sonally l am going to pass that by with small comment will Cnly say that when MT Goebel made that statement to the people of Kentucky about me and my business he knew that he was telling most infamous falsehood. 1 say l pass It thus because the people care nothing for it, for they want tC. know only whether the things 1 say about MT. Goebel are true or false, but there are some things in that state and tell him. There are three gree3 lnJunctiOns interWOVen in every cOd6 known to Christian civilization, con- stituting the very framework of our social order. They run thus: Thou shalt not lie; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not kill. 1 am opposed to MT. Goebel because in cold blood and with malicious reconciliation he has outraged and violated all three. Grave charges, i-lesa, to make against any citizen, whether in public or in private life, but for their truth I stand ready to answer at all times and places.
 First because they come naturally in that order: Thou shalt not kill am free to say that when this canvass opened l had not intended to refer even indirectly to the murder of John Sand ford on the streets of G0Yington by the hands of William Goebel intended to treat that as closed chapter in his history, but MT. GOebel has put on the stump men. big and little, who, under his instructions, are engaged in an at tempt to lift the OdiUm of that foul murder from his shoulders and blacken the memory of John Sandford
 Facts About Sandford Murder. It becomes, therefore. not only my privilege but my duty as a citizen to give the facts as they exist. One gen. tlemaa, Charles Wheeler of Paducah congressman from the First district, has stated from more stumps than one that Mr. Sanford wrote and published an article refeeting on Mr. Goebel's mother, and that shortly after. as Goe- bel was passing along the street Sand ford came to the door of the bank, where he worked. and commenced shooting at him without any words whatever, whereupon Goebel killed him. don't know whether Wheeler got those alleged facts from a dream CT from Goebel. one is about as relia- ble as the other, but 1 do know that they do not bear even the faintest re- semblance to the truth.
 They try also 10 make the people believe that Sandford was mad because Goebeb as senator had reduced the l tolls on the COvingtOn and Cincinnati bridge, and also on the Covington and Lexington turnpike, in which Sandford was a stOckbolder Sandford didn't have a farthing,s worth of interest in that bridge, and cheap tolls were as much to his interest as to any other citizen. The only interest he had in the turnpike was a $25 share The law 1 required that an officer of the corpora tion should be a stockholder and as they wanted to make him secretary of the road he bought that small share to comply with the law He lived on that road, and his tolls every year would amount to more than his entire stock and dividends. so that his own interest was in getting low tolls on that read.
 The political enmity between these men began later when Goebel and Sandford were attending a political convention iI Louisville as members of the same delegation Sandford. be- ing compelled to go home, gave Goebel his proxy to be voted for a friend. Ireaeherous in that, as in all things, Goebel betrayed his confidence and voted that proxy against Sandford's friend. A little later Mir. Goebel be- came candidate for appellate judge. Sandford, knowing the nature of the man. opposed him. and succeeding in carrying part of his own county against him. thus defeating him for the nomination. Goebel recognized in Sandf0rd the man in Kenton county who stood in his way in his efforts to get absolute control over that county and city and determined to get rid Of him. The opportunity came soon in a contest for the United States senate.
 ment it becomes pertinent to notice. One of the purposes he had in making this statement was to have the Chris tian people Of the state believe that he was making earnest efforts to promote legislation conducive to morality in the s.ate Now if it be true that he is so violently opposed to gambling will ha or any friend of h:s tell us why II is that every gambling house n Ken lucky, every poolroom in Kentucky, every race course in Kentucky with out one single exception, is today A GOebel Headquarters