Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-11-08
Backed by Demncrats

oMone M NhOfAlltley TOT position, and he supposed after this race was over would apply again. That was an at tempt to make the people believe that was applying for Republican patron age and was, therefore, a Republican. " when he made that statement he knew that 1 had applied for a position as member of the interstate commerce commission a position which. under the laws of the United States belongs Jo the Demoeratic part ty, the term of DeHocfStle party having expired ae could nave found out, too, with lit tie troubie that for that position l had the endorsement of every Demo cratle congressman in the United States.
 When he was through with this ter lie thrust be said that some. years ago ee 9Xerted all his influence and great
 to put on the statute books O.
 1isay 8 'aw that made the setting
 q Iaro tables, roulette tables and
 CT gambling machines a felony:
 tG mat 'dterfered with my busiu ess
 ] tneferore I was against him. Ms fl9ndS, so far as IL concerns fne psf- 5onally am going to pass that by with small comment. 1 will only say that when Mir. 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 1 pass 1t thus because the people care nothing for it, for they want tc, know only whether the things I say about MT. Goebel are true or false, but there are some things in that state and tell him. There are three g1'eas lnJunctions interwoven in every code known to Christian civilization, con- stltutlng the very framework of OUT
  shalt not. lie; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not kill. I am opposed to Mir Goebel because in cold blood and With malicious reconciliation he has outraged and violated all three. Grave charges, i-1ese, to make against any cltlzen, whether in public or in private life but for their truth 1 stand ready to answer at all times and places
 First, because they come naturally in that order: Thou shalt not kill. I am free to say that when this canvass opened I had net intended to refer even indirectly to the murder of John Sand ford on the streets of Covington by the hands of William GOebel I intended to treat that as closed chapter in his history, but MT GGebel 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 blaeken 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. tleman, Charles Wheeler of Paducah, congressman from the First district. nas stated from more stumps than one that MT. Sanford wrote and published l Tfl E4F mother, G2a 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. l don't know whether Wheeler got those alleged facts from dream or 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 to make the peoDle believe that Sandford was mad because Goebel as senator, had reduced the tolls on the Coyington and Cincinnati bridge, and also on the Covington and Lexington turnpike, in which Sandford was stockholder Sandford didn't have 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 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 road
 The political enmity between these men began later when Goebel and Sandford were attending a political convention in Louisville as members of the same delegation. Sandford, be- ing compelled to go home, gave GoebeI his proxy to be voted for a friend. Treacherous in that, as in all things. Goebel betrayed his confidence and voted that proxy against Sandford's friend. A little later MT. Goebel be- came candidate for appellate judge. SaGdford, 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 Sandford the man in K6nton 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 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 state Now if it be true that he is so violently opposed to gambling will be or any friend of h:s tell us why 1t is thay every gambling house in Ken lucky. every poolroom in Kentucky, every race course in Kentucky with out one single exception, is today Goebel headquarters!
 Goebel,s Gambling Fib.
 But listen now, my friends listen, you who have some lingering ray of be- lief in this mans integrity He said