Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-09-07
OWENSFLAYSGOEBEL
Fighting Words Hurled of
kentucky Nominee.
Denounced as Liar, Thief and
Murderer by fhe Nan who Dc.
fesfed Col. Breckenridge for Con-
gresS-Sandford Filling Recalled.

Lexington, KY, Sept g. Former
Congressman William Claibourne
Owens, who defeated Col. w. C. P.
Breckenridge in 1894, addressed a
small number of voters in the Main
street auditorium tonight and answered
Senator William Goebel's charges,
made at Bowling Green cn Monday
1t was one of the most scathing ar
Taignmepts ever made of a political
candidate in Kentucky, and if it does
not mean pistols, Kentuckians will
have to take down their fighting sign.
Mr.. Owens referred to Goebel as
CONSCIOUSNESS creature" and declared
that what Goebel said about him was
malicious and false. He said that
Gcebel was not member Of the leg
islature when the law making gamb-
ling a felony was passed, and had
nothing to do with it's passage. This
was in answer to a claim made by
Goebel. Continuing, Mr.. Owens said
in part:
ttGoebeI is a man whose word is not
taken at any counter in Kentucky
He wants to know why 1 am opposed
to him. I am opposing him because
he has violated the three commands,
STEAL Thou shalt not kill am op-
posed to Mr.. GcebeI because in cold
blood and generalization he has VIC
lated all three of these commands. 1
would not touch on the violation of
the command, Thou shalt not KILL
were not an attempt being made to
blacken the name of the dead Col
John Sandford, whom he slew, and
drove his wife to the madhouse. While
the courts decision which acquitted
him may have been technically right,
back of this lay political animosity.
'@Sandford was trying to elect Joe
Blackburn to the United States SEN
ate and Goebel was trying to prevent
his, election. This creature published
an article so Infamous and % vulgar
that it cannot be read in the presence
of ladies' This article attacked Sand
ford as no other man was ever at
tackled in Kentucky. He knew when
he wrote it that it could not stop
there. He knew that when he met
Sandford he would be called to ac-
count, and he did it so he could rid
emy. He had a pistol ready under his
coat, and when he saw the first sign
of Sandford's drawing he shot him
dead
At this point Captain James B. Clay,
grandson of Henry Clay, stepped to the
side of Mr.. Owens and said to him:
Eyes, and Sandford was a dead man
when he fired his pistol at Goebe1."
Mr.. Owens went en- to show in what |
MS charges of lying and stealing con- |
sisted. He declared that Goebel lied |
TO Captain w. ]. Stone, one of his op- !
ponents before the Louisville conven-
lion for governor, when he promised |
Stone the nomination and failed to |
give it to him, and he stole in taking |
he Hardin delegates out of the hall |
1y having them unseated and seating
nen as his own delegates who had |
lever been elected. Mr. Owens closed
~ saying:
For this reason 1 am opposing the
election of Goebel. L have convicted
lin as being a murderer, a liar and
hief. 1t will be a crime against So
.iety against right and against Ken
ucky and the democratic party to
i've him a single vote. The only way
o correct this evil that has come upon
he democratic party in Kentucky, is
0 crush, Goebel and his brazen gang
I the polls in November"