The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-08-23
MINISTER'S
TRIBUTE TO WIN. GOEBEL.
Tells How he Was Approached
By an L. & N. Attorney.
CRUEL ATTACKS UPON
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE
Have Awakened Indignation and Rallied
Many Supporters.

| NIL CIERLANNts N ., mug AJ.--ANCf
w. L. Tibbs, of this city, one of the
ablest and best men in Kentucky, hav-
ing been invited by County Chairman
II. X. Prewitt to introduce Mr.. GOebel
Monday and being unable to be here,
writes this strong Endorsement of the
Democratic nOmineeIfor Governor from
Red Sulphur Springs, w. Va:
John Young Brown was one of our
best Governors. During his public
career, from his first speech TO the re-
cent day of vaciliating weakness when
he slipped and fell, followed him with
interest and admiration, as is my Gus
tom, and sought all information bear
ing on his life and character and made
measurement of the real man. know
him.
Il know William Goebel. With the
assurance of knowledge l affirm that
the life of William Goebel from child
hood to this stormy hour of battle has
always moved on more elevated plane
and has developed a far nobler char
acter. He is a man to trust. When
the truth has shamed TO silence the
weary libeler, the slanderer and the
calumniator, this heroic man will not
only be trusted, but loved as we'll. Not
since the days of Andrew Jackson has
such Democratic leader stood on the
fiery front of battle to wake all the
fury of his foes aud to evoke the death
less devotion of his friends.
.Since the Louisville conyention 1
have met two typical advocates. The
first to accost me was a stranger of
intellectual force and insinuating man.
ners. He gently unfolded before me an
appalling picture of the moral turpi-
tude of Goebel, and against it he told a
fascinating story of the shining virtues
of all the men in bis part CT the State
who were against the Democratic ticket
for the purpose of placing the Repub-
lican candidates IN power. He assever-
ated that all the good men were against
GOebel. A happy coincident enabled
me TO learn that he was on the payroll
of the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road Company. He took me for vir-
tue. Silence suddenly settled upon
him. After reflection he came to as
sure me the l.. and n. railroad WIS not
using as much money in this campaign
or taking as active a part as some peo-
pie supposed.
"My second interviewer was distin-
guished minister of the Gospel, for a
generation a conspicuous figure in re-
ligious enterprise in Kentucky, known
and loved by thousands, even beyond
the borders of the State. To his anx-
iOus inquiry replied that it was claim
ed that all the good men in MOntgom-
cry white and black-were
against the Democratic ticket, but
there were enough sinners in Mont
gomery county TO make some noise for
Goebel Blackburn and Democracy;thai
not being myself invested with the
crystalline virtue and elevated piety
that characterizes the oppositiOn,I was
not a bit too good to vote the Demo
cratic ticket, and that probably many
of the saints would fall from grace and
enter the ranks of us sinners.
1.-THE grand old minister then inform
ID 10 eel .s,N -,
politics for many years, but he had
been aroused by the false and cruel at
tacks upon Mr.. Goebel to make thor.
ough investigation, which resulted in
his thorough and adherent adhesion &c
the Democratic cause He declared thai
no public man had yet bolted whose
private life or public record would com
pare favorably with Mr.. Goebels; thai
in his part of the State the character o.
the opposition to Mr.. Goebel had fired
the INDICATION of the people; that more
than the usual Democratic majority
was assured for the ticket; that GOe
bells victory would be signal and glor
ious-of which he was fully worthy.
tAnd so msy it be!
"In the language Of that eloquent Ole
Confederate, whose worthy feet are SAFE
in the pathway that leads from Wood
ford to Washington:
a. He that dallies is bastard,
And he that doubts is damned
Nv. A. TIBBs."