Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-01
asENrUcIxv CONTEST.
a Tennessee View OF the Worth OF
Standard-Bearer Goebei.

a Tennessee View OF the Worth OK
Standard-3earer Gocbef.
Another deep-laid plan Of the Ken
tucky boilers has come to naught. The
end of their strenuous effort to alier-
ate the influence of Mr.. Bryan from
the support of Mr.. Goebel comes in a
warm and widely disseminated in
sdorsement of his candidacy. Thus
have his foes through the very bitter
ness of their opposition, contributed
signally to the success of the Demo-
cratic nominee.
1t would be strange, indeed if these
enemies of William Goebel had left a
stone unturned In their efforts to de-
feat him. They have camped upon his
political trail from the day the Demo-
'crats OF kenton county determined to
send him to the state senate. There
has been no artifice too dishonest no
treachery too deep, to serve their pur-
poses. They know him; they have felt
the strength of his arm; they justly
rear the consequences to them of his
election as governor Of Kentucky.
In the short space of 40 years Will
liam Goebel has arisen from the hum
tblest poverty to a position command
ing the widest love and respect the
people OF a great commonwealth can
Destow. He has built up the largest
law practice, the most loyal phalanx
of friends, and, above all, the most
highly creditable array of enemies,
that any man in Kentucky can boast
He has gained these things by un-
flinching loyalty and sturdy blows.
From the moment his first candidacy
was announced, those corporate inter-
sests of Kenton county that were accus-
toned to further their ends by political
corruption, knew they had fresh and
resolute foe to vanquish. Before he
had sat in the legislature for week
their allies of the rest of the state
saw that their victims had gained a
champion who fought routrance.
To the death the struggle has been
waged from that day to this. William
Goebel gives and asks no quarter If
it is possible for that corporate and
private wealth. which makes the corr
ruption of legislators and executives a
part OF its business, to compass his de-
feat this fall it will be done. If he is
elected there are representatives of
malign influences, who so regularly
rendezvous there. that will tremble
when they again approach the state
house.
And he will be elected. The people
vwho carried him to his magnificent
victory at the Louisville convention
VIII sweep him to yet grander one
IN November They know he stands
for public interest against private
greed, and stands too boldly fer the
gates Of political perditio2 TO prevail
against him.
In all Kent 1cky there is no man so
venerable, none so venerated as Chief
Justice William Pryor. For more than
a quarter Of century his name has
stood a synonym for all that is wise,
incorruptible, unimpeachable. When
the deadlock in the Louisville conven-
tion seemed to threaten disaster to the
party the eyes of many turned to the
J hOnored chief justice as one on whom
all could unite, and he was asked to
allow the use of his name for that pur-
pose. His declination was as prompt
as it was emphatic. 81 am for Senator
Goebel," he said. 81 know him, and
therefore l am for him. l would rather
see him governor than be governor i
myssk Such man is needed in Ken
lucky today"
The words of this discerning judge
voiced the sentiment of all that is best
among the people of our sister state.
There are enough men who think as he
does 10 make William Goebel Ken
tucky's next governor. Keep your eye
on the November election returns If
you doubt it,-ChattanOoga News.