The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-24
eoEBEL, MASTER OF A PARTY.
THE FIRST REAL BOSS OF THE
BLUE GRASS STATE.


,rnemOcrats DisgruntIesd.
From the New York World.
-,.s1ngton, Ky, Sept p. You are a
,r,,,or said one of the Geebel Democrats
q Theodore HaFam, the s.blest speaker of
the anti-Goebel Democrats. You, who
have said that you would support even a
yellow dog on a regular Democratic tick
Ell"
you are right" replied Hallam Il
would support even a yellow dog, but
lower cannot, j will not go"
This is a specimen of the higher kind
of amenities which the present campo .gn
is calling forth in Kentucky. The ordi-
nary kinds are so vicious that il would be
imnoss.b.e 10 put them ipto print
Goebelites and anti-Goebehtes are car
rying on a war which RACES from one end
OF Kentucky to the other. How bloolshed
has been avoided thus far no one quite I'M
dorstands Every one in the state is anx-
jously awaiting he report Of The 1irst re-
vover, which, il is thought. viii surely
be the signal for savage outburst OF vio-
lence.
GoebeI in Peril.
Bets have been made that Goebel him
Sell VIII De HuOl before 6kcC ! N DAY. lIOGDel
goes about strongly guarded, and as he
speaks his followers watch the crowd
closely.
\ few nights ago, when he was IN in
the mountains, staying with one of the
Hatfields the alarm went out that the al
tempt TO murder him was about TO be
made There was a great hurrying to his
headquarters, but it turned out that the
cause of The alarm was a meeting between
some of the Hat1elds and some of the
McCoys
BON sides support Goebel, and the Nc
Coys had come up TO the Hatfields' house
20 see him. The Hatfields, seeing them
approaching in force, began TO prepare
for the defense The McCoys, seeing
these preparations, drew their revolvers
The misunderstanding was presently ex-
planned, and so the truce which these
families declare when a political cam
paigu is on was not violated
Goebel is a Covington lawyer He was
born in Pennsylvania. He has been in
politics all his life. He does not drink.
He does not smoke. He abhors women
and is abhorred by them. He lives and
moves and eats and breaths for politics
only.
His Personality.
In appearance he is almost forbidding.
He is of medium stature, closely built.
with the frame of a fighter. His nose is
long and thin. His lips are cruel, and his
jaw Is so compressed that one would
think he was trying to crush his own
teeth His complexion is pasty and vel
low brown His hands are clammy and
he avoids shaking hands as much as pos
sible His eyes are small and gray and
cold and keen.
In his presence all are uneasy. His
voice is as harsh as the cav of a crow
He has no personal friends and wishes
none. He treats his lieutenants like serv-
Il JAo l.
Cancellation means
Yet he is the first real boss that has
ever appeared in Kentucky. He is the
abest, the most successful, the most
adroit politician In the state, binding
men TO his interest and compelling them
TO his will as no other political leader
has ever been able to do. He has built
up a compact, powerful political machine
which enables him to hold the Democratic
party in the hollow of his hand.
For years he has had his political pro-
sramme for personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT
mapped out. For three years he has been
working upon that part Of it which was
marked the ''governorship.'
IF Goebel is beaten" said one of his
eremies to-day, 81 think he viii kill him
self. He is political Desperate and
think that political ruin would cause him
TO put bullet through his head"
Secret of His Success.
The proposition which faced him was:
How can 1, born in another state, AMI
having no powerful family and having no
confederate record, become the candidate
for Governor?"
RE began by getting hold of the leglsla-
ture Of which he has been a member for
ten years. Then he introduced the most
amazing election bill ever concocted in a
republic. This bill put the entire control
OF the election machinery in the hands OF
a state hoard Of
ms board was TO be elected by the lesis-
iatnre Its three members were to have the
power to appoint and remove at will every
election officer in the state
lie drove this bill through the legislature
under his boss lash The Governor
Bradley Republican, vetoed it, Every
one thought the bill was dead because even
the Democratic opposition was strenuous.
nut Goebels lash descended, and, in spite
oi pledges and solemn protestations, the
necessary vote was secured.
me Dill became a law. Goebel's crea-
lures IN the legislature appointed men sat
lslactory TO him to the state board, and
today he has in his hands the entire cleo
Noh machinery. If he chooses he can will
"hat the vote shall be-
You Dare Not Defeat Me-"
You dare not defeat me-" is his taunt
10 those Democrats who hate him, ''he-
cause If the Republicans win they viii
'fe tnls electoral machinery in their
h3hds and will see to il that no more Dem
octats are elected in Kentucky"
Mter getting his law upon the statnte
BOOKS the next step was to get himself
we nomination. He went to the Louisville
convention poor third in the race. But
y playing Stone against Hardin and Har
ON against Stone. by outgeneraling both
ny pelng practical where they followed
me tactics of the old school. he won and
became the regular nominee.
mere might have been no organized op-
POSITION within the party, in spite of the
iu'ous anger of all the old school political
i'aGers' had it not been for the Louisville
suu Nashville Railroad, the great domi-
uogng corporation of Kentucky Goebel
'uo lnai corporation have been al war
aver since he became a practicing lawyer
y is mis- fight against the railroad that mas
Even MIN pis political hold, his popular
'S with large section of the masses.
Fought the l.. & n.