Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-11-08


 mothers and Christian fathers have taught them of love for truth and jus tice and all that lays at the foundation of an honorable public life and teach them that only thievery, trickery and robbery can win in Kentucky politics? Will you teach them now that in their "0ld Kentucky Home" the shrewdest thief is the biggest man2 Oh, my yen- efaDle friend, my honest old friend how can you meet your boy, look into his bright eyes and expect to maintain his respect If you tell him that the Democratic nominee had committed acts that you knew were frauds, that you knew were dishonest and unfair, but that you had gone to the polls and cast the highest evidence of your citi- zenshlp for that candidate because the party lash had cracked, and you didn't have the manhood to resist.
 Ob, men Of Kentucky, do appeal to you by all that you hold dear on earth, by all the love you hold for those brave, bright boys; 1 appeal to you not to do this unelean thing. Bury this ticket beneath 50,000 majority, and over the Intel of every Kentucky home you write the words, truth. honor, manliness," and you teach every Kentucky boy that if he hopes to win laurels from Kentucky's people he must tread the highways of truth and keep the company of his self-re- spect
 I have shown you where you can get chance to vote for an honest Demo- crat II you have any ambition in that line
 But they say that Brown is the tool or the Louisville and Nashville rail road, and that is the burden of the song they are singing all over Ken tucKy At every crossroad and every country schoolhouse some little four by-six wouldbe orator is crying out knows about the L. & N. has been learned from reading the pass he has been riding on for years.
 Gentlemen, need l recall to inteIli- gent hearers the one darling scheme or the Louisville and Nashville rail- road in Kentucky? What was this pet scheme, more to it than all other schemes 1t has ever had in view since US organization? You know it was the purchase of what is now the Hi no}s Central, and it's consolidation With the Louisville and Nashville sys- tenn, thus shutting out all competition TOT the trade and travel of southern Kentucky Who stood between the T., CS N. and the carrying out of that
 Need I tell you that when that scheme was laid you had a man in the governors chair who was not to be in- Huenced by paltry or personal eonsid- erations, who stood like wall of stone between the road and the pe0- pie? That John Young Brown as gov ernof of Kentucky prevented the con ss9SIfua1on of those roads and gave to lne people of Kentucky competition for all the great trade to the south And yet they try to make the people of Kentucky believe that John Young Brown is a teOl of the Louisville and Nashville railroad and that Mir. Goe- Del IS me only savior of the people in heatueky, the enemy of corporations pie.
 Let me call your attention to the loving service that GoebeI has. ren- dered to the people as against corpo- fauonS. He has made some reputa- tlon by the prosecution of damage suits for personal injuries. Whatever reputation he has as a lawyer has grown out of that. Any lawyer will tell you that it is the easiest practice in the world
 Mir. Goebel has made a speciality of that sort of work. It is said in his own town that he keeps runners sta toned around the different railroad crossings and that when a man is in- 1ured he has him picked LID and car Iled to Goebel's office where he signs a contract for Goebel to bring suit against the railroad company and to get for his services from 50 to 65 per. cent or the amount he may recover, while the poor devil who bas lost aD arm or a leg goes off with 95 per cent.
 Goebels Legal Record.
 Now, take the records of the Ken lucky. legislature and the Kentucky constitutional convention and find find some place where MT. Goebel has taken an interest in railroad legisla- tion. In every instance you will find that 1t was legislation that tended to increase the number of damage suits for personal injuries, and wherever you find Goebel appearing as the champion of the people, look closely and you will find it is 65 per cent for Goeeel and 35 per cent for you and your children.
 On every stump he boasts of services rendered to the Democratic party, and the chiefest Of all is that while he was speaker pro tenn of the state senate a bill came before that body which he thought was injurious to the interests of the Democratic party, and, although 8 majority of the senators favored it's passage, that as presiding officer of that body for eight days he refused to allow any vote to be taken except a motion to adjourn. I need not tell you that the position of speaker pro tenn of the senate is an office of trust, that a man accepting it must take solemn oath to discharge that duty fairly and impartially, and I under take to say that Mr. Goebel is the first man in the history of our state that ever sought the support of the people by pleading his own perjury.
 I have no time to tell you of this mans endless treachery and seheming, to tell you of his professed loyalty to free silver, rendering as his proof his services to 10 Blackburn in the legis- lative fight of '95-6, and how, when that legislature adjourned in company with Haldeman of the Courier-Jour- nal hefnnlz himealf fn Nashirl otnn 4n