The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-07-12
CLovERPoRT, KENTUCKY, WEDNESDAY, JULY r. 1899

Cided in their favor, except TWO, Where
the steal was 30 pslpabl' and outrageous
that some of their own forces revoited
against the crime and forced them to
torego their purpose More than $50
delegates opposed to Goebel were turned
out of the convention or refused admis-
sion because of this agreement, and
their places filled with men, most of
whom were ready to do his bidding
The combination put in the chair man
who was willing to do anything his mas
ter told him, who would submit to the
convention no motion made by the op.
position, allow no appeal from any de-
cision, and surrounded by long lines of
uniformed policemen, while as many
more Of the tools of the city administra.
ton in citizens clothing filed the hall
ready to obey Goebels orders, throttle
the convention and forced it either TO
nominate Goebel or stay there all sum-
mer, In my judgment from the mo-
ment they secured the permanent or
ganization and had the entire police
force of Louisville placed at their COM
mand, no other result was possible, no
other nomination would ever have been
allowed or announced.
When the convention adjourned it
was found that Goebel had placed at the
head of your State Central Committee
one of the chief actors in bloody
mountain fued that disgraced our state
and crimsoned the soil of Rowan county
with the blood of her citizens. Can any
one doubt Goebel's purpose to inaugur-
ate a reign of terror in the state and
make every Democrat his abject slave
Kentucky is on trial. What will she do
about it2 We boast much of our man.
hood and our honor and look down on
our colder blooded brethren OF the North
with the idea that they care more for
business than for such things. Will we
be able to compare favorably with them
after the November election? A few
years ago when New York was a close
and doubtful State Q Republican candi-
date secured the nomination Tor Govern
or by fraudulent agencies, but which in
comparison with the methods pursued
in our late convention were highly hon.
orable. The people of that State beat
him by 100000 majority. Will our peo>
pie display as high a sense of honor OF
course, most of those who see Office will
cry out to stand by the nominee, no mat
ter how the nomination was secured, but
surely the people who only do the vot-
ing and who do not want or expect Office
will not consent to this great crime
against manhood and free government,
We haYe fallen upon perilous times,
indeed. The Courier-J Journal, long cher
ished by many rs the representative of
our social order, lured by the hope of
public printing and other patronage that
will come to it through Goebel's triumph,
has become the avowed champion of
fraud, force and duplicity, while it holds
its peculiar champion before the young
men of Kentucky as an example for
them to initiate. God help the State if
our young men yield to such infamous
advice and consent to follow such an ex-
ample.
AS citizen and democrat / shall not
be deferred by the boast of the machine
men that they will steal the election, no
matter how the people vote. I never
scratched democrat ticket in my life;
never voted for republican; but real
ize that If the Democratic party does not
hold in its ranks sufficient honest vitali-
ty to punish and rebuke the great wrong
and save che State from the threatened
danger, it ought to perish. To help re-
buke that wrong and save for the future
our party, intend TO vote for the Re-
publican candidate for Governor this
fall, and appeal to the conservative, the
intelligent and the honest manhood of
our State to do the same, and make the
majority too big to steal, and by perfec
organization make it dangerous to at.
tempt to steal it. Yours,
w. O. OWENS.