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Awful Arraignment.
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lice belonging to the Weaver Courier Journal combination, who stood in long lines around the chairman. while an throughout the hall were scattered uniformed policemen and firemen, vir- fually holding the representatives of Kentucky Democracy prisoners of war
 asedwine Acted For GoebeI.
 You hear it said on every hand that WE can not and do not defend Redwine. Then how can you defend G0ebei, who through all of these proceedings sat less than 20 feet away dictating every ruling made by the Infamous creature in the chair?
 Remember now, that under this in- famous, fraudulegt. and therefore void contract to which ' have referred. the 1ltle to 322 votes was put in issue. The right by which S22 delegates in that convention cast their votes on all sub 6equent questions was fixed net by the Democrats of the different counties, not by the testimony not by the mer- 8ts. but by this outrageous contract between Stone and Goebel On the kinal ballot between Goebel and Har- din, Goebel received 5e1 votes just 14 more than was necessary to nominate him Of these 56f votes, 249 were cast by men whose right to vote in that convention had been fixed by that 8raudnient contract. But little less than half Of all the votes that he re- eeived were votes secured in this fash 1on, and yet we are told he is the rightful nominee of the Democratic party.
 The afFidavits of 40 respectable eiti- zens proved that the vote in Kenton county, the country district outside of ehe city, stood for Goebel 139, against him 32S yet his henehman whom he eJA ffl1s afvrs, fva ,It f..s.a gave the credentials to the 139, and sent the 32S home with their thumbs in aheir mouths. The delegates selected by the l39 were seated in the conven~ tion, and gave their votes to Goebel and his schemes A number of his votes were secured by combination with Stone in different counties. and It IS safe to say that on his own merits and on his own strength he didn't re- eelve as the free gift of the people as many as 75 votes.
 Referring to the fact that Goebel had spent his money like water to secure She nomination recalls a pathetic incl dent that occurred in the city of Greensboro After the speaking there eane forward an old man, bent by the weight and snews of many winters who said You talk about Goebel spending money to get the nomination here Is what his money did for me pointing t0 I long gash across his forehead ,and besides" he said at murdered my son. it appeared that on the day of the primary convention at 0Wenshora lot e1 men were taken 70 that t8Wa to assist in carrying DaYless county for Goebel.
 Murdered His Son.
 They got drunk ard on their way aQnle were terrofiziBg the peopie. An officer summoned this old mans son 50 ass1sC 3n preserving the peace and these drunken foWdies cut the boy to pieees and s.ashed this old man across she Iaee. They Were arrested and brought to OWensborO, and on the ex- amlnlng trial it was developed that not fone of them was a legal voter in Da- MiesS county In such fashion as this he secured 169 votes
 Nou have no doubt read the decIar- alton of the Courier-Journal that the ncnest Democrats of Kentucky had not sunk 50 low as to indorse this Goebel election bill. It was right for once, the honest Democrats have not sunk SD low as that but the Courier-Journal aasi the C0urier-Journal that declares ehr0ugh it's chief editor that it is sup porting Mckinley for the same reason N1fat 1t is supporting G0ebel What reason could there be for the support of these tickets by a pfofessed Demo cratic paper unless it be the hope of plunder and hooty2 Can you imagine an honest motive for such a course? :?
 To Defeat Bryan.
 Tn my Judgment it means two things: First, the defeat of MT. Bryan; second, 9he public printing. If a Goebel legis- 4ature be elected the state will be com nitfed to the publication of it's own school books, although nearly every state in the Union that has tried that scheme has quickly abandoned it. Of course the Courier-JolWLal Job Print kng company will get the job of print ing them. The result will be, as every one knows the most colios ssal job in our history. But we aYQ told in an sswer to all this, that political conven- &ions are not supposed to be Sunday school affairs. 1 have heard my own congressman declare that this conven- 4iCn was like all other conventions. just such as our fathers had held in Ehe years gone by. 1 absolutely deny At. ! declare that it is the first time 8n the history of Kentucky politics That q candidate for governor was ever charged with having obtained bis nomination by a deliberate lie, and stood dumb in the presence of that charge. Whose fathers held such con- wentiOns? In the name of father who hated Q lie and scorned a liar, l deny this calumny.
 You may charge such yilliany if you wiH to their degenerate sons, let those degenerates vindicate you at the polls if there are enough of them but I will not listen in silence to this foul charge against the men who made Kentucky great and gave to Democracy a world wide fame
 They tell us that anybody would have taken the nomination in the same way that all the Democratic politi. clans and public men are liars and rogues. and that raseality is and has been the prevailing rule in Democratic conventions. In the name of the great mass of honest Democrats l deny it.