The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-01
THE KENTUCKY TRAGEDY.

III is Tune Tor the citizens or kentucky
to have done with talk of force as means
of settling an election dispute. The men
who go about in threatening manner with
arms should be arrested disturbers of
the peace.-Chicago Record.
1t is just and necessary to say. in a
true sense. Goebel is responsible for the act
of which he Is the victim. and for which he
had. indeed. personally set a precedent. He
has been long and assiduously engaged
In an attempt to murder the State.-New
York Tribune.
Surely, Kentuckians should find some
peaceful. upright way to calm the agita-
ton that prevails, to reassure the people
who think their liberties are threatened
and to prevent the spilling of another drop
of blood in this strange and tragic form
OF politics.-St Louis Globe-Democrat.
The shooting utterly without justi-
fication and merits the severest condemna-
ton of the people. regardless of party.
No matter how great the provocation, the
man who attempts to punish political ras-
cality with the rifle or shotgun commits
treachery.-Chicago Times-Herald.
The apparent determination Of the
Goebelites to steal the governorship and to
unseat the lawfully elected Governor for
the benefit of Goebel no doubt was a great
provocation TO resist but it is none the less
shocking and appalling that assassination
a political weapon should now make its
appearance in one of our common weaithS.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Those who have encouraged extreme
measures will now have their own con-
sciences to deal with. The law can only
punish those who were directly concerned
in the conspiracy and the murderous work
itself All the offices in Kentucky are not
worth the price that has been paid by
of esterday.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
1t is matter of State sorrow. humil-
iation and disgrace that Senator Goebel
is the victim of an assassin's bullet But
the deed for which he is in nowise
blamable in not the slightest degree af-
fects Governor Taylor's title to the chief
magistracy, to which the people or the
Commonwealth of Kentucky have given
him commission.-Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
Whatever or whoever the would-be assas-
sin may be he should be tried by due
process of law and be made to suffer the
extreme penalty prescribed for his crime.
Furthermore there must be no more shoot
ing. The credit of the State demands that
peace be preserved and that it shall not
be necessary for the general government
to intervene to prevent future bloodshed.
Chicago Tribune.
We do not mean TO say that there are
not many Republicans in the State who
condemn this act of an unknown assassin.
But we do mean TO say that this act is
directly due to the course pursued by the
leaders of this anti-Goebel fight; that the
responsibility for this new shame which
has befallen Kentucky is theirs. and that
Goebers blood is upon their hands.-Louis-
vile Courier-Journal
An attempt will doubtless be made to
turn the shooting of Goebel to the disad-
vantage of Governor Taylor in the pend
ing contest over the Governors Office. But
the attack upon Goebel was simply a
plain case of murder, and as such is should
be treated by Kentuckians and the public
generally. Whatever the past record and re-
cent conduct of Senator Goebel they afford
no justification for this outrageous crime.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
No cause can prosper on such wicked
methods. No good end can be served
machinery. We have no right TO as.
sumo that the opposition to Goebel had
any part in or guilty knowledge of this
frfghtful deed. But we are quite sure that
that opposition will be injured in he pub
lie mind and that infinite harm to all
worthy interests will be It's evil.-Washing-
ton Post
1t is easy to say that the shooting was
characteristic OF Kentucky's social and
political conditions. but il cannot be sail
truly that the method of the shooting was
in accord with Kentucky standard of face
to-face manliness, even in such transac-
tons. The pursuit. conviction and punish
ment of the cowardly wretch who shot
Goebel is the first duty which Kentucky
owes TO its fame. not to speak of any at
stract ideas of juStice-New York Sun