Washington sentinel., 1900-02-03
the Last RResort or
Republicans,


The tragedy promised in Ken
lucky has come. The threats Of
the Republicans have been carried
out. Goebel has been assassin
ated. Shot down like dog by one
Of a thousand armed desperadoes
gathered in the mountain districts
by the Republican party, and
dumped by the L. & N. R. R. upon
the little city OF Frankfort, in
desperate and damnable attempt
to terrorize it's people and intimi.
date the Legislature Of a sovereign
State.
This crime differs from all other
atrocities OF this sort in American
history in that it cannot be treated
as sporadic outbreak of indivi,l-
ual depravity or insanity. Lincoln
was killed by one OF small band
of conspirators, without the appro-
val or knowledge ol any party or
faction. Garfield was assassinated
by a single irresponsible crank.
But Goebel was shot by one OF a
thousand armed men sent to
Frankfort by the Republican party
for the express purpose OF resort
ing to violence il that should seem
advisable. Many OF them said
months ago that il Goebel should
be declared elected he never would
live to take his seat. Only last
Tuesday w. c. P. Breckenridge
advocated revolution in his paper
at Frankfort.
tits enough to make the mildest-
hammered mad to the mark Of mis-
cry to contemplate spectacle so
lawless and so lost to sense Of
shame. The Republican managers
went out into the roughest regions
Of terror, where the lie OF man is
an unconsidered and unvalued
thing; where power is principle
and buckshot the only trusted
friend, for moonshine murderers
who, for free whisky and a free
ride and the prospect Of free
fight, were willing to 60 to the
capital oftheir State and bring dis
grace and death and sorrow in their
wake. They gathered their thugs
and throttlers together. armed them
with Winchester rifles, and sent
them forth to parade the streets OF
the unfortunate city, to frighten its
women, to murder its men, to
blacken its good name before all
the world.
The attempt to create the i'm
preston that these reckless ruffians
gathered with their wind and their
Winchesters as the result OF an in
dignant and spontaneous revolt
and uprising OF popular sentiment
is insulting to the most meagre and
modest of intellects. 1t was as
carefully planned as It was pusil-
luminous, and it was as pusillani-
nous as the heart Of vIllainy and
the soul OF vice can conceive.
Mr.. Taylor and his rotten Re-
publican regime cannot palm of
such political pestilence under the
guise OF accident. any more than
in the name OF good citizenship.
Accident has been guilty of many
misdemeanors, but it has never
perpetrated a high crime like this.
The Empress Dowager OF China
is said to have determined on the
deposition Of the young Emperor
the moment she discovered him in
suit of fashionable European
clothes, with a crease in his trous-
ers. China has queer laws and
customs. The Dowager has more
power than the Emperor, and
might cause mis- murder without
being called to account for it. We
are not in favor OF the United
States appropriating countries
which do not belong to us, without
their consent; but il Europe wants
to cut China up into little bits and
divide it around, let it 60 at that.
The best thing that could happen
to China, though, would be for the
Gar OF Russia to run over and
seize the Dowager and transport
her to the Siberian mines, or Great
Britain to give her the place made
vacant by the death oi the FIRST
Napoleon on the Island Of St.
Helena. The situation will not be
needed for Dom Paul.