Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1900-03-06

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law, history will tell; and tor thi,
they prosecuted him, for this they
swore vengeance against him, anC
for this they slew him. All, the pity
Of i'll That this grand soul should
pay the penalty OF death because
he stood for justice, right and mercy
against corporate greed, wrong and
oppression.
He won the nomination for Cover
nor after weeks struggle against
these same corporations, such as
had never been known before 10 the
history of the Commonwealth. Won
it fairly and squarely; and the
breach in the party was not caused
by any wrong-doing on his part,
but by these moneyed powers rem
dered desperate, and who, by means
of subsidized press, INSCRIPTIONS
hirelings and fraud and intimida-
tion at the polls, seemingly defeated
him.
But the contest revealed all these
methods, and when they found they
could do no more, and that he would
still be "a stumbling block and
crock offense" in their path, they
removed him.
His enemies said that he had no
friends; that men only cared for
MIN because they either feared him
or needed him.
The man never lived who had
truer or more devoted friends. ITO
know him was to love him. No
man, woman or child could come 10
close personal contact with him and
not learn tolove him. have known
him politically and socially, have
fought political battles with and for
him. have had him in my home,
around my ireside and among my
family: aud never have known 10
more loving and lovable man, /
loved hun like a brother, and my
wife and my children loved him and
will forever revere his memory
And we we're not alone, as the
widespread grief and indignation
that swept over the State like It'd,
al wave proved when the news Of
his most foul assassination was
known
Hisheyotion to his family and
theirs to him is known to all And
no such man as his enemies repre-
scented him to be could have SO
bound men $ souls to him, inspired
the affection his brothers gave 10
him or spoken Of his another with
the reverence and affection he did,
and kept her membership alive in.
her church after her death,
The trouble he had with San
ford, in which he, to save his own
life, had to kill him, was great
grief to Goebel. But because he
did not "wear his heart on his
sleeve for DAVIS to peck at, that,
too, was made cause against him.
But. whosoever says the difficulty
was of his seeking either is very
ignorant OF the facts in the case or
willfully misrepresents them. They
are matter Of record, and all may
see them who love truth and
justice
1t has seemed passing strange to
me that the hue and cry, the cam-
paigns Of violent yituperatlon made |
by well known political corrup-
tionists should for one moment have /
deceived the people and antago. |
nized them against William Goebel. |
Any other State, had it owned him, /
would, IL seems to me, "delIghted /
to do him honor But human ma
ture is ever prone to believe evil
rather than good, and thus they
Mr. Goebel
But why multiply words? He Is
dead, His great heart that never
turned away from the cry of
distress is stilled, The giant mind
to which the most abtruse propo-
sitions were as clear as day, is as
dust and ashes, cold and dead.
The soul that never BETRAYED
trust, that never went back on D.
friend, has He'd its tenement ofcl4y \
Goebel the true, the generous, the
loyal, is dead. No more will bis
voice be heard in the counseIs OF
bis party; his hand Of steel be lelt