The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-31
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WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 81. 1900.
KENTUCKY srERROR1sTs.

The murderous onslaught made on SEN
ator Goebel, ofHKentuoky, need occasion
noCsurprise. Armed revolution has been
inaugurated in the state, and that with
the sanction, and connivance of the de
facto authorities of Kentucky. That con-
dition has existed for some days, as the
G o b has already pointed out. There
has been no attempt to avoid or prevent
1t. Armed treason has stalked around
the grounds of the state capitol. Ruffian-
ism has had the seal of official approval
set upon 1t. The supreme legislative pow
-er Of the state stands confronted by an
armed mob, which is doing the bidding of
the recognized officials of the state gov
eminent, and which threatens bloodshed
In case its wishes are not respected. Tn
der the pretense of subpoenaing witnesses
the state authorities have turned the
state capital into a military camp; and
every man who has championed the cause
of William Goebel has taken his life in
his hand in dead earnest
That all this terrorism should have
eventuateda as it has Is not surprising.
The ahrave man who is made its immedi-
ate victim has stood unhinchingly in the
path of the armed traitors and freeboot-
ers in whose control the commonwealth
has been since and before the adjudica-
ton of the election commission. He has
been the object of all the murder which
has filled the hearts. of the reckless mob,
who, when their representatives could
not succeed in polluting the necessary
majority of the legislature, turned to
! armed coercion for the accomplishment of
their purpose.
The policy of lawlessnes5 and murder
which has thus been inaugurated in Ken
lucky may not find direct warrant In
aught that has transpired on the larger
spirit of reckless disregard of the public
veal and of the public conscience and Of
: the spirit of the American constitution
which has dominated the forces of impe-
rialism at Washington has not been with
out its effect upon the assassins and cor
rupdonists of Kentucky politics.
Having declined to issue a commission
to Senator-elect Blackburn, Gov. Taylor
may be said to have given clear indica-
tion to his desperate followers of the d.
rection in which their energies might be
exerted to the most advantage Senator
Goebel has fallen. But the citizens Of
Kentucky who uphold the cause for which
he stood will fight the battle out as they
have thus far fought, neither with brib-
cry nor bullets, but according to the re-
quirements of law and peace. And they
will win. Armed rebellion has been once
suppressed within the confines Of Ken
lucky 1t will be again suppressed, If
necessary; and this time without the a,d
or interference of federal bayonets.
1t may be that the blood of William
Goebel has been necessary to the ascen
dency of the law and the constitution in
Kentucky. But in any and every event,
If the Democrats of that state will but
go on to the end as they have thus far,
1t will be but brief while before the
duly elected executive officers of Ken
lucky will have taken their seats, and the
prevailing reign Of terrorism and corrup-
ton be brought to an ending.