Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-13

parties abide by the judicial decision?
The Louisville agreement did not end
the trouble. because some OF the parties
ala not consider themselves bound by
It. WIN they acknowledge the authori-
" OF the courts?
II has been supposed outside Of Ken
lucky that the so-called Goebe election
law was the occasion OF all the trouble.
that law being said to place the ma
chnery Of the election In strictly partl-
san hands. The Boston Herald. how
ever takes another view That paper
thinks The legislature Is TO lar1e for
the embrogllo. The State constitution
provides that Contested elections for
governor and lieutenant governor shall
be determined by both houses Of the
general assembly according to such
regulations as may be established by
law" The legislature therefore, was
acting under law much Older than the
Goebe Law, one framed TO give effect
to this constitutional provision.
The State Of Kentucky is to be hearu-
~ congratulated at present that she
has not within her borders a clique Of
dcmagogues bent upon rule or ruin"
II the commonwealth were thus afIllct-
ed, the demagogues would use The pres
ent political complications for their
own nefarlous ends. They would set
up a cry in dismal chorus TO the effect
that rebellion Is rampant In Kentucky,
ana that the laws are irampled In the
dust They would appeal to the ma
tion and chant In unison TO a monoton-
Gus melody the refrain that the people
Of Kentucky have promised to obey
the law and never meant to- that they
promised to keep faith with the Repub-
lic and broke H. that they tried to de-
ceiye the government of the United
States, that they openly offended the
sense OF decency Of the people Of this
country"
If, at the same time, Kentucky had
within her boundaries an influential re-
lglous denomination, offensive to bigots
because Of It's broad, rational, Bible
views, a church for the destruction Of
which the powers Of darkness were
banded together-the charge would be
made that all the trouble was caused
by the members OF that denomination
The leaders Of that church would be
denounced as murderers and traitors,
and the mighty power OF the Republic
would be invoked against Kentucky by
the conspirators.
But that State is free from such agi-
tation. Whatever may be the faults Of
some OF its citizens. by way Of being TOO
free with the display OF guns, II is not
made the text Of a thousand sermons
throughout the country for the purpose
Of diseracng the State. 1t is just as
we'll that II Is not, for some OF the
preachers would perhaps not be in
position to appear again IN public. AS
1t is. matters viii adjust themselves,
and equilibrium win at last prevail.
Kentucky is to be congratulated II is
due to the absence OF such agitators
that the people at large understand per-
fectly that the disorder IS but temper
airy and on the surface. They know that
Notwithstanding the doubtful appear
anee, the sound sense Of the people will
assert itself finally, and the present
stain will be blotted out. It is impossi-
BILE, when recent happenings are con-
sdered, not to be strongly impressed
by the fact that Kentucky and Utah
furnish striking illustrations Of the
power Of demagogues even in this en-
llghtened era, What an opportunity
for mischief In the Southern State, had
the agitator been there to take advan-
tagc Of the situation,