, 1900-10-04
-. Willard Mitchell.
"Nicholasville, Ky, Nov. IL. 1892"
GoNSel. Taylor.

TOullu ulSlliCl So 80. lJO
Fifth district ........ .... 3,255
Sixth district ........ $500 -...
Seventh district ...... 4,261 ....
Eighth district 1919. So. 60
Ninth district. ....... .... 123
Tenth district ........ 412 ....
Eleventh district -. -. 1858
Totals .........1S,31 81, 1922
Taylor's majority ............ 3,6O5
Bryan Endorses 1t All.
This was the conultion. Mr.. Goebel
and his fellow conspirators were NOV
ing heaven and earth to create some
where an opinion that Goebel was
elected and thus Justify the course
necessary to seat him. At this critical
moment came this dispatch from Bry-
an:
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 9.-To the Hon.
William Goebel, Frankfort, Ky: l
have Just learned that the returns are
near enough complete to insure your
election. Accept hearty congratula-
lions. l am SURE your administration
will strengthen the party.
wv. ]. BRYAN"
Notwithstanding all these schemes
for classifying the vote and reversing
the count. the state Returning Board
certified to the election of Taylor, is
sued to him his certificate and he was
by the chief justice sworn in as gov
ernor of Kentucky.
The Goebei Tragedy Next.
Then the fifth act of this political
tragedy opened. Mr.. Goebel determin-
ed to force the Democratic members
of the legislature to depose Taylor,
and to install him, the defeated can
didate, in his stead.
1t was no light undertaking. Every
citizen of Kentucky knew that in the
face of desperate frauds and despic-
able crimes Taylor had been elected.
His election was not open to question.
The scheme could be carried through
only by extraordinary measures, but
1t was determined on by Mr.. Goebel
and his associates that they would
have Mr.. Bryan come to Kentucky in
person and throw his whole influence
in behalf Of this conspiracy. Nothing
was to be left to chance, and Mr.. Bry-
an came and spoke at Frankfort to a
banquet, from which all unti-Goebel
Democrats had been excluded. Mr..
Bryan had a difficult role to play, and
he played it to the satisfaction of his
fellow conspirators against the ballot.
i Bryan Again In Kentucky.
That the Evening Post may not be
accused OF misrepresentation the gem
tleman from Nebraska, it publishes
the verbatim report of that portion OF
his address. admitting only his tribute
to Mr.. Blackburn.
When the campaign was on and
the people were considering what they
ought to do, assumed II not only a
duty but a privilege to come to the
state of Kentucky and tell the Demo-
Gratis of this state what | thought they
ought to do in the gubernatorial con-
test. tApplause.)
There is TO- a contest before the
legislature. I am going to do my duty
now, as l did 1t in the campaign.
(Great and continued applause.) 1 am
afraid that you have applauded too
soon. When it was persuading a citi-
zen how to vote. l took my position
and did what l conceived to be my
duty. You are now engaged in a con-
test that is to decide not what ought
to have been done. but what was done.
Your legislature is the court. That
legislature must decide upon the law
and upon the evidence; and every
member of that court will be better
informed upon the law and the evil
/ dpnpo than I mn, and 10 10 nc npt,rh " "
duty now not to interfere as 1t was
in the campaign to interfere. n l
shall do my duty as | see 1t now. as
I did then.
Bryan to Goebelites.
Il neither advised a contest, nor ad-
on this subject. 1 would be ashamed
II l were presumptious enough to at
tempt to interfere with the consci-
entious performance of a duty that de-
wolves only upon the members of the
Legislature. l want to say this, how
ever, that when men say you cannot
expect a Just decision from the legis-
lature because 1t is Democratic. /
want to say that every contest in re-
gard to human government must be
settled by human tribunals. and that
whether a contest is presented to a
court or to a Legislature 1t must be
decided by men. and that those men
u have political opinions, md II
this was a Republican legislature It
would have the same power to decide
that a Democratic legislature has.
Il am glad 1t is a Democratic legis-
lature. When questions nave to &c
before a court. am always glad when
it is a Democratic court that they go
before, and If the Republicans Of this
state feel that they are unfortunate
in having to submit their questions to