Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1900-10-12
COL. YOUNG
TAKES MR.. YERKEs TO TASK AT
PARIS.
A Spirited Reply to Some Of the Utter
anees Of the Republican
Candidate.

court house at Paris Tuesday night TO
an audience of white citizens as large
as the mixed assemblage which heard
Mr.. Yerkes In the afternoon. The
court room, in which Col. Youngs
spoke, was filed with people and the
doors were choked with voters.
Col. Young was escorted to the
platform amid wild cheers and ap.
plause. He was introduced by Judge
Mann, and spoke for an hour and ten
minutes.
He said in part
In his speech at Covington Mr..
Yerkes said There seems to be
some doubt, some Jealousy, perhaps,
as to who are Mr.. Beckham's legal
guardians. see in Col. Bennett H.
Young's speech that when Mr. Beck
ham was seated, Mr.. Blackburn, Mr..
Young and one or two others were ap-
pointed to advise with him and to
control his future actions, and now l
see that ex-Gov. McCreary and Charlie
Wheeler are constituted his political
nurses"
Well, maybe there is some question
as to who are Mr.. Beckham's advisers.
l enjoyed the friendship of Gov. Beck
hams father and his grandfather.
claim only to be his friend. He can
give me nothing l would have, but
one thing l am dead sure of, and that
Is that no one of the gentlemen Mr..
Yerkes has named as Mr.. Beckham's
advisers would ever suggest to him to
approve assassination, to issue par
dons to the murderers of a state Off
GER, shot down in cold blood from a
window in the executive building, or
to be base enough to hide such muir
derer from the officers of the law, or
to put bayonets in the hands of asSas-
sins to keep these officers of the law
from searching the public buildings
to find the murderer, or to unlawfully
use the public funds to keep an army
of desperadoes in the state capital to
intimidate state officials or to adjourn
the legislature to some place like
London, where those opposing him
could be expeditiously killed; or to
furnish known assassins, in advance
Of trial, with pardons, or to provide
murderers with United States and
Kentucky uniforms for disguise and
soldiers in the pay Of the state to es-
cort them to a place where they might
defy the law.
Yerkes Needs a Guardian.
When Mr.. Yerkes' thirst for Office
brings him to the political depth
where he can excuse or justify such
infamy, or make him so timid and
cowardIy as to refuse to stand up in
a manly and courageous way to con-
denim it, then a fair-minded public
will say that Yerkes wants some guar
dians, and that he had better at once
get somebody to nurse him.
There never was in the history Of
this great state, or in the annals Of its
brave people, more pitiable sight
than a man of Mr.. Yerkes professions
and standing going over the state cry
ing out civil liberty" and yet so
wanting in true political courage as
not to say whether he does or does
not approve of the conduct of w. S.
Taylor while acting as governor.
One of two things is true: If he
condemns it and keeps silent, he is
false to his convictions and not honest
with the people whose suffrage he
seeks; il he does not condemn or ap-
proves what Madman and Murderer
Taylor did, then he is unworthy Of the
support of the brave, patriotic and
people of this great COM
A Humiliating Event.
The idea that man who offers him
self as the representative Of his party
for the office OF governor Of Kentucky,
who in this hour, when the state is in
a great crisis, when a felIow-citizen
has been assassinated on the very |
steps of the capitol building, going to
his duty as law maker,
shall be afraid to say whether he APP |
proves or disapproves of the conduct |
Of those asssassins, is one Of the most |
events on the pages of
Of kentueky's history.
Again Mr.. Yerkes in his Covington |
speech said: "The murder of Goebol !
was a crime OF blacklist hue, but 1t |
was a conspiracy of one, two or doz- |
On individuals. Why should the Re. !
publican party be held responsible toi |
the individual act of one, two or a |
dozen persons?" And that is all that !
a man who, the Republican party
says, is its best man, has to say about
the most shocking crime of this age,
a crime that makes civilization shud- !
der, that makes law-abiding citizens
stand aghast with its awfulness.
"A few individuals" did you say, Mr.. |
Yerkes? You knew when you uttered
hose words that Taylor's fellow-con-
spirator, Powers, in his defense had
said that he (Taylor) then a governor,
made so by the Republican nomlna-
tion and Republican votes, was taking