Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-26
DEMOCRATIC PLOT.

When the democratic legislature Of
kentucky offered a reward of 500, 900 for
the arrest and conviction of parties con-
cerned in the murder of Goebel, M
Pinkerton thugs We're invited to the
state to earn that money, it was clear
that an onslaught Upon republican state
officials was contemplated. 1t mattered
not to the Pinkerton's who the ruffian
was that fired the fatal shot; and the
motive which led him to the preparation
of the abhorent crime was of no concern
to them. The object of the appropria-
ton was to induce the skilled Pinkertons
to prepare a case that would in some
manner show completely on the part of
republicans high in authority, and hus
break down their standing before the
community and weaken their claims for
political justice in the controversy grow
ing out of the late election in that state.
The evidence of Taylor's election was
so clear that despite the squirming and
twisting of partisan election boards and
" ApI CLlO SOul dAAO d 1C6iS.
lative assembly second only to that Of
Montana, the republican candidate SEEM
ed likely to retain the g~ubernatorial
chain which had been honestly won at
Gated the election Of Taylor the demo-
cratic conspirators undertook the work
of overthrowing him, and numerous plans
to that end were Matched. Goebel, the
democratic candidate for governor. him.
self a murderer wearing the brand of
Cain upon his brow, was chief in the
conspiracy to rob Kentucky of it's rights
and drag that commonwealth through
the mire of disrepute.
During the early days of the conspir-
acy, when the wretched usurper was
planning a coup to wade through blood
in order to wrest the executive Office
from it's rightful occupant, he fell by the
bullet of an assassin. Immediately,
came the amendment to the plans of his
followers, which led to an appropriation
of $780, 900 to aid the Pinkertons in fast
ening the crime upon men whose posi-
ton before the world could be shaken in
no other way. Those who have follow
ed the Montana senatorial investigation
from start to finish know how easy it
seems to be procure witnesses willing
to go to any lengths for a cash consid-
GRAFTON, even among men of previously
good repute. With 800, 900 in sight, if
they succeeded in fastening the crime
upon some one n showing completely
on the part of the republican state Of
ficials, the Pinkertons were equal to the
work of procuring all the testimony re-
quired to raise a presumption of guilt.
1t appears from the testimony of the
consumptive Golden that the detective
agency is earning it's salary to the best
of it's ability. The fishy manner in
which Golden is said to have been cor
nered, before turning states evidence,
presupposes a general knowledge of the
republican plot to kill Goebel among
the private soldiers of the state militia
a most violent assumption. Had a mur-
derous plot of that character been organ
lied it's detail would not have been COM
mon property among the soldiers, and
Golden would not have learned additional
facts concerning his alleged discoveries
by putting on a uniform and pretending
to be a soldier, thus drawing from an.
other soldier-a stranger-the facts recit-
ed. Moreover. had Caleb Powers, the sec.
rotary of state, been a party to the muir.
der of Goebel, he would not have permit.
ted the shot to be fired from his office
window in the light of day, when the Sec
ret assassination of the bourbon usurne,
could have been effected at some othe,
time and place. Plots to assassinate arr
not carried out in a manner to invite sus.
1tcion through geographical reasons.
But the unreasonableness of the charge