The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-02-08

Knox willie Sentinel, Dem.)

upon the little city OF Frankfort XIV
y in a desperate and damnable attemI
to terrOrize its people and intimidat
the Legislature OF a sovereign state
was "a disgrace to civilization, a
insult TO decency, cowardly an
contemplate challenge to the man
; hood of citizenship. 1t was riot rul
riot. 1t was the very madness @
madness. 1t was the acme of out
rage II was monstrous.
We have no interest in William
Goebel save alone that which we fee
for the democracy that he repre-
sents, but if William Goebel were &
thousand times the bad man that
his enemies picture him, he would still
be the personiEcation of respectable
ity, the incarnation of honor, the
beau ideal OF purity, the emblem and
the all of virtue, i'll comparison with
the designers OF such horde OF howl
ing hoodlums.
1t Is enough to make the mildest
hammered mad to the mark of misery
to contemplate spectacle so lawless
and so lost to sense of shame. They
went out into the toughest regions of
terror, where the life of man is an un-
considered and unvalued thing:
where power is principle and buck
shot the only trusted friend; where
nelghbor sinks in wait for neighbor
and human hands are washed i'm hui
man blood, and they CAT hered them
up, these moOnshiner murderers.
who, for free whisky, a free ride and
the prospect OF a free fight, were will
ing to go to the capital of their state
and bring disgrace and death and
sorrow III their wake. They embow-
eled hell, let loose its wrath and di-
rected 1t on the state house. They |
gathered their thugs and throttlers
together, armed them with Winches-
Ter rifles, and sent them forth to pa
'ade the streets of the unfortunate
,ity, so recently the scene of blood's
'eddest carnival, to brighten it's wo-
men, to murder its men, to blacken
Is good name before all the world.
And these are the men who shout
or principle. God save the mark
hey go out into the lawless strong
Odds of Bell and Harlan and Knox
nd Metcalf and Barren, and furnish
and Winchesters and |
ooze to bloodblind desperadoes and
end them on to Frankfort. armed.
runken and dangerous dare devils.
demand justice. o. Justice. how
ANY crimes are committed in tby Il
anne. They go to offer protest SO Ii
icy say-a protest most remarka-
e. With rifles on their shoulders D
andy i'll their bellies and murder in +
elr hearts, they go to offer protest q
british and benighted band o. Re
wages, no hungry and bowling p
LEX OF wolves, no demons. ghosts or IL
'Dllns damned ever entered n de- ID
Useless city to Offer protest in man III
r half so threatening, loathsome J"
a depraved. That the whisky died III
t IN them, or their courage failed. III
q their bastard enterprise was VI
andoned when they got there was d.
{ the fault of that evil spirit be- vi
Ill the scenes which originated and ue
their cut-throat expedi- III
II. They went not to protest ~
alnst the seating OF Goebel. The Isl
eraSe member of that Internal ag- oe
egatlon OF infamy neither knows w
cares who William GoebeI is les
at his politics, nor why nor when pf
where a protest was in order u
e average OF that uncanny lot did ~
vote Ill the last election. and has III
ihtelilSent idea of the difference in
nclpie between the platforms on Cd
lch Goebeland his opponent stood 1h
ey went simply and solely at the s.'
lest OF oAe who was created with Tn
image OF God and the spirit of IN
1an' who for selfish purposes would eri
erfully sink the state of Kentucky Tic
0 perdltion and damn her dearest r.
erests throughout time and eter-
y The attempt to create the i'm
Ssion that these reckless ruffians TX
'hered there with their wind and III
IT "lnchesters as the result of an
lgnant and spontaneous revolt w
uprising of popular sentiment is On
oitlng TO the most meager and li'
dest of intellects. 1t was asea "h