The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-08
GoEBEL FUNERAL.
Seven Thousand People Attend the
Services at the Cemetery.

Services at the Cemetery.
Frankfort. KY, Feb. Sat II O'Clock
the formation of the Goebel funeral pa
rade began 1t was headed by a pla-
toon of police, members of the city
council officials and Grand Marshal
David r. Murray, with a dozen mount
ed aids Numerous local societies and
organizations, citizens on foot in great
numbers, carriages in a long row and
hundreds of men on horseback, made
up the procession. The procession then
moved west on Mapping street to Will
kinSon, turned north on Wilkinson to
Broadway and then wheeled to the east
for the march past the Capitol hotel,
where the hearse and carriages con-
tanning the relatives of the dead COVER
nor were waiting.
Every place in the line was quickly
taken and with a delay of but few
minutes the procession moved west to
the cemetery on the summit of the hills
above the Kentucky river. Simple SER
vices had already been conducted in the
parlOr of the hotel consisting merely
of a short scripture reading by Mr. Tai
iaferro of the Methodist church, a solo
by Mrs. Jessie D. Caldwell of Coving-
ton and a prayer by DR.. Schmitt. These
had been for the friends and Immediate
relatives of the family. The ceremonies
in the cemetery proper were on a much
larger scale. The people were there in
numbers and when Elder Stanley arose
to make the first prayer, he faced not
less than 1000 persons.
A solo by Mrs. Jessie Caldwell was
followed by addresses religious in
character by DR.. T. n. Arnold, Rev.
L. G. B. Mann, DR.. Schmitt and Elder
William Stanley. Then came America
sung by quartette and then the ora
ton of the day, delivered by Senator
Blackburn.
Addresses were also made by Cover
| nor Beckham, Ex-Governor McCreary.
Congressman Wheeler, Judge William
S. Pryor and others.
Music followed by the benediction
| closed the services at the cemetery.
BLACKBURN AT THE GRAVE
AT the grave of the dead governor
| Senator Blackburn said:
1.-The tyrannous and bloody act is
| done. The most arch deed of piteous
massacre that ever yet, this land was
] guilty Of GOebel is dead, but that
which he stood for and that which he
| died for still lives. Some men in their
! deaths render greater services to the
| cause they advocate than it We're pos
| sible to do in life The shot that struck
| G1oebel down sounded the death knell
| of political organization of his oppon-
| ents for all time in Kentucky and in
! it's effects will reach to the limits of
| this land
result of the fierce political contest
| from which he had just emerged none
can deny. The ferceness of the fight
| that had been waged against him, for
! maHRnancY ana unId1rneSS mas no
precedence in the history of our country.
'Tis but just to him to say that the
| patient courage, the forbearance and
| dignity that has marked the conduct
| of his followers was largely due to the
| example which he had set them. Struck
| down in the full flush of his years, just
| as he had entered upon the road of
| bright political promise to superficial
/ observer, his career would appear as an
| unfinished one. This is not true. A
! mans life iS- fairly ppa SI1r+.d not nv his
| years. but by the results he has OBJ
tanned. Measured by this crucial test,
! the end, though sudden, did not come
| soon enough to mar or spoil his splen-
| did record. He had made his impress
! upon his fellows. His life, supple
| mented by his death, has won the vic
| tory that measured his ambition, whilst
! the precepts that he taught and the ex-
| ample that he gave inspired his people
| With that patient fortitude that rever-
| ence for law and unf1inching determi-
! nation to assert their rights within its
| limitation, that has won for him and
| them the moral support of this whole
| country. the commendation and ap-
proval of all right-thinking men.
An oak has fallen in the forest, a
| strong man has been taken from among
| every effort and # need be. life itself,
| in the cause of right and justice. Be
| patient, be brave. Obey the law IN
der it demand your rights and never
dDandOn the struggle until justice
shall prevail 1 beg that you will not
mar the splendid record you have al
| ready made by any act of lawlessness
| or violence. Show to the world that in
| this great commonwealth of ours, the
law is superior to the mob, and that
in the end all wrongs will be redressed.
| =" 'Twould be but poor satisfaction to
| see the miserable tools and instruments
! made use of in his murder give up their
lives to an infuriated populace. Be
patient and neither the perpetrators nor
| the yet most guilty planners of th5l
| foul crime will escape the penalty that
| the law provides. You need not fear for
a failure of discovery. No crime like
this can be concealed. This earth is
not large enough to hold it's perpetra-
| tors, or it's instigators in seclusion.
| Murder will out