The evening times., 1900-10-16
Circulation Statement.
Roosevelt ON Law and Order.

In Kentucky the other day. the cowboy
candidate gave another of his Instructive
and amusing limitations of a man of glass
throwing stones at himself 1t was at
EliZabethtown. and the audience he was
about to address received him with enthu-
siastic cheers for Mr.. Bryan. 1t is need
less to say that this put Roosevelt in
lvid rage, and he screamed: 1T is not ex-
traordinary that the men who have stolen
the Governorship and who seek to steal it
again should not dare hear the truth of
history. but should seek to gag Ameri-
can citizen even before he had uttered one
word of his opinions in political contro-
verzy!'
A Republican candidate stumping in
Kentucky is not in the best position III
the world 10 indulge in remarks concern
ing the stealing of Governorships. The
fact is too notorious that the leaders of his
own party. less than year ago tried to
steal a GovernoTship in the Bluegrass
State by the cowardly murder of the
rightful claimant to that office. 1t is par
ticuarly hoomerangous for Theodore
Roosevelt, of all men, to stir up such
subject. 1t because they knew ''the
nectfon with II, that the decent citizens OF
Elizabethtown resented his coming among
them to IauG the vile assassination conspi-
rators Of last January. 1t was because they
saw in him a disgraced Chief Magistrate
of a great State who. for partisan purpos-
es had been willing 10 trample upon a
plain mandate of the Constitution, that he
might harbor and protect Taylor the fH-
gitive from justice who on the strength
OF evidence given in the Youtsey trial,
stands before the country as the instgatOr
of Governor Goebel's murder.
On the outskirts of the small crowd at
the EHzabethtown meeting, a number of
small boys were marching around, waving
Bryan flags and cheering the Democratic
Presidential candidate. Roosevelt glared
at them through his teeth and shouted:
'I call your attention to the attitude OF
Mr. Bryans friends On the subject of law
and ORDER" st is our privilege to call
dr. RooseYelt's attention to the attitude
of his Kentucky friends on the same sub
ject.
One of them, that eminent Republican
leader from the mountains of Clay county,
the Hon. Jim Howard, is under SEN
tence OF death for the assassination of the
legal Governor of Kentucky. Another
the Hon. Caleb Powers, ex-Secretary Of
state, is serving a life sentence as an ac-
cessory to that crime. Another, that
bright young Kentucky Republican, Hen
ry Youtsey. IS being tried as a principal
in the same connection.
According to two unimpeachable wit
nesses, this misereant has twice confessed
that he procured the rife and cartridges
with which the deed was committed and
stood by with two other evident Republi-
cans-one colored-from the eastern part
of the State, while Howard fired the IA
tai shot, and all under the direction and
orders of that peerless leader" the Hon.
W. S. Taylor, now in hiding from Meme
sis. in the adjacent Commonwealth of
Indiana, under the protecting wing of its
Republican Governor. Mount, who, like
Roosevelt. is perfectly willing to assist in
defeating the ends of justice, when the
criminal is an honored member of his own
party.