The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-08
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entire machinery OF government, might
pass unnoticed in South American re-
| public, where revolution is the normal
condition In State OF the American
4 Union IT is disgrace.
1 Boston Herald tInd); Governor Tsy,
1 lor's course in adjourninR the legislature
was arbitrary. aud 1t wos inexcusabls
partisanship, His further attempt to
convene It away from the capital Of the
state In an obscure locality, where the
| worst kind OF psrtIesnshlp predomihstsd
a district from whence those who had
melted violence at the capital came, and
where further violence was almost GER
tain to be exhibited, was nothing less
thap outrageous.
Chicago Record dnd3: w s.
Taylor has forfeited the sympathy NJ
the American public; therefore, SO far
as he is concerned, there will be no re-
greet II he shall fail to prove that he has
been unlawfully voted out Of office by the
! Kentucky legislature. When he used the
! State militia TO prevent the assembling OF
/ that body Taylor was guilty OF a danger
4 Gus usurpation Of power ON that ground
! lie ought to be impeached and deprived OF
his office, even II his claim TO 1t on other
grounds should be established.
philadelphia Record undD: The
shooting OF Goebel, while it seems
90 have increased the bitterness and de-
termination Of the contending factions,
| has had perceptibly cooling effect upon
/ the prospect Of further blood letting.
There is also a pereeptlbe division OF
| opinion among the republicans as to the
| legality and the prnprety Of the act OF
! Governor Taylor In preventing the as
semblage of the legislature. Altogether,
the situation, though dangerous, seems to
be a clearing one, Even the soldiers as
! sembled to do battle on the orders Of their
officers may take IL into their heads to
think before they shoot.
Atlanta Journal (Dem.): A more out
rageous and despicable exercise OF lit-
tie brief authority than that which Tay-
lor has given has never been attempted
in this country. Cromwel's assumacy
in dissolving the English parliament Il
mild in comparison with tho conduct Of
this Kentucky autocrat The hest legal
opinion Of his own state even of his
own partisans, condemns and disgraces
him. Many of those who honestly believe
that he was elected governor OF Ken
lucky have by his own acts been driven
to the conclusion that he Is utterly unfit
TO perform the functions OF that high
Office.
Boston Globe Dem.) 1t is I'M
necessary to discuss the merits OF
the complicated political controversy,
| little understood here, which eliminated
in the murderous shooting down OF Sena-
| ator Goebel by a concealed foe. Public
feeling is running high at Frankfort and
| throughout Kentucky. 1t Is time to In
woke law, not the rules of private ven
geance," which ought TO have been out
grown long ago In every section of the
United States. Mr. Goebel has a record as
a clean, temperate, upright man, of high
1 personal character aud unusual ability. To
these things his bitterest foes bore testi-
mony even while they were iiercest il
opposing him.
Kansas City Star (rpd): The
blunder which will cause the mos
Nserious injury TO the republicans is their
resort to force in defense Of their rights
There is no room for bayonets in the con
tention at Frankfort. The arrest, by the
soldiery, of an officer Of the court, ordered
to serve notice OF legal proceeding or
Governor Taylor, can not he defended OF
any ground. The attempted domination o.
the judiciary by the military Is dangerous
In the extreme II is a policy which the
republicans can not countenance without
fatal harm TO themselves. II they adhery
to it II will turn the tide OF popular senti-
ment against them throughout the whole
country.
Chicago Chronicle und); The procla-
nation OF Acting Governor Taylor calling
the legislature TO meet at London, In
the mountains, February 6 will not be re-
garded. None of the democratic mem
bers, who are in majority and consti-
tute quorum OF both houses. will ap.
pear at London. threat is made that
enough OF them viii be arrested ans
yanked away by force 10 London to ap.
pear with the republican members ant
form a quorum. This Is both preposter-
Gus aud outrageous, II involves treas.
onahle conspiracy to overthrow the Lawful
government of the State and place Tay.
Tor, tho usurping governor, in control as
a military dictator.
New York World (Dem.): Government
by bayonets rather than ballots--the rult
OF force instead OF the rule OF law,
revolution, by whatever official practised
by whatever party sustained II assassi.
nation and usurpation shall DO permit.
ted 10 achieve their objects in this case
not much imagination is required to see
what few regiments of Federal soldier:
might do in Washington under the orders
Of a president who announces his deter.
mnation, as Governor Taylor did yestsr
day, to stick even II he preeipitated
bloody war" The whole deplorahle affair
illustrates the dangerous tendencies anc
natural results OF the new policy OF mill.
terism-of bending" the organic Law
OF government outside OF the constitu-
ton"
Chicago News QndD; Public in
dignation throughout the country has
been universal at che shooting o.
Senator Goebel The act was not Only RE.
grettable and deplorahle," to nse the
hackneyed words which have so often done
service in eNcusing similar deeds Of v,o.
lepce, but under the circumstances Il te.
conies a State and almost a National DIS,
grace, N IL can be proved that the shoot.
ing was done by some feeble Minded Gut
teau or Prendergsst Il will be an immens,
relief to Americans everywhere who ar,
unwilling to believe or 10 acknowledge
that In any state OF the Union such a
crime against law and free government