Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1900-03-30
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bare majority Of a. Joint session of the |
legislature.
At the election last fall the candi-
dates were the notorious Goebel on
the democratic ticket and man
named Taylor on the republican ticket.
The latter received over ten thousand
majority, as shown by the returns.
The large majority was caused to
considerable extent by anti-Goebel
democrats, who voted with the repub-
licans and who were bitterly opposed
to the candidate of their party be-
cause of the peculiar manner in which
he had manipulated the state conven-
tion.
After the returns of the election
were in, the state canvassing board,
composed chiefly q Goebel partisans,
went to work on the figures with the
supposed purpose Of throwing out
enough republican, votes to elect Goe-
bel. But, after the board had scaled
the republican majority down to about
thirty-five hundred, the public clamor
against the wrong was such that the
members of the board thought it best
to go no further.
Then the matter went to the legis-
lature, where there was majority of
Goebelites. They set to work prompt
ly, without any qualms Of conscience,
to declare Goebel and not Taylor
elected. The attempt to set aside
Gov. Taylor's large majority and give
the Office to the defeated Goebel
caused intense excitement as matter
Of course, and during such excitement
Goebel, the cause of all the trouble,
was mysteriously shot and killed. 1t
was claimed by his political friends
that he had been the victim of a re-
publican conspiracy. Others claimed
that his life had been taken from mo-
tives Of private revenge, Goebel hav-
ing q few years ago shot to death a
iprominent and influential man named
John Sanford. There was an extreme
lly bitter feeling, and for days Ken
tucky was apparently on the verge Of
civil war. The two parties In the leg.
islature 'sfiocked by themselves" and
the Goebel candidates for state offices
made a show Of filling the offices TO
which their opponents had been
elected. Il,
Soon the Goebel members of the leg
islature enacted an alleged law appro'
prlating 100000 to be expended in
discovering the assassin or assassins Of
Goebel. OF course Gov. Taylor anG
his friends were in some way to bt
connected with the murder.
Since the days of Titus Oates, wher
there las been money in sight will
which to pay for the discovery OF 8
plot, the ''plot" has been promptly
"discovered." That was the way ol
it in this case. A man named Colder
forgetting that, where a lie seeks
egress, ''silence is golden'-has come
to the surface with a yarn to the ef
feet that he was an accessory before
the fact to the killing of Goebel, and
0AoU QOVs 1AyAOt saAO OoASA ACPuO
licans on the state ticket had knowl
edge that Goebel was to be killed
The republican secretary of state anG
other prominent members of that
party have been arrested and Jailed
and it is probable that enough more
''evidence" can be procured with the
hundred thousand dollars to secure
their conviction.
Thus, in the final year of the nine
teenth century, we have before us tht
spectacle Of men fairly and squarely
elected to honorable political positions
not only being cheated Of such posi-
tions, but thrown into prison charged
with being privy to the commission
Of an infamous crime! 1t would seen
that South American methods have
been transplanted to a state Of the
American Union.