The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-11-07

Democrats. Eugine Newman, Demo
crat, on the staff of the Louisville Cour-
ier journal, wrote as follows concerning
the conduct of Judge Cantrill:
"The man who shot William Goebel
deserves to be hanged, and any man who
plotted the assassination, if it was plotted,
deserves to De hanged. Caleb Powers is
charged with plotting the murder. He
was tried for it. He was not proved to be
guilty of the charge. And he did not
have a fair trial. Charged as an accessory
OF nameless principal, he was convict
ed before any principal was arraigned.
However there was precedent for that.
Lord Jeffreys in the first case of the
Bloody Assizes,' of forever infamous
memory, in the case of Alice Lisle, fixed
that. There was other conduct of Judge
The SUN of 100000 was appropriated
by the Kentucky Legislature for the ar
rest and conviction of the murderers of
Goebel. Detectives eager to get a share
of the 500, 900 blood money were imme-
Cantrill at Georgetown that finds prece-
dent in Jeffreys' at Winchester. For eX-
ample, Jefireys said to one of the wit
nesses for defense, oh how hard the
truth is to come out OF lying Presbyter-
| ian knaver He said that to intimidate
the witness and to influence the jury.
| Cantrill said to witness for the defense,
| That is a stump speech What did he
say that for? He was prompted by the
same spirit that had prompie ed Jeffreys.
Remember that Jefireys had disgraced
| tho ermne 2l5 years before. Jurispru-
| dence ought to have made some advance
| in that while. Jeffreys was drunk on
the bench. and that ought to have been
some sort of an excuse for his violent
| ontbursts. Cantrill was equally outra'
| geous i'm demeanOr-his manner, his
smiles of ofapproval, his frowns of dissent
his sneers, his gestures, his dsregards o
the plain rights of defense, his severity
toward cOunsel-this and these disclose
the other and equally Infamous Gonspir-
acy to Hang Taylor and damn the Re
publican party And they had 100000
with which to pay expenses"
The Louisville Post, also Democrat,
paper, had this to say of the trial of Hen
ry E. Youtsey, undoubtedly an innocen
man:
"Youtsey's trial has been from th
first tragedy. He has been the victim
of the most treacherous plotting that eve
was hatched in the brain of desperat
lawyer. Dece ived and betrayed, badger
ed and waylaid attacked by friends au;
foes; tricked, threatened and tried thre
times under the pretense of trying Othe
men tempted by the subtlest pleas tina
ever whispered crime or concealed
treachery, it is not wonderful that tn
nervous strength of this young maj
failed him and that mind and body col
lapsed. But hard as all this is, worse re
mains the dccus ed-where was the ac
cused whom the law says must he con
fronted by the accuser? He was won
dering in pastures greener he wa
walking by still waters away from tn
relentless pursuers he was wanderin
where the mind of men may not tOlloN
him, where only the imagination ca
9 reach cOmpanionship with him. Reaso
overthrown. he could not even hear til
accusing witnesses. The body lay quit
'in the presence of the court, and dragge
q there by the most remarkable and mO
remorseless orders that ever emanate
} from judge in America. 1t was notl
@ ing to Youtsey. In one last note of dt
: fiance you shall not stand there to sweS
my life away the lamp of reason, I'll
light of the soul, went out, and all r,
s sponsibility ended. Yet all the TRACED
q went on in the open light of day; Il
y, physicians were instructed not to use Il
God-glYen means OF peace To alleviate II
sufferings of the victim. The man whol
the physicians said could not be shamn
ing was either shamming or he was a
unconscious of what went on about hir
He answered to no call from friend {
e foeman; he called on no name but Il
name Of one woman. His voice in deli
ium rang out TO interrupt the witness, {
If all unconscious protest against Il
: mockery which had for its theater
court house of Kentucky"
>, By such witnesses, such a judge al
= such motives as these, four men ha,
been convicted of completely in tho a
sassination Of Senator Goebel, and SCI
= fenced to imprisonment for life. Al
Governor Taylor himself would ha
y been convicted by the same methods
y he had not had the good sense to lea
the State and seek protection und
" Governor Mount. of Indiana, who !
ID fused to deliver him into the hands
ne these infuriatcd scroundrels. .-PutcS
ne tdUney SPIRIT.