The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-02-15
SIDE LIGHTS ON THE KENTUKY
CASE.


The Washington correspond
ent of the New York Evening
Post, in narrating the events
leading up TO the present political
troubles in Kentucky, says that
the best monument that could be
erected for Mr.. Goebel would be
ga charitable silence" The cor
respondent recalls that he went
to the Kentucky State Convention
last year with only 167 delegates
out of the total of 1902. The 9th
er delegates were supporting
Stone and Harding, and the lat
ter needed only forty votes TO Sc
cure success ON the first ballot.
The Post correspondent says
that it was Stones desire to
round out his political career by
Il term in the office of Governor,
Goebel entered into an arrange
with Stone by which the latter
was to have his desire, the Gov
ernorship, and Goebel was to be
given the succession to Deboe's
seat as Senator. To carry out
the bargain nearly 300 delegates
were thrown out, and many of
them on contests begun after the
Convention had met. "After this
packing had been done, Goebel
sold out his partner and had him
self nominated for Governor. "
The Goebel election law, under
which the present confusion in
Kentucky politics was made pos
sible, was necessary to complete
Goebels ends; but Taylor's
strength at the polls was miscal-
culated, and even the convenient
machinery to overun maiorlties
found in the Goebel law was not
worked quite hard enough to OBJ
literate Taylor's majority. While
his real majority is estimated at
10000, the Democratic returning
board gave him 2400. The law,
however, accomplished its per-
feet work in the Legislature,
which by the law was constituted
the final bulwark of Goebelism.
Fhe Investigating Committee Of
the Legislature is selected by
lot, and ten of the eleven names
drawn were Democratic, though
ON joint ballot the Democratic
strength was about 60 per cent.
of the total. The charge was
made, the Post correspondent re-
calls, that the Democratic names
were placed on one side Of the
box from which the Contest Com
mittee We're drawn, and the Re
publican names ON the other side.
Little has been said as TO the
charge that the Committee on
the Governorship was unfairly
drawn, but it is a matter of great
gravity, and, if made out by con
vincing proof, it would show an
important side light upon the
case The withdrawal of Govern
or Taylor would probably end all
the incidental contentious. If the
courts could be appealed to sue
cessfully to open the contest on
the allegation of fraud, which
vitiate everything it touches, the
method of drawing lots for the
Legislative Contest Committee
might be investigated, and the
truth made known. Atany rate,
full opportunity should be given
by the Legislature for the vindi-
cation of the Democrats respect
ing this allegation,
The POSTS representative re-
fers to another matter which
should not be overlooked as one
of the operating causes of the
Kentucky complication. The
correspondentnotes thatin Louis
vile the Federal office-holders
took an active part in the Repub.
lican Conventions of eleven Of the
twelve wards that elected Taylor
delegates TO the State Convention.
The Collector Of Internal Reye-
nue. was active in practical poll
tics with his storekeepers and
gaugers:
"Had these men been appoint