Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1900-06-12

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and damn the Republican party"
No such expression has emanated
from the lips Of any Democrat. H.
is the purest invention of the "or-
gans of assassination
1t is not at all necessary to
chang Taylor in order to damn .
the Republican party-in Ken
lucky. 1t is already damned be-
yond the hope of salvation in this
life, or OF resurrection in the life to
come. Taylor, himself, attended to
that, All by himself, with his little
hatchet, he made the coffin, dug the
grave and supplied the corpse
When, be, and his orators, pre-
gdlcted a "Reign of Terror" con-
spired to bring it to pass, they
''damned" the Republican party.
When they corralled the rufians
in the mountains and brought them
to Frankfort, making the threat
ened Reign of Terror even more
hideous than had been predicted
and anticipated they"damned y the
Republican party.
When after the murderous shot
had been fired from the executive
building, occupied by Taylor and
his friends, swarming with his
mountain thugs and surrounded by
his pretorian guards, Taylor re-
fused access to the police authori-
ties, and held his blood-stained for
tress three days and nights against
the civil process of the law, in
Guiding the sacred writ of habeas
corpus itself, he damned the Re-
publican.
When he chase the legislature
through the streets of the state cap
ital he damned" the Republican
party
When he called it to meet in the
very heart of the assassin country
in order that the Democratic ma
jority might be murdered down to a
minority, he "damed the Republi-
party.
And, finally, when he began par
oning marauders out of prison, Up
advance of trial, to end by spirit
ing out of reach of the officers of the
law adherents against whom war
rants of arrest had been issued,
disguised as soldiers and carrying
both money for fight and pardons
tor protection, he damned both
the Republican party and himself.
What is the good of hanging
him? Who really wants to hang
him? He is better for the Demo
Gratis living than dead. We may
keep him as never-faiIing horrid
example.
But, if this wretched man finds
himself in an equiyocal position, he
cas- nobody but himself to blame for
it; nobody to thank for it except
himself; because he has been the
sole author of the discriminating ev-
idence against him; by his acts his
chief accuser.
He is either a guilty man, or his
mind has been upset by these trou-
bles. No innocent man with a
spoonful of dignity, or Of common
sense, would pursue the course he
has pursued His very absence at
this time exposes him to all manner
of reasonable suspicion. His place
is not in Washington, or in New
York; it is at Frankfort. He re-
qured no personal interview with
any lawyer, or lawyers. All that
lay within the competency of his
attorneys. An innocent man would
in the very outset have bravely
faced his accusers. He would have
come out from hiding even if he had
been so foolish, or so cowardly, as
to hide in the first place. He would
have courted the fullest investlga-
ton. He weuld have said: 81 care
nothing for the Office, but you must
not suspect me of crime" In a
word he would have thrown him
self at once upon the side Of the
law, under the protection of the law
and in the support of the officers of
the law. Instead of this Taylor
did all that mortal man could do to
thwart the law, to defy the law,
and to battle the officers of the law.
And there are men in this city call
ing themselves Christians and
mistaking themselves for good citi-
zeus, who, obliyious to all these
things, have raised fund to help
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