Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-10
ANOTHER EAszEsx OPINION.

The Boston Transcript, an anti-expan-
sion newspaper OF wide inanence In the
east, comes to hand with al editorial on
the killing of Goebel. in line with h po-
sition taken by the Inter Mountain. This
paper has been assailed by the demo-
cratic press of Montana as c0ndoning as
sassination. because it told the truth
about Goebel; yet the Transcript places
the matter in the following strong light.
and no one will question the conservatism
of that literary representative Of the hub;
The mischief that haunts' tho violent
man reached William Goebel yesterday.
He shed a mans blood when a few years
ago he pistolled Colonel Sanford In the
street at Covington. Sanford'S widow
went insane through grief, and is now Or
was quite recently "a hopeless maniac In
an asylum. 1t may be that in this CASE
! Goebel only fired first, for accounts differ.
but the fact that the killing has been Bit
terly treasured up against him In a state
so tolerant Of homicide suggests that it
fshocked by it's circumstances the callous-
ed sentiment of the community. lit may
be therefore that the man who shot, Goehel
yesterday was, Influenced both by, a per-
sonal as we'll as q political hostility. Ken
lucky is still the dark and BLOODY
ground" siH-S Z
The political contest in which thisrtraE-
edy is such asterrible episode iFo one OF
whose f~srceness and fury we Of more
temperate northern blood a scarcely
form an adequate conception. Goebel, it
must be remembered. is hateful to thous-
ands of democrats who would. have tao
lilly acuuiesced in the nomination of any
other man as the standard bearer Of their
~~-A, N\r,oI~,4 4,,~ = lor@o 49, Hrok a n
for Brown, the independent democrat
nominated by the boilers. The bitterest
Opposition the most caustic denMncia-
tons OF Goebel came from these boilers.
lSeveral Of their speakers denounced him
as a liar" and an assassin" and the
story Of the Killing Of Sanford was told
over M over again. When the votes o.
the state We're counted it was found tina!
Taylor had a plurality of 2, 1888 over Goebei
and that the latter had received the sui
f,frages Of 1881 Kentuckians. the aggre-
gate of all votes Of all parties opposed to
him was 211, 748. Then followed Goebel's
attempt to steal the g~overnorship through
! the legislature, after his own state re-
turning board had rejected his claim that
he had been elected by the people. 1t the
contest that ended at the polls was fierce
that which has been carried on in the leg
islature has been furious. Goebel. him.
self a hOld-over, senator, dominated tn
democratic majority and drove them t
mad extremes. Many threats have beer
made against him. One senator whom
Goebel desired to have unseated told him
within a few days that he would kill hin
(Goebel) it his seat was declared vacant
In such IN atmosphere tragedy turks a
every corner Goebel may ave been sho
by a man who worked himself up to be-
lieve that he was saving the state1 frou
disgrace, or ON the other hand he MAJ
have been simply a victim of -the Ken,
lucky pistol habit" In a community il
which life is taken without even the con
sideration that attended the preliminariea
of the old-fashioned duel, the shooting O
a hated politician may readily nave seem
ed but the natural conclusion Of q lon,
continued feud.