Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-25
CIVIL LIBERTY THE ISSUE
MIR. BOREING DESCRIBES CONDI-
TONS IN KENTUCKY.
Convicted POvers-Rev-
Count Out Voters.

A delegation Of twenty-five Kentuckfans,
clerks in the census office. called on Repre-
sentative Boreing at No. PIG New Jersey
avenue. In response to call for speech
on the Kentucky situation Mr.. Bereing
said:
1T is hard to get ahead of the news
papers, and what say will not be new to
you. The verdict in the Powers trial was
rendered after left home. but Is doubtless
surprise to nearly everybody. AS mat
ter Of law and fact, no case was mace
against him. A conviction Of some kind
was a political necessity. The 100000 re-
ward was intended to procure campaign
material. Witnesses came in answer to the
advertisement. The partisan ruling and
instructions Of the court are without pre-
cedent in criminal proceedings In Kentucky.
One remarkable feature of the verdict Is
the prompt agreement of the jury In the
guilt Of the accused, and at the same time
all agreeing in the first vote to nix MS pun
ishment at life sentence in the penitentiary.
Especially is this aspect of the verdict sin
gular in view Of the fact that the defend
ant has shown by affidavits filed IN his aP-
plication for a new trial that SIX OF these
Jurors had expressed before trial their be-
lief that Powers ought to be hanged. rms
mild verdict for the planning and providing
for the execution of assassination showed,
to my mind, that the jury, consciously or
unconscousy, gave the prisoner at the bar
this measure of benefit of their reason
able doubt as to his guilt. that ought. even
under the ironclad instructions OF the court,
to have acquitted him.
THE campaign in Kentucky will be pecu-
liar in that it will be fought on the single
issue of civil liberty The popular will OF
the people has been crushed under the OPP
erations of the Goebel election law. The re-
publicans and anti-Goebel democrats will
make one more supreme effort at the ballot
box to restore the political right of self
government to our people IL we are again
counted out by the Goebel machine my
opinion is that revolution will follow. The
spirit OF self-government once implanted in
the Anglo-Saxo civilization has never been
effaced and never will be.
State Sure for Mckinley.
1--WE will carry Kentucky for Mckinley
and Yerkes and increase our republican
representation in Congress- Our nomina-
ton for governor Is fortunate. Mr.. Yerkes
commands the respect and confidence Of all
classes of our citizens. He is a man of
culture. experience and splendid legal abil-
ity. The friends of civil liberty and the
advocates of non-partisan election law
are united, confident and determined. The
Goebel democrats are scared and bewilder-
ed. The call of the pretended Gov. Beck
ham for an extra session of the legislature
to modify their election law Is but sound
of alarm. Mr.. Beckham, who was nomi-
mated because he stood for Goebelism, has
now stepped from under the prophecy of
Congressman Wheeler, who eulogized Mr..
GGebel and his election law upon the floor
Of the House and said 1t must be for ever.
But 1t is not sufficient for him to ask for
the modification of the law under the
forms of which office has been stolen
for him, but he must actually deliver up
the stolen goods in his possession before
he can have standing before the public.
Mr.. Bryan will lose thousands of demo-
cratic votes in Kentucky because Of his
approval Of the Goebel methods and the
Goebel election law.
I'VE shall. however, expect all you boys
to get home and participate in one of the
greatest campaigns that has ever been
waged in the commonwealth of Kentucky.
The eleventh congressional district will poll
10000 majority to sustain the brilliant ad-
ministration of President Mckinley and to
restore the rights of local self-government
to the once free people of Kentucky.