The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1900-03-16

81 some ct the common ealth's most
Prominent men, and Bet, there are
men, claiming to have made their
"peace calling and election sure" who
sanction every word and act OF this
dlabolcal and Internal conspiracy.
The attempt to imphcate the State
officers in the assassination of William
Goebel was pre-arrauged and pre-
conceived, it could not be done by a
resident of Kentucky. 1t took Tom
Campbell, 100000 and one Crom>
well, who doesn't live anywhere, but
crawls around the country doing the
bidding of the evil one, and who was
not in Frankfort at the time of the
assassination, to swear out warrants
for the arrest of reputable and inno-
cent Kentuckians.
1T il rs II the fends prevailed
Against the Seraphs they assailed,
And throned on heavenly seats should dwell
The freed inheritors Of hell"
1t is safe to say the people of Ken
lucky will not tolerate this a fortnight
The insurgents and pretenders must
recognize law and decency. They
must halt or plunge the State into 8
civil conflict. The idea that the Sec
rotary of State should be knocked
senseless by an armed bully and car
ried to jail in maosc)es without the
privilege OF trial OF bond is beyond
ltkA-P5Ssr-o OF human endurance. And
yet, and yel the opposition declares
that their procedure is according to
law. But every rational, intelligent
and informed man knows that this as.
sertion is as false aud frivolous as the
charge that the Republicans commit
ed fraud in the November election
This assertion is confined to that class
of deranged and deformed Democrats
that sanctioned the following:
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET JUS1
| NOMINATED WILL CERTAINLY BE ELECT
ED. UNDER THE OPERATION OF THE GOE
BEL LAW THE RESULT Is NOT LEFT To
| CHANCE.-Henry watterson in letter TO IN,
President Of the l.. 4 y. X. X. Co.. June 30, 1899.
You can't ont count me and you can't coun
me out" Il have the election right whore ha,
the convention" THE other fellows may do N,
voting, but we Democrats will do the counting"
III there is any stealing TO be done in this elec
tion, am ready TO bet that the other fellows will
not do it."-Blackburn.
THE white, propcrty-owning. respectable PEG
pie oi Kentucky are going TO control the govern
mcnt Of this Commonwealth now and hereafter
and they are going TO legislate some respect ioi
law add public decency into the heads Of $500 ar
rogant moneybags and their satellites and hang
crs-on who have chosen to affiliate politically Will
1000 ignorant negroes andAs many more vicious
and rcd-handed mountaineers. The struggle iol
supremacy Is about over and the end will prov,
In this state a. II has in other States, that onll
the people who ARE capable Of good government
will be permitted 10 govern.'-Urey Woodson IL
greensboro Messenger.
1t may be that the atmosphere o.
Kentucky is suited to the fruition Of
such crimes; it may be that anarchy
will find a short repose, but in the
bosom of every good citizen is feel
ing of shame and disgust. This is no
confined to the ranks of the Republi-
can party for thousands of good Dem
ocrats who would have fought and la
bored themselves tired, had they beer
charged previous to the election, tina
this is what they voted for. This is j
verbatim ct literatim. This is Goebel
ism. This is what the attempted as
sassination of civil liberty brough
about. This is the result of that po-
Utica! conspiracy concocted and pur-
ported to consign Kentucky treemeI
to political bondage and slavery.