The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-12
IS MURDER.
Henry Watterson Reviews the Goebel
Tragedy and Subsequent Events.

proving lusufncient to ogeraWe the demo- |
Gratis % tho legislature resort was had 10
! ne huai stroke, prearrnnged 10 DO Us dead.
" WON 10 inns Precise event; and. p<f
otbro 1c,nnt.di 81, Hbhnoow 1i ~. VAf,,,.se
Do, republican friends. william Gochel
I. s1nl down !n hls tricks whilst on bis
way 10 tue DISCHARGE pf bis official duties.
Civil Law Is supptanted.
'rhe executive buildlng Is Immediately 1
surrounded by troops Access Is denied the |
local cons'a7n'my Martial law suppants |
the civll law. The writ ~ hnheas corpus |
* rdlculed ana denied. The isgi .lature is |
suddenly and Violently dispersed As sud /
uthll, ~ iS called a. assemble. not In some !
H'atf' surh rs Louisville or Lexington, |
Wnrre ~ proceedings would he unmolrsted |
Oul IN an inaccessible village among he |
m.tH aus. whittier. as might he reasoua bly |
Inferred. no democrat could 20 without |
the risk OF his life.
Democrats Act According 10 Law
I'm the face Of such discDuragement the
democrats pursued their contest according
70 law and, according to law. it WAS
awarded them By the highest tribunals IN
The land. Concurrent with the hnaI de-
c!sion OF the supreme court Of the United
States Ia their favor. the republican, GOV.
ernor who had held office only under
tentative title, subject to after revision
ara decision, fed from Kentucky 10 ln.
diana, having arranged with the republican
governor, OF the latter State for safe re-
la, lHrie, WIN one 't MS associates,
ana eXiradition.
Justfyina the Murder.
These are the simple facts. Thcv are
met by the republicans with 10 denial
But to parry them it is vet mp that Gocael
was bad man; that the Gocbel law was
bad laW, and that the democrats Of Ken
,unky are a bad ot The present Ike
The last republican governor Of Indiana as-
eumes that Justice can NOT bo haI uf tine
hruuvky courts OF law Tho present r,-
publican president OF the United States rs
on record as having, whilst governor of
New York, made haste tp guarantee tine
Kentucky refugees the protection cf ihe
Empire State. The pnImdelphig NEWSPAPER
largely owned ami wholly controlled by he
republican postmaster general Of the Unit
pj sjarDs refors ~ thr democrats Of Ken.
url,N us Che Gocbcl gang ANA speaks
of the murdered governor OF Kentucky as
| .lp Infamous Goepc0' n an ths be not
,4l,y4aNhNhf ana lusaiFing murder what
Iodicfnoe,t If Ren,,hIics,s
,\fpcb c,r,,oi g., -,..,.,,,, -.
Of cert.In ind,gnsnt c,,ress,ons in va
hptt,l f-n,, .,,tsia t-,,,t,,oi,,. -,
p,,, ,.b.t sto,,l5 H.. s,f1 of ,,., -,
mona, ,'r ,..,,sst,,,.,.. ',','..,n,,'i t.
r.nutI,co,, ro,ty from ti,o nrost1o,,, %, tt'o
i.i,.1 So. -. -. ~. II.
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/ the republican governor Of Indiana, and
/ thence TO the republican press. which IN
order to make It's case. must needs deliver
1 an indictment against an entire com.
/ mmity. whole people. ana that the God.
I fearing, brave and maguunlmous men and
4 women OF Kentuckvy Are Kentuckians to
! keep silent whilst such things 90 forward 2
] "H,aycu knows the Courier Journal has
! no wish 10 recall the Incidents Of this
| drpadful chapter of Kentucky history 1t
/ did ts host to dcfent the election law TO
1 which chose Incidents were the bloody
cliInnX. IL did MOI relax its efforts Ia this
! direction until the law was repealed.
Standing midway between two warning ele,
mems, e4nauS'ea ~ powers OF Pacinca,
TO choose between Two combatants. the
methods Of neither of which Il could
wholly apptoye, 1t wen, went WIN us own ana
n Inc evisdon, ia "a Ills becausc Inc
course 81 succeeding events. as related in
the foregoing ought 70 be conclusive proof
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Wv ''0' '"'
Assassin Goes OnpunlSned
Gan is ucace again There Il excitencnt
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the hcuts Of the malignant. He must, in.
deed be a had man who uurtures thought
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drad-mosj foully "sIainH as william Nc
1 Klulcy was But two weeks were gone
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wnrh ,A' aST"s''H Oh "imIau MtNIi I
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Fra srr,lrr and nnpisl, him NOT ono word
has cmanated from one single republican