Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-10-31
Re Great Editorial OF Henry
Watterson.

elevated INTO OCCASION 10
"A an assault upon the people
I'D the moral being of the latter
not the former, State as to justif
an earnest protest from every RICH
hearted and self-respecting Ken
tuokian.
In giving expression to the pro
lost and asking for it the consider
.tion of the country at large, it il
needful that we recite the case al
it was and as it is; but we shall
address ourselves to the resume
with as little prolixity as possible
writing no word which any honest
nan can gainsay, nor setting dowr
aught in malice, of which, indeed
We have none whatever. II do not
know the method" said Edmund
Burke, "of drawing up an indict.
ment against whole people" Yet
that which the greatest: political
philosopher of England confessed
himself unable to do has been
done, is being daily done, by the
Republican newspapers of the Uni
ted States, animated lby party spi-
rit the most rancorous, and misad-
vised by Representations the most
calumnious.
From FIRST to last the Kentucky
campaign of 1899 was pitched up
on the lowest plane of political
morality and in the highest key of
partisan. Men do in the aggregate
what no one man would do in his
own person. They did in that
campaign.pretty much everything
which men should not do and |
which even the men engaged |
would, in their cooler moments,
and best judgments discounte-
nance and disavow. And this was,
in the beginning, as true Of the
one party as the other. Ultimately
the inhamed ambitions and inter.
ests involved precipitsted a strug-
gle for corrupt advantages, and
thence it deepened into something
very like Civil War, eliminating
in an actual Reign Of Terror at the
Capital of the State.
At the end of a long and fierce
contest in his own party, William
Goeble, the son Of humble and
plain German parentage, became
Democratic nominee for Gov
or Of Kentucky. A proud po-
III at all times and under all
instances, it seemed TO the
lad, for but a lad he appeared
with his beardless face and
studious ways, a very pima
from which he could look into {
ise. 1t had been the dream
childhood, his youthhood, q
.nhood. To reach it he had I
ager to climb mountains, to 8
Sc and to tread down forests. I
est all corners. 1t is claimed a
his enemies that he got the no. I
nination unfairly. AS a matter of |
fact he did nothing to his adverse c
lies that they were not ready and c
.rying to do to him. It is claimed c
BY his enemies that he was not
elected Governor. AS a matter of :
at both parties were doing their
ittermost to compel the election-t'
he Democrats through the machi
'nry of the Goebel law, the Re- Z
oublicans through the machinery
# the State Government-so that !,
THAT might have been the result n
ad there lee perfectly regular s
'nd orderly election no one can C
ay. But, from the day the Re. 3
nrning Board met at Frankfort to ,
cunt the vote and decide the re. b
ult, the purpose of the Republi. il
ans to use force if necessary to
AIRY their point became manifest; n
nd thereafter Reign of Terror %
their favor was established. K
Throughout the Reign of Terror al
le Democrats proceeded at least M
,cording to the terms and forms &c
law. That they did so is attes. II
d by both the Court of ANNALS II,