The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-15

or acts of political parties then
democracy accepts the gauge of
battle. Czolgosz is confessedly
an anarchist, so far as is known
of his past career he has never
been identified with any political
party. 1t is not in evidence that
he ever read the Chicago plat
form of 1896 or that he is CONVEX
SAINT with it's principles. The
sensible, decent people of this
country have accepted as true
the statement of the murderer,
Czolgosz, that he is an anarchist
and that in the assassination of
President Mckinley he was
simply carrying into effect the
principles of the creed. The re-
iterated charge that the insane
act of Czolgosz is the logic of re-
cent democratic platforms is an
affront to the intelligence of the
American people, the climax of
editorial idiocy, the ultima Thule
of diobolical asininity. 1t would
be as sensible and as logical to
attribute to the declarations of
those platforms the tidal wave
that swept over the city of
Galveston or the drouth of the
past summer that destroyed the
corn crop of Kansas and Neb-
raska. To those fanatical, dog
matte and bigoted republican
editors who are now able to dis
Germ in the murder of President
Mckinley the logical result of
democratic doctrines, these calam-
tiles no doubt appear as a special
dispensation of an offended
Providence to punish the citizens
of those states for the inordinate
crime of voting for w. j. Bryan.
Those republican editors who
appear to disdain asserting to
obvious truths but prefer to seize
upon the improbability of cir
cumstances as the best ground of
belief and who affect to believe
that Czolgosz may have proceed
ed from motives inspired by dem
ocratic policies are cordially in
vited to review the history of the
history of the assassination of
the late William Goebel of Ken
lucky before recording their
final Judgment. 1t is barely pos
sible that Czolgosz may have re-
Elected upon the manner in which
more illustrious criminal who
helped to hatch up a foul con-
spiracy to murder the governor
of sovereign State was and is
today, cheating the gallows by
the grace and favor of republi-
can officials. The craven heart
of Czolgosz may have been nerv-
ed to the deed, and his perturbed
brain may have been buoyed by
the hope that if he could escape
the vigilence of the police and
gain the borders of another
State, some sympathetic COVER
nor might refuse to honor an APP
plication for his extradition.
AT the election in 1899 William
S. Taylor and William Goebel
were the opposing candidates for
the Office of governor of the
State of Kentucky. On the face
of the returns Taylor had a maj
GRITTY of votes and received from
the State board of canvassers the
usual certificate of election. Bas-
ed upon alleged fraud and irregu-
larities Goebel instituted contest
proceedings in the manner pre-
scribed by law The Legislature
of the State being the tribunal
designated by law to decide such
cases, after hearing the proof
found that Goebel was duly elect
ed governor. Prior to the decis-
ion of the contest case Taylor
had taken the oath of Office and
was acting governor. While the
contest was pending before the
legislature there was Matched in
Frankfort the foulest conspiracy
of political murder that has ever
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