Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-11-07


subscribed to by the Republican par
ty, from the President Of the United
States down through the cabinet to
the Republican Governor OF Indiana,
and thence to the Republican press,
which, in order to make its case,
must needs delivery an Indictment
against an entire community, whole
people, and that the God-fearing,
brave and magnanimous men and
women Of Kentucky? Are Kentuck-
ians to keep silent whilst such things
go forward?
''Heayen knows the CoWier-JoNradl
has no wish to recall the incidents Of
this dreadful chapter Of Kentucky
history. 1t did its best TO defeat the
election law to which those incidents
were the bloody climax. 1t did not
relax its efforts in the direction until
the law was repealed. Standing mid
way between two warning elements it
exhausted its powers Of paciiication;
and forced by the course of events to
choose between two combatants, the
methods of neither of which 1t could
wholly approve, it went with its own;
and most thankful to God it is that
God gave it the wisdom to do this,
because the course Of succeeding
events, as related in the foregoing,
ought to be conclusive proof where
the right Of it lay and which was the
right way out.
ASSASSINATION GOES UNFINISHED.
"All is peace again. There is ex-
citment nowhere outside the haunts
of the vicious, the hearts Of the ma
lignant. He must indeed, be a bad
man who nurtures thought Of further
violence. William Goebel is dead
most foully slain, as William McKin-
ley was. But two weeks were gone
when the assassin of William McKin-
ley met his doom. Nearly two years
have passed and still the assassin Of
William Goebel goes unpunished. To
shield him from punishment every
PARTISAN appliance has been put forth.
ITO secure and punish him not one
word has emanated from one single
Republican, although his shots were
fired from a building that was swarm
ed with Republicans. To shield him
from punishment the people and the
courts Of Kentucky must be accused
of ignorance and barbarity that
would disgrace a race Of barbarians.
Are these things wise or just, either
in our home Republicans, or in the
outer Republican press?
MURDER Is MURDER.
'Murder is murder. That William
Goebel and William Mckinley were
most unlike in character and tempera-
ment is beside the question, That
the assault upon their lives differed in
degree is not to say that it differed
in kind. The motive was even more
despicable in the one case than in the
other; for Goebel was shot down for a
purpose, for price, while the noble
life of Mckinley was sacrificed TO the
wanton fury Of fiend. Shall those
of us, who, with honest rage and grief,
saw William Mckinley laid low by a
cruel assassin, be made to feel that
neighbors and friends. who, in the ex-
citement Of high party times and in
the bitterness Of extreme personal
disfayor, saw with equanimity, Will
lam Goebel laid down low by an equal
" cruel assassin. are still willing to
eondone the murder OF the latter and
TO stand between the murderera his
just deserts? And, II this be so,
must the name and fame Of Ken
tucky-the heritage Of all OF us-be
sacrificed on the affairs OF implacable
politics, toI make the case Of zealots,
who tell us that Kentucky is degener-
ate and that neither human life is
safe, nor legal equity is attainable
within her borders though her SUI
preme tribunal, her courts Of appeals
is in the hands Of Republicans?
Think Of this fellow-citizens, Of
every political complexion and parti.
san belonging; because, In the long
run, murder speaks with most miracu-
lous organ and shall not go unwhipped
Of justice, and, in the end, no one OF
US, whether Democrats or Republi-
cans, can hope to escape either his
conscience OF his God"