Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-10-31

3 a whole people, and that the uod'
fearing, brave and magnanimous
| men and women Of Kentucky
} Are Kentuckians TO keep silent
: whilst such things go forward!
Heaven knows the Courier-Jour-
nal has no wish to recall the Incl
dents of this dreadful chapter OF
Kentucky history. 1t did its best
to defeat the election law to which
those incidents were the bloody
climax. IL did not relax its efforts
in this direction until the Law WI 8
repealed. Standing midway be.
tween two warning elements, it ex.
hsusted its powers of pscifcstion'
and, forced by the course Of events
TO choose between two combatants
the methods of neither OF which
1t could wholly approve. il went
with its own; and most thankful
TO God il is that God gave il the
wisdom to do this, because the
course of succeeding EVENT., as re-
lated in the foregoing, ought to be
conclusive proof of where Cthe
right Of il lay aud which WAS the
right way out.
All is peace again. There is ex.
citement nowhere, outside the
haunts of the vicious, tbs hearts
Of the malignant. He must, in.
deed, be a bad man who nur.ures
thought OF further violence. Will.
liam Goebel is dead-most foully
slain, as William Mckinley was.
But two weeks We're gonel when
the assassin of William Mckinley
met his doom. Nearly two years
have passed and still the assassin
of William Goebel goes unpun-
ished. To shield him from pun
ishment every partisan appliance
has been put forth, To secure and
punish him not one word has en-
ansted from one single Republi-
csn, although his shots were fired
rom a building that swarmed with
To shield him from Z
punishment the people and the
courts Of Kentucky must be accu-
'ed of ignorance and barbarity,
hat would disgrace a race of bar .
,arians AIRS these things wise or Z
ust, either in our home Republi-
ans or in the outer Republican I
1ressi 8
Murder is murder. That Will .
ian Goebel and William McKin- :
sy were most unlike in character {
nd temperament is beside the |,
IDestion. That the assault upon I
heir lives differed in degree is not 1
} say that it differed in kind. The /,
Motive was even more despicable {
n the one case than in the other; c
or Goebel was shot down for a ;
purpose, for a price, while the no.
lie life of Mckinley was saorific-
d to the wanton fury Of a fend.
shall those of US who with honest {
age and grief saw William Nc. :
iinley laid low by a cruel assassin 4.
'e made to feel that neighbors and a
riends who in the excitement Of
Ugh party times and in the bitter
ess of extreme personal disfavor, 1,
aw with equanimity William Goe I
el laid low by an equally cruel =
ssassin, are still willing to con- 0
one the murder Of the latter and II
'aotouu OolWoou tuo HuTuoIdT A
nd his Just desertsY And il this r
Q so, must the name and fame Of b
-entucky-the heritage of all of y y
s-be sacrificed on the affairs of n
nplacable politics, to make the d
ase of zealots who tell as that . .
,entucky is degenerate, and that t,
either human life is safe, nor le-
al equity is obtainable within
er borders, though her Supreme g
tribunal. her Court of Appeals, is e :,
/ the hands of RepublicansP
Think OF this, fellow citizens, 81
every political complexion and "
artisan belonging, because, in 3,
le long run, murder speaks with
ost miraculous organ and shall ~