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

turning Doaru, hoIdlng TINS ono
tentatively, however, and under le
, gal protest and CONTEST, institute,
by THE Democratic appellant
against the ruling of the Returning
Board, proceeded to intrench him
self, not for legal, but for a ply
steal contest.
The Executive office was con
verified into an armed camp. !
lawless body of men was collected
and brought to Frankfort to serv,
as supports to two or three com
paaies of militia which, differed
by Republicans exclusively, wer,
already assembled. The Democrt
tic Legislature became prisoner
in its own capital, its members in
imminent peril of their lives and
its committees chased about the
streets by squads of soldiers. The
Court of Appeals, wa. ned of i'm
pending assassination, had to come
to Louisville to hold its sessions,
secured against threatened murder
and military surveillance. The in
The inevitable came TO pass. All
this array of force, with its men,
&C, of death, proving insufficient
to overawe the Democrats of the
lie sislature, result was had to the
final stroke prearranged TO do its
deadly work in this precise event;
nd puff of curling smoke out
If p window of the Executive Of
fer occupied by the Republican
Governor and his Republican
friends, William Goebel is shot
down in his tracks while on his
way to the discharge of his official
duties.
The Executive Building is i'm
mediately surrounded by troops
Access is denied the local constab- !
llary. Martial law supplants the
Civil law. The Writ of Habeas
Corpus is ridiculed and denied. :
rhe Legislature is suddenly and
violently dispersed. As suddenly
t is called to assemble, not in one
IT the many cities Of: towns in the
State, such as Louisville or Lex
ngton, where its proceedings
would be unmolested, but in an in
accessible village among the noun
aims, whittier, as might be reas-
'nably expected, no Democrat
ould go without the risk Of his
ife. n
In the face Of such discourage
lents the Democrats pursued
heir contest according to law, and
ccording to law it was awarded
hem by the highest tribunal in
he land. Concurrent with the
nal decision of the Supreme
,ourt of the United States in their
avor, the Republican Cover lor,
tho had held office only under
sntative title, subject to after re- {
ision and decision, fled from Ken !
lcky to Indiana, having arranged l
18th the Republican Governor of
le latter State for a safe retreat.
here, with one of his associ tie s, I
g remains today, secure against !
rest and extradition. 1
These are the simple facts; they I
e met by the Republica IS with |
, denial, but to parry them it is q
t up that Goebel was bad man, {
lat the Goebel law was bad law {
I'd that the Demo Gratis of Ken q
cky are bad lot The present, /
ke the last Republican Governor !
Indiana, assumes that justice I
m not be had of the Kentucky j
'urts of law. The present Re- C
lblican President of the United /
-ates is on record as having while
overnor of New York, made haste Z
guarantee the Kentucky refu- Z
les the protection of the Empire il
ale. The Philadelphia newspa.
IT largely owned and wholly con. O
o''sd by the Republican Post p
aster General of the United Il
.ates refers to Kentucky Demo II