Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-10-16
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sentiment so contrary to justice and common decency. To say that Will liam Gobel committed a crime is to give publicity to an absolute false statement. Gobel was a man of un- impeachable integrity, and when he was killed he was simply pursuing the right of every American citizen to contest an election to place of las resort, which in this instance was the legislature. As soon as the republi- cans of Kentucky, who had undoubt- edly stuffed the mountain ballot boxes discovered that Goebel would be seated, headed by Taylor, they en- tered into one of the most foul and devilish conspiracies ever concocted- . conspiracy of murder and assassina- ton with the sole purpose of holding the offices for four years. Richard III conspired murder for a throne. It was a lifetime job that he was after; but these despicable williams plotted assassination just to hold few small offices for four years. All evidence established this beyond per adventure-to the satisfaction of a jury in the Powers case, which was composed of republicans, democrats and populists, and which was strictly non-partisan. Besides, the legisla- ture of Kentucky was overwhelmingly democratic, which shows that the state was also democratic for gover- nor. In fact there is no way for the republicans to defend the action of the governor of Indiana in harboring Taylor, the arch conspirator and mur- derer, without defending the most damnable political conspiracy known to American history.
 President Mel Kinley, when appealed to by Taylor, washed his hands of the whole matter. He readily per ceived that Taylor and his gang were wicked men who were trying to usurp power and he would have nothing to do with them. MT. Mckinley was too clean man to be inveigled into compromising himself to the extent of protecting red-hsnded murderers.
 Yet the Journal Miner fails to pro- fit by this example.-Phenix Enter prise.
 The above is a comment on the Journal-Miner's editorial in reference to the Goebel assassination. Moth thing was said of GoebePs personal integrity in the editorial referred to. Perhaps to have been more explicit, the Journal-Miner should have re- ferred to Goebelism as being respon- sible for the crime committed against the liberties of the people of the state of Kentucky, in robbing them of the result of the exercises of their fran chise as expressed at the polls.
 The Enterprise argues that because 8 democratic legislature was elected it stands to reason that a democratic governor must forsooth have been elected, too. The paper seems to forget that Kentucky had previously elected MT. Bradley, republican, as gov ernor. and also that she elected a di- vided delegation to the presidential electoral college in 1896. So that this spacious reasoning of the Enterprise falls to the ground. The paper al leges that the majority for Taylor was obtained through stuffng the ballot boxes in the mountains by republi- cans. This is simply an unproven, unreasonable and unlikely assertion used as an excuse for the high handed proceedings which robbed the people of Kentucky of the man of their choice for governor and turned an overwhelming republican victory into defeat, so far as results were con- cerned. The Enterprise seems to forget also that prior to resorting to the operation of that most infamous law intended for the very purpose of overriding the will of the people, by making partisan legislature the court of last resort in canvassing cleo ton returns, the returns had been canvassed by a democratic returning board. While on the face of the re- turns the result showed a majority (as we remember it now) of 10000 or 5000 in favor of Taylor, this demo- cratic board tried to figure it out the other way by throwing out the re- turns contained in these alleged stuffed ballot boxes, and after doing a wholesale business in this line to the full extent of their consciences, and then in casting up the returns they announced majority of some 5000 or 4,000 against Goebel. This, too, by partisan board of his own party.
 Talk then about it being devilish conspiracy on the part of Taylor and his associates to hold offices for four years when a democratic returning board had decided that they were le- gally elected. The fact is that the usurpation of these offices, by the people who were defeated at the polls, was one of the most damnable per versions of the elective franchise in the history of this country and met with the condemnation of many of the better class of democratic papers of the country, and the law known as the Goebel law, which was responsi- ble for it, came in for general con- demnation and has since been modi- fled.
 There are thousands of people who read the testimony introduced at the trial of Powers and others who do not agree with the verdict of the juries. That one or two republicans were on each of these juries is no ar r-,,r,nor,A in fn,or oE 4I: