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

a whole people, and that the you
fearing, brave and magnanimous
men and women of kentucky
Are Kentuokians to keep silent
whilst such things go forwardY
Heaven knows the Courier-Jou
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 we're the bloody
climax. 1t did not relax its efforts
in this direction until the law W, 9
repealed. Standing midway be-
tween two warning elements, it ex-
hausted its powers of pacifcation;
and, forced by the course of evouts
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 EVENT., as re-
lated in the foregoing, ought to be
conclusive proof of where Cthe
right of it lay aud which was the
right way out.
All is peace again. There is ex-
element nowhere, outside the
haunts of the vicious, tbs hearts
Of the malignant. He must, in
deed, be a bad man who nurtures
thought Of further violence. Will
liam Goebel is dead-most foully
slain, as William Mckinley was.
But two weeks We're gone 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-
anated from one single Republi-
can, although his shots were fired !
from building that swarmed with
To shield him from
punishment the people and the
courts of Kentucky must be accu-
sed of ignorance and barbarity,
that would disgrace race of bar
barians. AIRS these things wise or
just, either in our home Republi-
cans or in the outer Republican
press?
Murder is murder. That Will
liam Goebel and William McKin-
ley we're most unlike in character
and temperament is beside the
question. That the assault upon
their lives differed in degree is not
10 say that it differed in kind. The
motive was even more despicable
IN the one case than in the other;
'or Goebel was shot down for a
purpose, for price, while the no.
Die life of Mckinley was saorific-
I'd to the wanton fury of a fend.
Shall those of US who with honest
age and grief saw William Nc
Ainley laid low by cruel assassin
De made to feel that neighbors and
riends who in the excitement of
high party times and in the bitter
less of extreme personal disfavor,
aw with equanimity William Goe
'el laid low by an equally cruel
ssassin, are still willing to con-
lone the murder Of the latter and
o. stand between the murderer
md his Just desertsY And if this
'e so, must the name and fame of
<entucky-the heritage of all of
ls-be sacrificed on the affairs of
mplacable politics, to make the
ase of zealots who tell as that
is degenerate, and that
leither human life is safe, nor le-
al equity is obtainable within
Ter borders, though her Supreme
tribunal. her Court of Appeals, is
n the hands of Republicansp
Think of this, fellow-citizens,
+ every political complexion and
artisan belonging, because, in
he long run, murder speaks with