Mountain advocate., 1904-03-25

differ as to who is responsible
for his (Goebel's) DEATH" he
does not even intimate that he
is right and they wrong. He
simply falls back upon testimony.
He says: Colonel Campbell(op-
posing attorney calls me star
Witness" and as such seems to
demand that he be believed.
He says calmly: You can be-
lieve Mr.. Nickel, or you can be-
lieve Mr.. Hardgrove. Just as
you like about it. One or the
other of them lied" Then he
goes on to prove-by evidence
the testimony of both worthless.
He does not plead for himself.
He simply takes the law and the
testimony, and proves TO his
hearers that he cannot be con-
victed on the testimony they
have heard. He spoke with adj
journments six hours in all.
From miles away men and wo-
men came. When he finished
tears were in the eyes of jurors
and everybody in the court room.
He won his case. He could not
win against the power of money
and the power of prejudice; but
he made Republicans of Demo
Gratis, and he made Democrats
with the hatred of prejudice in
their hearts hang their heads
shamefacedly. Even the men
who were determined a Republi-
can should die could not look
each other in the face.
When people in Ken tucky
must go into the highest offices
of the State backed by artillery
it seems right that the Federal
government take a hand from
the start, and stand in the way
of such injustice being done as
stares us in the face now. 1t is
not a question of the guilty ones
not being known. They are
known, and with a fair trial the
demands of the law could be
satisfied. Gov. Taylor is pro-
tected by the extradition law of
Indiana, where he has been
shielded since he foresaw the
injustice that can be meted out
! in his own State. The man Yout-
sey-whose testimony prejudice
accepts, though law refuses it
/ is a self-confessed perjurer and
evidently a moral monstrosity,
with the cunning of a weak brain
that seeks self-protectiOn. He
is the man who handled the re-
volvers, according to his own
story, at the time of the murder.
Caleb Powers was in Louisville
on his nilsson for a peaceable-
looking lot of men with whom to
petition the Legislature. There
was plenty of this, but this tes-
timony was objected to.
The March number of McClure's
Magazine gives a clear-cut un-
prejudicial statement of facts
about the political condition that
led up TO this murder and the
different fractional trials. And
l attach an editorial published in
a Southern paper and written by
Col. w. G. z. Breckenridge, who
is a leading Southern Democrat.
1t is worthy of repetition;
COL. BRECKINRIDGE's EDITORIAL.
The military court by whom Mrs.
Surratt was condemned to he exc
cuted for the assassination OF Abra-
ham Lincoln, and the Secretary OF
War who approved that sentence and
the President who had it carried out,
stand condemned at the bar of the
world and posterity as the authorso OF
. judicial murder. II Caleb Powers
is hanged this will be the verdict
and judgement Of the world on those
> who fabricated the purjured testi-
mony, who suborned the perjurers
partly by bribery and partly by
promises of immunity and threats
Of punishment, on thOsewho deliver
, ed the testimony, and on the tribu-
; nails before whom he was tried and
, by whom he was condemned. The