The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-11-24

disgust Democrats with themsi ives
in charging the crime to Powers yea
make Repub1ieans Of them, l1SeI the
one in4erviewed says he has BED pine
since the Infamous prosecution OF
Powers began
e Talk about the persecution OF
D-eyfus. the French army odieet, II
DOESN'T compare in the same 1f1th
With the persecution oil 4 aleD3
Powers in Kentucky.
ssThus spoke smaath-faced, lnice
looking young man at me Fal-
cellor last night Straight as ah
arrow. clear eye, handsome coupe
nance. he looked the gentlefan
which lie IS. every inch of him !,
es.I was. born a Democrat, rehfed
!, Democrat. was Democrat ne
containued, until the Parseeu ION
of Howard made me Republican
The persecution of Caleb Powe-s Is
the crowning shame of present day
American history.
seThe man who spoke these words
wss J. G. Rogers, of Maysville, NY
He is young man of wealth and Sc
cfsl position. Inquiry developed
that he was formerly captain IN
the Kentucky militia.
e sNo one can imagine what we
v-nrt through at Frankfort, the
capital, when Goebel was assassin
ated. No body knows what an aw-
full loss of human lives was narrow
IL averted there. On the night that
Caleb Powers, John Davis and
others were indicted, the two 1 have
inst named slipped through the
guard lines into the capitol l
Shall never forget it. Powers was as
cool as a cucumber and as brave as
lion. Outside was the sheriff with
a bowling mob behind him DAVIS
crinaed and was frightened almost
to death. He was the chief of the
capitoI police. Powers, young
handsome. sturdy and highly educat-
ed. said to me, Captain, all [ ask Is
YOUR protection tonight. Those
would hang me to tele-
phone pole if they could get me.
am innocent of this crime. DO
YOU suppose that man of my IN
telilaence would be a party TO Goe-
bells assassination, when his death
would be of no benefit to me; and
do Won suppose that I would fur
nish the key to my Office for an
assassin. when the very fact of Goe-
bel being shot from my office, would
bring me into it p The gatling gun
was taken up stairs into the capitol
and turned on the mob. Every
soldier Law of his belly with gun
cooked. Had the mob attempted to
enter the building the loss of life
would have been appalling.
Captain Rogers continued to tell
of the conditions that existed in
those days in Frankfort; how, even
society, split on the question OF
TAYLOR he said:
!" Taylor was out of his element
out of his class, but he was fairly
elected. Caleb Powers is a college
graduate. a splendid young man,
against whom cast my vote. He
is no more guilty of completely in
Goebel's assassination than I am.
He was eight miles distant from
Frankfort, travelling on train to
that city. when the murder took
place. and in three trials he has bad
the Sc men who have sat as jurors
in his case were out and out Goebel
Democrats. 1t is an outrage and a
shame. It is a disgrace to Ken
lucky and the United States. 1t
turned me from a rebel Democrat
to a Republican, and all my family.
The persecution of Dreyfus is moth.
ing compared to the persecution of
Caleb Powers. IF there is God
in heaven-he will some day get JUS
tice. but God seems TO have forsaken
Caleb Powers and Kentucky in this
dire extremity"