The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-09-18
ASYLUM FOR TAYLOR
Was Offered by President
Roosevelt.
HANDBOOK or THE DEMOCRATS
Of Kentucky Presents Some
Telling Facts Which Are
Worthy of Note.

All ANALYSIS VI Ille DeHlOCrdllC OIdIe
handbook contains numerous refer
ences which are firebrands and are
expected to turn in wherever they
strike.
One of these, and one of the most
conspicuous, deals with Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks, of Indiana. 1t sets
forth that President Roosevelt offer
ed an asylum and protection to WILL
lam s. Taylor in New York, and that
Kentucky Republicans are being urg-
ed to support Mr.. Fairbanks for Pres
ident because of the friendship the
Vice President has shown Taylor in
Indiana.
Following this, testimony of for
=. mer Governor w. Q. Bradley and 9th
ers is published in bold, black type,
and In two or three pages the DEM
ocrats give proof which they claim
should be embarrassing to both Mr..
Roosevelt and Mr.. Fairbanks. The
campaign book, 1t is said, was pre-
pared by Governor Beckham, Auditor
Hager, State Chairman Hines and 9TH
er officials at Frankfort, but the
Governor is styled the editor in chief.
Concerning the President and Vice
President the handbook says:
Can any parallel be found in the
history of any State to these viola
lions Of the constitution and usur-
pations of power? Doesn't the Repub-
lican party stand convicted of all
these acts? Numerous times has 1t
since assembled in convention, but
no resolution has ever been passed,
or even suggested, except by William
Marshall Bullitt In the convention
of this year, and that utterly failed,
condemning the acts of these con-
spirators and these violations of the
law. Upon the contrary, the conven-
ton which nominated John w. Yer
kes Endorsed Taylor and approved his
course, and the convention which
nominated Belknap applauded when
his name was mentioned. Theodore
Roosevelt, now President of the Unit
ed States, but then Governor Of New
York, offered an asylum and protec-
ton in. his State; the Republican Ma
tional Convention at Philadelphia gave
him an ovation, and he has since been
protected in the State of Indiana by
the Republican Governors of that
State. Perhaps Mr.. Fairbanks, the
Vice President of the United States,
when he comes to Kentucky this fall
to speak In behalf of the Republican
State ticket, will bring to his party
in Kentucky some message from the
fugitives, Taylor and Finley, urging
the election OF Augustus Fl. Wilson,
the nominee of that party for Govern
or, 1t has been urged among Re-
publicans of Kentucky from time to
time that they should support Fair
banks In his ambition to be President
because of the friendship he has
shown Taylor since he has been an
enforced resident of Indiana, MIR.
Fairbanks's home"
William s. Taylor is not spared.
The handbook says:
"If any, further evidence to connect
Taylor and other Republican leaders
of seven years ago with the foul
taking off of william Goebel,it is am
ply supplied in the testimony adj
duced at the numerous trials of the
alleged conspirators and assassins,
men who were admittedly In the clos
est relation with Taylor, Powers and
other Republican leaders. That Tay-s
lor issued pardons toCalebPowers and
Others cannot be denied, for they are
matters of public record. Among
Powers's most trusted lieutenants in
getting together the mountain army
and bringing 1t to Frankfort five days
before Goebel was killed, were Will
lam H. Culton. F. Wharton Golden
and Frank Cecil, all of whom have
gone on the witness stand and told
of details of the conspiracy to murder
Goebel.
gaead this paragraph from the
sworn testimoy of Cecil: I had a
conversation with Powers on the nigh
before Coebsl was killed. 1t was in
his office. I went into the Gov
ernor's office. He raid; '0oebel has
to be killed or III be robbed A.-e
o1iAe q Tie campaign fsin1. and