The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-02
PARDON THE FUGITVEs
Is Cry From Kentucky Mountains
to Governor Wilson.
VIGOROUS DEMAND BY VOTERS

Want Charges Lifted From Heads
of Former Governor Taylor, Fin.
ley and the Other Powers. The
Pressure ON the States Executive
Is Strong.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Aug. 80
Thunderous rumblings of the senti-
ment of the voters in the Eleventh
congressional district, the bulwark
of the republican party in Kentucky,
are now Earring the ears of Gov.
Augustus E. Wilson. This is the call
OF the mountains, and it is saving
to the republican governor that, in
asmuch as Caleb Powers and Jim
Howard have been pardoned for al
legged completely in the murder of
William Goebel, the republican gov
ernor should also lift from the
heads of William S. Taylor, Charles
Finley and John L. Powers the
charges which hang over them for
alleged conspiracy in the same crime.
All the republican newspapers in
the mountain counties have taken up
the cry that the pardons be issued.
The Mountain Advocate, published
in Bourboursville, the home of Caleb
and John l.. Powers, is the mouth
piece of the Eleventh district repub-
llcans, and an article just published
IN 1t is a sample of the pressure
which is being brought to bear on
Gov. Wilson. 1t follows:
Many are the calls that have been
made on the Eleventh district by re-
publlcans of the other sections of the
state. At every election the cry of
the Blue Grass, the Pennyrile and
the Purchase is: What majority
will the Eleventh give?' To every
boast of proud democracy the reply
is: Just wait until the grand old
Eleventh is heard from
The Mountains Call.
Always heard from in tones of
unmistakable vigor the Eleventh is
at once the dread of democracy and
the pride as well as the security of
republicanism. To the Eleventh this
year, as in all other years, the eyes
of republican managers are directed.
Before responding to the call of the
smaller end of the state the noun
tains have now a call of their own
to present.
1--WE voted in 1907, say the noun
tains and the whole people, for the
early and complete obliteration from
the states escutcheon of the politi-
cal prejudice and hatred growing out
of the Goebel murder. On no other
ground could we have won. Both
democrats and republicans voted for
Gov. Wilson on these grounds, be-
lieving that he would have the cour-
age to look the situation squarely in
the face and see that justice pre-
vailed.
HE took one long step in this
direction when he pardoned Powers
and Howard. In doing this he has
declared that there was no conspira-
cy to kill Senator Goebel. He has
solemnly asserted that Youtsey alone
is guilty of the Goebel murder. Why
not then, ask the mountains, COM
plete the work of obliteration by
granting at once a pardon to Charles
Finley, William S. Taylor and John
L. Powers?
IF there was no conspiracy to
murder Goebel, if Youtsey alone is
guilty of the crime, if Taylor, Fin
ley and John Powers are innocent,
to force them to stand a trial in
Franklin county, the defense of
which would cost at least $4,000,
would be a mockery of justice, and
to keep Charles Finley one day
longer away from his aged and ven
cradle parents is an outrage that it
will soon be too late to correct"