The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-09-23
KENTUCKY IS
TO SET PACE
Of Bennett
Governor Taylor Talks About
Hell There Will Be if the
Democrats Win.
SAME AS IN KENTUCKY
Warns the Republicans of West
Virginia to Be on Their
Guard This Year.
BY JOHN G. BOND.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, Sept. 49,
Several members of the West Virgin
la National Guard have had the pleas
ure of meeting and talking with ex-
Governor William S. Taylor, of Ken-
ucky. a fugitive from justice as it has
been administered In his native state
since the murder of Governor Goebel
Since May, 1900, Gov. Taylor and
his secretary of state, Finley. have
made their homes here. Gov. Taylor
enjoys large law practice and Is
prospecting. He always finds time
for talk with visitors from his
own or adjoining states.
An Exile From Home
because Of political infamy, the sub
iect of politics is ever uppermost in
the mind of Kentucky's former ex.
ecutive kho had to take refuge
among friends in an adjoining state
after little over year in the ex.
ecutive chair, period of IA months
in which is written the darkest chap
ter of Kentucky,s political history.
Though busy with his law practice.
Gov. Taylor spent two hours with
tho writer talking over political con-
ditions in Kentucky and West Vir-
ginia.
~ am informed that the Republi-
can party in your state is split" said
Gov. Taylor, "and 4 am sorry to haar
1T. However, believe
You Will Succeed
in electing your ticket. I feel a
great interest in your people and
state. They have aided us. both
Democrats and Republicans, in our
fight for life. liberty and right. Your
state resembles ours as to geography
and people. There in the mountains
we live near to Nature. We breathe
the pure air, and the men are honest
and can be depended upon.
Kentucky is Just recovering from
a political revolution Drought about
by the
Blacklist of Political Plots.
Many of those in control there for
the past few years are criminals of
the worst type. They controlled the
government in all its departments,
even the courts. They were bent up
on putting the opposition where they
could not oppose the will of the ty-
rants and for time succeeded. But
n change is coming about. The cleo
ton of Gov. Wilson was the begin
ming of the righting of the greatest
political wrong the country has ever
Witnessed.
"If the Democrats get into power
in West Virginia the awful crimes
of Kentucky might be repeated.
Many of your Republicans
Will BE DISTINGUISHED
and il they can get control of your
courts also you will be helpless. Per-
haps your people will stand for it
the people generally DO not oppose
the law and dts Administrations.
"The Goebel law in Kentucky gave
the Democrats absolute control of all
elections. We were allowed no say
whatever, but still we beat them and
/ was elected governor. The whole
world is familiar with what followed.
Murder was committed, innocent men
We're placed in Jail and others had
to flee for their lives. | believe that
had Finley and myself been arrested
with Powers. that we all would have
been murdered. Powers was
Held As Bait
to get us back.
But We have had friends. The
good people of our own and other
states were with us. by petition and
otherwise they Showed where their
sympathies were. anu that we are not
guilty. AT last we are beating the
plotters. The gang would be pleased
to get me back to Kentucky and keep
me in jail for three or four years.
But the time is soon coming when I
viii be Just as free in Kentucky as
in Indiana"
The sympathies OF West Virginia