The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1910-02-11
|EBLE STATUTE UNVEILED.
Burial d The Dead Governors
Brother on Same Day.


.Ifain fell today in the last act OF
|ntucky's darkest tragedy, The
.onument erected by the people OF
.-.ntucky TO the memory OF Govern
on william Goebel was unveiled In
ne presonce Of a thousand or more
6hlyering people who had come
from every section OF the state to
take part and witness the ceremony.
Immediately before the unwilling
81 this monument the body OF Ar
thur 0oebel. brother of Governor
.iQillllam uoebel. was lowered into
he grave, banked around with flow,
M. beside the body OF his brother.
The ceremonies in the State Gem
,ory we're very brief and as simple
d possible. They we're made more
= because cold. penetrating
.orthwest wind blew across the hill
.op and snow fiurries filled the air.
Miss Iillio Goebel. daughter Of
Iuslns 0oebel. niece Of Governor
WILLIAM Gocbei. then pulled the
IKEA cord that unveiled the mon
omeni OF her distinguished uncle.
Memoriall service Indoors.
This concluded the ceremonies In
che cemetery aud then the crowd
snihered at the opera house at !
o'clock for the memorial services.
u had been planned to hold the
rorylces At the cemetery, where all
could be accommodated, but the
weather was 30 Indictment that II
We necessary to hold the services
IN the opera house.
Former Governor j. G. w. Beck
ham, who succeeded Governor Goe-
bel a. the Chief Executive, was the
master Of ceremonies. and the prin-
tlpal speakers were former United
states senator James b. Mccreary
and Justus Goebel.
In his address Jnstus Goebel said
In view OF what has transpiret
IN your midst since last stood fac'
10 face with you 10 years ago,
WOULD DO ungrateful and disloya
70 you. the living. and 70 my broth
ers. dead, II did not, in spite o
impaired health. on this occasion
marshal my remaining strength an'
Yalse my weakened voice In protest
Slain For His Devotion.
IN 'Ten years ago ! addressed yo'
4 Nm these words:
'As the mortal remains Of tn
kindest. gentlest and most loyinI
sons and brothers are consigned q
their resting place. want to sa.
last word to you. Your friend m,
brother, lies dead before you, muir
dorod for his devotion to the caus
OF the people Should not Kentuck
now and here swear by his bloc
that her sons will see justice don
TO those concerned in his foul TAX
ing Off II YOU fail In this you
laws are dead letters.
If he could speak he woul
say now. as oft before. "Let the la'
take its course"
VIII designing men OF hig
station be permitted to use ignoI
ant outlaws to further their amb
tons. and when that ambition
disappointed. turn red-handed mui
der loose under the very roof OF tn
Executive Bnillding7
Shall the guilty in high place
be uneoyeredl Shall the honor {
the state be restored? Or sha
his likelihood. split on your capitc
square. be dried up by the SUI
washed away by the rains and iii
tescrifice be forgotten?
Fought For Principles.
/" Measured by the highest stat
ward Of men. the grandest tribut
possible to be paid him, to whol
you have been so loyal, is to figl
for the principles for which he Ia
down his life as he fought for then
To you. sons OF Kentucky, subm
these questions.
Brother, farewell until we me-
IN the better world, where OUTLAW
cannot be hired, where crime is vi
known. where rest comes.
. Mother. brother. you have gor
before: we shall Join you
"Yeu know what has come to pa
,since then. !, You know, in thru
trials Of Caleb Powers. three Of ia
B. Hoxafd and one Of Henry
Youtsqt, 81 citizens. who compose
thoa seven juries, said by the
oSfdicts, Guilty. that there w
conspiracy and that the guilty
high places had been uncovered
Those verdicts undisturb'
would have meant the restoration
the honor Of our state. In the S
opinions Of the Court of Appeals
Kentucky In these cases never on
LAS It been limited that there W
10 evidence OF conspiracy to murd,