The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-17
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Young politician when elected Secretary
II stat" IN lSo0 on the Republican ticket
with Attorney General ". y. TAYLOR,
candidate for Governor, by a plural
ity oi more than c.OOO In the ten years
since the murder 90 WILLIAM GoFRFL.
the Democratic nominee for Governor.
who made a contest and was declared
elected by n partisan Legislature, the
four trials 81 CALEB PowFRs for com
piCity in the crime. his convictions On
periured testimony and sentences Ia
life imprisonment and death. and his
pardon by Governor WILSON. had con-
WINGED impartial men that he was a
victim 81 political persecution, and had
lifted him ~ the plane of martvrdom.
thus providing him with IA platform II
he desired "a b. a candidate for office.
when POWERS was released from
prison the subject of politics was nau-
Seou- To- him. for he had suffered "a few
men have done; and he said he was
satisfied With the vindicatIon that had
come 10 him. But that state Of mind
soon passed. He was still al object
Of partisan hatred and maledictlon. II
was quite natural that he should crave
the larger vlndication 81 popular suf-
fragr and honorable service. and he
would have been less or more than
human II he had not sought Ia revenge
himself within the law at least. upon
those men VINO had joined in the hue
and cry against him and enlisted IN the
prosecution 20 send him To the scadold.
With all his self-restraint and strength
II character CALEB POWERS il vindic-
tive. II he had not been so in the begin
ming, his cruel experience would have
made him 50. The first man 20 feel his
resentment was Captain BEN h. GOLDEN,
a candidate for Commonwealth Attor-
ney, who had been active IN the legal
proceedings against POWERS and who
was brother If WHARTON GOLDEN. a
star witness for the prosecution. In
his campaign for Commonwealth At
tornev Captain GOLDEN had the sup
port II the Hon. DoN CALVIN EDWARDS.
Representative IN Congress from the
Eleventh. a mountain district and the
Republican stronghold in Kentucky
POWERS. by has remarkable energy and
great natural eloglenCe. Compassed the
defeat of GOLDEN and then intlmated
that he would square accounts with
EDWARDS. who ~ a native OF Iowa
POWERS then became a candidate for the
Republican nomination for Congress in
opposition 10 EDWARDS. who had been
elected IN 1875 nv a plurality OF - .3tt
The Democratic vote in the district is
light n PowFRs could win IN the pri-
mary h. would take The seat OF EDWARDS
at Washington. s'nce the Republican
nomination - equivalent 20 election
On TueSiav last after Campslgn
marked bv many personal encounters
Jne Of them fa'ai between men 90
Wipom CALEB POvERs was a martyr
and men who still Called him murderer.
Representative Dos CALVIN EDWARDS
found hlmself m a minority.
More than ten wears have passed since
WILLIAM GOEBTL. walking bv the side
of Colonel JACK CHINS m the shadow
Of tho stat" HOUSE al Frankfort. was
fatally wounded by n ballet fired from a
window Of the oftic" ~ the Secretary Of
State. GOEBEI. took IN" oath as Cover
nor on his d"athbed. Attorney General
TAYLOR. elected Governor on the face
oi the returns feared for his life. and
fled 10 Indiana to sne', sanctuary under
Republican administration All the lega,
machinery of Kentucky was for many
years IN operation 10 detect and punish
the assassin Vet 70 this day he re-
mains unknown 10 the people Of the
state HENRT r Nor-TsFY. stenograp her
To TAYLOR and confessed perJIIrer.
who tried to involve CALEB POWERS
and whose testimony convicted .JIM
HOwNsp. "A mountaineer. Of the crime.
- serving "A life term as an accompliCe
HOWARD as well a. POWERS was
partioned by Governor WILSON two
wears ego. after il had become patent
10 honest men that both OF them had
been convicted on political evidence
bv BIASED juries That IoUTsEY was
mixed up in the plot there ~ not any
reason to doubt but there j. no light on
the central mystery OF the assassinat ion.
Their" has been no more celebrated case
in the American courts, and none more
dramatic in som" 81 its features
The 6rir-e ~ william GoERFLs muir
der himself man who had taken hui
man life has lain hea''ily ON Kentucky.
MANY f'-rSOn- connected with the ease
haze dr.d sudden nr violent deaths
II has divided 'a''lll'.s aud engcndered
f'.IdS that 10y andur" for generations
u will IT, Ne" means Of elevating CALEB
PpwtES IN" p"rsrctif'-i Defendant. to
the Congress ~ IN" uii'-l States. and
Thereby fresh AMI vivid hf" will H. given
TO the butter controversy III" GRIM.
WIS political the persecution MAS I,olrt-
zeal aud the sinister legacy Of u all will
II. pOlitical krDtucky ~ To ~. deeply
rOmrni-.Tat"d
Th. Great Moral show