Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-03-14
By the Eloquent Speech Of
0wSley Stanley at GOebel
dwelling.
HAD BEEN DEFEATED.
House on Recovering Showed
Stanley's Great Influence
As a Leader.

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ghost of William Goebel turned the
tide in favor of the Finn bill We'd
nesday, resulting in its passage by
the House by the vote of 46 to "a.
The measure seeks to increase the
powers of the State Railroad Com
mission in the matter of regulating
railroad freight rates, and the por-
trayal of the life and character of
Kentucky's martyred Governor by
Congressman A. o. Stanley, just be-
fore vote on the bill was taken, is
credited with having more to do with
its passage than anything that had
gone before. The Senate, some
weeks ago, postponed indefinitely
further consideration of a bill ident
icaI in the point of text to the Finn
measure that passed the House this
afternoon, but advocates of the bill
hope to bring about reversal of the
Senate attitude regarding it.
Congressman Stanley spoke in the
House chamber, the occasion being
the unwilling of the Goebel monu-
ment that stands at the foot of the
stone steps leading to the Capitol
entrance. In an eloquent tribute to
the memory of the man whose life
was snuffed out by an assassin's bull
let, delivered in dramatic style,
Congressman Stanley enumerated
the various occasions on which Goeb-
ell stood on the side of the people, as
opposed to the corporations, and held
up his example in that respect as one
worthy to be followed.
STANLEY PAYS TRIBUTE.
Congressman Stanley said:
"He sat for an hour in the seat of
authority, gazed into the admiring
eyes of his assembled contrymen,
heard the tumultuous applause of
devoted thousands, and then in the
flower of his virile and vigorous man.
hood he fell at the very threshold of
the splendid vista of honor and dis
tinction that opened before him.
"A generation ago William Geobel
spoke at times almost in an unknown
tongue. He talked of the separa.
ton of the business of transportation
Snd production. He demanded the
rigorous and effective regulation OF
common carriers; that they should
be impartial in rates to shippers and
just in the payment of taxation tc
the State.
with ever-increasing emphasis
as candidate for Governor and a:
your nominee of that high office, he
declared that the rate issue, the bot
tom question in this fight-that from
which public attention should never
be directed-was whether the laws
of Kentucky should be enacted. con-
strued and executed by the people OF
Kentucky, or by powerful and priv.
ileged i-.~.ests.
For the raising Of that issue he
was denounced as demagogue, as
sailed as an assassin. pilloried by a
corrupt and subsidized press. Every
detail of his private and public life
perverted and distorted by the evil
ingenuity of envy and hate. His sa-
cred and sainted deeds were dragged
from the tomb and held up to con.
tumely and contempt by servile hire
lings and salaried slanderers. And
when his malignant foes and their ac'
cursed gold had failed to debauch
the electors or defeat the fixed pur'
pose of the people, in utter despera-
ton they fired the black heart Of
murder and armed the assassin fol-
the dastardly deed that closed in
darkness his great career and cover
ed the Commonwealth with pail OF
horror and Of shame.
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