Show TiE KEHTUCK TRAGEDY After n more than four days struggle strug-gle with death Senator Goebel succumbed I suc-cumbed last evening Whether ho was shot for political or personal reasons dos not matter his killing was aa foul n murder as a I I j I ever committed and the strong men I of Kentucky chould assert themselves I I I and determine that order shall be called back to Kentucky and the laws i I executed In their full spirit I This Is duo the State and it should I ho Just W certainly determined upon I I I ns though Goebel himself had been ono I i I of the ancient typo of honorable Ien I I I tucklanu He was an unscrupulous I politician and there was blood on his I hands Ho strove unjustly to make himself Governor He drafted and passed a law manifestly most unjust He believed that with It his friends having control of the election machinery machin-ery would certainly elect him A I majority of the election judges In every polling precinct In Kentucky were his friends They certified to the correct J ness of the returns A returning board I made up of his friends declared that his opponent was elected He appealed I to the Legislature and they were Just declaring him elected when he was fatally wounded Now he Is j dead and hlo friends In their i bitterness threaten violence tomorrow I I I unless their demands are compiled with There are some hundreds of the friends of Gov Taylor In Frankfort Frank-fort and hey are rude mduntainccrs of eastern Kentucky who know no way of settling difficulties except I through violence Possibly the death of Goebel may I cause both sides to pause long enough for cooler counsels to prevail but the situation now Is most threatening This Is due to the determination of Goebel to carry his point At the same time It does not alter tho fact that his assassination I assas-sination was a most foul murder I which casts a shadow upon Kentucky and which should nerve the men of that State who regard the laws and are proud of the honor of their State to determine that a new and radical change should be made In the administration admin-istration of affairs In that region |