Show POWERS IS CONVICTED I Caleb Powers is convicted of murder in the first degree with hanging for complicity in the assassination of Goe bel of Kentucky I was undoubtedly a political partisan result The jury was packed with Democrats ninety three out of l total o ninetyfive rum moncd for Jurymen being Democrats The presiding1 Judge was in complicity with this partisan use of his court for when the panel was challenged for a1 tlsanshlp and the fact noted was shown he calmly ruled that being1 u Democrat did not disqualify a man for Jury service In his court But appa rent being a Republican did Sucha flippant trifling with Justice such flagrant fla-grant jurypacking with the connivance conniv-ance and support of the Judge cannot fall to bring the courts of Kentucky Into still further disrepute The result re-sult of the Powers trial is a complete vindication of Governor Durbin of Indiana In-diana in his refusal to surrender Governor Gov-ernor Taylor to the merciless partisan revenge of the Democratic political machine ma-chine which has control of the courts of Kentucky |