| Show RAILROAD BLAMED IN ROW Henry Watterson lays Trouble at Door Nashville CORRUPTED TIlE Ure Drew out lite All 11 the Iho UC ItIc of ler ate Sub IUlo A dispatch from Louisville Iy Icy this morning t says S Mr Henry Watler Watterson on todAY gave out the following statement lh head and front ot of our Present troubles In Kentucky nt at once oice the source and the resource of oC the revolutionary b by which eon government has for the time been truck struck down and a 11 military dictatorshIp set up In Its lis place Is the Louisville Railway On tit recent State campaign It supplied ma tonal resources In such abundance ns as asto to draw out nil all the dangerous elements of society and to put Into Inlo activity nit all the fortes forces of oC political adventure The two leading parties to the contest were UI 05 nothing by comparison with its III gl gi machinery for corrupting tM eleCtions The hordes or of desperate m men who were upon the thu capItal could never I have hao got there thero except through Its agency ogene It Is nt at this moment the back bone of oC tIm the movement to transfer the State C capital from the city or of Frank Frankfort tort fort Its lawful abode to the little vii 11 loge Inge of london In III Laurel county situ situated situate ate tl upon uOn ono one of Its branches In the tho heart of oC the vendetta region whose turbulence has for tor years 11 disgraced the State It Is believed that the with withdrawal of oC Its support from the tho do facto government would stop these dangerous I and lawless proceedings Sonic Some seven months ago ngo foreseeing something of oC this lila situation I wrote to Mr It August Belmont Delmont the financial head of the Louisville Nash Nuh sub III Hallway Co to st against Its Interference nrc In party affairs having In vain aln sought to dissuade Mr Ir MIlton If H Smith Its local I was vas then as I am now and ha have been lIeen for thirty years the Iho friend of at that great groat corporation Mr Belmont Delmont showed my letter the courtesy of oC submItting It to his executive board anti and did me the honor to send me inc a copy ot Its delibera ions embracing the reasons oC at Its re refusal fatal to con consider my appeal In the at af The sole purpose of the tho Louisville was at every cost ost ansi hazard to defeat the tho election of oC Mt Mr Wm Goebel to the governor governorship governor governorshIp ship of Kentucky Mr Ir Goebel was waR a aman aman man of purity of oC private life anti and of oC conceded ability During ten years 00 service as a senator In the State legislature no act of his hie except exceptIng excepting Ing what ut knowlI as the Goebel alec olec tion law had brought the lie least reproach upon him nor an any unclean dollar had ever been charged against him al although although though mone money to corrupt legislation had often flowed l as free as wilier water at Frank Frankfort Frankfort fort Rut Hut In some way ny he had given glnn deadly offense e to the management of the LouIsville Nashville and this management felt that It must destroy him It has certainly done this his But In doing I it I It has brought upon the po peo pie of Kentucky the incalculable wrong and the dire disgrace of oC transactions unexampled In the tho history of rn can government There here Is not at tile this moment nor hn bus there ben been at an any mo moment moment i ment the lest least disorder or menace of disorder except such os as has emanated from the hand of oC the do de facto governor Taylor The mount mounted d men were brought to Frankfort If not hy by hl lila express command yet I by and with Isle his knowl knowledge ege edge and cons consent en I Their presence In Frankfort could have but ono one men mean lag and purpose und and as al I If to aug mont both meanIng and hits some Rome of them who hal butt ben been arste arrested by the tho local Police for carrying deadly weapons and for Cor disorderly conduct were In of oC trial pardoned b by bythe the 10 facto governor The shot ahot that klE killed Mr rr was fired from Crom an upper window of oC the executIve oAks which swarmed wih with the anE armed adherents of DC the d tie facto governor Admission Ilon sion to this building Was tas at once do de donled the tho civil authorities n a CM cordon on of oC troops were thrown about It and there under the of being In a of siege Ie e the do de facto has over since held himself a 0 voluntary pria onier oner though surrounded by br the State militia caled called out b by hImself and Is Issuing issuing suing thence proclamations disbanding I the tho and transferring tim tho s swat t of oC government of f the lie Wealth Al ll thia while the before the legislature nor rl ProceedIng strictly II iii accordance wih with law of na R old sit AS this the of oC the Stae State with not the least throat ot of violence or show of oC disorder There was peal I tl no thought of Insurrection out outsIde sIde Itle Imagination of oC th governor Ily Dr his orders order the or of this commonwealth hu has been denie denied acu access to Is Its chambers In the State Stat close I by guarde guarded by troops by hi or dora ders I members ha have vo been chased through the streets of oC Frankfort from one to another seekIng a legis abiding place and by his hll lell the processes of oC the courts of oC ia In eluding the tho Writ or of corpus ar are denied service and the e uro ure of oC the lie Peace ce has ben been iut at defiance martial law ha hiu taken the place ot of the civil In law and andon andon on those these Ine lines an arm conflict is 18 In This Is the exact sItuation In Ken tuck tucki I 1 give 10 It II in nn answer to numer numerous numerous ous telegrams ant and leter letters from all ports parts of tho thio country It I h have e no party Interest to ler serve I am not now and ha have not been heen for years 11 In active fellowship wih with the of I my own party part and sole Is II lY to rep resent to the sober sense and good feel Ing of oC all that the an condItion g of oC affairs In Kentucky Is nt not that of force against force justifying a certin certain neu neutrality traly In public opinion but that of it 0 military usurpation unwarranted b by law against what the he lw law writers cl call the pence peace and dignity of oC the common commonwealth wealth |
