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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 6 Num. 94
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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BITTER DEBATE IN HOUSE
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Goebel Murder the Subject of Intensely Partisan Encounter
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(New York Times, February 4, 1904)
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- This was the most exciting day the House
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has had this session. The Democrats charged the Republicans with
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making murder a political crime, sheltering a fugitive from
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justice, and reversing the intent of the Constitution with regard
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to extradition laws in the interest of a Republican assassin. The
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day was an anniversary of the murder of Gov. Goebel of Kentucky.
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Excitement rose high, and the House was crowded throughout the
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debate, which lasted almost all the afternoon. The Diplomatic
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Appropriation bill was under consideration at the time.
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Mr. James (Dem., Ky.,) started the discussion, which was over the
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refusal of Gov. Durbin of Indiana to surrender ex-Gov. W. S.
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Taylor of Kentucky, charged with complicity in the murder of his
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rival, Gov. William Goebel. Mr. James introduced a bill to
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authorize extradition proceedings in Federal courts when the
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Governor of one State refuses to honor extradition papers from
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another.
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The Democrats were beside themselves with delight over his
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arraignment of the Republicans, particularly when he denounced
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President Roosevelt as "the distinguished rough rider, who, as
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Governor of New York, violated all precedents by saying to
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Taylor, 'Come to New York and you shall be immune.'"
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The President's referenda(?) in favor of extradition treaties in
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his message was ridiculed by Mr. James in view of the failure of
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the Governor of Indiana to extradite Taylor.
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Mr. Crumpacker (Rep., Ind.,) defended Gov. Durbin. His argument
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was to the effect that it would be impossible for Taylor to have
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a fair trial in Kentucky, and he pointed to the case of Secretary
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of State Caleb Powers, convicted of Goebel's murder, as proof.
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"Isn't it a fact," asked Mr. James, "that the Governor of Indiana
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refused to surrender Taylor before Powers was ever tried, and
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before he could have known whether Powers would have a fair trial
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or not?"
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Mr. Crumpacker said it was.
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"Didn't Taylor show the same remarkable foresight," asked Mr.
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James, "when he granted a free pardon to Powers before Powers was
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even arrested?"
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"Possibly, possibly," said Mr. Crumpacker, amid Democratic
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laughter.
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Mr. Crumpacker's attack on the State of Kentucky aroused John
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Sharp Williams, (Dem., Miss.,) who made a speech which aroused
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the Democratic side to a pitch of the wildest enthusiasm and
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excitement. He declared Crumpacker's speech to be "a disgrace to
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American civilization."
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"Edmund Burke did not know how to draw an indictment of a whole
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people," said Mr. Williams, "but the gentleman from Indiana can
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teach him how to do it, and to do it by innuendoes and hints
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gathered from newspaper reports."
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Indiana and Kentucky were separated by a river, he said, and Mr.
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Crumpacker's argument was that on the left-hand side of that
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river all was corruption and vileness, and on the right-hand side
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all was political purity.
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"Kentucky," he concluded, "will continue to go Democratic until
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the Republicans of that State cease to march under the banner of
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assassination."
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Mr. Payne (Rep., N.Y.,) defended President Roosevelt's
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extradition treaty recommendations. The general indictment of the
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President and the Republican Party, he said, was not well
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founded, neither was the criticism of Gov. Odell of New York,
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made by Mr. James (Ky.,) for his refusal to extradite Ziegler on
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demand of Missouri.
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Mr. Adams (Penn.) in beginning his annual speech in favor of the
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reorganization of the Consular Service said he was performing a
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very good office by interposing a buffer between Indiana and
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Kentucky. He presented a bill for the reorganization of the
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Consular Service, which, he said, was indorsed by the business
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interests of the country.
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The discussion was brought back to the Goebel murder. Mr.
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Hemenway (Rep., Ind.,) made a speech urging the Democrats of
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Kentucky to cool off and not be so excited about the murder of
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Goebel. This provoked Mr. Stanley (Dem., Ky.,) to deliver a
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speech in which he declared that he had not believed partisanship
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could go so far.
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"To make murder a political question," he said, "is amazing to
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me. If when Lincoln was shot some disciple of this new
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philosophic school, which makes assassination a subject for
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debate, had addressed the mourning people of this country,
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telling them to keep cool, not to get excited, and to remember
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that Booth's deed was a political crime, I would not have been
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more astonished."
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"Didn't Goebel kill a man?" asked Mr. Hepburn, (Rep., Iowa.)
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"Goebel shot Sanford in self-defense," retorted Mr. Stanley. "He
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shot Sanford through the brain. When Goebel was picked up there
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was a bullet through his own body. Only two shots were fired.
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Will the gentleman from Iowa tell me how a man with a bullet in
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his brain could shoot Goebel through the body? Which fired
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first?"
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[...other matters...]
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