The Kentucky Gazette

South Elkhorn.

Who Brought Them?

The Frankfort Argus asks this pertinent question. "Let no guilty man escape. Find who brought here, and paid while here, the most dangerous men in Eastern Kentucky to assassinate Gov. Goebel." It says further "It seems ridiculous for Pretender Taylor to attempt to cover the trouble he is in by mountain country to satisfy the greed of the office seekers. It was not the election law that placed an assassin in the executive building from the window of which to take the cowardly aim at a Senator while on his way to the Senate House. It was not the election law that kept the civil authorities out of the executive building and prevented the arrest of the assassin. It was not the election law that permitted the State officers in the executive building to be out of town on the day of the assassination, leaving their office to a filthy crowd of mountaineers loaded down with rifles and ammunition. It wasn't the election law that gave General Collier the power to take possession of the Court House, City Hall, and Hotel. It was not the election law that so urgently required the services of Whittaker on State House Square. It was not the election law that gave Taylor the power to pardon men before trial."