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William
Goebel

THE POLITICS OF
WRATH

JAMES C. KLOTTER

Cover: William Goebel campaigning in Owenton. Harpers Weekly.

Frontispiece: William Goebel speaking at Bowling Green, 1899. Photo courtesy of the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University.

Research for The Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf is assisted by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Views expressed in the Bookshelf do not necessarily represent those of the Endowment.

Copyright 1977 by The University Press of Kentucky
Paperback edition 2009

The University Press of Kentucky
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College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University,
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To Karen, Christopher,
& Katherine

Contents

Preface

MISINFORMATION about William Goebel abounds. The scarcity of published material is surprising concerning a man represented by historian C. Vann Woodward as the leader of the first Southern reform movement to make a determined fight for power. Yet this same man so angered his opposition that his assassination finally occurred. Volumes have been written about other American assassinationsLincoln, Garfield, McKinley, the Kennedys, and King. But, comparatively, very little scholarly work has been done on this single instance in our nations history where a governor died in office as a result of assassination.

Obviously, this brief work is far from definitive. Nor does it exhaustively examine the assassination. Rather, it studies the public career of William Goebel, the atmosphere that resulted in his death, and his place in politics at a particularly crucial time for Kentucky and the nation. If this study stimulates further research, part of the authors objectives will be met. Newspaperman Urey Woodson once remarked, Even in our own State the present generation has but a smattering knowledge of this period. That is what has impelled me to write this story. What he wrote in 1936 holds true four decades later, and so this book is an initial attempt to correct that situation.

For such a work, where no large collection of the subjects papers exists, many institutions must be visited in a search for material. In particular I wish to acknowledge the aid of William R. Buster, George M. Chinn, Hambleton Tapp, and many others at the Kentucky Historical Society; Jacqueline Bull and William J. Marshall of Special Collections at Margaret I. King Library, University of Kentucky; Nelson L. Dawson and James R. Bentley of The Filson Club, Louisville; Edison H. Thomas of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad; and various members of the Kentucky Library at Western Kentucky University, the Lexington Public Library, the Library of Congress, the Cincinnati Law School, and Kenyon College.

To critical readers of the manuscript whose suggestions were what every writer should hope foralthough I stubbornly did not follow them allgo my sincere thanks. Often stopping their own work to read the manuscript were John David Smith, Thomas H. Appleton, Jr., James Larry Hood, Gaye Keller Bland, all of Lexington; Norman L. Snider of Frankfort; and Charles G. Talbert of the University of Kentucky.

If I were only iconoclastic enough this preface would begin, rather than close, with acknowledgement of the aid of my typist, counselor, and wife. Freda is in reality coauthor of all my work, though her interest in history admittedly lags at times. To our children, who repeatedly ask Whats history? we dedicate this work.

LOOK UPON
OPPOSITION
AS OPPORTUNITY

EARLY ON TUESDAY morning, the sixth of February 1900, a train carrying the assassinated governors body slowly moved from Cincinnati toward the station at Covington. Men, women, and children, old and young, friend and foe, lined the tracks to watch the train pass. Stores shut down and workers left their jobs. Thousands gathered at the station and silently watched the pallbearers lift out the casket. William Goebel was returning home.

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