Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1942, Page 15

Trimble Recalls Role He Played In Kentucky’s Goebel Case House Clerk Was Then Speaker of Legislature A fatal shot which launched one of the bitterest political feuds in the history of Kentucky was recalled to- day by Clerk of the House South Trimble on the 42d anniversary of the assasination of Gov.-elect Wil- ‘Goebel of Kentucky. Mr. Trimble, who will be 78 next April, was then 36 years old and speaker of the Kentucky Legisla- ure. He heard the rifle shot which elied the Democratic Governor- elect as he was about to enter the State Capitol in Frankfort to take the oath of office. The victim of the sharpshooter lived for three days, and Mr. Trimble Jed the legislators in repeated dashes through the streets of Frankfort in an effort to meet and declare Mr. Goebel Governor before he died. These efforts were re- peatedly balked by the bayonets of the militia and success came just before the Governor-elect expired. State's Bitterest Fight. Mr. Goebel, of humble German | parentage, was one of the most bril- liant lawyers of his day in Ken- tucky. He led perhaps the bitterest contest in Kentucky's stormy po- litical history against the Republi- ean nominee, William S. Taylor, | who had been attorney general. Taylor received a plurality of 2,- 283 votes, but Goebel contested the election before the Legislature, which was strongly Democratic. The contest committee of the Legislature announced it would de- clare its decision on January 30. Taylor immediately called the State militia to Frankfort, proclaimed an insurrection and ordered the Legis- lature adjourned to London, a Re- publican stronghold in the moun- tains. Mr. Trimble counted noses, learned there were enough Demo- eratic votes to make Goebel Gov- ernor and led the legislators to the Capitol, where they were met by | the militia with drawn bayonets. ‘The lawmakers rushed to the Frankfort Opera House, also filled with troops, and then to the Capitol Hotel, where Goebel lay on his death bed. This meeting also was pre- vented, and Mr. Trimble announced | he could lead the legislators to the Btate prison. The troops were sent to the prison, but Mr. Trimble had secretly summoned the legislators to return. to the Capitol Hotel. They finally hetd a session there and in five minutes decided the con- test in favor of Goebel, who was - South Trimble, clerk of the House, at about the time 42 years ago today when e won a bitter political fight in Xen- tucky to have Gov.-elect Wil- liam Goebel sworn in before | he died from an assassin’s bullet. | sworn in on his death bed and ex- | pired the next day. The Lieutenant Governor, J. C. W. Beckham, was then sworn in as Governor. Mr. Trimble later learned the true story of who shot Goebel from & State employe who said he had volunteered to do the job. Caleb Powers, who later was to be elected to Congress, was described as the brains of the conspiracy. He was sentenced to be hanged twice and at a third trial was given a life sentence. He served seven years in jail and was pardoned by a Re- publican Governor, Augustus E. } Willson. He was elected to Congress |in 1911 at the same time that Mr. Trimble became clerk of the House. | James Howard, a well-known | mountain gunman, was brought to Frankfort to do the shooting, Mr. Trimble said. The employe secured several rifles and conducted the mountaineer to a State office, it was said, where he was given $1,900 re- | maining in the Republican campaign |fund and two pardpns—one for | killing Goebel and the other for a | previous murder of which he was | accused. The gunman was sentenced to life | imprisonment and later was also | pardoned by Gov. Willson. The tert of a statement by the President on signing the emer- gency price-control bill today fol- lows: ‘The Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 is an important weapon in our armory against the onslaught of the Axis powers. Nothing could better serve the purposes of our enemies than that 'we should become the victims of in- flation. The total effort needed for victory means, of course, increasing sacrifices from each of us, as an ever larger portion of our goods and our labor is devoted to the produc- tion of ships, tanks, planes and guns. Effective price control will insure | that these sacrifices are equitably distributed. The act, taken all in all, is a| ‘workable one. It accomplishes the fundamental objectives of setting up a single administrator, and empow- ering him to establish maximum prices and rents over a broad field, to prohibit related speculative and manipulative practices, and to buy and sell commodities in order to ob- tain the maximum production. To make price and rent control effec- | tive, the administrator is given ade- quate powers to license persons sub- Ject to the act, to investigate and enjoin attempted violations, and to bring about the commencement of criminal proceedings against viola- tors. Civil suits for treble damages by private persons provide an addi- tional enforcement tool. But & price control measure must fall far short of being a democratic instrument if it fails to surround the individual with safeguards| Text of Price Bill Message President Reviews Purposes of Act, Called Big Weapon Against Axis sional leaders, that there is nothing contained therein which can be con- strued as a limitation upon the ex- isting powers of governmental agen- cies, such as the Commodity Credit Corp., to make sales of agricultural commodities in the normal conduct of their operations. In my message to the Congress on August 25, 1941, disapproving the bill H. R. 5300, I pointed out the extreme disad- vantages of any action designed to peg prices through the arbitrary withholding of Government-owned stocks from the normal channels of | trade and commerce. | I further pointed out that the Commodity Credit Corp. shcald be free to dispose of commodities ac- quired under its programs in an orderly manner, for otherwise it will be impossible to maintain an ever- normal granary, to protect farmers against surpluses and consumers against scarcity; and that to restrict the authority of this corporation would greatly increase its losses, nullify the effectiveness of existing programs, and by breaking faith with the consumers be inconsistent with our present price control efforts. I also should like to call attention to the fact that I am requesting the | departments of the Government | possessing commodities to make .such commodities available to other | departments in order to aid our war |effort. This request, primarily, will affect the cotton stocks of the Com- modity Credit Corp. and will per- mit such stocks to be utilized, di- -rectly or by exchange, in the pro- | duction of war goods. Such trans- | fers will be in addition to the quan- against ill-considered or arbitrary | tities which are now available for | action. This act, while granting the | sale. The request will also include administrator broad powers, imposes grain and other commodities which upon him a responsibility of equal| may be needed by the departments breadth for fair play. He must, so| concerned. far as is practicable, consult with| The enactment of price-control industry members before issuing | legislation does not mean that the price regulations, and must accom- | battle against inflation has been pany each such regulation by a| won. I have doubts as to the wis- statement of the considerations| dom and adequacy of certain sec- upon which it is based. 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