Kentucky Gov. W.J. Fields, not to be confused with W.C. Fields (update: I have looked up Gov. Fields and found that his next 3 successors were named Flem Samson, Ruby Laffoon, and Happy Chandler, all of whom sound like characters in a W.C. Fields movie), will deploy 1,000 soldiers with machine guns, gas bombs, tanks, and more! to protect Ed Harris, alleged multiple murderer, from being lynched when he is transported to Lexington for trial. People are ordered to stay out of Lexington or remain in their homes.
The murder was committed 12 days ago. The trial will take place in 3 days and last part of one day. He’ll plead guilty and the jury will take 3 minutes to sentence him to death. The execution will take place in a month. Who needs lynchings when you have all-white Southern juries?
Democratic party leaders meet at Sen. Walsh’s home to figure out what their principles will be in the 1926 congressional elections. The NYT’s principle is “Someone needs to invent Wikipedia,” because it thinks attendee Franklin Delano Roosevelt was “the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1924,” which he was not. Anyway, D’s will be campaigning on tariffs and on the Coolidge Admin being too close to big business.
