The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-05-19
UISTlEEN.


taiRlv the liveliest and most readable ,
paper published in York State, gcner-
ally keeps pretty accurately posted on
X kentucky affairs. one of its editors be-
ing a gentleman right thoroughly ac-
1uainted with our people and politics.
But when it asserts that "Old CASH
CLAY has joined the Kentucky Bour-
bOns," it shoots wide of the mark. In
the convention which General Clay at
.ended, and where he proclaimed his
adhesion to the Democratic party,
Bourbonism was most effectualIy slaugh-
tered.
The Democracy of Kentucky cannot
truthfully be classed with those who
neither forget nor learn anything
General SORGHUM WILLIAMS made an
exhaustive canvass of the State as the
exponent of Bourbon ideas, basihg his
claims to the gubernatorial nomination
almost exclusively upon his COnfeder-
ate war record. He was one of the few
Confederate soldiers who were not suf,
ficiently whipped. He is not yet salts
fled with the manner in which the re-
bellion PANIED out. He made fervid>
ly infammatory appeals to the baser
passions of those who actively partici>
pated in the war on the Confederate
side, as we'll as those who found it
safer and more comfortable to contrib
ute their sympathy to the cause of the
South. He was indeed the Last of the
BOurbons. The Express is very well
aware of the result, and in the defeat
of WILLIAMS it can read the epitaph of
Bourbonism in Kentucky.
Kentucky Democrats are fully alive
to all matters and questions that direct
ly concern them. While they will ever
be found a unit in opposition to FEEDER
al interference in the domestic concerns
of the States; while they demand that
the administration of national affairs
shall be conducted within the bounds
prescribed by the Federal constitution;
their more important work is to be done
right here at home. We are determined
to build up our own State. We intend
to make Kentucky an inviting field for
the immigrant. We are Indifferent
about the nationality as well as the re-
ligious and political creeds of those who
come among us, if they only bring with
them thrift, industry, and disposition
to build up instead of destroying the
prosperity of the State. We have no
room or use for political adventures
from the North and East, as we have
enough and to spare of that kind of
weed, of native growth. Those who
yet linger among the graves of the late
war, employing their time In commit,
tingto memory the epitaphs, and breath
ing charnel smells as though they were
delicious perfumes, are very few with
us, and are as impOtent and harmless
as the ghosts of the slain. Our people
no longer talk war, speak war, nor vote
war. With us the past is past, and there
is not an ex-Confederate in Kentucky
who possesses sense enough to crawI
out of the creek when he falls in, who
would recall it. In our party council,
ex-Confederate and ex-Federal meet OF
precisely the same ground, all theil
feelings and aspirations being Identical
and all looking to the future devel
opment and prosperity of our native
State. We have neither the time mol
the inclination to engage in wrangling:
about the late war. We had only tn,
ghost of the Bourbon element amongs
us-and an exceedingly dim and Hide
fined shade it was. The late State con
vention laid it most effectually. Tn,
defeat of WILLIAMS was its death knell
The nomination of progressive, liberal
hearted, wise-brained MCCREARY wa
It's coffin. Its funeral will occur on tn,
first Monday in next August.