The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-10-05
Congressman Cook

Judge. z. w. Cook. Grecnback
for Congress i making u
district canvass OF the county. Hop
had Me privilege of hearing
Ahn' on last Tuesday night. His
speech which he began oslensibly in
U spirit of fairness ended il sense
less harangue, appealing 10 the pas
sions aud prcjudices of the ignorant
and unletiered. MIR. Mckenzie was
in the city confined to his bed with
chill and us no one was present 10
dispute his assertions, they were
made with reckless emphasis. The
speaker pitched into every thing and
everybody generally. lie paid his
respects to English because of his
wealth which he said was made from
national bonds at 25 per cent profit
per annum. Where he got his infor-
nation concerning Mr.. English's
private affairs he did not tell. After
going on in this strain for half an
hour he turned his attention TO mon
ey. lie claimed that no basis was ne
cessary except the integrity OF the
government. That there was no ne
ccssiiy Tor redeeming the currency in
coin, that there was no use in redeem
ing it at all bat il ought to be kept in
circulation.
lie then begaWtoheney faggls the
Republicans tsail they proposed
10 issue money through the national
banks, the Greenbackers proposed to
issue it direct just as a man would
give a note, without a. collateral note,
but the Democrats Ind no financial
ideas. He stigmatized them as con.
temptible ignoramuses and cross roads
politicians and said they had no fixed
ideas upon the money question. Ii
Hancock was elected no man on earth
or angel in heaven could tell what the
Democratic party would do unless
there were enough Greenbackers
there to bold him in check. After
raving OH the subject for some time
he began to tell of The great things
the Greenbackcrs would do lie
said the old parties had contracted
the volume Of the currency affecting
the country just as a man would be
affected with vein opened or tree
with the sap let out. The Green
hackers proposed to give more sap to
the body poliiici but he failed to shc
where the sap would he obtain,
probably it could be he'd by tnppf
the heads Of GreenLack fanatics.
Forget;ul of his charge against Dem.
ocrais, that they had no financial
principles, he then charged that they
were hard money advocates and that
The party would be in hell in a few
years.
He then spent haitian hour in reiter-
ating what he had been saying aud in
the Democratic party. lie
even left the congressional fight and
attacked Hancock. lie said that he
was Republican and that numbers
of Republicans were supporting him
because lie was better Republican
then Garfield. We did not stay to
hear him through. His speech was
that ola demagogue and many per-
sons left ashamed of themselves for
having listened to such a sense
less harangue. A prominent Repub-
lican remarked TO us that his game
was TO get Republican votes but he
would find their votes we're not won
by such stuff as that. Judge Cook is
weakening his cause wherever he
goes If he makes the same speech at
all Of his appointments. lie is q man
OF ability, and 1t is only TO be re-
GREETED that lie cannot present his
side of the question in dignified
manly way and not stoop 10 such
methods OF conducting a canvass for
a li0h office. 44e