The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-07-22


can best he illustrated by an incident
which occurred in this State. Two
very old and distinguished lawyers
were trying case before a judge young
enough to have been the son of either.
During the trial high words were con-
stsntly passed which the young Judge
had tried not to hear, until at last the
lie was given when blows were about
to he struck, and the judge looked up
much surprised and said "Well, boys,
if you don't stop quarreling and be good
boys j will take your marbles away
and you shan't play any more" Our
accomplished Governor left the scene
under the soft delusion that the boys
would cease to play, but they began
again rs soon rs Gov. Knott had re-
tired within the Executive mansion to
enjoy his lettered ease tell his regu
lar daily anecdote. Aud whenever
one of these festive gamesters played
with his marbles the leaden messenger
of death, held upon its target by the
practiced aim Of Kentucky marks,
man, sent another human soul To eter-
nifty, unannounced and uncalled for
INTO the presence of It's maker, its
judge, its God another wife was made
widow, another family of children
turned into helpless orphans.
The clans have been scattered. The
soldiers have marched TO Morehead
and quiet restored to Rowan. Did
they restore those dead husbands to
their wives, those dead fathers to their
children? Is it intended to keep these
soldiers there as permanent police? II
not, the quiet is temporary only. Moth
ing can give peace, permanent peace,
but law executed without respect OF
persons. The heavy expenses caused
by this delay and neglect to execute
the laws and To pay for these troops
must be borne by you in addition to
your ordinary and necessary expenses.
We seem to haye reached that cOndi-
ton of affairs described by the prophet
of old "WOe unto thee. D land, when
thy King is a childr' 1t is claimed
now that the laws are inadequate and
these countries in the mountains are
too large. Such vindication is mere
childish twaddle. Would these coun-
tries be too large for an Andrew Jack
son welding the execution of the laws?
The prophet was rigbt-"Thy King is u
child.r
Will any one say that this picture is
exaggerated? What have you got for
these taxes aud your debt? A capitol
at Frankfort? No, for the building Is n
fixed disgrace to this people, any pub
lie library; no, and the only four small
libraries i'm the State, of which two are
in Louisville, one i'm Mt. Sterling and
one in Lexington, would not make, il
combined. one good one. Have you
any art galleries? No, not one. Have
your minerals been developed? They
have not. How many counties are
yet untouched by railroad? What is
the name of our common school sys,
tenn? Any one can tell its many and
various defects, but who can point out
its virtues? What has produced this
state of affairs in Kentucky? l answer
emphatically-whisky and indifference
to the execution of the laws. We have
no public opinion in this State, and can
not afford to have any, because our So
cial civilization, with its attendant
habits and opinions is such that its ef
fleets have been to weaken and demOr>
alize the moral sentiments of this peo-
pie. And the logical result has fol.
lowed-an almost universal indi fer
enee to disorder and to the execution of
the law and great sympathy for re-
spectacle criminals. These causes are
the true sources Of Your increasing taxes
and of our large debt. the amount OF
which you do not know. When the
Prohibition and Reform party gets
control of her affairs, it intends to
plough it up with a subsoil pillow and
plant it afresh with,,a civilization, PEN
etrsted, opened and enlightened with
the pure moralities and broad enter.
prises of this the last half of the nine
teenth century.
Judge Fox, after discussing the pro-
hibition platform of his party, closed
rs follows: MIR. Tate, my opponent,
has been selected by committee Of
Democrats, and you have been most
politely directed to vote for him. This
committee acted in this matter regard
less of the fact that two other Demo
Gratis had been selected and indorsed i'm
different sections of the State for the
same Office. Why was the voice and
wishes of these sections 50 plainly and
despotically dis-egarded and held for
naught? Was it because this committee
did not desire and did not intend that
the people of Kentucky should have
the man of their choice? Was il be
cause this committee was not ready to
have the books examined and laid bare
by the new man? There is some
weighty and controlling reason for
such usurpation of tyrannical suthori-
ty and power over free people My
nomination was given me by con-
vention composed of representative
men, irrpesective of party ties. lie
went into Office plain, honest Dick
Tate, and now he appears in this con-
test AS the silent, tyranical dictator,
and Office transported from Imperial
Rome, and not before known in the
history of our politics. My nomination
is more regular, and was not the action
OF a clique or ring. In all the cardi'
nal principles of the Democratic party
/ am as true Democrat as my Oppo-
nent, but do not, and never will in