The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1893-08-02
The Senatorial Succession.

imphson among the Democrats o.
Southern and Western Kentucky that
in the matter Of Senatorial succession
they haze for years held the position o.
bag-holler in the snipe-hunt. There Is
an ideathat the Bluegrass brethren have
not ony hogged the whole Senatorial
trough, but are actually lying lengthwise
therein arising only to feed and feeding
only tolie down. There is much ground
for complaint in this Senatorial short-di-
vision, and there will be much ground
for generalization il the people take the
mattern hand and remedy condition
OF affairs for which they have only them
selves 20 blame. Whenever Southern
and Western Kentucky stand together
they will receive the recognition their
party-ervices deserve--not before.
II his been almost generation since
Southrn and Western Kentucky were
giveni United States Senator. II will
be anther generation before they are al
lowedanother if they do not assert them
selvesand demand their rights. During
all thse years, there sections have done
their luty by their party and their prin-
ciplss faithfully, unfalteringly, nobly.
Thghave piled up Democratic MAORI
ties They have routed the enemy until
there's not Republican Congressman
left from the Ohio to the Cumberland.
Tlby have worked for love, for, outside
thu local offices which were theirs and
cold not be taken from them, reward
THY have had none. Political history
furnishes no more striking instance OF
pity fealty, Of indomitable self-sacrifice,
ofsturdy clinging TO conviction, than the
example set by the Democracy Of South
en- and Western Kentucky. Nor, in the
division of the Senatorial loaves and fishes
his so rich deserving ever before met 80
Ibor reward.
The larger portion of the blame for the
3ndition Of affairs so justly complained
Il lies with the complainants themselves.
they have not stood together. They
have divided into petty factions. They
have knitted each other. The strength
theirs has been frittered away
N chickering's, contentious and heartburn
ng among themselves, while Others have
,arried off the prizes, Instead of being
.rrayed in solid phalanx together, they
nave pulled each other down and builded
he fortunes OF outsiders on theirown POI
itical disaster. 1t cannot be too strongly
upon Southern aud Western
Kentucky that, standing together, they
ire invincible. Separate, they fall into
he ditch Of their own digging. An alli-
ince between these two sections
md the mountain Democracy-which
mas Jared hardly 30 well as even ourselves
would force immediate recognition of
I'll rights demanded. If weare not ready
% concede that all the talent of the State
les in the Bluegrass, something Of this
'ort must be done.
At present, both the United States SEN
,tors from Kentucky reside within fifteen
niles Of each other. Senator Lindsay
succeeds Mr.. Carlisle, of Covington, who
n turn succeeds Mr.. Beck, of Lexington,
senator Blackburn, Of Versailles, succeeds
zen. ]. s. Williams, OF Mt. Sterling, who
Hon. t. G. McCreary, of Ovens
,oro. Mark we'll that in all the 101 years
II the States life the great section lying
West and South of Louisville has only
had four Senators out of the thirty-six.
The merry-go-'round is confined to the
bluegrass and its neighbors. Southern
md Western Kentucky are the wall-fow-
rs, the poor boys at the frolic.
Whether he is Simon Boliver Buckner,
,r John w. Caldwell, or ]. A. Mckenzie,
,r John Young Brown, the Times is ever
astingly in favor of long pull, strong
pull, and pull altogether, for Southern
Or Western man for United States Sem
ltor. II we are good enough to vote, we
ire good enough to hold. office. If we
nave sense enough to give bluegrass
nan position, we should have sense
enough to keep it among ourselves. A
title firmness in stand, little yielding
N clashing personal ambitions, con-
,erted demand for simple justice, already
90 long delayed, and our rights are Sc
cured. We will get nothing unless we
light for it.
There will be an election held for I'M
tied States Senator next February, and it
will be well enough for everybody inter
ested to ponder these matters as we jog
along toward "a, and near the legislative
primaries OF '93.-Glasgow Times.