The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-09-18
TO Your Posts. Democrats.

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For County Clerk--G.' L. Kirk
patrick.
For Constable, District No. L
Wallace McMahan.
What these gentlemen can prom
Use themselves in this race is more
than we can conjecture, unless, in
deed, it be as one of them is quoted
as saying, to put themselves in
line for a Federal appointment
should Republican administers
ton be called back to power two
years hence.
We repeat, we do not see what
chances these gentlemen can fiatter
themselves they have to win; yet
we should fight them in the con
test from now till November, as if
we thought they were in very
truth in danger of being elected.
Mr.. Orear is young man who
was raised in our midst, and, who
after some years of residence i'll
Morgan county, came back among
us and secured for himself a credi-
table position as attorney at our
bar. OF late he has developed a
chronic case of office hungryness.
He first tried to get his party's
nomination for the long term for
Congress; failing in that,he sought
a nomination for the short term.
Disappointment was again meeted
out to him. But so great had the
yearning grown that it must needs
be satisfied somehow, and so We
find him seeking the nomination
for County Judge.
Mr.. G. L. kirkpatrick is a to-
bacco dealer and a gentleman who
has not been hitherto suspected OF
political aspirations. His late bao
attack of office seeking is no doubt
to be traced to his close associa-
ton with his friend and neighbor
Orear, who, short time ago,moved
into Kinks neighborhoOd. Kirk
has simply caught the disease
from Ed, that is all, we think.
Both will be cured in November.
As for Wallace McMahan, he is
an ex-saloon keeper out OF a job,
looking for anything that promises
him, even the ghost of a chance to
find employment. Of course ne
was glad of the opening to secure
a nomination. With him it was
everything to gain and nothing to
lose, anyway.
There is only one chance for the
nominees to win and
it lies in the over-confdence OF
The Republicans, by
nominating for these three offices,
hope to slip up on the Democrats
and catch them mapping. For
some days they have been talking
that Mr.. Henry Woodford's friends
are disgruntled because he failed
20 get the nomination for County
Judge. Now we know Mr.. Wood
ord, and we know large number
If Mr.. WOodford's friends, and we
IAN confidently assert, we will find
10 harder hitters in the coming
than will be found
among these gentlemen. Ii the
Republicans are expecting aid and
comfort there, they are looking in
he wrong quarter. We under
tand, too, that they expect to con-
rol the Catholic vote because Mr..
Greene beat Will O'COnnell in the
ace for County Clerk. The claim
hat the Catholic element was
,oing to vote with the Republicans
because Of some fancied slight, has
,een put forward by certain mem
,ers of the Republican party in
his county at nearly every cleo
ion for the past twenty years, but
We have never seen it materalize.
The Catholic vote is just as thor
,ughly and reliably Democratic,
S is the strength the Republicans
re claiming among Mr.. Wood
ord's friends, and if the party
hat stamps "Rum, ROmanism and
Rebellion" as belonging to the