Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-29
PoT-POURRI.
SOMETHING OF POLITICS, PLATFORMS
AND PENALTIES.
Bradley's swing Around the Circle Suggests
Thoughts About Depot Crowds-The
The Tayiors and Their Coming
Engagement-A Heavy
Penalty.

| DOD anu All IdyiOr Will De uer6
Thursday night and they will draw
ike porous plaster. This capital
attraction" was secured by Mana
ger Gslbreath, of Hollands opera
house, but in order to give everybody
a chance to hear these distinguished
brothers, an arrangement has been
made by which they will appear at
the tabernacle instead of the opera
house.
The entertainment they will give is
one that must be seen and heard to
be properly appreciated. 1t is hard
to tell exactly what it is. The news
papers are not agreed as to what it is.
One calls it "a Monte Christian CO.
Elaboration of new IDEAS" another
"a symposium of patriotic eloquence,"
and still another "a patternless mo-
sale of rhetorical vagaries." No
matter what it is, the public is wait
ing with impotence for it. Bob
Taylor has visited Hopkinsville sew
eral times and is without doubt the
prime favorite with everybody. Nos
lecturer,-a many of the b,st Oh,
the platform have been here-has
such hold on Hopkinsville people
as Bob Taylor. He never fails to.
draw tremendous crowd and it is.
not recorded that he ever failed to-
please even the most exacting of his
hearers. This time his brother Alf,.
the Republican ex-congressman who
was beaten by Bob for governor of
Tennessee in their memorable race
nine years back, will come to divide
the honors with Bob. 1t will be his
first appearance, and mingled with
the pleasure of welcoming the re-
turn of one is the expectant curiosity
of seeing and hearing the other.
Those who hear them will be ex-
pected to pay ST. for reserved sea 81
IS cents for general admission and
50 cents for gallery seats. Tickets
may be had at Elgin's drug store.
Bradley is devoting the last days
of his campaign to travelling about
over the state on Pull man Palace
car and Grating to the crowds he,
catches hanging around the depots--
He ought by all means to give Hop
kinsville chance to furnish crowd
of this sort. 1t is fact often COM
mented on by strangers and visitors
that Hopkinsville turns out the big
gest crowds of any city in Kentucky
to meet the incoming trains. These
crowds are due in a great measure
to the large amount of travel to and
from Hopkinsville. People go t. the
trains to meet expected visitors or to-
speed the parting guests, or to mail
letters, to get papers, ETC., ect, and
often great many go to the same
trains on the same business. But by
far the greater portion of the habit
ual crowd is composed of idlers and
loafers, who go solely from curiosity
and from force of habits formed years.
ago. These people have no business
to take them, and yet their faces are
seen day after day and year after
year until the travelling public be-
comes wearied with the awful monot-
ony of looking at them. 1t is from
this class that Bill Bradley imagines
he can make votes, by delivering
bombastic harangues to them and
making FOOT of himself by thanking:
them for turning out enmasse to give
him an ovation. These standing au-
diences, ready made and waiting for
anything from a Republican capdi-
date for governor to an elephant, that
may happen to pass through the
town, are impartial in the enthusiasm
they display. No matter whether
the attraction is st tesman or a.
circus, negro excursion or newly
married couple, they are there just.
the same to see it in and to see it Off
Come this way, by all means, Bill
We have crowd both "large and en-
thusiastic" always on hand and there
is no ordinance to prohibit your
speaking on the street or on the plat
form, unless you try to sell something
without city license. Of course it
must be understood that you SO the
crowds who listen to your stale
charges of rascality, but that doesn't
count. By-the-way, Bill, when you
stop here, be careful what you say
about official corruption" Some of
your chief followers here are little,
tender-footed on that subject.
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