Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-29
WAT WILL WIN.
THE SUCCESS or THE DEMOCRATIC
STATE TICKET ASSURED.
Rousing Speeches at Lexington and Other
Points-The General Political Outlook.

4 hEAlNtrON, hl.y OCbODCi <Cs w uOu
General P. Wat Hardin arose to adj
dress an audience which filed from
pit to dome the Auditorium, that ele-
ment of Democracy which has joined
the Republicans in bowling calamity
to the State Democratic ticket were
completely astounded. They had ex-
pected but handful to hear the man
whose chances for the gubernatorial
chair of this Commonwealth are grow
ing brighter as the election day draws
nearer.
General Hardin devoted his entire
attention to Bardley and a denial of
the statements which the Republican
head of the ticket has made in recent
speeches regarding alleged Democrat
ic misrule and the pilfering of the
State Treasury by Democratic Judges
in allowing witness claims in noun,
tain counties. He proved conclusive
| ly that the claims were allowed by
Republicans Judges. He stated
that not one dollar of the states
funds had been misappropriated un-
der Democratic denomination, save
that which Dick Tate took, and that
more than one half that amount had
been recovered.
He expressed himself as thorough
ly confident of the success of the
state ticket on the 9Th of November,
and asserted that the currency ques-,
ton would cut but little figure in the
result. His speech was we'll receiv-
ed. Tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock
General Hardin accompanied by
Messrs. Caruth, Breckenridge and
Berry and multitude of citizens
from all parts of the Lexington and
Eastern Railroad to Natural Bridge,
where big barbecue and political
gathering will be held.
| MOUNTED BAND.
The Democratic gubernatorial can
didate has just returned from a long
trip through the mountains ofEastern
Kentucky, where he frequently made
two speeches day. For time Gen
eral Hardin had a mounted brass band
and took musicians around through
the mountains with him. AS they rode
along through the rough mountain
passes the band would play probably
the first music the natives had ever
heard The mountineers would come
out to see what the strange noise
meant, would quickly saddle their
horses and join the procession to the
point where the next speech was to
be held.
Everywhere he went in the noun
tains he was surprised at the public
sentiment in his favor, and he says he
and his ticket will get bigger vote
than the mountains ever gave any
Democratic candidate. Some few
years ago the Legislature did some
gerrymandering of the mountain
counties in order to throw the bulk
of the Republican counties into the
Eleventh Congressional District and
make the Tenth Democratic by few
hundred majority on
| CLOSE ORGANIZATION.
The plan worked we'll at first, and
MIR. Kendall, and his son after his
death, were elected to Congress. But
last fall the district went wrong and
piled up a considerable majority for
the Republican candidate for Con-
gress. General Hardin has made a
very careful personal survey of most
of the counties in this district, and he
says he really believes he will carry
the counties of the district by a major
ity of 1000. If he does this, politi-
clans say, it means state majority
of fully 10000 for Hardin and the
Democratic ticket.
The situation is bright everywhere,
says General Hardin; the Democrats
are aroused and earnest and enthus-
iastic, the Republicans are ratified,
dazed and readyto run. and to the
Democratic gubernatorial candidate
there is an unmistake smell of victory
in the air he every day breathes.