Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-15
THE HIaaER-LOvINa POST.

The Evening Post, one Of the
Bradley organs at Louisville, in
two column article, attempts to ridi-
cule and deny the danger of negro
domination in Kentucky, il Bradley
should be elected. 1t is we'll for
even such papers as this Benedict
Arnold of Democracy to at least be
truthful il they cannot be loyal and
true to principle. The records Of
Garrard county show that Bill Brad
ley has voted for negroes and prob
ably every man on the Republican
ticket has done the same. In this
county Mr.. Breathitt, who wants to
be circuit Judge, has performed this
humiliating act again and again, tie
last time less than year ago. 1t
cannot be denied then that the Re-
publican candidates are committed
by their own acts to negro rule" in
Offices of as much importance as
register of the land Office.
The Post makes this statement
which is too false on its face to be
considered mere mistake from ig-
norance. 1t is wilfully and knowing
lily untrue:
There have been bad negroes, and
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they have suffered for their misdeeds
but in Kentucky Democrats as we'll
as Republicans to-day stand ready to
testify that in Kentucky, where only
IA per cent. Of the population is COL
ored, there is absolutely not the
slightest fear, not the remotest dan
ger of any kind from the negro un-
der any circumstances whatever.
To-day 40 per cent. of the county
judges are Republican, yet there are
no negro election officers or police
officers, nor any suggestion that the
Republican officers are any less care
full of the dignity or peace of the
commonwealth than the Democratic
judges"
The Democrats of Christian county
can testify on this point. They have
had NEGRO domination" already un-
til they have had enough. They have
seen negroes elected to county Offices
more than once and the present coro-
ner is a representative of the race the
Post does not "fear." They have
had negro magistrates and negro
constables of the meanest character,
who were run out of the county for
crimes against the laws while still in
Office. They have had negro police
men to strut the streets of Hopkins
vile and arrest white men. They
have had negro census enumerators,
and white men no better than ne
/ groes, sent into their homes to take
the census for the government. They
have had and still have negro cleo
ton officers, often majority OF the
officers at a polling place being
mean and insolent negroes. These
things have already been seen in
counties like Christian cursed with
majority of negroes and their pc
litical associates, and they will be
witnessed all over the state if the
Post succeeds in its efforts to defeat
the election of the Democratic ticket.
Already here in Hopkinsville there
are Republican candidates for the ap-
pointive offices in one of the states
asylums, some of whom are negroes
AID others men who have voted for
negroes.
There can never be, we admit, any
continued domination of negroes in
Kentucky, because the white people
will not submit to it. There are re-
spectacle white Republic who
VIII not vote Tor negroes. Inele are
many of them in this county ana the
negroes who have been elected to
county Offices have always run far
behind TIE Whit, mon OH no uiAeG
tickets. In one case ercrs'i hite
Republicans not lost to all shame
voted with the Democrats and pre-.
vented the election of negro city
Judge in HoPkiusville by the narrow
margin of Il votes. We know some.