Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-06-02

'"' newspaper Fltuus Ol Tue Otncf can
dldatcs said he was a good man. but
wasn't In the race. Editors know every
thing, you know, and they are awfully
clever,so he had 40 fight with them. But
when II was found that he was In the
race, II was begun 10 be whispered
around at first. he knew not by whose
friends, that "Bill Stone isn't a good
free silver man. aud again that "Bill
Stone had voted for gold bonds" At
Winchester he took occasion to de.
nounce these reports aud say that be
would withdraw from the race II either
could be proven. Imagine his surprise,
when up. Wasting Harding" jumped
up at Shelbyville aud tried to prove
from the Congressional Record that he
had voted for gold bonds, when the fact
was the record showed he had voted
against them every time the question
came up. though he had on two occa-
sions voted to advance bills to the Bird
reading 80 as to kill them for good. He
was IN Congress and making speeches
for free silver before the great APOSTLE
Hardin ever dreamed OF it becoming an
Issue. When he proved the falsity OF
Hardin's charge they begin to cry and
say, stone has two records"
; But speaking Of records. somebody
else has a record. He has record for
running for Office for y wears or long
! before three-fourths of this audience
were voters. He had been elected for
three terms on the tail Of the ticket.
but when he was placed at ts head he
led it to ignominious defeat.
But Hardin has a still further record.
He organized the convention 10 1875.
/ elected Judge Beckner, gold stand
! ard man, chairman, who placed Senator
J Lindsay, another gold standard man,
= who was not a delegate. on the commit.
r tee on resolutions from the State at
: large, over the protests of Blackburn,
! Rhea aud other free silver men, aud
! when the committee reported for the
: geld standard and an endorsement of
. Mr.. Cleveland, Mercer county. the
J delegation composed OF a brother aud
the personal friends of Hardin, aud
r presumably expressing his views. voted
D TO adopt the resolution. When the free
: silver men begged Hardin to decline to
/ accept the nomination for governor on
, the platform, he said, Get behind me
, satan" and Waited out on the platform
! and accepted ii. He afterwards repudial
ed the platform anu we all know the rest
And vet he tells you that he was '.blaz
: ing the way 10 the Chicago platform
/ and had his name signed TO II before
. you ever saw IL.
Ia order to defeat him the Hardin
; people had trotted out various and
sundry men supposed TO be leaders TO
defame him, including Judge Hargis, a
Confederate soldier, but he said moth
I ing could make him descend so low as
To ibiure u man who wore the gray
uniform and lost limb for the cause
he loved. Tneu they put up Judge
Beckner to tell his little tale. do you
know BecknerY II not, he can best be
described To you in the language of the
lamented Senator Beck, who said, 81 saw
20 pictures of Judas Iscariot, W hen In the
old world, no two Of which were alike.
but all looked like Bill Beckner." The
beautiful pictures that Hardin has had
scattered over the State, making him
the great | am and Bryan aud Black
burn, very small fry, was with the object
TO deceive the unwary ard make them
believe he was the sole candidate OF
/ these great leaders.
/ IL had been asked him why he did not
, 90 for Goebel and he answered, BE
, cause Goebel has treated me like a
| gentleman. The same relations might
( have existed between Hardin and my
self had he not tried to pull me down TO
build up himself. | WAS driven To the
necessity OF showing him up and telling
/ of his wobblings in and out while 'blaz.
/ ing the way to the Chicago platform. A"
: The speaker enumerated several
: reasons why he wanted to be governor,
; one OF them being that he might help
the struggling young men of the State.
} He told how he had done so while In
{ Congress and of the records that some Of
his benedciaries had made in peace aud
/ war. 81 want TO see the LIST district
? find favor ut last and a farmer honored.
. He had been accused of demagogy in
telling that he was farmer, but he
, simply told the truth and was glad that
, he is farmer. They had received him
with horny handed welcome on his
! return from the war and had ever since
, been his friends. Then some newspa-
} pers said he was seeking sympathy,
when he told that he had served three
, years on the field and spent one year In
! the hospital for the cause OF the South.
: He needed no sympathy and wanted
} none. He only did his duty and when
! he died he would want no greater cpl.
; tanh than that ha alyava ala hia hutv