The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-08-29
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i l'OA.TICA1 BOSSES.
No Man Ever Saw the Day re Could
Handle kentucky.
Do you say you are afraid of polit-
ical bossism in Kentucky? IL you are,
you are little too timid | am not.
know that the man never did live
and never will live who will ever be a
boss In this grand old commonwealth.
Henry Clay never saw the day that
he could boss Kentucky politics, and
John C.~Breekinridge, the biggest and
| brainiest man that ever grew on Ken
lucky sell, never saw the day that he
| could boss the Kentuckians In politics.
] / saw Henry Watterson try to be a
| boss once, and | need not tell you
| where he landed I saw Bradley try
| it once on the other side, and | need
not tell you where lie is now. A gov
ernor without I follower, even in his
own party from Mills Point to the
time idol of the kentucky Demo-
cracy, John G. Carlisle, try it
once, and could not if I wanted
! to, tell you wheie he is today All
| that / can tell you now is that he is
| not in Kentucky, and that the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad system of
which Mr.. Goebel has been telling, has
not an eight-diiver engine that has
power enough TO pull him across the
Ohio river into the state of Kentucky.
But somebody says he is afraid of
political bcssisln Now, I am willing
to be fair; | am aEiiable today. The
truth is l am tTo weak to fool men
anyhow For the sake of argument 1
will grant anything that you claim.
will admit every postulate and con-
cede every premise, but you will allow
me, please, to beg leave to dissent from
your conclusion, That is the only
thing | ask for You say you do not
like the present political situation.
Well, for the sake Of the argument
will admit what is not true, and say
that do rot either You say it is bad,
and for the sake of argument / will
say it is worse. We are agreed that
far, and now | simply want to have
you answer me a question.
Why Dissension?
What are you going to do about it?
Are you going to help things? Are you
going to cure the sick patient by call
ing in the Republican doctor? If you
do, instead OF quinine, he will give you
strychnine and arsenic sure. There is
no sense in that Is there anybody
who believes that there is a system Of
political bossism in this state? For
the sake of the argument will admit
to be true what J know is false, and
will sag, All right, agree there is"
How are you -L-ag to cure it? BY
voting the ReH.5 can ticket? Oh, no!
Why ever ..,., ~: ire t0d, can learn
in the Ioil~ra c. ENp risree. Wise
men can j.. n w;thoIs going through
with the c.per arce, rr- people like we
who are : III light taI oily learn in
that coll e.
Fave ,uu lct go 3. lisa in New
York rep,"z -t-a Ivy IamHany from
the Til4e q 8o Tweed 4own to the |
present, overthrow and trampled in
the dust of defeat time after time, and |
has that defeat of the bosses ticket |
cured bossism? There is a practical
test that tells YOU you cannot do it |
that way. But if we are to have a sys-
TEN Of Democratic b1ssism here, for |
Gods sake don't swap the witch for |
the devil, don't jump from the frying |
pan into the fire, and take Republican |
bossism. [CheaTc.l
But, gentlemen, these are makeshifts |
and sUht fuse. Thew are not honest |
reasons Pdv9pced by honest men.
This is tee big question to be meas
ured upon tie comparative merits of |
the men what rott>"s II to YOU,
what boots IL to me. whether Wat Har-
for governor Of Ke~tucFy? Al three ,
of them were decent men. There is not |
one of them who would rct.make
respectable, af7c'ont and creditable [
governor What difference would it
make to the people T years hence or
for that matter. ~ years hence,
whether the che or the o,her Of those
worthy aE1,"artg I'D suraaeded in |
winning tha rr~-irnt'oD? Not a whit
l. maze -..,-t =, I. I5.CG to you or me
today whetN~r cga nan wirs or an
o-her r1ar l2ses IT does not matter
much to The p11n,a o. Kentucky
whether Coebel and the rest of the
state ticket sEall rise in tiumph in
November q" 20 down IT, the dust of
defeat and disas or ft { IS not matter
much to the pope q kentucky or of
this count Wbetna Z win before the
next leGis' atura OF Eentucky in my
candidacy r"r '''e senate or go down in
a long and lasting defeat 1t does not
matter so asse~ tally TO the people of
Kentucky or Of this country whether
the great and matchless leader of the
Democratic bots. the incompatible
Nebraskan Villa n Jennings BRYAN,
shall be elected or defeated in 1900,
but 1t does matter and matters. much,
to the peonle of Kentucky and to the
people of this country whether the man
who represents the principles for
which Bryan stands for which stand,
and for which GG7bol ard this ticket
stands, shall win or lnse IN the coming
contest [Great opDlause.i
NO EXCUSE