Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-25
PARTY PURIFIERS.

| evil tnereO1, anu we won't anticipate IL.
PARTY PURIFIERS.
Some Records to BE Dragged Into
the Glaring Light of Day.
I am not willing to believe that you
can with search warrant find Dem
ocrat in Kentucky who is fool enough
to take nomination at the hands of
boiling rump convention like that
but If they do organize 1t and put it
! in the field / tell you now / am not
| going to say an unkind word or a
harsh word about solitary man who
sees fit to follow it's flag. We may
have occasion to say something about
the misguided fellows who accept
places on that ticket. / have no doubt
that $50 Democratic speakers from
now until November from Mills Point
to the mouth of Sandy will be exam
lining into every faulty buckle in the
harness of every fellow who is fool
enough to allow himself to be put on
that ticket Wednesday. I give notice
here and now that shall be at it.
| don't mean to abuse them, but I mean
/ to do what's worse for them, / mean
| to tell the truth on them, and IL there
| are any sore spots in their public Of
I fetal political records, let them hug to
their souls the assurance that until
| the sun goes down on the 7th of next
| November $50 or 200 Democratic ora
tors on the stump in Kentucky will be
telling the people about it every Gods
blessed day. [Applause.l
Now / want to ask you, my friends
/ don't want to mortify you by asking
you to hold up your hands in this
presence and making profert of your
apostacy: but If there is man within
the sound of my voice who expects to
follow the ignis fatuus and bolt, what
are you mad about? What has hurt
you, anyhow Are you not satisfied
with the Democratic platform at Chi
cago? Are you not satisfied with the
platform adopted by the Louisville
convention the other day? If you are
not, in Gods name go and go in peace,
for you do not belong inside of the
Democratic party. But let us argue to-
gether. If | am wrong / want to be
set right and If you are wrong God
only knows how anxious / am to set
you right II you are not mad with
your platform, what in the dickens is
1t that ails you? Are you mad with
the ticket? If So what part of it? Is
it the head of it or the tail of it that
you can not swallow? Are you mad
with your candidate for governor? If
so, go to him like an honest man and
tell him what your objection is to him.
Is IL because you were not for Goebel?
Boilers, Speak Out.
That is net an explanation. A very
large majority of the Democrats of the
-Ao - - n
and very large majority were not
for Stone and a very large majority
were not for Hardin. That is no apol-
ogy. That is no justification, that is
no excuse. lou can not afford to bolt
your ticket because you did not get
your preference in fair and open
fight for the nomination for this Office.
Is there anything about Goebeps rae
ord that you do not like? II there is
put your finger on the flaw in ell his
record ] challenge and defy you to
do it, He has been in public life. and
under the calcium light CT criticism
for the past II years, and If there is
single thing to his discredit, If there is
a single utterance that has ever fallen
from his lips, if there can be shown a
single piece of apostacy or treason or
any failure of fealty or loyalty to his
party, point it out. / dare you and
defy you. you can not do 1t for IL is
not there.
Then, if his record is clean, and if
the platform suits you, If you can not
find a flaw in the record of a single
candidate on the ticket, / ask you
again as honest men, tell me what in
the devil drives you out of the party?
[Applausel
Are you going to answer and tell me
you do not like the Louisville conven-
tion? Don't plead the baby act. Be
a man even if you are going to be an
apostate. Tell the truth and don't
skulk OF hide from it when it con-
fronts you If your platform suits
you, and if you cannot put your finger
upon the flaw in the record of single
candidate what is the matter? 1--WE
don't like Redwine's rulings in the
Louisville convention!" Let us be fair.
can afford to be, for my conscience
tells me that | have truth and right
eousness on my side. and have no
reason to skulk and dodge. You don't
like the rulings of the chairman Of the
Louisville convention. Is that a JUS
LITIGATION for boiling your party? Is
the election OF a Republican admins
tration In Kentucky for four years a
proper remedy for Redwine's rulings
In the convention? Where is the man
who respects himself and fears his God