Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1901-10-25
THE MARCH TO VICTORY.

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doubt. All of the Indications point
to the triumphant election of the
entire reform ticket.
The Ringsters, after seven fat
years of spoils, of the collected sal
aries from the county aggregatiug
more thar 100000, find themselves
in dire distress and face to face
with 1000 determined voters of all
parties, who will scourge them
from high places on the 5th day of
November. The salaries of some Of
these unworthy officials have been
increased since they went into Of
fee, to make the plumber richer.
They have set up in the court house
a machine that has attempted to
crush all opposition in the Repub-
lcan party and defy the whole
people of the county. Drunk with
power they have carefully laid
plans to perpetuate themselves in
Office indefinitely to the lasting in
jury of the county. The so-called
primary on February 9 was an
orgy of corruption, bribery and in
timidation. A combination was
formed between the men who de-
clared themselves by which all OPP
position was throttled and the re-
turns manipulated to carry out the
desired ends. The names of the
"combine" were printed on Ring
ticket and the corruption fund said
by those in position to know, to
have been $4,000, was made a
common fund for buying votes at
prices ranging all the way from 81
TO 81. A few candidates who threw
themselves into the breach to OPP
pose the Ring were laughed to
scorn and virtually robbed of the
assessments collected from them.
H. H, Golay was clearly the choice
of his party for sheriff and he be-
lieved in fair expression he could
win the nomination, but on the cleo
ton day he found himself opposed
not by one man but by band of
ringsters, pledged to stand togeth-
er. Golay dropped $500, only to
ind that he had gone up against a
skin game and at no time had a
chance to win, even if he received a
psjority Of the votes. The officers
were packed and the counting was
scientific juggling of figures real
aud imaginary. This is what
those say who were brought into
close contact with the operations of
this inlquitous machine,
No wonder the Republican party
is in open revolt and the better half
of it has determined to spew out
this mess of corruption.
In every precinct III the county
the lines OF demarkation are being
drawn, hundreds of loyal Republi-
caus will follow the lead of Croft,
Littleheld, Renshaw, Cansler, Ma.
jor, GilIiland, Long and other trust.
ed leaders who are enlisted in the
fight for honest politics and decent
government in Christian county
1t is estimated that 500 white Re
publicans aud from 500 to 1000 col
ored ones will vote to redeem III,
county from ring rule. II is be
lieyed that the 300 gold Democrat
who have representative on tn,
fusion ticket. will support it almos
to man. OF the $500 Bryan Dem
ocrats, it is confidently claime'
that not less than 1000 of them vii
vote for every man under the fusio
device, which is the device of tn
Democratic party,
II looks like landslide tor re
form There are more good peopl
in Christian county than there ar
ringsters, bribers and corruption
lists, In the great moral issue nov
before the people, the good peopl
must and will stand together. Th
fusion candidates are men abov
reproach, whose integrity is un
questionable. Where they ar
Democrats, they Will have homes
Republican deputies, and wher,
they are Republicans they viii
have Democratic deputies, /
elected they will be officers Of thu
whole people and not close cor