The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1903-10-28
Gov. Buckner's Address
To Gov. BeCkhAm.

the execution of painful duty which
they had pronounced necessity.
The same avenue of escape was open
to me but | considered it my imper-
ative duty to taste of the misfo Ttunes
as had shared the hardshI ps and dang
ers of my gallant comrades. The Con-
federate States government. which, it
might be thought, was an interested
party in these transactions, saw fit to
retire my two seniors from all active
duty and to promote me to higher
grade or what, they supposed, was
my proper action on that occasion.
You evidently dissent from their
judgment If your infantile pratt
things could have reached the ears Of
the Confederate authorities they
might, perhaps, have saved them from
the commission of this error. But,
unfortunately, you were not then
born; nor had flaming comet or other
miraculous message informed the world
of your approaching advent and the
wisdom which would then enlighten
it.
The Value of the Governors Criticism
Your military criticism might
nave been more authoritative if it
had been fortified by some experien &c
in warfare You might readily be par
doned for not taking part in a war
which had clo' ed before you were
born; but after you had attained
your May of youth and bloom of lus-
tihood, =" with no domestic ties to bind
YOU to your hearthstone, your coun-
try appealed to her sons to enroll them
selves under her banners and to defend
her honor against a foreign foe Your
competitor promptly responded to
the call but no answering echo came
from you. While he was engaged in
extending the area of free government
abroad, you were associated with a
band of machine politicians who were
seeking to restrict it at home. Instead
of stepping forward to render patriotic
service to your country, you seem to
have found it more congenial EN-
ployment to criticize those who did.
And by this style of criticism you are
waging what You call an aggressive
campaign.
Indeed the stumps of the State, are
grooming under the oppressive weight
of your machine orators, who may be
seen with oscillsting forms, and arms
and legs swinging with a violence
that threatens dIslocatiOn, while from
the distorted features that adorn the
center of these gyrations there issues a
stentorian voice
"Reufting facts by strength of lung.
And Staying foes with venomed ton
que, "
The picture, if not sublime, is at
least picturesque. 1t would be a
musing if we did not know that un-
der cover of these oratOrical Symnas-
tics there turks a sinister design. 1t
is the custom of the juggler, when
he wishes to perform his slight of
hand tricks. to direct the eyes OF
the spectators to some secondary OBJ
iect, so that, under cover of their
distracted attention, he may execute
his most astounding feats. In like
manner, while the spectators are
amazed at the fantastic gymnastics of
the stump jugglers, the machine is
qui city at work forging the political
letters which are to bind them like
slaves to the car of their masters.
1t was Tony Lumps!n who said +,
that while he could read the super
scription on his letter, he could not
decipher the contents, though, as he
sagely remarked, he believed THAT
the inside of the letter is the cream OF
the correspondence. -
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