The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1903-06-24

out VIM. jennings Bryan, and of
selling out William Goebel, and
they would have sold out Beckham
and Hager and the entire Demo
cratic party if it had not been for
TINS man who has displayed more
courage and shown more brain and
political sense than any other one
individual that the Courier Jour-
nal gang and Office Trust has ever
before run up against. When he
landed in Louisville, looking after
the interests of Governor ckham
and of the Democratic party, he
was called a mohntaineer, ma
rauder, in fact, he was no more
thought of and had no more atten-
tion shown him by this gang than
a strange boy gets at corn shuck-
ing, but he laid his plans for the
nomination Of a Democratic ticket
by other means thant that Of q Mus
ic Hall convention, that had smash
ed the Democratic party into
smithereens. He was the daddy
and originator Of the State Primary
which was a grand success, and
which gave satisfaction in the
State and gave the honest express
sion of the voters choice for NOM
inees on the Democratic State
ticket. This mOuntaineer laid his
wires to capture the Office Trust
and their two boiling papers which
are falsely sailing under the colors
of Democratic organs, and he ac-
complished what thousands IN the
State said he could never do. viz
to pull off State Primary that
would give satisfaction. He did
not only give satisfaction in the
State Primary, but he would have
done the same in the city of Louis
vile, if he had had the same class
of people to deal with that he had
in the State, but the Office Truts
gang never wins anything but the
one way. and that is by taking the
honest voters ballot and counting
it as they see fit, and there is no
one who knows the workings of the
Office Trust and the Courier.Jou
nal gang but will say that the
mountaineer, as they called him.
taught them a good deal about
politics, but could not teach them
to be honest.
This is why the Hon Allie w.
Young, the mOuntaineer, as they
call him, is now termed a thief and |
scoundrel, and has every other
vile epithet known applied to him,
and because on last Saturday, May
23rd, he and the State Central Com
mittee insisted on fair play and an
honest count in the city of Louis
vile and jefferson County, show
ing himself again as being worthy
of being at the head of the demo-
cratic party in the State, first nom
mating his ticket by a State Pri-
mary, and he is now insisting on
electing it by seeing to it that
every democrat in the city of Louis
vile who has announced as a can
didate is accorded an honest count,
and let the best man win.
But this plan did not suit the
Office Trust, as they are used to
only one thing, and that is to not
allow any Democrat to express
himself or to have his ballot
counted except as the gang wants
it counted. When Mr.. Young and
the State Central Committee would
not stand for this. and when the
State Central Committee adopted
a fair play resolution for free bal
lot and an honest count, and di-
rected and authorized Mr.. Young
to see that the said resolution was
carried out in all its provisions, the
Office Trust turned on him with
their two newspapers full of false
hoods and all manner of threats,
and all kinds of foul and mean |
names, and even went so far as to /
violate the strongest plank in the
Democratic platform, both National
and State, which speaks in no un-