The Breckenridge news., 1906-03-14
EX-GOV. CRITTENDEN'S ADDRESS

money is turned over so rapidly from
hotels to bars and from bar rooms to
barber shops, and from barber shops to
stores, and from stores to Logan
Murrays bank that it will be equival-
ent TO one million dollars that we will
spend here in your midst.
Big Stick for the Railr Dads.
"Now, l am not in favor of tnis
wild legislation against railroads. am
reminded of a little thing that :. took
place down at Cloverport where Logan
Murray lived. l don't know whether
he recognizes the fact or not. There
were two Germans fighting, Black
Dutchmen we call them, and one had
the other down, and some men rushed
up and said; Uncle George, don I
hurt him. No am rot going to hurt
him, but have determined he shan t
hurt me. SO we are not going to
hurt the railroads if the railroads
don hurt us. II they do, Congress
is in session and the President has his
big stick, and what he will do with
them l don't know.
"AIr. President and gentlemen, be-
fore closing permit me to say l am
deeply grstitied at this reception ex-
tended more from the kindness of your
own natures than in the merit poss-
ess l receive 1t as a splendid compli
ment to the great State from which
come, whose population is composed
largely of Kentuckians, whose hearts
have been glsddened by your generous
invitation to come home once again as
your guests, to tread with eager feet
the old soil of the counties from which
they came and 70 call the more vividly
the old loved faces long since passed
to their reward
81 am Missourlan by adoption,
long residence of nearly fifty years
within its borders, because it has been
good to me aud honored me greatly. l
have no desire to leave its generous
soil and its generous people. am a
native born KentuckIan with all the
love that language implies. Its people
have been my people, and its G0d my
God. Save one, those dearest to
me are buried in its graves, and that
alone is enough TO draw me to it with
all the love of an ardent and true
native. / desire to see Kentucky succe
ed In every honorable enterprise,
whether individual, local, State or
national, feeling and believing that
what adds glory or happiness to it
gives part to every one born on its
soil, whether they he now on Green
lands icy mountains or Africa S gold
en- sands.
Kentucky Is right in commerce, 1t
is right In religion, 1t Is right in its
social qualities, t is right In is wonder
ful beauties, yet its politics in the
language of one OF its brilliant men,
is the damndest, still they are Ken
tucky politics sui generis', spawned
here ana will die here amidst their
worshipers none ever like them be-
fore, and none Will ever Ue ike them
hereafter.
But, with all its faults, love the
old State with a deep love of child
hood, though 1 have long since passed
that age. and with love which has
matured into manhood and old age.
There is no place like Kentucky. There
never has been any place like Ken
lucky, and there never will be any
place like Kentucky. In other worls,
Kentucky is Kentucky and 1t can be
nothing else, and to undertake to
make it anything else would be Ii ke
repalntlng the lily or refining the gold.
President Roosevelt, In his Winning
of the West, shows that Kentucky was
a nursery both foI the bone and slnew
and brain, and in planting from even
Louisville to the waves of the gentle
Pacific, all which you will find OF the
best today.
"You have called us to come in
June, when the roses are sweetest,
when the sun is brightest, when the
moon is the most silvery, when the
stars are the most glorious, when all
nature is purest, when your music is
the softest and we are coming to sing
from ten thousand times ten Thousand
throats, the pathetic song of the dead
poet who has made, if possible, the
name of Kentucky more illustrious
and his name. by association and au-
thorship, illustrious household word
in every State in the Union.
"Let not Kentucky forget Stephen
9. Foster. Songs, as well as laws,
make State great. Man once said
LET me- write the songs: | care NOT