The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-11-14
Fidcs Achates Of Reigning Admins
tisition Came Up From the
Cloak Room.
KNOWS KENTUCKY POLITICS

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his campaign, has, in the Democratic
primary election which has just been
held. ploted another winner In the
person of Gov. j. c. w. Beckham,
who goes To Washington rs the sue
cessor of Senator James b. McCreary.
This man Is Percy Haly. OF this city,
who Us today one OF the best known
Democratic politicians in the state.
To his efforts more than those OF
any other man. Senator Blackburn
will next year retire after twenty-five
years in public life at the national
capital, and Senator McCreary. his
colleague in the senate will quit pub
lie life after having been almost con-
tinuously In office at the Kentucky
capital and at Washington since
1869.
Hays Early Career.
In 1899 Gen. Haly was the pc;
OF the politicians, being only a boy,
but with a great aptitude for politics,
gained In the memorable Hunter
Blackburn campaign for the United
States senatorship in 1896, when
Gov Bradley called out the state
troops to keep peace between the
warning factions in the Kentucky
legislature. In which campaign Haly
did good work for Blackburn in Sc
curing Information OF every move
made in Republican caucus meetings.
When Beckham had succeeded to
the governorship, he appointed him
assistant adjutant general. Hays
loyalty TO the new leader of the par
ty, and his work for him in the cam
palgns of 1900 and of 1903. was re-
warded by an elevation TO the place
OF adjutant general. He had already
taken prominent place In the coun.
sells Of the party as secretary of the
two state committees of the party.
and as secretary OF the campaign in
which Beckham won his victories To
him Beckham trusted his political in
terests. and he has throughout been
his closest adviser in such matters.
In the campaign against Blackburn
for the senatorship the governor and
some OF his friends were slow to act.
AT the legislative session preceding.
Beckham had written an open letter
declaring that he himself would not
aspire to the Office, and Blackburn
would have had no opposition for re-
election had not his friends forced
him to declare himself against what
he termed the Frankfort machine"
Giving out at Washington that he
had determined to go to the Ken
lucky capital and bust" the ma
chine" he gathered about him sew
eral of the Kentucky delegation in
the lower house of congress. and they
all gave out interviews that the ma
chine" was certainly doomed.
On Their Mettlc
This put the governor and the 9TH
err leaders OF the so-called machine
on their mettle, and they began to
east about for candidate. Judge
Thos. II. Paynter, then on the appel
late bench, was decided upon. The
Blackburn faction could not under
stand such politics. for Paynter had
not before that time been close to
what they knew as the machine y
and they tried TO make the new can
dldate believe that he was being used
only as a tool But Judge Paynter
had been residing in Frankfort long
enough TO know the character of the
men With whom he was dealing, and
to know that the political game as
played in Kentucky had baeen revo-
lution!zed during the brief public
life of the late Sen. Goebei. and ,ahat
It's operators were thoroughly prac-
teal in everything that the word i'm
plies. While Mr.. Blackburn had
been spending his time about Wash
ington new hands ha dtaken charge
of the Democratic organization In his
state, and they were hands exper-
fenced through half dozen years
service IN guiding the Democratic
ship He returned to Kentucky to
find gathered in his camp but few
men, and most of these were disap-
pointed office seekers who were out
side the Beckham organization only
because they could not get within.
They met every few days at Louis
Vile and gave out interviews regard
ing the race, claiming everything In
sight.
Victorious Again.
Gen. Haly. as in the session before,
came out victorious in fight Tor
the speakership of the honse OF rep
resentatives, landing Eli II, Brown