The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-08-23
The Democratic Campaign.

and conducted IN most vigorous fashion
to the day of the election in Novem-
Der. Beginning the campaign together
at Lexington, Judge S. w. Hager and
Governor Beckham are to then take
different routes, the head of the ticket
going directly into the Republican
strongholds of eastern Kentucky and
into his own home country, the Big
! Sandy Valley, and the Democratic
nominee for United States Senator 60
ing to Western Kentucky, where, at
Paducah, he will start campaign to
arouse the loyal Democrats of that
great section Of the State. Col. John
K. Hendrick, nominee for Attorney
General and a fine campaigner. is to
I accompany Judge Hager on the trip
through the eastern section of the
State. Every Democratic candidate
viii 90 Immediately upon the stump,
and Democratic speakers in every sec
ton have rendered their services to
the State Committee headed by Judge
Henry B. Hines. The genreaI cam
paigning is to begin on September End,
next, when a Democratic orator will
be upon the stump at every county seat
at which a term of either County or
Circuit Court is being held.
The gathering of Democratic leaders
at Frankfort last week was a most
suspicious one, and BODIES well for the
campaign. The party candidates
evinced a determination to get into
action as quickly as possible. allowing
but little time between the Republican
opening and that upon the part Of the
/ Democrats. Governor Beckham sound
ed the keynote of the campaign in a
talk to the other candidates when he
declared that the dividing issue be-
tween the two parties would be as to
( their records in the management OF the
public affairs OF Kentucky. Reviewing
the military reign of Bradley for four
years, and the brief and bloody reign
Of the now fugitive Taylor, he deciar-
ed that the every act of the Republi-
can officials should be laid bare before
the people by Democratic speakers,
and that the party speakers would urge
a most minute inspection of the record
made by the Democratic party during
/ the seven and one-haif years it has
been managing State affairs, and since
Taylor fled fugitive from the State.
81 would rather turn the office of
Governor over to Judge Hager in De-
cemDer next and lose a seat in the
United States Senate than to go to
that position seeing the Republicans
restored to power in my State" said
the Governor in the course Of his
speech to the candidates. 81 want
this Democratic ticket that has been
nominated to win by a good majority,
and l feel that it will do so. No
Democrat can afford to sulk at this
time, and do not believe that any of
them will do SO. We candidates cannot
rely altogether upon ourselves in this
contest. We must depend in great
measure upon our party's leaders in
the several districts and upon the
county press of the State, which is
already rendering splendid service"
Speaking of the issue between the
parties the Governor said: ION no
other question is the fundamental
difference between the Republican
party and the Democratic party shown
more plainly than in the way each
party regards and uses the military
power of the State, Nowhere has that
difference between the two parties
been more clearly shown and exempli-
fed than it has been in Kentucky since
the winter of 1896, when the Repub-
lican party, for the first time in the
history of the State, came into power
and control of the affairs of the Com
monwealth. A careful review of the
records shows conclusively that the
Republican party in Kentucky, as it
has ever been in the South, is a party
OF force and fraud, and never hesi-
tates. when it so desires, to place mill
tary power above the civil. We need
not go back into the dark DAYS of re-
construction, when the domination of
that radical party brooded like night
mare over our PROSTATE Southern sis
tiers, for we have had here in Ken
lucky, within the memory of living
voters, an actual demonstration of
what it would do when placed in power
in this State. Governor Bradley had
been in power only three months when.
true TO the instincts of radical haste
and Southern Republicanism. he called
into activet service the militia and