The Hartford republican., 1907-09-20
Who Shows up Double Game
of Democrats.
Beckham and Hager'S Alleged Ad-
herance to Temperance Won't
Bear Bead.

Paris, KY, Sept. 17.-One of the
best evidences of the intense interest
that is being taken in the campaign
for good government in Kentucky was
shown in the audience which greeted
Augustus z. Wilson, the Republican
nominee for Governor, at this place tC
day. OF the crowd which filled the
Circuit Court room of the handsome
Bourbon County Court house a large
portion came directly from the farm,
where the cutting of tobacco and
hemp is being conducted with unusual
activity just now.
In his address to-day Mr.. Wilson
again exposed the false pretenses of
the Democratic State machine in the
matter of temperance legislation. He
showed how Gov. Beckham had n2v-
er helped the temperance cause by any
official act, and how the Governor and
his associates worked the unit bill.
On this point Mr.. Wilson said:
"When ! think of Governor Beck
ham and Auditor Hager posing as
strong temperance men | cannot help
thinking of the old saying, slightly
changed to suit this case, out of the
fullness of the mouth the heart speak
eth, and it will be stronger than any
profession to- cite the Republican plat
form which was adopted by the whole
splendid convention without dissent
ing vote and is the Republican law
and rule on this question.
I'VE favor the enactment and en-
forcement of uniform local option
law, with the county as the governing
uIdt, and there should be prompt and
Efficient enforcement of the criminal
law of every kind and at all times.
"On that platform l accepted the
nomination. To the fulfillment of the
principles of that platform ! am
pledged in letter and SPIRIT of honor
All my days | have striven sincerely
and faithfully for temperance, and |
have practiced what / preached.
81 am most seriously and unrelent-
ingly opposed to intemperance. | be-
lieve unrelentingly in the rule of the
majority, city and precinct.
81 do not believe that the people of
Kentucky can be fooled by any pre-
tense that the Republican platform is
weak on the subject or that | have
been lodging or straddling, either in
my preaching or my practice, and
deprecate the utter lack of candor, not
to use stronger language, which is
shown in the statements which ! have
quoted from the Democratic nominees
and in West Liberty last Saturday
that all | said at Maysville, on the
subject was the passage about the Mays
Vile editor scattering broken glass in
the path for my bare feet, when / came
back to Maysville as child return
ing to his birthplace.
'The county unit bill, as adopted,
e excluded from its operation counties
having cities of the first four classes,
and now Mr.. Hager says he is in ia
vor of extendingit to all counties.
But | wish now to cite against
these present claims of devotion TO
temperance few material facts know.
to all the people which will settle the
question as to whether they are sim
cere.
Senator Cammack introduced the
local option law which extended to
all counties and 1t was referred to the
committee, and in spite OF the pre-
tended zeal of the Governor and Audi
tor, who in most matters had absolute
control of their party in he Legisla-
ture. the Cammack bill ws pigeon
holed in the committee until the ris-
Z ing storm compelled the committee to
report on it.
Neither the Governor or the Audi
tor pretended to have ever asked any
one to do anything to have it report
ed as they would have done, having
the power they did, if they sincerely
wished any such legislation. The Rev.
Mr.. Maclachlan, in his open letter tol
/. Auditor Hager, stated that he had sect
: the saloon keepers association check
for $500 collected by Mr.. Hager for
the Democratic campaign fund, and
that he was informed that tMr. Hager
had promised the man Who gave him
the check to protect The saloon men
and resist, the county unit bill, and
Governor Beykham, in the Louis
age .sa nashville station In Louis
VI .no 6Afirmed the promise.
o,,aea hblicans in the Legisia-