Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-10-05

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| am glad they were caught, and / am
glad they were punished; and they
both swore In open court that they
we're paid to do It by the emissaries
of the trust. (Applause.) ! will say
here and now that I abhOr plant bed
screaming. | am opposed to all law
lessness or disorder You know the
whole tenor of my life is against 1t.
would have every plant bed scraper,
every barn burner every man who
damages a threshing machine, brought
to Justice and given the full penalty
of the law; but ] denounce as false
and slanderous the cowardly insinlia-
ton that these offenses are committed
by or at the instance of this AssOcia-
ton (Applause)
Here in Evansville the other day,
street cars were wrecked. Papers all
over the country were full of 1t, chare-
ing that these wreckers were street
car motormen-strikers At last de-
| tectives and officers of the law went
to work, and when the matter was
| finally sifted ii was found that every
scoundrel was in the employ of the
corporation-the Street Car Company.
| (Applause). | refer you to the
records of the courts of Evansville.
Catch the scrapers, catch them all,
and on the better half of them you
will find the brand of James B. Duke.
applause.
| say nothing in the defense of
plant bed scrapers. If / thought it
was right, | would never attribute it
to Duke. 1 believe the trust is in
spring much of this devilment. Bring
them into court You never have
caught any yet, that didn't have his
collar on them. (Applause)
THE sorry INCIDENT.
| will read you another story "Acts
Of personal intimidation were not long
| in following the formation of the as
! ISOLATION. One month and FIVE days
after it was launched at Guthrie, KY,
band of seventy-five men called
upon B. H. Sorry, a buyer for the Ital-
ian Reggie, who was camping out on
| the banks of the Red river in Tennes-
see. Mr.. Sorry had been the sheriff
of Robertson county, Tennessee, and
! in the words of one who knows him
well, nobody ever bluffed him much or
! twice"
The call upon Sorry was made at
midnight, and for the purpose. as his
visitors expressed it, "of having a lit
/ TIC ldlks OOl al lnCO tllliloCll with q
pump" shotgun, and intimated that
the talking could be done from dis
lance, and in a loud tone of voice If
any other program was attempted,
somebody might be hit so hard with
a load of bucks 1t as to paralyze his
conversational powers. The men left
the camp without h. g the talk"
Later, at Adams, nnessee, where
| Sorry owned a large tobacco ware
house, four hundred men gathered for
| the purpose of burning the ware
house. If Sorry was in it at the time
of the burning, he would have to take
| his chances. A score of the friends
of Sorry were with him in the ware
| house, we'll armed and ready for any
trouble. The association people did
not like the prospect and rode away"
Gentlemen, l am going to show you
! four hundred nightriders. La
dies don't get uneasy. Don't leave
the stage. Don't leave it they won't
hurt you. I have got them. He says
four hundred night riders on. a certain
date rode up to Sory's factory and
threatened to burn his barn in the
daylight and that Sorry and twenty
men kept the ferocious night riders
from destroying his property; that
! when they saw the cleaning rifle
they did not like the prospect and
rode away" (Here Mr.. Stanley step
ped to the right of the stage and
looking toward the left said in a
commanding voice.: Four hundred
night riders, right forward, tours
MARCH. Come on, four hundred
night riders. (Here Mr.. Stroud and
Mr. Whitehead started across the
l Gf1Qn Hprp fhnu fAddracc-
ing Mr. Wheathead) You go back
and take your seat, have twice too
many night riders. (Mr Stroud step
ped to the front of the statge) There
are the four hundred night riders that
attacked Sorry, right here. make
this statement in your presence, sir,
addressing Mr.. Stroud that on that
day, u1armed without pen knife,
alone in Gods sunshine, you went to
Sory's place and asked for a peaceful
conference with him. Are you willing
to swear to that? (Mr Stroud: eyes
sir."D And l must not say that there
is less night riding going on than the
papers claim, without being stamped
as liar.
There was another gang that visit
ed him at Red river. I want that
gang. (Mr Stanley speaking in a
commanding voice. Read guard
night riders, forward-march-ad-
vance in line of battle so they can see
you all. (Mr. Whitehead steps for
ward in view of the audience) There
they stand. No, I make this state
ment; that in company with three 9TH
er men, he went to Red river (refer-
ring to Mr. Whitehead) on the day
named, unarmed, unmasked alone, the
other three men thirty yards away,
with no other men except those four
within one hundred yards of that tent.
and looking Ben Sorry in the two eyes
told him what he thought of him. Is
that so? (Mr Whitehead: "Yes.")
There is another squad of night rid
ers gone. Great applause) BY Mr..
Charles Fort: "Mr. ]. Fl. Stroud was
the first one, and Mrs. George White
head the last.")
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