The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-10-30

house. You might have a Democratic
president and Democratic house of
representatives anxious to relieve the
burdens upon the people. and the pres
ident may be ready to sign the bill,
but II the senate stands between them
relief is impossible; and, my friends,
I beg you TO so cast your votes as 10
insure a Democratic legislature, for
that will insure the election of Gov
ernor Beckham to the United States
senate.
Now, l have given you my reason
for being here. / am interested in
national politics. l have been for
many years, and shall be until I die.
My great desire is to see these re-
forms, for which In company with
other Democrats have been fighting,
realized, for I believe they will bring
blessings untold to the American peo-
pie, and ! come from a distant state
to give you what assistance ! can,
because | am interested in these ques-
lions. Am | more interested than
you? Have | any more reason than
you Democrats? / know of no reason
that | have to make me anxious for
reform that ought not to make you
anxious for reform, too. l am as well
situated as you are. l can stand Re-
publican legislation as well as you
can. can live under bad government
as we'll as you can live. can pro-
vide for my children no matter what
party is In power, and l can leave
them all that 1t is good for them to
have left to them. l have no favors
to ask of anyone, but, my friends,
want to leave my children something
better than money. Money may take
the wings of the morning and fly
away. want to leave them some
thing more enduring than personal
property or real estate. want to
leave them a government that will
protect them in the enjoyment of life
and liberty and In the pursuit of hap
piness. That is the richest legacy
that father can leave the child
But there is no more reason why
should leave my children good gov
eminent than that you should leave
your children good government; and
there is no more reason why l should
fight for Democracy than there is that
you should fight for Democracy. My
interest Is not due to the fact that 1
have been a candidate for high Office.
My interest is not due to the fact that
may be a candidate for high Office
in the future for Office is but an in
cident of my life, and there are things
which concern me more. have new
er wanted Office merely to hold Office,
for / have long since learned that my
place in history will not be determin-
ed by what people do for me, but by
what l can do for my people.
have said this much be-
cause | wanted to impress upon
your minds that you ought to
be as much Interested as | am
In this fight, and now, Demo-
Gratis, II I will come from Me-
braska at my own expense to
help you win a victory In Ken
lucky for Democracy, can't you
polls on election day and do
your part toward winning that
Viotory7 What excuse can you
give your conscience or your
neighbors II on election day you
remain away from the polish
What excuse can you give to your
conscience or your country if by any
neglect of yours these principles
which you hold dear are defeated, and
simply through your failure to do
what you can? Is 1t not worth your
while to vote yourselves, and then
do what you can to get your neigh
bors to join with you to make your
majority larger now than ever be-
fore?
| understand that you have so big
a majority down here that when you
get up in the morning and then hear
that the country has gone Republican
you cannot understand how any part
of the country could go Republican,
as there are so many Democrats In
this county; but, my friends, strange
as II may seem, there are many peo-
pie in many parts of this country, and
people who look much like you, who
have not the political information and
the political intelligence that you
show ON election dag, and these peo-
pie by a strange perverseness of fate
vote the Republican ticket. And l
happen to live in one of those com
munities where a majority of the peo-
pie do not seem to understand public
questions; and whenever there is a
campaign on hand we generally have
a meeting in the city of Lincoln, and
make a speech to my Republican
neighbors and try to seize them AS
brands from the burning and bring
them within the fold of the elect, and
last fall when the time came for that
meeting announced that my subject
would be Dreams" We had had
Senator Beverage there, and he had
made a Republican speech, and in
that speech he told them that while
was a very nice man, and while he
thought great deal of me, that was
not a doer of things, but just a dream
er, and that while dreamed, the pres.
ltSa,,t mos doinO thinQa. and n was