The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1907-11-06

pleasing ADDRESS, the canoloacy OF
Judge Hager met with much favor
among Democrats of the State. Being
of the faction within the Democratic
party which was about to inaugurate a
new order of things in the old Common
wealth, he yet had the respects and
good will of the old line fellows who
had long beensin control of the public
affairs of the State. During the MEM
orable political struggle of 1900 he was
a close adviser of Governor Beckham,
the youthful successor of the martyred
Goebel., and was with him at Frankfort
during the. dark days when two sets of
State officials, one holding the old Capt.
tol by forceEand the use of the military,
and the other.quartered at the historic
Capital Hotel, both surrounded by
armed guards, defed each other for
weeks and weeks. He assisted the
young Executive in bringing order out
of chaos, sand has, through the years
of his administration, been his close
personal friend. Holding for the en-
tire eight years place in the Execu-
tive Cabinet;Eb by! virture of being an
official, judge Hager has for four years
past held the second place in point of
Importance in the State Government,
that of Auditor of Public Accounts.
Coming tospublic Office from the d.
rector's roomiof prosperous banking
institution, Judge Hager has had a
special aptitude for managing financial
affairs of the Commonwealth through
the Offices of Treasurer and Auditor of
Public Accounts. Since he entered
public life, he has had the satisfaction
of seeing the bonded indebtedness of
tho State wholly wiped out, and Ken
lucky placed among the half dozen
States of the. Union which are free
from bonded debt, He dropped a'day
off his campaign tour in September last
for the purpose of stopping off at
Frankfortsand taking in and burning
the last evidence of this bonded debt.
During his political career. no man who
ever filled an Office has given it more
of his attention AS promptly as the
most humble clerk under him he has
been at his desk during the working
hours of the day, and often remaining
much later in the day than any of his
subordinates. He has watched after
the business of the Commonwealth as
carefully as if it were his own individ-
ual business, and has taken as much
pride in seeing its Indebtedness met
and discharged. An evidence of his
feeling in this matter is contained in a
recent speech which he made, from
which is taken the following para
graph
"My party has behind it many de-
cades of honorable dealings with my
people, and before it many years of
usefulness to the citizens of the Com
1t has to its credit long
record of unbroken promises, and the
history of the State teens withs the
wise and salient influences of its princi-
pies and policies. In the peace, quiet
and happiness of her people Kentucky
ranks with the best of the American
States. Old Glory as it unfolds to the
winds of heaven does not waye over
better people or a happier land, no.
where in the Gland of the free" are
the homes indwelt with peace and hap,
piness more than in the 'Old Kent Ucky
Home, whose~door opens ever in hos
pitality to the stranger, and across
whose portals the waves of cheering
sunlight roll and through whose win
dows pours in sweetest melody the
music that God with his breath has laid
in whispering symphony upon the
trees. Nowhere under the stars of the
blue canopy of Gods eternal Home are
the people better governed, their in
teresS better protected, or wiser and
more 'beneficent laws exist than in our
beloved "Blue Grass State.