The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-08-30

may oNliAC DullSbln, pUOllSneQ at Mays
vile, says that he handed a lemon to
the grand stand temperance advo-
Gates and read his own platform.
which, he said. he didn't allow the
President of the anti-saloon League to
write for him either, and took a part
ing shot at the fellow from Missouri
who wanted to be sworn. by adding
that he wasn't in the habit of answer
ing any questions that were accom-
panied with threat
What Mr.. Wilson denounced as a
threat" was. very probably, the writ
ten request of a temperance paper,
published at Maysvilie, and of the
anti-Saloon League of Kentucky, that
he came straight out in-the matter of
temperance and did not attempt to hide
behind a straight line on the party.
and its utter silence in the matter of
enforcement of the Sabbath observance
laws of the State.
True to his masters teaching as to
how to beguile the innocent appearing
voter of Kentucky. Mr.. Wilson, like
Mr.. Bradley did in 1895. declared that
the Republicans want to look at the
books of the State, and that the peo-
pie can only secure such a look by
turning over the administration of
affairs to the party led by himself.
He charged ''misdoings, almost
amounting to burglary and arson to
! the Democratic organization now rul-
ing in Kentucky" butsdid not specify
wherein the party is guilty of the
charge unless, as ne declared, it is
guilty by losing the support of John
q. Carlisle and William Lindsay, both
of New York, and by gonig directly
to the people, by the primary election
method to secure its nominees for
State and Federal positions. Mr.. Will
son didn't tell his hearers that, while
he knows nothing that could be shown
against the Democratic organization
by look at the books, y that he has
had the Former Private Secretary Of
fugitive w. S. Taylor, and the Repub
lican postmaster of Frankfort, and
others, at work for months in the
office of State Auditor Hager and of
Governor Beckham seeking some mate
rial upon which, ne, Wilson, could
hinge. his opening address, and about
which Republican campaign orators
could prate the stump during the cam
paign. He didn't tell his hearers that
the last time John G. Carlisle set foot
in Kentucky, he came from his home
in the East to try to knock out in the
Courts of Kentucky a Democratic law,
passed by Demo General AS
sembly, to prohibit the education OF
negroes in the same school room with
the children of the white voters of the
S ate, and that he is still engaged, in
the Supreme Court at Washington, in
an effort to defeat the purpose of that
good law, which has been upheld by
Democratic Court of Appeals in Ken
/ lucky. While he criticised the Demo-
cratic primary election method in Ken
lucky, he didn't tell his hearers that
the Republicans have in Kentucky
party organization made up Of Federal
ofticeholders who so completely domi-
nate the voters that there is hardly
enough opposition to them to necessi-
tate the holding of a convention, much
less primary election, and that in
many instances during this year the
Republican State convention there
were not enough candidates in the field
for all offices to make up full ticket
to go on the ballot.
Will Mr. Wilson, # elected to the
Office of Governor, give freedom to
Caleb Powers, w. S. Taylor, Jim How
ard. Charles Finley, Henry Youtsey
and others. charged with Ethe foul as
! assassination of William Gobeel is the
question very naturally being asked in
many sections of Kentucky, where the
name of the martyred Goebel is greatly
|
Mr.. Yerkes and Mr. Belknap, his xpre-
decessors in the matter of holding the
| Republican Gubernatorial nomination
in Kentucky, will refuse to come
straight out with an answer to this
question. Why. he even refused to
answer directly question put as to
| his tpmnprance views Rut whore he
stands upon this proposition. and what
he would do is plainly told in his
Maysville speech. which marked the
Republican campaign opening. His
running mate. William H. Cox. very
bluntly said at that meeting that other
matters were of more interest to the
people of Kentucky at this time and in
this campaign. but Mr. WILSON had