The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-07-31

should realize that the wanton hui
initiation of all who have gone be-
fore them and the ruthless disregard
of the party law in their favor. spells
disaster. 1t spells disaster not only to
them, but to Governor Beckham,
their creator, and to the Democratic
state ticket.
"In party affairs and political re-
lations there must not only be CONT
ty and agreement, but logical con-
sistency, in order to procure concert
of action, and what hope of this can
be entertained by the reversal of all
the rules which have presided over
upright and loyal fellowship? Issues
only are potential when they are
sound and true. Gentlemen holding
no other commissions than those
emanating from an open scandal and
| the always detested one-man power,
are not in a position effectively to
rail against machine methods. Cen
tlemen claiming to be Democrats and
demanding the support of Democrats
do but spit each in his own face,
when they choose for their mouth
piece and attorney newspaper
which reeks with years of vilification
heaped by it upon Democrats. and
upon Democracy. and all things DEM
ocratic. A campaign of reform organ
lied by star-chamber process and
supported by the best known hood
lers and grafters in town could hope
only to win by force and fraud, and
yet this is the banquet which Mir.
Bingham, according to his attitude
last Friday evening and his publish
ed statement of Sunday, would
lspread and ask Democrats to ap-
lplaud and attend. II is the very
hypothesis of madness and folly. ru-
nous to the party, and, as we feel
entirely sure, ruinous to all concern
ed in it.
"The Republicans have at length
put their ticket in the field. No one
can say that It is not a strong ticket.
in the field. No one can say that il is
not a strong ticket. Many of the gem
tlemen named upon It carry the ere
dentials of the odlous newspaper un-
der whose blithing shadow Mr.. Bing-
ham, and his colleagues, have rang
ed themselves. But yesterday that
newspaper, supporting many of these
Republicans, was denouncing the
men upon whom Mr.. Bingham must
rely for his votes, as crooks" and
thieves" whilst he, by his actions
and demands now echoes that denun-
citation. Was ever such faulty heard
of outside of Bedlam, or Vaudeville,
Comic Opera, or Wonderland, the
buckingham Theater, or the Lake
land Lunatic Asylum?
at would be to laugh If it were
not to cry. To such base uses has De
mocracy come that, in order TO carry
out the policy of hatred and revenge
llnaugurated by Governor Beckham,
who is nothing If not a machine poll
tician, the party should masquerade
in the persons of Kohn, Whallen and
Knott. Must all good but dissenting
i Democrats be labeled crooks" and
Thieves. by Mr.. Bingham, who but
a short two years ago was himself
labeled as one of the "crooks" and
l"thleves," yet who, with the Cover
lnor's commission, and the money OF
these very "crOoks" and thieves,
lin his pocket, now turns and joins IN
1.-THE belated "stop thief' cry, raised
by Governor Beckham. who owes al
he has to these self-same crooks
land "thieves?" Is there no such
thing as personal integrity and po-
litical fidelity. has perfidy become a
virtue and treachery one Of the fine
arts, to blur the grace OF manhood
and take the rose of honor from the
flair forehead Of Kentucky and Dem
ocracy and set a blister there?
FORBID il Satan, for God in Hea-
ven will wash His hands or such De
mocracy and such Reform!"