The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1907-10-30

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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 it 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 day, and these peo-
pie by strange perverseness of fate
vote the Republican ticket. And
| 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 Beveridge there, and he had
made 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 dream
err and that whileI dreamed, the pres.
ident was doing things; and 1t was
printed in the paper, and | read it, but
l did not think much of it; l didn't
pay much attention to it, but in few
days read in the paper that Governor
Cummings of Iowa had made a speech
and called me a dreamer. When I
saw that second one had called me
a dreamer | sat up and took notice,
and in a few days I read that Cover
nor Hanly had called me a~dreamer-
three of them. 1t began to look seri-
Gus, and then | read that Speaker
Cannon had called me a dreamer
four of them: and ! knew that my
word would not amount to much
against four great men, and so In
stead Of denying 1t decided to admit
1t and justify it; and began to read
up on the subject of dreams.
thought I would post myself and find
out what l really was, or whether 1t
was a disgraceful thing or not; and
found to my surprise that the subject
of dreams was really quite a subject,
after all, and that there had been
dreamers before. l went to the Bible,
where l always go when l am in trOu-
BILE. l have never found book with
so much truth in it as the Bible con-
tains, and I don't know Of any book
where truth is more beautifully ex-
pressed and 1 looked in the Bible 70
see if l could find anything about the
dreamer; and / found that there were
dreamers in the Bible, and that the
most prominent one was Joseph and
because Joseph's brothers called him
a dreamer, and they did not like his
dreams, they hated him. They plot
ted to kill him, and when he was sent
out by his father to his brethren who
had their f1ocks in Dothan, they said,
Here comes the dreamer; let us put
him away and be done with him." But
finally they decided that instead of
killing him they would just put him
down in a pit, and let the father be-
lieve that he had been killed in some
way by a wild beast Then some mer-
chants came along, and they took
Joseph out of the pit and sold him.
and sent him down into Egypt, and
then they congratulated themselves
and said, Now we are rid Of the
dreamer" and things went along for
awhile until they had almost forgot
ten Joseph, and then there came
famine and they had to go down into
Egypt and buy corn. and when they
got. to Egypt there they found the
dreamer, and he had the corn; and
so, my friends, | made up my mind
it was not so bad to be dreamer pro-
vided you have the corn. and In that
speech / proceeded to show the Re
publicans how the Democratic party
had been dreaming and how they had
the corn and were prepared to satisfy
all political needs.
The more / thought on this subject
the less willing I was to class myself
with the dreamers, for it was too high
and honored for me. The dreamer,
why he Is a great man. John Boyle
O'Reilly says that the dreamer lives
forever, while the toiler dies in a day
AS | went from nation to ma
tlon in travelling through Eu-
rope found that everywhere
the ideas of Jefferson had been
conveyed, and that everywhere
they were planted and were
growing. When left home ]
MAS proud of the Democratic