The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-11-01

want 10 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 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 should
fight for Democracy than there is that
you should fight for Democracy. My
interest is not due to the fact that !
have been a candidate for high office.
Ny interest is not due 10 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 l have long since learned that my
place in history will not be determiu-
ed by what people do for me, but by
what / 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 will come from Ne
braska at my own expense to
help you win victory in Ken
lucky for Democracy, can't you
90 from your homes 10 your
polls on election DAY and do
your part toward winning that
victory7 What excuse can you
give your conscience or your
neishbors n on election day you
remain away from the pollsl
What excuse can you give to your
conscience Or your country II by any
neglect OF yours these principles
which you hold dear are defeated. and
simply through your failure to do
what you cam 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
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 ara many PEG
pie IN many parts Of this country. and
people who look much Hks you. who
have not the political information and
the political intelligence that yOu
show on election day. and these PEG
pie by a strange peryerseness Of fate
vote the Republican ticket And
I happen 10 live in one OF those com
munities where majority OF the peo
! pie do not seem TO understand publii
questions: and whenever there Is !
campaign on hand we generally hay'
I q meeting IN the city OF Lincoln. anC
l make a speech to my Republican
neighbors and try to seize them n
brands from the burning and brsnl
them within the ford Of the elect. ans
last fall when the time came for thG
meeting | announced that my subisc
would be Dreams We had hai
Senator Beverage there. and he ha'
made a Republican speech. and il
that speech be told them that while
was a very nice man, and while h
thought a great deal Of me. that wa
not a doer OF things, but Just dream
or. and that while dreamed, the pre-:
ident was doing things; and 1t wa
printed in the paper. and l read II. bu
| did not think much OF IL; | didn
nay much attention to II, but In fe'
days l read in the paper that GOvernc
Cummings OF Iowa had made a speec
and called me a dreamer. When
saw that a second one had called n
a dreamer | sat up and took motto
and in a few days / read that Cove
nor Hanly had called me a dreamer
three Of them. It began 10 look sci
Gus. and then read that Speak
Cannon had called me a dreamer
four Of them; and knew that u
word would not amount TO mu'
, Igsinst four great men. and so 4
Jtead OF denying It decided TO adm
! Il and justify Il; and began to res
, up on the subject OF dreams.
, thought | would post myself and III
I out what really was. or whether
e was a disgraceful thing or not: and
: found to my surprise that the subie
!. of dreams was really quite a subie'
D after all. and that there had be-
j. dreamers before. went TO the Bib
o where always go when | am in trc
r bic. ! have never found book wi