Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-10-24

your state would be a cipher on these
questions. The senate is today the
weak point. We need reform. but no
remedial legislation Of a national
character Is possible until the meas
ure passes the senate as we'll az the
house. You might have Democratic
president and Democratic house
representatives anxious to relieve the
burdens upon the people, and the pres
ident may be ready to sign the bill,
but II the senate stands between them
relief is impossible; and, my friends,
I beg you to so cast your votes as TO
insure a Democratic Legislature, for
that will insure the election of Gov
ernor Beckham to the United States
senate.
Now, | have given you my reason
for being here. ] am interested in
national politics. have been for
many years, and shall be until die.
My great desire is to see these re-
forms, for which / in company with
other Democrats have been lighting,
realized, for l believe they will bring
blessings untold to the American peo-
Pile, and l come from a distant state
to give you what assistance / can,
because am interested in these ques-
lions. Am / more interested than
your Have / any more reason than
you Democrats? know of no reason
that / have to make me anxious for
reform that ought not to make you
anxious for reform, too. am as we
situated as you are. can stand Re-
publican legislation as well as you
can. can live under bad government
as well as you can live. / can pro
vide for my children no matter whst
party is in power, and / can leave
them all that it is good for them to
have left to them l have no favors
to ask of anyone, but, my friends, |
want to 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 a 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
ernment than that you should leave
your children good government; and
there is no more reason why l 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
My interest is not due to 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 determin.
ed by what people do for me, but by
what l 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, il 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 to your
polls on election day and do
your part toward winning that
victory? What excuse can you
give your conscience or your
neiehbors If on election day you
remain away from the poIls7
What excuse can you give to your
conscience or your country if by any
neglect of yours these principles
which you hold dear are defeated, and
simply through your failure to do
what you can? Is it 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?
4 llloA yOu hcfN bO bAE
a 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 so 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 PEG
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
campaign on hand we generally have
a meeting in the city of Lincoln, and
| make a speech to my Republican