The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1908-04-17
SENATOR BRADLEY
TAKES STUMP
Speaks For Fairbanks In
Two Cities.
Urges Kentucky Republicans to
Stand by Those Who Have
Stood by Them.

Senator Bradley spoke at Glasgow
last Saturday afternoon and at Bow
ling Green at night to large audiences
He appealed to Republicans not to
show ingratitude to those who' had
stood to them in their darkest hours.
He said in part:
The papers which favor Mr.. Taft
seem to think that it is an outrage
Gus thing for me to take an active part
for Fairbanks and predict that such
a course will produce dissension in
the Republican party. Such an APP
prehension is both farfetched and I'M
reasonable. | shall not say or do any
thing calculated to produce such a re-
suit. l am conscientiously doing what
i believe to be a duty TO the Republic
can party, for the Republican leader
who fails to warn his party of the
breakers ahead is an unfaithful pilot.
1t is said that | am an officehol-
der and should not do anything which
/ condemn In other officeholders. | am
not an officeholder and will not be I'm
til the 4th of March, next, but even
If / were a Senator to-day it would
be expected of me for that reason to
take an active part, for Senator is
part and parcel of the political and
law-making power of the Govern
ment. l have no personal interest in
the nomination of any candidate for
President for whoever may be nominal
ed l shall heartily support him, and
if elected shall treat him with all the
Difference that his position entities
him TO and have no doubt that he will
treat me with, the consideration to
which a Senator is entitled. 1t mat
ters not who may be the President, he
will have no office within his gift
that / would accept. Nor, do / de-
sire TO be party dictator as has been
charged. l have as much right TO
select and support a candidate for
President or any other office as any
other man has, not excepting our grea
right to name his successor. II one
President has this right then every
President has 1t and the President, in
stead of the people, wuold select the
Chief Magistrate, thus curtailing the
liberty of the citizens. In a
Republic no principle akin to
monarchy should be recognized. We
have a race ahead of us that is no
child's play The panic and all its
consequences will be charged on the
Republican party and while the party
is not responsible for it, it will be in
cumbent on us to show it.
We shuold have a candidate who will
receive the united support of every
element of the party and with such
a candidate we will surely win. Why
should we have a candidate who can
not carry any considerable element
when we can have one who will carry
all ?I desire to impress upon you that
1 am for the Republican party above
any man or set of men in it. IF
this be treason make the most of it.
Again l am here to-day to pay in
some small degree debt of gratitude
i owe to your splendid Senator, John
T. Smith and his departed father. For
years his noble father was my loyal
friend and the loyalty of the son
has not been less marked than that of
the father. For more than forty days
he stood faithfully by US at Frank
fort always sturdy and brave and sure
1y l should now stand by him in his
race for delegate. You have been toll
by some newspapers that will have nc
influence in the disposition of patron
age. Whether true or not, fail to
see what that has to do with present
conditions. Surely patriotic Republi-
cans are not to be controlled by pa
tronage. There is something nobler
and grander in politics than place at
the pie counter. Republicans who are
hunting alone for office are entitled
to no consideration. So far as any
control of patronage l may have is
concerned, it will not be used for
the advancement of those who have
no higher motive than to pick out
soft places to fall in before announc-
ing their preferences. Let US fight
the battle first and win 1t before we
even think about official patronage.
Less energy in hunting for office"
and more performance of party duty
Is what we need. More principle and
less pie more principle and less sub