Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-03-06
Friday, March 6. 1908.
GOLD BUS PERFIDY IN KENTUCKY.

GOLD BUS PERFIDY IN KENTUCKY.
The election of Bradley over Beck
ham in Kentucky to the U. s. Senate
is a bit of party pertidy that ought to
put that State into the Republican
fold and keep it there forever. Its fall
should be like that of Lucifer. The State
went to the bow vows when it bolted
Bryan in 1896. 1t has never received
any returns for it's traitorous conduct
however. 1t joined the saviors of the
country who protested to see in free
silver" a simeon calculated to blight
the country forever, and yet free sill
yer would then and now be far prefer.
able to the impending financial poll
cies, and no blight could be more
thorough than has come upon the ma
ton by the corruption and mistaken
policies through which We are passing
aided by these same saviors. They
gave us war. We have pour
ed millions into a lot of worthless
islands 5000 miles away. We have seen
corruption in all branches of finance
We have been robbed by corporate
greed, and the implacable and inexor
able plundering OF the trusts. Now
we have another of the many Republic
can panics. Had these "patriotic"
Democrats who licked the dust from
NJ cKinley g feet, and went into their
pockets for corruption money under
The lash IF Mark Hanna, mad any of
t he elements Of true Democracy, any
love of The people in them, Kentucky
and other States, such as Maryland,
would today stand where they belong
ed then, in the Democratic column.
But the greed of money, the siren song
of wealth drew them from their moor.
ings and they were swallowed up. Lind
say. and Carlisle. and Henry Waiter
sOn,all turned out of the path and they
have since been political wanderers.
strangers in a strange land, with no
where to lay their heads. We admit
that young Beckham largely preached
his own funeral in Kentucky in his
prohibition sermons. He saw Ala
bama, and Georgia, and North Carroll
ma go tumbling into the prohibition
whirlpool, and being young and to
some extent inexperienced, but ambi-
tious, he thought he toe could carry
Kentucky into the same whirlpool and
rise exultant from the waves a hero.
But be counted without his host. He
did not foresee that Kentucky Repub-
licans were WISE on prohibition. He
forgot momentarily that Kentucky
Republicans would resort even to as
saesinaticn to maintain control, and
that Democratic deserters might 60 as
far. He did not seem to recall that
those Democrats In his State who had
plunged into the Republican party
were more radically Republican than
old time Republicans could be, and sat
ready and willing to destroy any yes
tige of the present day Democracy,
along with any prohibition candidate.
They longed to get at Beckham.
These were also after the scalp of
VIM. j. Bryan, and they are of those
who shouted when Goebel was assassi.
mated. They make good Republicans
possibly, but they are 10 more fit to be
called Democrats than "pisen is to be
called preserves. This result will
widen the breach of the Democratic
party in Kentucky. and the Big Four
who elected Bradley will be driven out
of the party bag and baggage and sent
to the oblivion of many great SONS of
Kentucky, who let their dirty dollars
drag them through the slime of Re
publicanism, holding on to the coat
tails Of Mark Hanna, and cheered by
Grover Cleveland. If the party fight
amongst Republicans does not wax hot.
ter than that between Democrats, we
W i'll be surprised. But that Republi.
ans could betraY party as has just
b cen done in Kentucky by Democrats
we cannot think. They have theil
si ns, hut desertion is not one Of them
T he Democratic party in Kentucky
has been disgraced and the DESERVING
ele ment ought TO lie obliterated. an(
no doubt will be.