The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-02-19
WARNS REPUBLICANS.

itor Sam ]. Roberts, of the Lex
ington Leader, a leading Republic
can paper, threw a bomb into the
camp OF the Republican Senatorial
leaders Thursday afternoon. and
among the forty delivered" to
delay the county unit bill. He
c lis on the Republican members
to sustain the pledge of their party
made in the platform OF the last
State campaign. His editorial is
as follows:
IAN INCREDIBLE POLITICAL DEAL.
The Lexington Herald's Frank
fort dispatches in its Thursday
morning issue declare positively
that a deal, often limited at, has
been actually made between the
Republican leaders in the General
Assembly, and the liquor Democrats
by which it is agreed that forty
Republican votes will be delivered
for the recommitment of the Wag-
ooner county INIT extension bill to
the unfriendly Kentucky Statutes
Committee in exchange for which
t votes of four liquor Demo-
Gratis are to be cast to unseat hugh
Mahin, Democratic Representative
from Jessamine county, and for
the seating of w. B. Buford, his
Republican contestant. This
deal is intended to give Bradley
another vote in the Senatorial race
and at the same time put the
county unit bill just where its enc
mics want it.
1t is incredible that any Repub-
can interested in the success of
Gov. Wilson's administration and
in the future of Republicanism in
Kentucky would enter into such II
political deal, to sell his party's
birthright for mess of pottage.
A seat in the United States Senate
is a glittering prize, but it would
be dearly bought by the Republi-
cans if the price were the betrayal
Of the pledges to the people III
their last State convention and the
violation Of the assurances given
by Gov. Wilson and "A host OF 9th
ers from the stump in the last
campaign.
The Republican platform pledg-
ed the party unequivocally to the
support Of a uniform county unit
bill extending the county unit
principle to every county in Ken
lucky, and this plank was indorsed
as the party's officially declared at
titude on the temperance question
from every stump III the state.
A county unit bill has been re
ported by the Public Morals Com
mittee in conformity with the Re
publican platform and the liquor
interests are trying to defeat it by
having it sent to the Committee OF
Kentucky Statutes, w h c h l.
strongly opposed to temperate,
legislation, and around this strate-
gic parliamentary move the allegeu
deals between the Republican lead
crs and the liquor Democrats re
volye.
From the first day of the le9is
lativc session it has been a matte,
Of open gossip at Frankfort that
the Senatorial deadlock was Il par,
Of the play to defeat the county
unit bill. and that the Republicans
could secure enough Democratic
votes to elect Gov. Bradley to the
United states Senate if the party
leaders would deliver enough vote
10 defeat proposed Temperance
legislation. The Leader has re-
fused to take these reports seri-
ously and cannot now believe that
any such bargain will be consum
mated, though the Frankfort dis
patches for several days have been
positive and circumstantlal.
The Leader has not believed it
possible to win over enough Demo
cratic votes to elect Gov. Bradley