The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-01

that sort of thing, you ask who wants
the Independents ended? The men that
are running this campaign. They have
right to persuade them; they have
a right TO appeal 70 them on the basis
of neighbothood and common interests
aud a man or men are rightly or justly
not thought to have the proper sense
of duty who does not yield to just ar
gumonts. But suppose he is hOggish
suppose he is selfish. or suppose he has
a large family to support and wants
to sell his tobacco to put bread IN
their mouths, or that he has incurred
obligations amounting to thousands Of
dollars in the purchase of land. and II
he cannot raise tobacco and sell it he
will be sold out and all his hopes in
life destroyed; is it al crime for the
nan to wish to raise tobacco, and VI
he does. and if he is hogglsh about Il,
is this free country or IS 1t not? That
is the question that all Kontuckiaus
must answer.
81 have studied some. This Is an
oath-bound organization that goes on
rides. l am not guessing. / know. T.
il bound b. a death oath. and / know
tina. oath. shall say little of what Is
known. but in time the peoples law
win be indicated and the guilty shall
b.. exposed (Applause.) YOur law
never sleeps and never rests, although
1t seems to. II is always in force,
governing all the people and their
homes. Whel~2Q0 men can come to a
city and shoot ii up, wound people,
burn houses, scare a whole city and
ride away apd disappear as the morn
Ing dew. it is no time to hunt ducks
with a brass band. applause
There has been no let up in the
prosecution, but what would you think
os the discretion of an officer hunting
those secretly sworn men who told
them when he was coming, and sent
his card or rang The door bell? Your
officer has not sent his card and he
has not rung the door bell, and he
has not put It in the newspapers. This
officer has investigated AMI is investi-
eating
"You have adopted here a. resolu-
ton that the governor should call out
the reserve militia of the state, and !
have had some people say, why don't
you get on the train and make speech
es in these districts. and call out tho
militia and put yourself at the head Of
them In the first place, l am only a
tin soldier, and wouldn't show off very
well in regimentals. (Laughter)
No Open Dcnancc.
'In the next place. think just min
ute, has one of you ever heard of one
of those night riders riding around
openly defylng the law? There have
not been enough of them doing It that
one single constable couldn't handle.
What kind of a picture would it pre-
sent to call out a whole regiment from
the mountains or from the hurley dis
trict and send them where the night
before they murdered Hiram Hedges?
II is just like asking the governor to
declare martial law or asking the gov
ernor to appeal TO the United States.
This governor will have his hands cut
off or his head cut off before he ap-
peals to the United States to straight
en- things up in Kentucky.
81 have waited while have upheld
the law and permitted no man to open
t. oppose the law, have waited for
the rule of reason to come into the
hearts of the people, and 1t is coming;
ard when ii comes II won't be six
months until the very men who have
been tolerating these things in the bur
ley district and in the other districts
will be the first TO say, to put the
criminals in the penitentiary. They
pass resolutions now; they will pass
around the hangman's rope by and
bye The very men. some of who toll
crate 1t will in a few short months,
be demanding the gallows and the
penitentiary for those who helped TO
murder Hiram Hedges.
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