Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-28
ANIMATED
DISCUSSION
BY District Candidates With
the Crowd Strongly
Democratic.
WARM PERSONALITIES.
Hanbery Declares He Stands
Flat Footed for Law and
Order.

The joint discussion between the
candidates in the judicial district
was opened at / o'clock with the
court house well filled with voters in
which the Democrats largely pre-
dominated.
Judge Joe McCarroll led off with
a speech of 40 minutes, advocating
the strict enforcement of the law as
the best remedy against the lawles;-
ness that had prevailed in Kentucky.
In a matter of this sort, he said there
was no doubt where he stood and it
was important to know how a
judge stood, for peace was not yet
restored. Threatening letters are
still being sent in Hopkins county
and retaliation has been threatened.
kentucky has been disgraced enough
without further reign of blood
and fire.
He referred to a statement made
by Hanbery that he would run be-
hind the Republican party because
the night rider Republicans would
not support him. Why should the
night riders vote against him if he
was not known to be for the law?
NE charged that Hanbery chal-
llenged Law and Order members as
Objectionable jurors, that he had
never made his position clear, had
never joined the L. & o. League.
He referred to the fact the Demo-
cratic party had nominated Polk
Cansler, Republican, four years
ago, and was even now running Miss
Jennie West, a Republican, on the
county ticket
Judge Hanbery began his speech
with severe arraignment of what
he declared was a clique within the
Law and Order League. He said he
was supported by the majority of
the members of the Law and Order
League, and that he stood flat-foot
ed for the enforcement Of the law,
whether it is violated behind lace
curtains or by man with a sock ov-
er his face. That if any man
| thought he would not do this, he
wanted him to vote against him, and
he could hew to the line and let the
chips fall where they would and not
have to take an oath and join the
Law and Order League to do it..
He named as the "clique"who nomi,
mated Judge McCarroll E. B. Long,
T. B. Fairleigh, c. o. Prowse, C. R.
Clark, A. H. Anderson, j. P. Prowse,
II. j. Tate, L. r. Davis and John Fe.
land.
He said Charles Ii" Prowse wrote
the platform endorsing Wilson and
law and order and then they were
ashamed to put one of their own men
on it but named Judge McCarroll,
who was ready to betray his party,
as the only vehicle filthy enough to
act as a sewer pipe to run their
sewerage through. And he was here
with their collar around his neck to
do their bidding.
He said that men like Judge Can.
sler were expected to turn traitor,
but not such great Democrats as
Judge McCarroll. He then notified
Judge McCarroll that he would re-
fuse to hold any further joint dis
cussions with him.
Resenting the limitations that he
did not stand for the law he said he
stood for it enough to report with a
gun on his shoulder and take the
oath of deputy sheriff. He stood
| like a man with the other citizens of
Hopkinsville. when Judge McCarroll
did not have the nerve to do the
same thing.
Passing on to the question of his
fitness for Office he declared that he
was Judge McCarroll's equal in all
respects and had the advantage of