The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1910-10-19
MESSRS. GADD|E,
| AUSTIN AND DEAN
Spoke at Hartford Monday
il in Party Intest.
SLIM CROWO IN ATTENDANCE
Gaddie Intimated That Farm
erS We're Too Busy Get.
ting Rich TO Attend.
AUSTIN HITS DOCTOR HARD

DR.. d. w. Gaddie, Republican
nominee for Congress in this Dis
trict, and Judge J. Allen Deane, Re-
publican nominee for Judge of the
Court of Appeals, spoke at the court
house here Monday afternoon to a
fair sized audience composed mostly
of men not members of their party.
Judge Deane spoke first, and his
speech was short, merely reviewing
his candidacy. DR.. Gaddie's speech
was also short and rambling and
ELECTED no enthusiasm or APP
plause whatever. He said in
the beginning that he would
not talk about the tariff,
and ne kept his word. Evidently the
Doctor, like most other secretly adj
vised Republicans nowadays, knows
that the tariff is a scorching hot 20
tato to the touch of any Republican
politician, and he very discreetly let
IT clone. With energetic gesture he
! pictured in rapturous manner the
great present prosperity of the far
mer and workingman. In shrill voice
he asked: what more, what bet
tcr &c yo. want?" S8mehoE' the aa.
dience seemed to think his picture
was fake, for they didn't applaud.
Evidently DR.. Gaddie is convinced
that Ben Johnson will be elected as
Congressman from this district and
will also be the nominee of the DEM
ocrats for Governor, as he deplored
in tragic terms the awful calamity
of Mr. Johnson serving only a few
months as Congressman, then re-
signing, drawing his pay and going
on into the Governorship. He made
a great spiel in advising Democrats
how to vote and entered into a high
eulogy of eX-Gov. McCreary as
against Mr.. Johnson. Says the race
4 for Governor is between McCreary
Land Johnson and seems decidedly in
Flavor of McCrearv. The speakers
voice shook with emotion as he drew
a horrid picture of times under Dem
ocratic rule and the glorious, trans
cendant present, when everybody is
happy, prosperous and contented. He
represented Mr.. Johnson as a selfish
tyrant and himself as the great relief
for all existing ills in the halls of
Congress.
DR.. Gaddie's peroration was sub
lime-in fact, it was the meat of the
whole hair-ruffling grafton. He clos
ed his half-hour's talk with a long
and fearful word-picture of his last
days on earth, when, after all the
trials and tribulations of life are
DER, when time fades away as a
dream and the spirit plumes its
wings for a dive into eternity
then, he says, all he asks is that his
mortal remains be planted in the
soil of old Kentucky. No doubt this
part of his present ambition will be
realized in the spirit if not in the
flesh.
DIR. Gaddie was followed on the
speakers platform by Mr.. E. G. Aus
tin, Socialist nominee for Congress
in this dictrict. Mr.. Austin said the
speech he had just listened to re-
minded him of the noise made by a
certain male of the mule species
that the refrain was simply "he-haw,
he-haw," without the speaker out
lining fn>any comprehensive manner
what he had done, expected or pro-
posed to do. Mr.. Austin denied the
Doctors assertion that the farmers
were too busy getting rich under the
Republican policy of government to
come to the speaking-thus account
ing for the small crowd present. Mr..
Austin admitted that he was not a
professional speaker and said he
made no pretentions to be an ora
tors Just a plain farmer and be-
longs to the workingman class. New
ertheless, in spite of his lack of ex-
perience and training as a speaker,
the Socialist candidate made sew
eral very effective attacks on his an
tagonist's address, and evinced his
ability to lead the cause of his party.
He closed his talk by handing out a
lot of copies of appeal to Reason"
the Socialist newspaper.