The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-09-29
ATTEMPTS TO
DISCREDIT
Hartford Herald Publishes
Article by Fair Play"
Read What Mr.. Woods Home
Paper ard Christian Minis
ter Say Of Him.

: 1t Is nothing but human nature to
/. make ev ry endnavor possible to "get
even" with person when that per-
son at some time CIR another has,
what you think, done you IN unjus-
tice. In that respect you get one
the same lavel with the one you hate,
and are NO better than he, audit
shows your Weakness by so doing.
i This is remarkable shown in this
\ weeks issue of the Hartford Herald
when one who signs his name as
Fair Play makes an attanpt to
discredit the works of Ex-NIayor c.
E. Woods, Of Richmond, KY, in his
fight for Judge O'Rear by slurring ref
erences to Mr.. Woods.
Now it happens that The Republican
knows that the gentleman who wrote
this article for the Hartford Herald
is not interested in the present 6tate
Campaign one way or the other, and
DOES NOT EVEN VOTE IN KEN
lucky. Why then should he take
it upon himself to write a lengthy
article endeavoring to discredit Mr..
Woods, boah politically and morally :?
1t evidently shows that there is some
thing else back of it.
This being the case 1t is only fit
ting and proper that our readers
should know that Mr.. Woods occupies
a position at homa second to no man
whoever served his people in office
there, barring his present course in
striking out for Judge O'Rear against
his home candidate, Mr.. McCreary.
WORDS BY CHRISTIAN MINISTER.
The following remarkable tribute
was paid TO the Well known temper
ance DAmocrahic ex-Mayor Woods, of
Richmond, Ky. by the pastor of the
Christian church of that city, Rev. y.
B. Barnes, and appeared in the Rich
mond Register March 10, 1911. I'm
der his laadsrship Richmond has
twice gene dry, despite the influence
of liquor preachers and other ou,sida
influences exerted to Return saloons
TO the city.
Here is man with granite in
his flbsr and battles in his blood. Had
he been born a thousand years ago
he would have led "a Crusade to the
Holy Land to rescue the Sapulohre
from the hands of the Turks, and
would have returned home bronzed
by Syrian suns and ladened with
honors. Or he would have been one
of the stormy. restless souls with
the sweep of tempests in his voice.
calling for reforms of gigantic wrongs
and, If need be, would have walked
to the stake and witnessed with his
life to the eternal verities that had
possessed him. He is in the direct
line with prophets and teachers in
every age who carry forward the flag
of humanity. The heroic beats STRONG
ly in his veins.
"He is devoted haart and soul to
the cause of civic betterment, and
to the removal of prosperous infamies
that have buttressed themselves SOL
idly in every community under the
towering walls of greed and gain. In
orr ,,,oant lo..aI r.,.tf..,, not,,rsaa,.sn IL.
put spurs to the entire community,
reused US from our torpor. made the
drowsy rub the slumber from their
eyes; and the enamy. from the mo-
ment of his entrance into the lists |
knew that for them the hour OF doom
had struck. He smote their claims |
with logic unanswerable. with facts
that they newer daned to dispute. and
THAR cause with scorn as sharp as
blades OF tempered STEEL AS surely
as the cause of the saloon has devo-
ted itself OF the pursuit OF gain by
grinding the flesh and blood of men.
women and children in the pitiless
sharpness OF its mills. so he has de-
voted himself to the rescue of hrmani
ty, and 10 the destruction of their
great foer-the saloon.
In the heat of conflict some say
he is extreme; but 1t must be remsm-
bered that the enemy Is one too well
versad in the arts of uncivLized war
fare 10 be met by any except those who
stand on high ground. too prosperous
~ be faced except by those who are