The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-10-11

politics, 1t becomes a mere catspaw
in the hands OF the designing?
Look at the last session of the Ken
lucky Legislature. The County
Unit Bill sold for a mess of pottage.
The Republican party was then as
solemnIy pledged to the cause of
Temperance as it is now or ever can
be. Why did they persistently re-
fuse to let the County Unit Bill
come to vote before the election
Of a U. S. Senator? Able as they
were to elect Senator, why did
they not pass the Unit Bill?
Treachery, betrayed confidence, is
the only solution. They must choose
between passing this bill and elect
ing their Senator-between this
chance to win party advantage
and the fulfillment of solemn vow
to the people. They did not hesi-
tate a moment to pull the chestnut
with the catspaw-and then chuckle
over the perfidy.
What better treatment could stu
pidity itself expect at their hands
in the future? Think you the
Temperance sentiment would now
trust O'Rear as a new-found Moses?
This would be confding innocence
beautiful. though pathetic, to look
upon. Why should they go to the
Republican party for their champ
ion? How could they, even in their
most credulous anxieties ard per-
plsxities, work up the least hope or
enthusiasm from the records of that
party which does not boast sin
gle score for the cause?
But O'Rear is . bard-pressed,
though an astute politician. His
somewhat awkward Irritation with
the coy and guileless temperance
maiden is more of necessity than
"a heartless vice. Circumstances
force him to undertake a very diff
ficult, dangerous, even desperate
task. Already may be seen devel-
oping from beneath the paint on his
Office door, the old wheelright's
sign; "All Kinds of Turning C
Screwing Done Here" and his cam
paign committee has taken the wise
precaution to placard his back
with: DON'T SHOOT THE Or
GANIsT. FER HE'S A DOM THE
BEST HE CAN"
The man must be desperate Cor
crazy who undertakes TO convince
a Democrat that he should sacrifice
all those principles and policies that
have ennobled his character and
made his country great, and for the
defense of which he has stood on
the firing line all his life, for a sin
gle issue of no possible political
significance, injected into the cam
paign for a blind, 2 delusion and
snare, with no support but the hol-
low promises of a party that makes
them but to break them, and Of
fers no reward for this sacrifice but
broken pledges on one hand and his
party defeat on the other.
But this is not all O'Rear has UNI
dertaken. He must, by hook or
crook. placate the Liquor Interest.
Its vote is a necessity. its dough"
a bowling indispensability, and none
knows better than he that, without
the accomplishment Of these two
objects, the sonorous o. would be
stricken from his name and he
would be compelled to drag out the
balance of his days under the re-
proach, "St. Edward de la Rear"
Now let's see how he's getting
along with the killing. First a mag
ni6cent County Unit plank, set like
a rosewood panel in a platform of
sweet-scented "boquets," all deftly
fashioned in snug little city hall,
right smack over very large, pop
ular and influential brewery. Then
came that inspired outburst that
made BradIey's head glow as If
crowned with binding halo, fully
offsetting and atoning for all he
ever said or did, or can say or do
for the Unit Bill. Then, with
rounds of applause that strained
the rafters, a manufacturer of
beer keg slaves, who is nobly bent
on putting himself out of business
by swiping all kinds of beer from
the face of the earth, was put at the
head of one of the most spotless
Temperance Campaign Committees