The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-09-29
MOUNTAINS
Will POLL
Enormous Vote this Fall
for Judge 0'Rear.
Gerrymander Effected to Retain
Hold on Legislature by
Machine.
BY L. VANCE ARMENTRoUT.

BY L. VANCE ARMENTROUT.
The mountains will speak in Novem
I, Der. From the length of the Big Sandy
VALLEY and up and down the hillside
stream that contribute their moietie
to the torrents of the stOried Kentucky
river come reports that there will be
no party division this year in the vote
for Governor.
A mountain man is candidate. Judg
e. C. ORear was born OF mountain
parentage he rode the circuit in the
foothills of the Allegheniss,while prac-
ticing at the Eastern Kentucky bar;
he has stumped every county east OF
the bluegrass and the people love him
History records no such othsr conven
tions as those in which delegates TO
the last State Republican convention
were instructed for O'Rear No other
man in public life in Kan'mcky knows
the mountain people as Judge O'Rear
does-knows their character, their am
billions and their needs; understands
the country, its possibilities and diff
culties under which its population
labor. No other public man has given
to conditions in the mountains the
study that he has; and SO the people
of the mountains are peculiarly inter-
esaed in the outcome eff the present
campaign.
WILL GIVE AN IMMENSE MAJORITY
In every election the mountain coun-
ties, according to the last CENSUS and
a comparison of voting strength to
population based ON ratio of other
sections, have failed by fully 10000 to
get out their vote. Contributing causes
are distances and bad roads, and the
fact, that, the section being over
wlhslmingly Republican,it ha sseldom
been necessary to vote the full party
strength i'm congressional and local
elections. This year pledges are being
voluntarily given, that regardless OF
WHETHER, the voters will be at the poll
the first Tuesday after the first Mon
day in November. Thirty-three thous-
and in the Tenth and Eleventh is the
prediction. And these mountain peo-
pie do not make promises rashly. The
are rather taciturn and chapy of Civ
ing their word. One can find more
men i'm one day in the mountains, VIII
look him straight in the eye, than he
can find in city in a month.
HIS TRIP LAST WEEK.
Judge O'Rear addressed close to
5000 p5ople I'm the Tenth and Eleventh
districts last week, in six counties.
He delivered seven }addrssses and
rode seventy-five miles horseback
over the mountains and through the
passes cut by the beds of the Ken
tucky's tributaries He traosd the
South Fork of that stream from its
origin in Little spring till it joined
the middle and north forks and down
past the goyernment locks and dams
that will make it a navigable stream
the year Ground.
He spoke In Laurel, Clay, Owsley,
Breathitt, Lee and Estill counties.
from fNdonday afternoon to Saturday
night when he returned to his home.
He fwin begin second tour OF the
First and Second districts today open
fng at Murray this afternoon. Benton,
fPaducah. Kuttawa, Marion. Princeton
and Cadiz are his other dates for the
week.
Good roads mean more to the noun |
tains and all of Kentucky than people
In othre sections realize. though west
ern Kentucky needs them almost as
badly as the eastern part. There are
more than score OF counties in east
ern K,entucky. known as pauper coun-
ties. the cost Of whose courts the
State is compelled TO pay. Yet, as
Judge O'Rear declared. a trip through
those counties proves that lin the rive,
bottoms there are farms which COM
pare with any In the State, fentile and
beautifully Situated. that, We're there
roads over which the products could
be hauled DO market or the railroad.
would make the country prosperous
and self-supporting This. besides the
mineral and fuel wealth concealed In
the hills and being developed as fast
as they can be. This land Is much
hetfar thau that heinQ rani<flv r4atkIoai