The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-10-18

be a characteristic or a Republican
Governor to use armed force to run
the State Government. Judge
O'Rear tells the voters that he
knows enough about law and its APP
plication so that when he becomes
Governor, farmers will not have to
take six cents for 12-cent tobacco.
He ought also be able to tell farm
ers how to sell 81 sheep cor SO
or 75-cent wheat for $3.50. O'Rear
says he gave Mr.. McCulloch instruc-
tons not to collect any more money
from the liquor men, but lie did not
tell him to turn back what he had
already collected. Mr.. Rhea closed
his strong address by saying he
sincerely hopes and believes that
Ohio county and the State will re-
deem themselves from recent years
of Republican rule.
The last speaker to mount the
stand was Hon. A. o. Stanley, Con-
gresham from the Second District.
He was introduced by Judge w. H.
Barnes in an eloquent little speech.
Mr.. Stanley is one of the most elo-
quent and forceful orators in the
country and the audience was not
disappointed in him. The speaker
said he had tried to keep up with
all the contradictory statements Of
Judge O'Rear, but had found 1t
quite a job, owing to the Judges
eheckered campaign methods. Mr..
Stanley also took occasion to pay a
high tribute to the splendid ability
and work of Congressman Ben
Johnson. He spoke of Mr.. John
sons great work in Congress and
especially as Chairman of the Com
mittee on the District of Columbia,
the Importance of which few outside
of the Nations Capital know any
thing about. The District OF CO.
lumbia, including Washington City,
is big municipality whose taxes
and running expenses are not paid
by the people embraced there
in, but by the people of the whole
country. Much graft has been prac-
ticed there in past years, in keeping
up the greatest and most costly Gov
eminent on earth, and Mr.. Johnson
is ferreting this out. Mr.. Johnson's
known honesty, courage and service
have made him a national charac1
ter. --sSS
The Republicans say, said Mr..
Stanley, that we had to feed the
people free to get them to come to
hear our speakers. 1t is simply an
other instance. like the ones re-
counted in the New Testament,
where we feed the people who have
come to hear-not as an induce
ment, but to make them comfortai
Ible. To-day we eat the "fatted
calf" for many who have returned
TO the Democratic home. They're
all coming back, including the old
hero. Hon. Simon Bolivar Buckner.
who, like Rip VanWinkle, after his
20 years of political sleep, returns
and wants to know what is taking
place.
One of the most remarkable Incl
dents of modern times, said Mr..
Stanley, was when the great O'Rear
Temperance Convention met in
Louisville over a beer garden, nom
mated an alleged temperance ticket
on a County Unit platform and sent
it out to be aided by contributions
from the liquor interests, with Mr..
J. w .McCulloch, the big wholesale
liquor distiller, as chief collector.
Judge O'Rear claims to be the great
! AM who processes to be able to re-
deem the whole State from all kinds
of wrongs. His selfrighteousness
does not appeal to the majority of
the great common people. Repub-
lican leaders claim we have copied
their platform, when theirs is sim
ply a copy, in its better points, of
Democratic platforms of other
years. Mr.. Stanley, as chairman of
a Congressional Committee to fer
ret out the evils of the big Trusts,
has found that all the great corpo-
rations have been constant contrib
utors to the campaign fund of the
Republican party, but not one time
has he discovered where the trusts
gave a dollar to the campaign fund
of Democrats. Why is this? Be-
cause the Democrats are committed
to a policy of Equal Rights to All
and Special Privileges to None
Democrats are not pledging protec-
ton and immunity to the big pro-
tected interests. The policy of
Democracy is in behalf of the poor
people. the working men. who have
to look to their own efforts for
special privileges.
Which wav aakad Mr. Stanlav