The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-10-26
APPEAL TO KETUCKY VOTERS.
To Mothers, Fathers, Sons and
Daughters Of Pike County.

| | am interested in you I am In
terested in your sweet, sweet homes
| | am interested in all things that are
| fair, square, honest and right / love
| you. | love your homes / love that
great spirit that moulds Eastern
kentucky people into great living
wall Of progressive energy, lenthusi-
astic, patriotic CITIZENSHIP
love you because we have been
bound together with great Heaven
| ly Love for which We are indebted to
! our Creator. But, dear friends, here
| are some things that do hate, and
our great Creator does not tolerate
| in His Kingdom
Being inclined to be progressive.
| hate to be fettered down by the great
chain Of Bossism, Ring Rule, Aristo-
cratic government of affairs In Pike
County Being energetic, / would
loose all of my energy in trying to
make flight through the dismal
atmosphere Of Ring Rule Reign in
Pike County, II it were not for my
| fettered Republican brothers and De-
mocrats who are willing to fling
: aside their party prejudices and link
| up In union Of right against wrong.
l would cease to be enthusei IL
there we're no hopes for US beyond
this present Ring Rule Peril in Pike
County.
Dear Citizens l appeal to you this
November election to Redeem your
selves from the awful clutches of
Bossism.
Vote the Citizens Ticket, that your
patriotic heart may honor the dust OF
Washington, commemorate the pen
Of Jefferson and fencing in your
homes with a great Lincoln love of
Freedom, end this volcanic eruption
that throws its hot air, hot ashes and
birthstone odor into your faces SO
early after the election
Washington would not vote for
ring rule. Jefferson would not vote
for graft, and Abe Lincoln would
want to issue another Proclamation
damning the Court House gang In
pike county and freeing you from
your present bondage.
Let me ask you few question Do
you pay taxes? What for? Are
your roads any better? Or have you
| any at all? How about the bridges?
| Are they not getting dangerous?
| How about your school houses?
Have you any? Do they need re-
pairs? Listen! Has the gang that
was elected as your public servants
done anything at all that they prom
Used to do when they we're asking
your support. Answer, please, Mr..
J Voter at the November election.
Our county is very sick, but It
loes not need a doctor to SIT on a
| Judges chair and prescibe some new
diabolical. hypodermical puncture OF
your pocket books to nourish a po-
litical machine in Pike county.
Rather she needs nurse that will
administer the medicine according to
the will of the great Common Peo-
pie of Pike county
| Vote for Joel Childers for county
Judge Stop home lawlessness by
sending ]. M Robertson who Is
HUSBAND to his own wife to the Gem
eral Assembly OF Kentucky. For
better schools, vote for T. M. Riddle,
who will be in his office SIX days
out OF every week, and will not be
like the present administration on
whom the business world has to wait
until they are sick and tired Vote
for Buck Polly for he is opposed to
Bosssm and running against same in
this our home County.
II you will do the very thing you
ought to do, you will. vote for the
whole Citizens Ticket in Pike county
this coming November election,
thereby NOT duplicating the old
party machine with any of the tools
or its own make up.
Listen! Come and vote for the
sake Of your homes, for the sake OF
your neighbours home and for the
glorification of your Creators King
dom
am very truly yours. a citizen
! IRA vARNEY.