The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-10-20

public, "Government Of the people.
by the people and Cor the people, is
to be rescued by this nsw crusade
from the impotent d stitude into
which 1t has fallen and made living
actuality-still an ideal, but an ideal
in the proc IS OF progressive rcali5a-
tion.
Whas is to beKenenckys notation
70 tais er at movement? Shall the
Commonwealth we love join hands
with. hsr sister Stairs and gave to
them her h lip In the regeneration OF
the Nations politics, or shall 1T con-
tinue to b. numbered among the re-
freactionery shall we shake ourselves
free from the bondage of blind rnr-
tisanship, breaking the shackles that
have been forged upon our wrists by
the politicians and their privilege
seeking allics2 Or shall WE cling TO
our chains, taking no pan. in the
gnslt work that is being don'4, having
no honorable shane in the be.terment
of our institutions and this prospecting
of the peoples cause2
1t is choice between these courses
that is being made today throughout
the State, as the voters align thsm-
solves behind this or that leadgr. THE
vote that will be cast in Nov mber
mans vastly mere than victory for
Republicans or Democrats; the party
clement in IL is cf least Importance.
The big issue is, VIII sther Kentucky
will go forward or netreat.
Let us look at the attitude of the
men who are bidding for leadership.
James B. McCreary, the amiable
r mniscence of passing generation
is eager to BE- your champion.
What does he offer you? Out of his
relics of the past he brings forth this
and that, we'll worn with constant use
too often redolent of forgotten
prejudces and strifes. He has
platform that furnishes at least an ex-
cuse for progressive utterance, poor
as it may be, but he will not use it.
He asks you to choose him, not be-
cause he promis s that tomorrow he
will lead you into bigger and broader
and better things, but because ten, or
twenty, or thirty, or even forty years
ago such and SO took place. He
make no appeal to your reason; he
unges upon you no incentive to go for
ward; hut he would sir slumbering
passions and awaken bitterness that
belongs to the days of Kertucky's
strife and shame. His call to you is
made, not in the name of citizenship, |
but of panty; not fol. the sake of
proeTS SIS, but that prejudice may be |
revived and psrpstuated. He does not |
Seek to open your Eyes to the wrongs
OF today and point you to the way of |
nvmedy. Intvad, he owuld blind them |
by the blood-mist of yesterday and |
quicken the ours d spirit of rev. n,lge
for crime that the whole State has |
Long since reponted in sack-cloth and
ashes. He malo=s no answer to the
ringing challenge of his opponent on
the ground OF reason; but he attacks
his Character and reputation, using
The blunted weapons of the vicious,
politics by which Kentucky
has 'been made by-word among civil
lied communities.
James B. McCreary's face is toward
The past. He is living in the era in
which he was rearsd and nurtur.d.
he must not be judged too harshly
Rather let the blame be ON that
clique of politicians which foisIted him
upon the great State and a great pant
Il Is too much to ask that a man
whose cancer is almost at its end.
whose course is well-nigh run,
mould divorce himself from the
iaDlts OF thought that have been in
grained through seventy years of life,
IND see with clear vision thu nEyw op-
the new issues, the insist
mt demands OF tomorrow in (which
Nature forbids that he should play in
yctive part.
But truly amazing is the attitude
v younger men who support him.
lis chief lieutenant, E. j. McDermott.
ne man who. should Kentucky re-
pond to this stirring of its passion
md its prejudice. may, in the order
4 things. become its leader, others
20 better promise. He tells us the
'ew ideals are dreams that cannot
e realized; he discounts his own
latfoim; he shuffles and lodges on
reat issues; he gives went to rhesnric
partisan pka that never rises above
ne levsl of the little polatician, more
oncerned for the label ON a ticket