The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-09-20

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message OF Gov. Luke Blackburn,
McCreary's immediate successor
Those charges were publicly made
by Mr.. Beckham in his race against
McCreary four years ago, and they
will stand forevermore evidence in
controvertible that McCreary, The
Model Governor, was a MYTHl
Four years ago, our lamented
Dick Miller, the brainiest Represen-
tative of his generation, gave up his
life as result of his struggle to
pass the Normal School bills. Sui
livan, Burnam, Cherry, Potter and
others threw themselves into the
breach, and saved the bills from de-
feat. Mr.. McCreary, whose home
town offered a $15O.OO0 plant to
the State to locate Normal School
there, took no part or parcel in that
titanic struggle. And yet he APP
pears before those schools at Rich
mond and Bowling Green and dis
courses on Education as though he
had any more part in the education
al uplift of Kentucky than in its
redemption from open saloons!
Whom has my party just placed
before the people of Kentucky? A
candidate who on the main issues of
temperance and education is an art
full dodger and the reputed benefic-
iary-if we are to believe Beck
ham, which | do-of the combined
influence and money of the liquor
interests of Kentucky! McCreary,
the man who while Governor a
generation ago, produced a bank
rupt State Treasury, a worthless
bureau of Agriculture, defunet
Geological Survey, and finally re-
duction of the School per capital!
What a record!!! l challenge con-
tradiction.
Most likely, If Mr.. McCreary's
administration of Governor had
been really worthy of the name
Model" his subsequent long SER
vice in both Houses of the Federal
Congress would have brought forth
more fruits of patriotic usefulness
upon the broad plane of National
Craftsmanship than it did upon the
smaller level in the diplomatic and
judicious distribution of garden
seeds and Government pamphlets.
Can the dry Democrats of Ohio
county censure me for being CRATE
full to Judge O'Rear for his timely
aid in pleading last March with
1000 citizens of Richmond to keep
the city dry, while Mr.. McCreary
locked himself up in his parlor a
few blocks away? That is true!
Can they blame me for standing
by the courageous O'Rear, the de-
fender of local option in almost
every county election in Kentucky,
while Mr.. McCreary actually left
home the very eve of our last cleo
ton, while 500 Normal students
paraded beneath his Office window
with a motto, vote Richmond Dry
For Our Sakes!" That is also true.
Can you, Mr.. Editor, blame me
who have a conscientious conviction
that I should support a sincere"
temperance Republican for Cover
nor, when my party candidate
would travel from Atlantic City to
Louisville to attend the last Derby
horse race there, though he could
not get his consent to leave Wash
ington City four years ago to help
his struggling neighbors to drive
the Rum Demon from our doors?
Two appeals were sent him to come
home, but in vain.
Can you blame me for keeping a
pledge l made two years ago, that
would support Judge O'Rear "If
the Democratic State Senate, led by
the unspeakable Conn Linn, killed
the County Unit Bills, and we then
nominated a candidate for Cover
nor who was not absolutely in
with temperance and the
unit?"
Is McCreary sincere? Let his
present sponsor, Gov. Beckham, an
iwer in the following whitening
words he used four years ago. in
Shame upon Senator McCreary!
from the foul odors of the grog-
hops and from libelous publica-
ions of his purchased organs, a
'ampaign reeking with SANDER may
'e expected. He is busily engaged
upon his side every viola
or of the Sunday laws and every |
nan who opposes their enforce
nent. In every saloon in Kentucky |
icCreary's petition is presented
hat signers may pledge themselves
o fight me and support him. He
las invited to his support the dis
appointed pardon-brokers, place
Iunters and nrofessiona1 praffare