Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1911-10-19
Excerps From Speech Of Hon. 10.
M. Kendall at Highland Park.

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ws my admiration for and conf
dence in the statesman from Rich
mond whose name heads our State
ticket. AS Lord Plunkett said
of Henry Grattan, the friend by
whose confidence I was honored,
by whose wisdom l was instruct
ed, by whose example | was guild
ed. We are told that McCreary,
when elected, will be dominated
by petty faction of machine
politicians. 1t is very hard for
me, knowing him as do, to dig
Nifty this charge even by adenial.
To any man familiar with his
past experience with machines,
and we are all so familiar, the
suggestion i5 preposterous, |
was about to say idiotic-I will
use a milder word and denounce
it as lunatic. AS someone re-
Gently remarked, / believe it was
Col. Watterson, no man or set of
men ever yet dominated Nc
Creary and stronger and subtler
knights than now walk the po-
litical carpet have tried it.
/ will venture to say, and Imeas-
ure my words carefully, that not
since he ran for Governor years
age, and not then, has there been
a nominee for Governor of Ken
lucky who has shown, in the dis
cussion :of public questions, so
much of courage, conviction and
zeal. I was near saying ability
as James B. McCreary has i'm
ported into the campaign now on.
If there has been one such, one
who has shown, in my time, a
wider breath Of view, a man.
hood at once courteous, conser-
vative and courageous, with a
character rising like an Alpine
precipice in rugged grandeur
above the ranting demagogues
Of the hour, adding dignity and
giving responsibility to political
discussion. If there h a S
Dscflv cNe Ncrer-tnppea
McCreary in all these shining
qualities ! search my memory in
vain to recall that man. He has
something about him of the an
tique, something of the brave
days of old when there were still
giants in the land and we may
well and confdentially challenge
the citadel of privilege to send
forth from its polluted portals to
do battle against us, a champion
worthy and able to break a lance
for truth with this our redoubt-
able advocate of popular rights,
the strongest in the State. Show
me one who will add to his stat.
ure in all that goes to make a
great man, one more fidished in
manhood, manners and language,
Lucky indeed will each and all Of
his detractors be if when they
reach his age so much good car
be said Of them and so little baG
to their discredit. His congress
ional career, with his second ad
ministration of the Governorshir
as Its capstone. will go down II
history as the golden age of Ken
lucky, Illuminating its every page
with an added glory.
This is an universal sentiment
or rather / should say belief
wherever l have been and
have travelled widely in my owl
section recently, that if the peo
pie can't elect Nc cCreary in spit,
of the money and magic lantern
sent out by the interests to bu!
the corrupt and bamboozle tn
ignorant we might as we'll ham,
up the fiddle and the bow
and axe Pennsylvani
a deed to Kentucky. N o
here in Morgan county, next I
Madison, the banner McCrear
county in the recent State pr
mary, but everywhere through
out this fine hill country, i
Floyd county where a scattere
remnant of those who wore tn
gray yet bear the burdens of az
preaching age and excessive ta1
alton, but amongst the peak
Of Pike, with its awakening buz
and hum Of multiplied indu.
tries and high upon the ia
mountain tops where the gra
peaks of the Cumberlands glitte
in the morning sun, where tn
storms brew rains that fructif
the earth, where the clouds cras
and the lightnings play the SCI
timent of the human heart Ions
Tor a change in Old Kentuck
and the name high above a
others is "McCreary."