The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-10-11
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a time, since the oldest of you came
into the world, that Il meant so much
as IL means now. The Democrats
have control Of the house Of represen-
tatives They are within few votes
of having control of the United
States senate, the first time for long
while. When that has been done,
even though the country should be
unfortunate enough to have another
Republican president, we can pass a
wooden schedule, we can pass a cot
ton schedule, we can pass a farmers
free implement bill over the veto OF
any president they can elect
Nations Eyes On Kentucky.
Tell me that national politics should
not be discussed now, when you, in
this county, on the seventh of next
month, are to elect a representative
who will either vote for Ollie James
or for a Republican to go to Washing
ton to vote WITH the interests and
against the welfare of the great
American reoTle! 10 you say that
national issues S. ould not be discuss
ed when II Vt yc G cts will be
made to brea Ec1.r liy 'c)re from
her former luocrn 5, o t1ct she may
20 Eepu ] can = - prudential
race? Tte ewes 7 y h ion are
upon Re tu-f orcTr point
through this - ~, are
already CT ing 20
Kentucky rs tat, look
ing to the so h, were f.eedom
reigns, where "E.ul ne Is to All and
special privileges 10 Loae" has been
the watchword. Tley are boxing to
Kentucky and to the sCl;h, where the
fires of freedom have been k pit burn
ing for so years, and they say, Ken
lucky, do your duty; we of tie north,
who have opposed 20 r policies in
the past, ask you not to come to us;
you stand firm; you do your duty to
yourselves and to your children, and
we will come to you" They admit
that during all these years Kentucky
and the south have been right; that
they have been wrong; that by the
ballot they have imposed wrongs and
hardships upon Kentucky, and when
themselves; but they say now we are
ready to break the chains and declare
for freedom once more; and we ask
you to stand firm that they may join
hands with you and break down a
system of trusts which has grown up
under Republican administration in
this country
The Liquor Question.
Judge O'Rear, in big headlines,
says that Kentucky must cleanse her
politics and restore government to
the people. God knows that is what
we want and it is all we ask. Restore
the government to the people. He
iced not propose any contention on
that proposition. Governor Wilson,
with his bayonets and his troops, has
taken government from every county
into which he has sent them. Restore
this government to the people; there
is nobody to take issue with him
there. We all join O'Rear there.
He says: The legislature has failed
and refused for 20 years to carry that
provision into effect as to counties
having a town larger than the fifth
class. so as to make it the controlling
unit in prohibiting the sale of liquor"
Now Judge ORear has been driven
from his first standpoint until he
comes to say that the constitution of
the state of Kentucky has being vio-
lated until the county unit bill has
been extended to every county in the
state of Kentucky alike, and that any
law is unconstitutional except one
which does that. Has not Judge
O'Rear written an opinion himself
which says that the present law is
constitutional? Judge O'Rear said
that the present law is constitutional,
but Candidate ORear says that it is
not Which one are you going to be-
heve?
Fellow citizens, as to the county
unit law, have this to say: The first
vote ever cast in my life was in ia
vor of local option, and the last vote
cast was also for local option.
have lived to the age of SO, and up TO
this good moment not one drop of
whskey, ale, wine or beer has ever
passed my lips. When | thought
was running some for governor. they
said 1T wouldn't do to elect me, be-
cause | came from a whiskey county.
Judge O'Rear voiced some of those
sentiments himself, and the Republi-
can party, when it did look like had
a chance to be nominated, said it
wouldn't do to nominate me because
l came from whiskey county. Carry
that argument out, and where are you
going to land? | say that you people
who are extremely dry and are hunt
ing for the driest candidate you can
find can not, upon that argument,
vote for Judge O'Rear, because he
comes from a whiskey county him.
self. Like charity, reform should be-
gin at home. II he can not reform
his own county, how in the name of
common sense is he going to make
the whole state of Kentucky dry? II
is an absolute impossibility for a gov