The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-11-01
BIG REPUBLICAN
RALLY NOT MUCH
Comparatively Few of the
Faithful Present.
EDP. MORROW ORATOR OF DAY
Made a Typical Republican
Speech, All for Glory
of One Party.
DIDN'T EXPLAIN SOME THINGS

The much heralded speaking of
Hon. Ed p. Morrow in behalf of the
, Republican State ticket took place
at Hartford Saturday afternoon.
The country had been drummed far
and wide for attendance and 1t was
intimated that fully as many people
were expected as attended the big
Democratic rally here recently.
However, there were only two or
three hundred more people in town
than the regular Saturday crowd in
Hartford. If the Republicans real
ly expected as many people as at
tended the Democratic affair, they
missed it by nearly four thousand.
The court house was comfortably
full, and that was all. A careful es-
innate of the crowd put it at
perhaps a few more than four hun
dred-not approximating five hun
dred at the furthest stretch of the
Imagination. Fully a fourth of the
crowd-perhaps third-were
negroes. There were a dozen or so
ladies present, but several white wo-
men went to the door and seeing the
large sprinkling of negroes, declin-
ed to enter.
The Taylor Mines negro band
made music for the occasion, rem
dering Dixie" and other popular
airs. The speaker of the day was
introduced by Mr.. E. NJ. Woodward
in a few appropriate remarks. Mr..
Morrow is the biggest gun the Re-
publicans have in their battery of
orators. He is fluent talker and a
much better orator and speaker
than Judge E. C. O'Rear. He made
"a typical Republican speech, de-
nouncing the Democrats from all
quarters of the compass and prais-
ing the Republican party as embrac-
ing all that is great and grand and
glorious. He said he had been told
that at the recent big Democratic
rally here, all the speakers talked
about was the tariff. Everybody
who attended the Democratic rally
knows that this is not true. Fact
is, the Democratic speakers talked
too much about State issues to suit
the Republicans. Mr.. Morrow be-
rated the lobby at Frankfort in
fierce terms. but did not explain the
doings of this very lobby in the
election of w. o. Bradley to the
Senatorship. The Constitution, said
Mr.. Morrow, forbids that State ON
cials shall ride on railroad passes,
but it was not explained why Judge
O'Rear's family ride on passes. Our
system of taxation was denounced
by the speaker, but no reference
was made to Gov. Wilson's partisan
State Board OF Equalization, which
has taken the matter in hand and
raised the taxpayers of the State an
extortionate amount in order to de-
fray the extravagant expenses of a
Republican administration. He said,
which is true, that nearly every law
upon our statute books was placed
there by Democrats, but he gave us
no credit for anything that is good.
He simply proceeded to saddle all !
the evils of the earth upon the DEM
ocrats.
In fiowery and eloquent language |
Mr.. Morrow described the Repub- |
lican candidate for Governor
Judge o'Rear-saying Eat last, at
last" comes the great and only
champion of the peoples rights, in
timating that no such great Ken
tuckian had ever lived in any or
either party. Mr.. Morrow said the
liquor and beer trusts are fighting
Judge o'Rear for all they are worth.
This Is evident from the fact that
Judge O'Rear's State ticket was
nominated in room over a beer
garden, beer stave manufacturer
was chosen as one of his campaign
managers, and the most prominent
wholesale liquor manufacturer In
the State John McCulloch) took
the matter of collecting funds for
Judge o'Rear's campaign in hand.
This Is the way the liquor and beer
trust is fighting Judge Q'Rear. i
Kentucky has been N the hands /.
Of a band Of thieves. said Mr.. Nor !
row, which Of course we take II to
mean that part OF the States adj /