The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-10-11

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the people of the district to choose
a man without these qualifications
to represent them in the Senate as
it would be to select a blacksmith
or a lawyer to prescribe for them as
a physician, or to employ a physi-
clan to do the work of blacksmith
or a lawyer.
The Senate is the Upper House OF
the General Assembly. II unwise OF
vicious legislation passes the Lower
House, the Senate must be depend
ed upon to remedy or kill it, and as
the Constitution of the State pro-
vides for only thirty-eight Senators
and that each Senator must be at
least thirty years of age before be-
ing eligible, the trainers of the Con-
stitution evidently intended that
members of the State Senate should
be men of ability and experience.
Another essential qualification
for a member of a legislative body
is independence and freedom from
the control of the Special Inter-
ests" seeking favors at the hands of
the Legislature. The greatest men
ace to representative government
to-day lies in the control which ia
vor-seeking aggregations of wealth
exercise over legislation by electing
their agents to legislative bodies.
The Legislator should be a repre-
sentative of the whole people and
not the agent OF some favor-seeking
corporation.
The people of this District should
investigate the candidates for the
position of State Senator and select
that candidate who comes nearest
to possessing the qualifications and
measuring up to the standard which
I have suggested. l am not egotist-
ical enough to assert that | possess
all or any considerable part of these
qualifications; but political econo-
my and questions pertaining to the
science. OF government were always |
favorite studies of mine. While in
college, | took a postgraduate |
course in these sciences and have
devoted considerable time and study |
to them since. I have been in the
active practice of law for over if
teen years and have some knowl-
edge of the State and Federal Con-
situations and the laws ofKentucky.
am familiar with the rules of par
law. | do not belong to
my political machine, never have
and never will belong to one, and I
while ! am a Democrat in politics,
do not wear the collar of any man
'r any party, and have never hest
ated to fight political machines in
ny own party when they existed.
rave no political axe to grind, do
lot represent any Special Interests
eeking legislation, and If elected,
go to Frankfort the servant of the
Whole people 'to register their will
nd record their DEGREES"
was born and raised upon a ,
arm and there is no kind of farm !
work. which l have not done and I
With which | am not familiar. Ev- {
ry dollars worth of property that t
own to-day, outside of my law IL {
rary, is invested in a farm which I 1
m operating. / know the strug- a
les and needs of the great agricul- c
lral and industrial classes OF the 7
eople, and all OF my sympathies as (
'ell as financial interests, lie with u
he people who toll. The fact that {
run farm does not of itself | S
ualify me to go to the Senate, but n
Their things being equal, the man Il
no comes from the soil and has s
lbbed shoulders with the plain L
eople is more in sympathy with r
hem and is better qualified to rep a
esent them, than q man who is not a
touch with them. and ] hope I a
lay be pardoned the suggestion il
hen | say that it was farmer-law- p
ers who established this govern o
tent; it was farmer-lawyers who r
rote the Declaration of Independ- J;
nee and drafted the Constitution Il
the United States. and they have C
cen the truest and wisest friends
the people in all periods of the {,
overnment, possessing those legal
so essential to the q
'ience of government and being at 8
lched by sympathy as we'll as self a
lterest to the agricultural and in II
ustrial classes of the people. JEFF
srson, Madison, Jackson, Lincoln n
nd others are examples of the class Z,
which speak. r
Lack of space prevents me from s.
citing out in detail all the meas b
res | shall favor If elected to the D
enate, but there are four matters I,
oming before the next General AS II
embly which | regard as of special c