The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-05-30

tAss ths soy6iers never mc,ssted any
one except night riders. n the ohosu
Of the Law In the counties vhsrs sheee
n,eht riders lived and did their wort
could not or would not suppress them.
do you mean 20 say that the soldiers
could not change their Ideas from
those OF mob members 10 those OF
peaceful citizens1 They were killise
people. they were burning homes. they
were destroying depots. they were
LAYING cities In ashes, they were ter
rorirfng whole communities. they we're
driving men from the state. These
men we're being threatened. and no
one else was threatened-and yet the
Judge SAYS that you could not push
an idea through their heads with
bayonet. And again he says:
OF however, any opponent. Demo
Graf OF Republican. cares to take up
the other side. am prepared to meet
him on the subject"
I will take the other side and make
nv appeal to the law-abiding people
OF Kentucky, ! am willing To abiue
by their decision. even ON his stare
ment made at Hopkinsville. and ig-
more his statement at Frankfort ina,
he waited three years TO explain, ana
/ which he did not then explain unul
he became candidate for Governor.
or course the Democrats are not
going to fight Judge ORear now.
| They want him nominated, ana VIII
hold their FIRE until after the nomina
[ tions are made. But ] here and now
enter my solemn protest against the
nomination by the Republican party
/ q, a candidate for Governor holding
the views on law and order that have
been expressed publicly by Judge
O'Rear Whenever the Republican
marty. the party OF Lincoln. Of Grant
/ GARFIELD. Harrison. Mckinley, Roose-
veIt and Taft. forsakes the principles
NJ law and Order and winks al mobs
and mob violences. II should go into
: exile and never again boast OF more
than half a century OF the greatest
achievements known to political MS
tory.
Judge ORear may have thought ne
was right when he made that state
ment. and II the people think he sald
the right thing or the thing that
ought 20 have been said al that time.
everything else being equal. he should
he nominated. but when you do nom
mate him. n YOU do, you have struck
a blow at the very cornerstone OF
civil liberty You should think wen
before making your decision.
The conference to which Judge
O'Rear alludes was called by the GOV.
ernor lust after the night riders had
nut the torch To Princeton. Hopkins
Vile and Russelville. and about the
time that Hiram Hedges was muir
dered in cold blood by the night ria.
ers in the presence OF hts wire Anu
habies and in his own home. II was
at this time that lovers OF IN" ana
order should have had their WIZ
about them. They should have saiu
and done the right thing at the righ'
time. The eyes OF the world were on
Kentucky. and she cried; rs there
no balm in Gilead- Is there no Physl
clan there? Then why Is not tne
health OF the daughter of my people
recovered
We all agree that the trust was do
ing wrong. and for that wruns theN
ought TO have been punished. bu'
there was a way and place The>
should have been taken 10 the proper
forum. where the weak and the struni
meet upon a common level. Chapter
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