Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30

| the world that we mean what we saw,
| and then we shall get men and money
from everywhere. Money and men
joined together make business, and
when we shall have them Old Ken
lucky will blossom as the rose. I
think 1t necessary for our platform at
this time to speak out in no uncertain
terms for Law and Order A county
or a State or a nation that will not
protect its citizens, from the highest
to the humblest, and all alike, is not
worthy of its name and place. and the
right to govern should be taken
from it.
Gentlemen, it is needless for me to
say to you that | am a Republican,
holding fast to all the fundamental
principles of the party, and that
means that | am not an Insurgent
Republican. | do not allow Senator
LaFollette and Senator Bourne to do
my thinking, and | do not propose to
follow where they lead. | noticed an
article in a Louisville paper of May
IL, with a Washington date line. say
Ing that LaFollette and Hearst are
likely to head a new national ticket.
giving for some of the things in his
platform, said that such well-known
Republicans as Senator LaFollette
and Senator Bourne had been advo-
eating them for years. Judge O'Rear
may follow where they lead If he
wishes, but say TO you that | will
not.
asked a friend a few days ago if
he believed in a progressive Repub-
lican. That depends" he said.
There are three ways a man can
progress and be a progressive Repuh-
lean. One way is toward the Repub-
Iican party, another way is toward the
Democratic party. and the third |
Is toward what was once known |
rs the Populist party. 1t depends on
which way a man progresses whether |
believe In him as progressive Re- |
publican or not"
That reminds me of an inscription |
once read on a tombstone: Take |
n thy cross and follow me-" A wag
wrote beneath:
To follow you I'm not intent
Till l find out which way you went"
The so-called progressive or insur-
Senate have been very kind to Presi-
lent Taft in the past fifteen months.
md he ought to feel very kindly to-
ward them. They have succeeded in
giving him a Democratic House by
ixty-seven majority, and counting La
Bourne, Clapp, Poindexter,
,ummins and Bristow with the Dem
'crats Gas they won't vote with the
they have also given
dr. Taft a Democratic Senate. am
lot a new-fangled Republican. / am
ne OF those who believe in the plat
orm adopted at Chicago In 1908, and
propose to stand by that platform
nd contend for the faith expressed In
until the party shall speak again
nth the same authority. Progressive?
Why. the Republican-party is the most
progressive party that has had an ex-
stence under this government In the
asst hundred years. 1t broke the 4
hackles from four million slaves and 1
lade them freemen. II fought the 4
reatest war OF modern times and pre-
erved the Union OF States, making Il /
he greatest nation In the history Of !
man, II resumed specie payments and {
lade every dollar In the land as good !
8 every other dollar II set the seal :
I condemnation on the Democrats :
ightmare OF rag money. II fought I
rec silver TO the death and there are
ow none 10 mourn its departure.
] am rooted and grounded In the a
nth that we must have protection for
merican industry and American labor
. order 70 have and maintain pros n
Gritty In this country.
] think II proper that should make a