The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1911-05-18

gram heard the Governor present.
ing me TO the meeting for an ad.
dress. The Governor knew my views
on the situation. for at his instance
had had several conferences with him
on the subject.
I said In the speech that the Gov
ernor was TO be commended for his
efforts to restore peace and to pro-
tect life and property, as well as to
bring to punishment the violators OF
the law. But further said that In my
opinion the disorders were symptom
attic; that they reflected the feeling of
resentment of many growers that they
had suffered long oppression and that
the law had not afforded them any
remedy; that the surest way to pre-
vent similar outbreaks was to remove
the cause Of them; that the growers
could not be convinced that they were
not being outrageously oppressed by
threats OF punishment that you could
not push an idea through an Anglo
Saxon's head with a bayonet.
said that It was lawlessness that
produced lawlessness; that the rem
edy for the growers was q resort to
the law; and that IL the State would
use its power also to punish the law
less trust, there would be found
enough virtue In the law Of this State
to bring adequate redress.
l did not criticise the Governor for
his efforts to suppress the lawless ele-
ment among the growers. But l did
say that all the growers were not law
breakers, nor were they in sympathy
with lawlessness; that the great ma
jority Of them were a peaceful. law
abiding people, and that the welfare
and good reputation of the State re-
quired 1t to protect its peaceable citi-
Gems In their rights and property, as
well as to protect the stranger within
our gates. urged that both offenders.
the trust and the night riders. be
called to account by the law.
Stands by Every Word He Spoke.
do not presume to- recall tho
words, but that Is the substance Of
the speech. And upon that record
am willing to stand.
No, the fact is, when you hear any.
one say that my speech at the tobacco
meeting disqualifes me from being
Governor, IL you will scratch his back.
under a thin veneering you will find
him to be one of two things: either a
man opposed to the county unit, or one
in the employ of the tobacco trust or
some allied interest Or, you will find
he has been imposed on by some such
person. and his judgment warped by
untrue and unwarranted statements.
Views on Enforcement Of Law.
II is intimated by some. though not
believed in by any, imagine. that
of the law. No violator of the law,
however, whose case has come before
me as a judge. says that. Unless the
law is supreme and is fairly and justly
enforced, our government can not
stand, for it is only a government of
law-the law alone is supreme.
But l am for the impartial enforce
ment of the law, against the mighty
ana intelligent law-breaker. as well as
against the ignorant may swayed by
his passion. He is illacquainted with
the spirit of the law who thinks 1t
is an engine of punishment only, a
means of vengeance. The end and
purpose of all criminal law, and its
main justification, is that il may pre-
vent crime and wrong.
He enforces the law best who exc
cutes 1t so as to prevent wrong. He
would govern best who would main.
tain a state of peace and tranquility,
rather than he who foments disturb
ances and then Furnishes the people he
has suffered to be moved to wrath and
excess.
abhor the mob spirit-which is the
spirit of wreaking vengeance. 1t is
born OF the baser nature of man. Our
statutes against 1t are seyere-not
too severe. wish they could be more
strictly enforced. But those statutes,
like all others, must be enforced by
lawful authority. At present that is
through the Circuit Courts. and by
means Of the county officials.
would favor the vesting of power
with the Governor to suspend any
peace officer. until his case could be
tried by the Senate, who suffered a
mob to take life or destroy property
in his Jurisdiction, and il am elected
Governor and such power is given me
will execute II sternly.
The Kentucky He Hopes to See.
Iwant to see this people prosperous.
happy and progressive. taking the part
due from a virile race in the affairs
of our great country. | want to see
their sons and daughters equipped.
trained and qualified for the highest
competitions in life; | want TO see the
prestige of the old Commonwealth re-
stored; want to see the old home.
steads repaired refurnished and
abound in those good things that gave
the name Kentucky its charm as a
synonym of whole-souled hospitality;
to this end | want TO see and am will
ing to help produce the conditions
where Kentucky's products will be
protected and encouraged by Ken
lucky; when her schools will equal the
best and suffice for the moral and in
tellectual training of all her youthful
system perfected from the klndergar.
ter to the State University: when ii
will no longer be true that So per cent.
of her white children are not in at
tendance upon any school. but when
all will be there; when her roads will
AFFORD safe, comfortable and cheap
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