The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-10-11

There is frank admission upon
his Part that his own party failed to
vote the extension of the county unit
law. You have county unit law on
the statute books, under which nearly
100 counties have gone dry. Since
1906 when that bill was passed, there
has been no extension OF the county
unit law. lie should not complain OF
the Democratic party for having
made a law under which nearly 100
counties have gone dry and which
law he, as Judge, has declared to be
constitutional. Except for the DEM
ocratic party you would not have
that; and then when there are but
few more counties left to be made
dry, he says that only the Republican
party can do 1t, admitting, perhaps
not seeing the effect of the admission,
that his own party has aided and
abetted in stopping the passage of the
law to extend this county unit law.
II you do not believe It, go take the
votes In the last legislature. Right
next to me was Greenwood Taylor, a
Republican senator. In Greenwood's
canvass for the state senate he was
awful dry, and he was to vote for the
extension of the county unit law to
every county I'm the state, as O'Rear
Is going to do; but, when Greenwood
got to Frankfort, | don't know wheth-
or he got thirsty or hungry. but he
voted just the opposite way that he
nrOn1ign6
going to make out of that? Is that
sincerity? Isn't that duplcity? say
that you have In the candidate for
governor on the Republican ticket a
man who is dealing in nothing but du-
plicity, and he was a stronger candi-
date in the beginning than he is to-
uay: and IN a month from today he
will be many times weaker than he
Is now. He can't fool all the people
all the while.
If there is any one thing on the
earth that Judge ORear is for. it is
the county-unit bill. If there is any
one thing on earth that he is opposed
to, above everything else, it is the
sale of liquor. Is not that right? He
is against the sale of liquor, is he
not? Isn't that what he tells you?
Until Senator Bradley got hold of
him and until Mccullough, at owens
boro, distiller, was made treasurer
of the Republican campaign commit
tee, that was his claim; but now, in
the first speech he made he stated,
Our party is not fighting the liquor
interests as a business"
If the business of the liquor inter-
ests is the sale of whiskey, and he
is not fighting it, then what is he
doing for temperance? He is doing
nothing except trying to deceive you.
There is nc getting away from that
proposition.
Here is another statement in his
speech in regard to the liquor ques-
ton. and every one of his statements
on the subject is contradictory to the
other. He thought. in saying all of
those different things he would hit
it right somewhere, and that lsminds
me of a story of a drunken fellow
who was out squirrel hunting. He
had a squirrel up a tree, and he took
his gun. and wabbling all over the
tree fired His son, little Johnnie,
said: Papa, | don't see why you
didn't hit it. for YOU aimed all over
the tree" That is what
Judge O'Rear has done on the whis-
key question in this speech. He has
aimed all over the subject, trying to
catch everybody. but he hash fooled
anybody. It is certain
that he and his party are not opposed
to the liquor business, because he
says so, and if anyone here contem-
plates casting a vote for him upon
that ground he will find that he will
be fooled.
What O'Rear's Organ Says.
The Louisville Post is championing
O'Rear's battle, and it is tho cham
pion in Kentucky of local option, but
The Post makes this admission:
Both parties declare for the
passage of a straight out county
unit bill, and there is no evasion
Democrats go, perhaps, trifle
further by specifically indorsing
the opinion of the court of APP
peals, as written by Judge O'Rear
and concurred in by six Demo-
cratic judges, in the matter of
the constitutionality of the Cam
mack bill"
Later the Louisville Post. Judge
O'Rear's organ, says
"The state is already able to
tell what will take place Il Mr..
McCreary is elected governc" and
McDermott is elected lieutenant
governor. In our judgment, the
state will, in all probability Sc
cure by such a result one tangi-
BILE reform-the passage of the
county unit bill-and little else"
Judge O'Rear, in his Elizabethtown
speech, in talking of temperance is
sues further said
"a power that is to be feared
is also a power to be courted by
those who fear 1t more than they