The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-10-17
Charge Of Insincerity Worries
O'Rear.

Judge O'Rear is writing under the
charge Of insincerity which has been
made in every section of the State,
and which has been confirmed by every
word he has uttered since his nomi-
nation. He claims that Henry Waiter
son editor of the Courier j Journal, first
gave currency to the accusation that
he lacke ed sincerity. Whoever first
called public attention to the Judges
moral delinquency in this respect. only
put into words the thought that has
been waiting for expression in the
minds of thousands of those who have
heard and read Judge O'Rear's speech
es.
The indictment that can be drawn
against the Republican nominee on
this score cannot be demurred out of
the Court of public opinion. Beginning
with the pledges that he made to the
people before his nomination, he has
violated so many that it is difficult to
enumerate them.
He claimed to be the foe of tn "cor-
rupt lobby" and was waiting eagerly
for the time when he could put it's
! mem bers into uniform, and drive them
at the whips end from the halls Of
Legislation at Frankfort. In the face
of this. he put the crown of approval
upon Bradley, who was elected to the
United States Senate by this Identical
corrupt lobby" that he now promises
to destroy.
He claims to be the one true friend
of temperance; that the money of the
Whiskey Trust has debauched the
State; purchased weak Legislators. and
prevented the extension of the county
unit. At the first opportunity, he ap-
points the President Of one IF the hig-
gest whiskey concerns of the State,
chairman of his finance committee,
personally applauding him for the col
| lee tons he had made, and urging him
to keep On with the good work. When
he was caught red-handed in the cCm-
pany of this distiller, he dramatically
served notice on him in public speech
that he must not accept money from
his fellow whIskey men, but forgot to
in form him that the amount contribut-
ed by himself must be returned.
Pretending to lie awake at nights
over the wrongs of the tobacco grow
ers, he places on his ticket ex-senator
j ack Oliver, who voted against the to-
bacco people at every opportunity in
the State Senate.
Although before the Republican
State Convention he announced that he
favored the initiative and referendum,
when the Republican platfol m was an
nounced. there was no reference to
these progressive policies.
Judge O'Rear promised the women
of the State that he was in favor of
woman's suffrage, and although he
personally dictated the Republican
platform, he could find no place in it
for a plank approving womau's stuff
rage.
His platform heartily endorsed
President Taft and all his policies, but
when he was called to account for ap-
proving the vetoes of the president, he
passed it off by saying that the plat
form endorsement was meaningless
bouquet.
His platform app roves every act of
Governor Wilson's eXtravagant, ineffi-
cient administration, but when the bur-
den Of it was transferred to O'Rear' s
shoulders, he stood from under it with
the declaration that that plank was a
mere pleasantly, and must not be
taken seriously.
SO it will be seen that Judge O'Real
only makes promises to break them.
He is rot true to his party, to him.
self, or to what few convictions he has
o public questions. Wherever he hap.
pens TO be, he takes the color If his
surroundings, and supports any fad,
folly or policy that promises to gair
him few votes.
Starting cut pure Judge clothed ir
trmine from head to toe, unsullied anC
ulspotted, he has in few short week:
been transformed into a time-servinl
politician whose insincerity is stamped
upon his countenance, and colors ever
wo t at he utters.
Daily Thought.