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

because OF his temperance views
Continuing he says:
Whether prohibition is wise
or unwise as a policy; whether
partial or total prohibition Should
prevail, are utterly beside the
question"
Mr.. Extremely Dry Man, will talk
like that induce you to leave. the
Democratic party and go over TO
party whose leader is no dryer than
that? Mr.. Knott, the editor of the
Post, says the Democratic platform
is all right.
Mccreary's stand.
You hear 1t said that Senator Nc
Creary is equivocal about great
many things that he avoids taking a.
stand wherever he can possibly do
so. Didn't he compel that conven-
tion to put county unit plank in its
platform when, perhaps, the conven
ton did not want to do it? They say
McCreary is too old. That is what
! said too And they say
he won't live long. believe he is
going to live long enough to see
O'Rear and the whole bunch Of them
turn their political toes to the daisies
O'Rear is yet to find out
that he Is just as mistaken about IL
as ! was. He Is very much alive
He may have been dead politically,
and a mrather inclined to believe
that he was too, but his death must
have been like the fellow who picked
up a little country newspaper and
read among the death notices that
he himself was dead. He did not
want his friends and relatives around
to think that he was dead. when he
was alive. and he went down, to the
newspaper offlce and showed the no
tice to the editor and said, 81 see
you stated in the newspaper that
am dead?" The editor said, yes"
The fellow said, 81 am not dead. and
| want you to correct it," The ed
itor said, mo, we have to run our pa
per on the principle that we do not
make any mistakes" The fellow
said, "You have to correct it, be-
cause l am not dead am very
much alive" The editor said.
Eyes, that's all true, but we hate
to acknowledge that we have made
a mistake. We just simply can't do
it," Finally, after thinking it over,
a new thought came to the editor.
and he said, 81 will tell you what |
can do; can put you among the list
of births" Senator Nc
, Creary may have been dead, and he
may have been ducking and lodging
this question, and that, and the 9TH
err. but | am today putting him on
the list Of births, and he is back here
now, a new McCreary, taking a posi-
ton like he never took before in his
| life. and says that he is for the
county unit BILL and when he does
come out and says he is, he is.
feel that | have kept you entirely
too long, but | would like to detain
you a minute or two about another
thing. Judge O'Rear before the Re-
publican convention had this to say
about Bradley:
at is a great privilege to be
received in this manner by the
representatives, of $4,000 Repub-
Leans of Kentucky and to be in
troduced to this audience by my
friend the senator who, in my
judgment. is the greatest living
Kentuckian. | am proud to say
Of him, furthermore, that despite
the Vaccinations of the lobby,
here is one senator from Ken
lucky on whose title there is no
stain and on whose record there
is no blot"
Who Elected Bradley?
Bradley has been elected to the
United States senate, hasn't he?
Everybody admits that. Who elected
him? There is no truth in the state
ment that anybody got any money
for voting for him. Perfectly clean,
and his title unspotted. He got every
single solitary vote that was cast for
him out of patriotism. and patriot
ism alone. He was the best man for
the job. That may have been be-
cause he was the chief attorney in
Kentucky for the Whiskey Trust. But
Judge O'Rear says it was no.. Then
who did elect him? ! can tell you,
if the Whiskey Trust did not. Judge
| O'Rear has not treated the people
right when he tells them that the
whiskey lobby did not elect Bradley
by failing to tell them who did. If
they did not. then the opposing ele-
ment did. and that opposing element
must have been the Women's Chris
tian Temperance union. You women
who are here. and who belong to the
| Women's Christian Temperance
union, ought to be ashamed Of your
selves foT concealing the Fact that
you elected Bradley to the United
States senate And then
will tell you another thing that you
good women have done. You have
remained silent these three and
half years. and you have allowed four
other men. with spotless and unfair