The Adair County news., 1911-07-26
DECLARES FOR Dem.
OCRATIC TICKET.
Ben Johnson Says McCreary and
Ollie James Must Be Elected.
ISSUES A CARD TO THE PUBLIC.

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Creary must be made Governor: All
the rest of the Democratic ticket must
be elected
This sentence epitomizes a stirring
call voiced to-day by Representative
Ben Johnson, of the Fourth district,
for the success of Kentucky Democrats
next fall. Mr.. Johnson uttered it to
show what stock he takes in current
political stories that former Senator
McCreary is seeking to defeat him for
denomination in the Fourth District and
to indicate to those Republicans who
are spreading such stories that they
cannot divert either Mr.. Johnson or
any of his friends. Although Johnson
was candidate against McCreary for
the gubernatorial nomination, and with
drew from the race amid circumstan-
ces not entirely harmonious, ne said to-
day that he had never scratched Dem
ocratic ticket in his life nor does he
now intend to.
Mr.. Johnson issued his statement af-
ter reading some of the stories about
him current in a Louisville evening
newspaper. He said:
Il have read the article in the Louis
vile Post saying that the McCreary
men are after my political scalp. In
my opinion this is nothing more and
nothing less than an attempt upon the
part of the Republicans to array my
friends against McCreary and the rest
of the Democratic nominees on the
State Ticket.
This scheme cannot be worked to the
detriment of the Democratic ticket by
the Republicans, no matter who may
permit the use of his name as candi-
date for Congress against me. to fur
Their its accomplishment.
MY friends did carry the Fourth
district for Adams in the recent pri-
mary, and my friends in the Fourth
district will carry that district next
November for Mr.. McCreary and the
rest of the Democratic ticket. AS for
myself. / have never scratched ticket
of Democratic candidates, and my
friends in the Fourth district are the
same kind of loyal party men.
There are in the Fourth district, as
well as some out of it, few men who
supported Mr.. McCreary in the recent
primary who, as said before the pri-
mary will not support him in Novem-
ber- These are not my friends. have
believed for months that few design
ing, politicians, apparently affiliating
with the Democratic party, have not
the success OF the party at heart, and
will secretly knife it next November
and Their rush to the front with catch
thief cry and say that l and those who
voted for Mr. Adams were response
BILE for the falling off of the Democrat.
ic vote; while that falling off, if it
should so result. would be attributable
entirely to those who now profess to be-
lieve that the Democratic ticket will
not receive the support of myself and
my friends Their game is too trans.
parent, and the half dozen or so of
those who are endeavoring to give it
life will find that their Interior motives
will have been seen and found want
ing.
"Judge O'Rear will get the votes of
some of that class of fellows who voted
for Mr.. McCreary in the primary. but
ne will get neither my vote nor the
vote of my friends. No man ever
heard Of a Democratic ticket being
scratched by me and never will hear of
it. i know full well that Mr.. McCreary
has no sort of sympathy for the spirit
of the article in the Post, and know
lust as certainly that he is not conniv-
ing with others to defeat me for re-
election to Congress; and besides, he
entertains no doubt that and my Dem
ocrauic friends in the Fourth District
will carry that district for HIM and the
whole ticket if it is possible to do so.
''And such impossibility could be
brought about Only by republican news
papers which find the use of willing
Democratic names to aid in it's accom-
plishment. These same people who
are designing the loss of votes to the
Democratic ticket in the Fourth Con-
gressional district. hoping to have fu-
ture opportunity to reflect upon me and
my friends. are those who have drawn
thousands of dollars in salaries by grace
> of the Democratic party and have new
err, in their entire lives. given as much
as a postage stamp to the party when
in distress; and they would now be-
tray the party in the State and connive
at its defeat in order that their loca
political ambitions might be strength
ened and that their personal spites,
growing out of base ingratitude. may
be fed. 1t would be a crime for any