The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1911-10-26

opening his mouth to defend the
state that had honored him with q
seat in the National House and that
ne now asks to make him a member
OF the Senate"
Turning again to state affairs be
said:
I'VE are now in the midst OF a
very momentous campaign. We adopt
ed a platform and the Democrats
came along after we had adopted II
and stole sixteen of our planks and
put them into theirs. They could be
indicted, and tried for grand larceny
and put into the penitentiary.
But Il must be conceded that they
made a good selection In their steal
If they do trot along behind us like
yellow dog behind a wagon and
declare that we stole from them. Now
IL they were for these things why
did they vote against them? Has It
ever occurred to you that We have
never had Republican Legislature
in Kentucky? Every law that is on
the statute book the Democratic Par
ty is responsible for.
Every great issue in this cam
paign they evade. One Of these Is
sues is the lifting of our Judges and
our Courts out OF politics 80 that
they may properly discharge their
duties between man and man. They
are silent on that. Another one is the
movement for honest elections. They
are silent on that. They do not
ant honest elections. And they are
silent on the great subject Of equal
representation in the Legislature.
Let us talk about something we
are interested in. You all are fami-
liar with our History. You remember
George Washington, John Adams.
Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry,
and the sons of the Revolution. You
all know that this nation rebelled
under the eloquence Of Patrick Henry
and went out in q great war for
our freedom. You all know that from
the first shot that sounded at Lex
ington until Yorktown our forefathers
fought in order that we might DO
free and that the stars and stripes
might float over our heads. They
fought to free US from the great
wrong of taxation without represen-
tation. Do you know that very Of
fence is being committed in Kentucky
today that was committed by old
King George III and the parliament
Of England. The very thing that warm
ed the blood of our forefathers ex-
lists here today. Who put It here?
The Democratic party Of Kentucky.
The Republican party. through Judge
O'Rear and a Republican Legislature
propose to change this thing and to
give every citizen of this common
wealth equal representation. Are
you for It? II you are not. then you
10 not endorse your ancestry. II you
Ire in favor of a proposition Of this
sort you are pure descendants OF
Revolutionary stock.
Are you free men yourselves? DO
you love your state? II you do. then
beg of you to go to the polls and
ct us vote side by side for the pur-
lose of making every man in Ken
lucky. in the mountains or In the
Blue Grass, the equal of every other
nan. They say that the people In
he mountains of Kentucky. both
democrats and Republicans, do not
eserve equal representation with
he people of the Blue Grass. Is that
ct shameful thing to contemplate?
Why are not the mountains enti-
led to these things? In 1861 1t was
rom the mountains of Kentucky that
he men came who planted the flag
n Lookout Mountain when the SOL
iers fought above the clouds. The !
eople of the mountains OF Kentucky {
III tnciT uuty III the opdhiSn war |
nd the Mexican War and the War Of I
s12. You tax them just as you do l
Their people and yet you deny them {
lie boone of liberty that you your I
lives enjoy. I
Now you know the state is divid- s
| into 3S Senatorial Districts. The {
requires that these t
lould be determined by the Legis- y
ture and fairly redistricted from Il
me to time. But the Democratic I
legislature has never districted IL a
irly. In some parts of the state
lie mans vote counts as much rs a
ven votes in the Republican coun- b
IS. A case involving this injustice y
as taken up and tested in the Court
Appeals in Kentucky. want you .
listen, my Democratic friends, to
e decision rendered by Judge Bark