Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-10-05

Brave Old Soldier Shows Where
ReStandS On Night
Riding.


cratic platform is silent on the sub
ject, some Of the Democratic speak
ers are making Gov. Wilson's use
of the military for suppressing night
riders Rn issue in the compaign, by
conde61ing Gov. Wilson for per-
forming what Law and Order men
of all parties regarded as his sworn
duty. To such enemies of their own
party, we commend the following
extract from the speech of Gen.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, the Sage of
Glen Lily, who has returned to his
party, who introduced Hon. E. j.
McDermott at Munfordville:
''The two parties have presented
for your consideration their candi-
dates to fill the different executive
offices in the Commonwealth. The
Republican party has announced a
ticket headed by Judge 0'Rear as
their candidate for Governor. and.
on this officer, as the chief executive
of the state, devolves the high duty
of enforcing the laws made by your
Legislature for the preservation of
order and the suppression of crime
and violence throughout the Com
monwealth. | would not knowingly
do an injustice to Judge O'Rear nor
to any man. 1t is not only our right
but our duty, as citizens of a free
country, to examine closely into the
fitness of all persons who aspire to
the high honor which is to be con-
ferred upon them.
REFERS TO NIGHT RIDERS.
'It is we'll known to you that in
the first year of the present State
Administration, armed mobs of
masked men under the name of
Night Riders roamed at will
through number of counties in our
state, and in disregard of all law
and of the rights of others. commit
ed acts of violence and brutality. 1t
was once our boast as Kentuckians.
that none could excel US in our chi
vsAze2s regard for woman. We be-
Keve with the Bard that:
THE man who lays his hand upon
a woman. save in the way of kind
ness, is a wretch 80 mean 'twere
base fiattery to call him coward
But even this gentle being. who
nurtures US in infancy. who cheers
usgp our journey through life and
comforts US in our declining years.
did not escape the brutalities OF
these misguided men.
is this the new form of Kentucky
chivalry which some Of our modern
statesmen would teach US?
"Gov. Wilson. as was his sworn
duty as our Chief Executive, went
to the aid of the local civil authori-
ties to assist them in suppresslng
these crimes and in restoring law
and order in localities where the
whole social organization was threat
ened with dissolution, This act OF
Gov. Wilson in effect was condemn
ed by Judge O'Rear. who, by this
condemnation, virtually condonec
the crimes.
COMMITTED BY SILENCE.
"But not content with himself cen
surfing the actions of the Governor
it seems that he sought to force his
party to commit itself by silence t.
the same views. In the origina
draft of the platforms. which. it il
claimed, was written by him, the
approval of the Administration wa
limited to its business aspect. thus
indirectly censuring the Governor
for suppressing crime. and com
hitting his party to mute acquies
cence in the acts of the night riders
when Judge O'Rear's action OF
these questions is reduced to its las
analysis can reach no other con
clusion than that it is equivalent t.
a declaration to the people that. i
he were Governor of the Common
wealth, he would refuse to emplo!
the power given him to aid the loca
authorities in enforcing the obedi
ence to the law.
"A man who entertains such view
does not commend himself TO me a
Apper person to whom should b