The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-05-10
JAMES EDWARDS
LANDS ON HALEY
Louisville Candidate Tells
Some Things.
NOT A MACHINE, BUT DICTATOR
HeHaS Found, HeSayS-WantS
TO Know WherefOreneSS
of the Matter.
HEADQUARTERS ARE IN OHIO

In his speech at Lebanon recent
ly, James P. Edwards, of Louis
Vile, candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor. said:
II am a candidate for the DEM
ocratic nomination for Lieutenant
Governor. was permitted to run
for a period of about year without
opposition. l have lately gotten
considerable opposition-two gem
tlemen in my home town in the last
two weeks have entered the race.
Il want to tell you that I have
a reason for running this race,
and have a reason for run
ming it out. My motto is Down
with the machine and break the
slate" I have no machine behind
me, Mr.. Chairman, to aid me in my
endeavors for this nomination. 1
have no machine behind me whose
bidding l would have to do If elect
ed to the Office of LieuteD Gov
erpor am. making this mt. be-
cause I do not believe that~ Stime
is ripe in Kentucky when a h men
can get off in a room in a foreign
hotel and dictate the nominees of a
great party. (Applause). l do not
believe that the suffrage of the DEM
ocrats of the State OF Kentucky is
a purchasable commodity.
ut has been my privilege to visit
forty counties-forty-seven, to be
exact-in this canvass. l have been
rom Big Sandy to Mills Point. l
AVE touched the Tennessee line
eight times. l have been to the
Doint where the three States corner
at Pinnacle mountain. have been
where the Tennessee river empties
into the Ohio, and from there west
to where the Ohio empties into the
Mississippi; and in all that trip l
have been searching for what / have
been told is a Democratic machine
that rules this State, and say to
you that the last vestige of 1t has
left Kentucky. To find it, had to
cross the river into the State of
Ohio and enter the portals Of the
Sinton hotel. from which it OPP
crates. (Applause.)
81 tell you that machine as it has
existed is a political and moral
bankrupt in Kentucky. There was
a time maybe when certain men had
patronage to dish out; there was a
time when they could discharge
men from jobs if they did not do
their bidding, and some of them
yielded to the lash, and want to
say to you that throughout the State
of Kentucky l have seen no DISPOSE
ton anywhere to bow the knee to
Mammon or to Baal.
4 by what qualification, ask you,
lis it that this man Haley, a polit-
/, ical parasitssIwithout parallel on
the American Stage to-day-by what
qualification does he attempt to die
tate 10 you and to me as to wheth-
er or not we shall be candidates for
Office inside of the Democratic par
ty? Is it because he has been hon
ored in the past and drawn salaries
from Democratic treasures? Or is
it because he is now the Man Friday
and henchman of a millionaire?
Whatever his qualifications may be,
/ want to say to you, and l want to
say to the machine whose mouth
piece he is, that from now until the
first day of July, / propose to talk
against it in every county where I
can get an audience in the entire
State of Kentucky. (Applause).
81 do not believe that few men
can run this State, nor shall l ever
believe it until the matter has been
demonstrated upon the first day of
July. I concede to these gentlemen
the right to support whomsoever
they will; l concede to them the
right to bring whatever strength,
whether it be of money or of men,
behind their candidates for office,
but do not concede their right to
assume a dictatorship and to tell
YOU and me and the untrammeled
voters of Kentucky what they shall
do or what they shall not do"