The Hartford republican., 1911-09-15
.TFORD OHIO COUNTY, KY, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER Is, 1911

I torial friends get after me even so
gently as you do, am able to de-
6end the faith that Is in ms. Besides
this is what you get for challenging
me to give specifcatonis! / leave
to your rsaders to judge between your
sslf, O'Rear and my d5'ense of the
latter on this point.
II the Republican Committee ds us
ing any of my communications, such
as this, as campaign literature" as
you aver, have no other knowledge
of it than your statement. But I
am willing to say that few men in
Kentucky have had such exceptional
opportunity to know the political
meanderings and evasions, lodgings
and straddles, and high-c,ass decep-
tion of the public by my fellow towns
man, Hon. James B. McCreary, as has
the Undersigned Therefore, when
hear good Democrat Like yourself
condemn O'Rear for 'insincerity"
and praise McCreary for straight
forwardness, etc." say in my heart
of hearts Forgive him, Lord, he
knoweth not what he sayeth!" or
words to that effect.
You speak as man who Is sincere,
as an editor who believes in the in
tegrity of the party and of the candi-
date, when you utter these fine
words:
"The great mass Of Kentucky vo-
ters expectad-yes, DEMANDED-that
the Democracy of the State should
keep its record and advance hlong
the same line by the adoption of
county unit plank in its platform.
1t would have bsen an open violation
of confidence to have done otherwise
Those words are worthy of you or
any sincere man. Thsg are the words
il used last February and last June
to Induce Senator McCreary to spare
me and other temperance Democrats
the disagreeable duty OF leaving him
If he did not before everlastingly too
late, speak out as Statesman, as
sincere" Man, as a, brave and in
spring Leader and tell where he
stood and where the Danocratic par
ty should stand upon the County Tn
1t question. You,Mr. Editor, Very prop
erly say y-ths-psople tsdsmanded', such
an advanced position; but Mr. Nc
Crsary with characteristic cowardice,
or trickery, or political sagacity, If
you choose SO to term such conduct,
stuck to his usual course of addition,
division and silence!" The State
stood aghast at his non-commdttal
policy, oven to the day of the plat
form convention, when that body
with difficulty slid a county unit
plank under his feet. with Beckham's
aid and despite Watterson's protest.
l say to you that that course was
of itsdlf enough to turn sincere"
men of all parties away from Nc
Creary. But it my own case, which
| Is now under discussion, it only ad-
ded the last straw that broke the
camel's back. Here briefly is the
story, and | challenge amy man who
calls himself patriot bafore he is
partisan, a sincere" man before
he is syncupant or moral cow
ard, to debate the issue with me any
where in KentuclSy-'why McCreary's
Temperance Record is a Myth"
First-McCreary has had three
chances in fourteen years to vote
wet or dry in Richmond, and failed
each time to discharge the plain du-
ties of citizenship.
Sacond-He was supported by the
combined liquor interests CT Ken
lucky four short years ago for U. 5.
Senator against Gov. Beckham. and
the latter publicly declared "Every
saloon in the State is McCreary
headquarters.
Third-Mr. McCreary. publicly de-
nounced Gov. Beckham for remaining
away from a local option election in
Bardstown Sept. l, 1906. whereas
within five months thereafter, nnd
again last March, 1911. and again In
1897, Mr.. McCroary lodged the same
issue in Richmond. when his nsigh-
bors we're struggling to vote out the
saloons!
Tell me that your capdidate for
Governor ds a sincere. courageous,or
inspiring header? God deliver us from
one who has the voice of Jacob but
whose hand is the hand of Esau!
And why do l feel so deeply upon
this subject OF eaeoting or defeating
my fellow tOwnsman? Because fought
through three heartbreaking temper
ance contests at Richmond hand-to-
hand with the saloons, the breweuies