Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
OPENS CAMPAIGN
FOR NOMINATION
Declares That Republicans Must Stand
For Law Enforcement or Meet
Political Ruin.
DENoUNcEs MoBs
AND NIGHT RIDERS

one candidate for the nomination 20,
| Governor of the State so mercIlessly
arraigned another as e. T. Franks ar.
raigned Judge O'Rear in his opening
| speech here today. After declaring
for redistricting, for tax revision. for
better schools and better roads. for
| the endorsement of the county unit
bill as advocated in the 1907 plat.
form, Mr.. Franks said that the most
important matter before the people OF
the State. today is the enforcement of
the law, and he declared in effect that
| there are not enough night-riders and
mob-members in the Republican party
to nominate or elect a candidate who
does not stand firmly for law and or
der. Mr.. Franks speech, which was
heard and approved by a record
breaking crowd, was in part as fol
lows
When | made my announcement as
candidate for Governor, stated that
l would not make a speaking cam
paign for the nomination, giving as a
reason my fear that 1t would engen-
der bad feeling, and thus make il
more difficult for us to win in Novem-
Der, but self-preservation is univer-
sally allowed to be the first law of
nature. and If Judge O'Rear or any
one else thinks that he can come and
attack me in my own home without
getting into a scrap, he is destined
TO rude awakening when he tries 1t.
Hence l have decided to take the
stumn in advocacy Ct ny claims &c.
the Republican nomination for Gov
ernor, and If it is a speaking cam
paign that Judge O'Rear wants. 1
shall accommodate him to his hearts
content, though I repeat my opinion
that II would have been better for the
party If no speeches had been made
until after the July convention.
have been here many times be-
fore. In every hard-fought battle that
you have had for the past twenty
years | have come to your aid at the
hrst call, and have enjoyed my visits
to your city very much indeed. I
always feel at home in the mountains.
nave campaigned so much in the
mountains that l feel as much at
nome up here as | do in Jackson's |
Purchase, where I was born and |
reared, or in the Pennyrile, where |
my home has been so long. In the |
last twenty years l have had the |
pleasure of speaking in one hundred |
and ten of the one hundred and nine
zen counties of the State Wherever
have spoken, my views on the funda-
mental principles of the Republican
party are well known
The natural resources of Kentucky
ire not surpassed in Importance or
squaled IN variety by those of any |
'ther State. Her shores are washed
~ more miles of navigable streams
nan are possessed by any other
State; her soil is as fertile as the
Delta OF the Nile; many of her noun
aims and valleys are covered with
'lrgin timber that has never vet
leard the sound of the wOodman's ak: {
10 state has more coal. and none can |
roduce II more cheaply; we have
iuor-spar, lead, zinc. and the best
uality Of fire-clays in abundance. !
mere Is enough wafer power. unused
no gong to waste, to operate every
'heel and spindle in the State with
Ut using a bushel of coal, and vet
team coal can be delivered at our !
lrnace doors at lower cost than |
lmost anywhere else on this earth.
We are In close proximity to the fast
eVeloping Southland, where there |
waits us a ready market for every o
nlng that we manufacture. We have v
ne natural resources, and we have
ne men to develop them. A Drawer I
no more patriotic citizenship, on the
mole Is not to be found in any State
nd why should not Kentucky forge U
the 'front.' as one of the leading v
tates OF the Union in farming. In
manufactures. in mining, in education
nd in all the varied interests of a
reat people inhabiting a great land? 6
For years we have been shining
lr raw material elsewhere. II has
cen worked up and shipped back to a
!, we paying the freight both ways v
40 losing the potential profit. Why 9
: we not manufacture at home? 8
mere must be reason. What Is IL? 7
mere Is something radically wrong, {
these conditions would not exist. Q
VIII tell you what is wrong Our =
king system is wrong, and we do not N
der. o
We should begin our program of i
lange by altering our apportionment
WIS, so as TO give every citizen of .,
e State equal representation. / do y
u hesitate TO say that our appor- :,
onment laws are a disgrace to civil !"
ation' crime in the garb OF law, =
ID should make every honest man -
whatever party hang his head in =,
anne when he thinks OF the great :,
Justice that has been done to the -
'opie by Democratic legislators. who :.
RED not for the public good, but did ~
e bidding OF those enemies OF the N
ate who had before them and in =,
EN- nothing but their lust for con- a,
lued power as necessary condi- q,
IN OF their political existence. n
Mob Rule and Night Riders. n
There should be change IN our n,
VS. relative to moLs. Better protec-
m should be given TO persons ac- "a
sed OF crime. whether such persons A
elm jail or In the hands OF arresting IN
icers- Il Is a practice all too com ..