The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-08-23

en- and a lot of over-zealous DEM
ocrats of the city Of Louisville, in
that preposterous stunt of alleged
reform? What, oh, what good ever
came to the State from the thous-
ands of Democratic votes cast for
Wilson? Were not measures, prin-
,eiples, policies and sentiments for
which they had fought all their
lives, sarificed and worse than vast
ed? Have we not tried Prince
George drunk, and tried him sober
and, drunk or sober, found nothing
in him-but graft?
without false issues and scuttle-
fish tactics, the chances of the Re-
publicans would be hopeless. Their
policy is to break the Democratic
party into helpless factions, and
they have shrewdly chosen the IL
quor question as the tool of cleav-
age. Can there be any respectable
number of Democrats so easy?
Surely they have had enough to
make them at least mistrustful-
kind o. like a koyote that has had
his tail shot off.
A Democrat needs no stronger
proof of the uses to which his vote
for temperance is debased than the
election of Bradley at the cost of
the County Unit Bill, to which he
and his party were so solemnly
pledged. If he needs more, let him
review O'Rear's decisions in the
Court OF Appeals with his Temper
ance plank in his party platform,
not forgetting the proceedings of
their recent State convention held
in a hall over a brewery, and, as
If to further placate the whiskey
contingent, now have as campaign
chairman q manufacturer OF beer
keg slaves; especially the now ia
nous O'Rear Brewery Hall speech
in which he had the hardihood to
brszenly declare that Bradley had
been elected without stain, even in
spite of a whiskey lobby. I wonder
how long a party can escape the in
evitable consequences of such
double-dealt duplicity. l wonder
how much longer they can bam-
boozle the lot of Democrats who
have the cause of Temperance so
at heart. Why, child learns when
it is burnt. The Chinese say that
when a man wrongs you the first
time, he is to blame, but the second
time he wrongs you, you are to
blame. 1t is a Bourbon who never
learns.
May not the Democratic party be
entrusted with the serious prob
lens of Intemperance? How comes
it that the Republican party is the
only conservator of our morals?
What have they ever done to earn
such confidence? Or is it Blue Laws
you seek? Have you witches you
want burned? Or would you have,
like Sancho Panza, an official doc
tor to stand at your table and with
his wand point out and deny your
palate of every tempting dish upon
your table as unhealthy?
Left to the Democrats, the ques-
ton would be eliminated from pol
itics, as it should be, and referred,
as provided by the Constitution, to
local option, where it would secure
more dry territory than under the
proposed County Unit system. The
County Unit is nothing but an in
sidious step toward Statewide Pro-
hibition, and Statewide means that
Louisville and all other cities of
the State shall say whether whis-
key shall be sold in Hartford or
Ohio county. This is not Home
Rule, neither is it Democratic. If
Hartford does not want whiskey
sold, in the name OF Local Self
Government, why should the whis-
key tubs and toughs of Louisville
and Lexington be allowed to butt
in?
Taking advantage of the nice
points of divergence where the thin
lines of distinction so finely mark
the parting of the ways between
Democracy and Republicanism, the
latter seeks to confuse the unwary
who are so earnestly enlisted in the
cause of temperance, by assuming
that all hope is conferred in them,
that they are the saints and that
the Democratic party is the champ
ion of whiskey and debauchery and
no good can ever come out of Naz-
areth.
But, with all his experience and
dexterity, can O'Rear, like the Duke
of Leeds, double so cunningly that
the people shall be unable to track
him? l fancy not. Unless, within
the next few weeks, he can live
down his Brewery Hall speech, No
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