The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-02
BIG POLITICAL
BATTLES AHEAD IN
STATE OF KENTUCKY
WILL AGAIN BE TORN iASUNDER
BY FRACTIONAL DISTURB
ANCEs THIS FALL.
BECKHAM OUT FOR SENATE
The Ex-Governor Has Powerful
Machine at His command--Bull
Moosers Becoming Active and At
tracing Attention--Powers Fight.

Moosers Becoming Active and At
tracing Attention--Powe Fight.
LOUISVILLE, KY, July 31.-From
Aug. 3 until November there viii be
a continuous round of politics for
the voters of fKentucky. On Aug
there will be state wide primary,
when nominees for congressman
down to school trustees will be chos-
en- by both prties. In the latter
elections Kentucky women will have
their opportunity to exercise the
right of suffrage, which makes states
an almost impossibility and is caus-
ing the bosses considerable worry.
The real fight in Kentucky will
start this fall and will last straight
through until August, 1913 when a
candidate for the United States SEN
ate will named to succeed William
o. Bradley. There are half a dozen
rominent democrats who are being
groomed for the race and it will be
enc of the hottest fights in long
while. Former Governor j. w. G.
Beckham, John G. c. Mayo and Con-
gresham A. 0. Stanley are being
mentioned as probable candidates.
Stanley has sinecure in congress
for several terms to come, If he wants
to hold on to his present place, as
his district is ready to back him al
most to man since he has taken up
the steel investigation.
For several years Beckham has
been planning to go to the United
States senate and but for the fight
waged against him five years ago, and
the breaking of the deadlock and
the election of republican by a
democratic legislature, was the hard
est blow the governor ever received.
However, since that time he has Duilt
up machine in Kentucky that Is
more powerful than any machine in
many years. His victory in the state
convention here year ago and again
last spring in another state conven-
ton which sent an instructed delega-
ton to Baltimore for Champ Clark
shows that he is the most powerful
man in the state. He is also backed
by Gov. McCreary Politicians be-
lieve that Beckham will have walk
ever in the primary one year hence.
The Bull Moose party in Kentucky
lis giving the Taft leaders lot Of
trouble these days. When the pro-
gressive movement first began it was
looked upon by the regulars as mere
ly breaking away from the President
to follow Col. Roosevelt However,
the forming of precinct, county and
state organizations with the promise
of putting ticket in the field for
every state office has cut the throat
Of the Grand Old Party in the Blue-
grass state and made it an imboss-
bility for the republicans to carry
the state of Kentucky this fall The
fight between the regulars and the
rrogressives is even more bitter than
the battle between tn regular par
ties. Headed by men who once
held power under former presidents
hut were forgotten under the pres
ent regime, the Bull Moose follow
ers now planning to supplant the G.
0. P. and make it the regular party
OF the state. This has caused quite
q commotion in the Taft camp, and
| it is highly probable that Roosevelt
will receive as many if not more
votes than the president.
Kentucky would have been for Col.
Roosevelt in the national convention
at Chicago, had it not been for the
steam roller" which was manipulate
ed by Senator William o. Bradley.
The most interesting fight in Ken
lucky this fall will be in the Elev-
enth district. Caleb Powers, of Goe-
bel assassination fame and present
congressman from the Eleventh, has
no opposition in the primary in Au-
gust, but the Taft followers there
are angry because Powers did not
help the administration in its fight
in the convention there He did not
take any part in the fight and both
sides seem to hav grievance against
him. The progressives intend put
ting up strong man who will draw
many republican votes as well as the
democratic vote in the hope of defeat
ing him in the regular election Ac-
cording to the mountain folk they
have shown Powers that they believe
in his innocence by sending him to
congress. Now they claim that he
has no call upon them and that they