Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1912-09-27
A Letter From COrbin

We are all citizens OF the same
Country, members Of the same Gov
eminent, and we therefore should
all be interested alike in the affairs
and political economy of this the
model Nation of the world. So we
mean to preserve inviolate our Con.
stitution, the bul-wark OF American
Liberty. 1t is not sanctified nor
holy but it is deemed precious and
n benediction to us and our children
and when we hold it in public con.
tempt and derision and even dis
card and reject it and substitute in
lieu thereofan endless series Of Judge
ments of the people expressed at
the polls, influenced by political
passion, public sentiment, and dan
gerous demegogues. We in my judg-
ment threaten the dissolution Of this
Republic and thereby destroy our
hopes, murder our anticipation for
a glorious and happy future. What
an awful inheritance do we intend
to transmit to our posterity, tor
progressiveism outside of the Re-
publican party is a new tangled the
orv, more hattering, more danger
Gus, more detrimental and far
worse than socialism or democracy.
1t is a disease in the Republican par.
ty, a cancer in the nations heart.
We must cure the disease and save
the nation, or else it will destroy
the Republican party. And if the
Republican party is destroyed all is
destroyed, there being nothing left
worth saving, for the histroy of this
Nation is the history of the Republic
can party. But there is a little IN
dependent, progressive Religious,
epicurean, eat-drink- and-be-merry
band that met in Convention at
Corbin and tarried until imbued
with power from on high.
This is their wonderful story
Shall we suffer ourselves to be so
deceived, believe it and give it a par
and market value? No, No! Why?
Because they are raging waves of
the sea, wandering stars, clouds
without water carried about by
every wind of doctrine, blind guides,
strain at a gnat and swallow a
camel, vet resorting to every catchy
soothing and flattering term to de-
ceive the honest. sincere, conscienti-
Gus republican voter. Now, say
bows, be frank and tell us the sole
and fundamental object of your
Corbin Convention. Did not Col
den-Stamper-Snyder and Co., say
that the purpose of the Convention
was to Nominate a Candidate to
oppose the Hon. Caleb Powers for
Congress. Well, YOU did not intend
for this to leak out, did you? But
bows murder will out. SO your
sins have overtaken you, Oh you
Judas, you Arnolds, you Tories,
you, prodigal Sons, Repent, Repent,
forsake your ungodly ways Confess
your sins and ask forgivness and
return into the house of your father,
for remember the angels that kept
not their first estate but left their
own habitation is sentenced in ever
lasting chains under darkness until
the judgement of that great day.
Now, my Republican friends let me
suggest that we all march as a
solid phalanx to our husking places
on November 9th, and vote a unit
for the Republican ticket, the pres
ervation Of the Constitution, the
progress and the future existance OF
the Republic and for a long and end
less era of peoce, plenty and pros
perity. And then when we are
summoned 10 travel through the
valley OF the shadow of death and
across the cold icy river OF Ioadar
Jesus will pilot us thro' on the
morning stars of the Resurrection
across the hill of Zion into the city
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