The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1913-02-14
10 The Democratic Voters Of Carard
County,.

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government in which the humblest and
the poorest citizen may equally contend
with the rich and favored for political
office, and believing in the democratic
doctrine ofrotation in office and knowing
that generous public often rewards
an efficient tried and true democratic
worker with preferment, l announced
myself as a candidate to represent
Garrard County in the Kentucky
Legislature, subject to a democratic
primary to be held in August Q913.)
Believing that when a man asks of the
people the office of representative, or
any other office, that the people have
the right to a free and candid
expression of his views upon public
questions and especially upon those
questions that directly affect them, and
believing that Governor Beckham was
robbed of the Office of United States
Senator by four political renegades, and
that he has always been true to his
convictions and the interest of the great
common people of our State. and that
he is admirably qualified for this Office,
| will say to the voters of this county
that l prefer him to any man in Ken
lucky for this office.
He was called to the Governors chair
when only 81 years old, when the state
was in chaotic condition theLegislative
and Court of Appeals were run out of the
city of Frankfort by armed soldiers
when the state was nearly two million
dollars in debt, and disorder and dem
oralization upon all sides, and yet at
this inexperienced age, he brought
peace and tranquility out of chaos, put
the states finances, upon sound and
economical basis, enlarged the ap-
preparations to the eleemosynary in
situations of the state, greatly aug
mented the Common School fund. re-
generated the prison system and put
them upon paying and self sustaining
basis, built your magnificent state
Capitol building costing So, 900, 900 with
out any suspicion or charge of graft,
left the state treasury with over ST.
600, 900 in it. and all this was done by
his splendid management and execu-
tive ability, without raising your tax
rate; put the County Unit plank in the
democratic platform, and made it pos
sible to beput upon your statute books,
did not repine or become disgruntled |
in defeat, but put his shoulder to the
wheel and helped to roll up the demo-
cratic majority and victory in 1911.
and had he been your representative in
Congress when the Kenyon bill was
voted upon, he would not have desert
ed his post for the. doubtful shadow of
the saloon keepers wing, nor hidden
behind the flimsy and puerile pretext
Of unconstitutionality.
We sadly need such a man in the
Senate to help carry out the pledges to
the people in the National Democratic
platform and sustain President-elect
Wilson in his effort to redeem these
pledges.
cast my first vote for him in 1898
and have always been his Jealous
l have been for him up hill
and down dale, and have never yet
failed to find him honest, courageous,
and always working for the
pest interest of his party and 1.-THE
common people," Very recently upon
he streets of Lancaster he with James
md others of the Kentucky delegation
It the Baltimore Convention with that
and grand statesman, Will
lam Jennings Bryan, were denounced
md villified as wreckers and demago-
yues of the democratic party, and it
vas advocated to unceremoniously kick
hem out of the Baltimore convention,
md yet by following the leadership of
Bryan, the nomination of that christian
Woodrow Wilson, for the
was made possible. and this
vas accomplished only by these men
,ver ruling the power and control of
he trusts and big interests that were
that convention, and by
heir actions made the election of
Woodrow Wilson a certainty.
My observation has taught me that
certain sporadic and spasmodic changes
If mind and sentiment in order to be
IN the popular side of men or measures
ire like death bed regenerations, of
Unstable quality and doubtful and SUSPECT
,us character. one is the art of the
.rickster and demagogue in politics,
he other of the dissembler and hypo-
rite in religion. In my conception of
right and wrong there is no distinction
personal and political integrity;
\ man who would violate sacred pol
tical agreement, can scarcely be trust
ID, and submit to you is likely to be-
tray a political promise or dishonor a
business obligation. If you do not