The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-01-22
McCREARY TALKS
Says if Elected United States Senator
His Term as Governor Will
Have Expired.

i Gov. James B. McGreary has
given out the following interview
to the Cincinnati Enquirer:
'The first visitors | had who
urged me to make the race for
j Governor told me that / could
beat O'Rear, who even then was
regarded as certain to be the Re-
publican nominee, at least 10000.
| felt that | could beat him, but |
was not willinfi to accept the ex-
EpreSsionS of visitors as to figures
until | had canvassed the situa-
ton thoroughly for myself, and it
was three months before made
announcement of my decision to
run. How well | ran is history.
The opposition to my nomination
said | was too old to make the
race. When | stepped in and got
the nomination the cry that went
up from the Republican side was
that | would be dead before the
end of the campaign. | made a
speech every day when we got in
to the thick of it and twice wore
down my younger friend, Tom
Smith, and even Ed McDermott
got sick once during the period.
Every one remembers how | beat
ORear by 3l,365 votes.
THAT was a year ago last No
vember. | have been in the office
of Governor for over a year; have
had one session of the, Legisla-
ture, at which | succeeded in Sc
curing the establishment of six
bureaus advocated in my plat
form; had a successful little fight
with Senator-elect Ollie James for
the Guardianship of the State
Convention in Louisville last
May; went to Baltimore as Chair
man of the Kentucky delegation
to the National Democratic Con-
vention and cast the vote of that
delegation on every bollot that
was taken during the long and
tedious period in the, heat of the
sumner; have been working con-
stantly in my Office at Frankfort
since then and Pm not dead yet.
On the other hand | weigh 200
pounds; which is more than 1
ever weighed in my life before,
and | cannot recall that | ever
felt better than right now.
II have observed that some of
the state newspapers have been
saying We cannot spare Nc
Creary. We do not want him to
resign as Governor And / have
wondered if it has ever occurred
to them that it is possible for me
to be elected to the Senate and
fill out every honor of my time as
Governor. | will explain it. Sem
ator Bradley's term will expire in
March, 1915. My term as Gov
ernOr will expire in December,
1915. The year 1915 is the year
preceding the next presidential
election. There never has been
and probably never will be an ex-
traordinary session of Congress
the year before presidential
election, so that it would be posi-
BILE for me to continue on as Gov
ernor to the end of my term; if
the people should desire it, should
become a candidate for the
Senate and be nominated and
elected.
Il noted also the other day that
some one, in commenting on the
possibility of my announcing for
the senatorial nomination, that |
had passed only a little more than
one fourth of my term as Gov
ernor, and that it seemed queer
that / might want to make an
other race SO soon. That person
had evidently overlooked the fact
that candidates for nomination
for the Senate, though the office
is not to be vacated until March,
1915, are not choosers of the time
n Il L. 4