Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-06-05
Stanley Opens Campaign
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After his irrevocable and defiant
stand with the reactloDaries OF his
party he earned and he Is now re-
ceiving thu plaudits Of a subsidized
Republican press. Knowing that an
analysis OF his record would destroy
his claim to public confidence. they
have confined themselves to a frantic
and lachrymal appeal to popular com
miseration.
do not object to Mr. Beckham's
making a free exhibition Of his tester
Ing wounds. He has a perfect right
to pose as a political Lazarue II he
has nothing more edifying or instruct
i've to offer the public, but do object
to the politics OF the pack who are for.
ever growing about IT, | abhor the
pedigree of that kjair Of journalistic
mongrels who persist in licking his
sores and picking at their scabs In
public.
This Louisville Herald is terribly
put out" at the very idea of my OBJ
posing Mr. Beckham. He and Angus
tus K. Wilson have long been prime
favorites with that Republican period
ical. My probe of the Steel Trust
"pestered' this paper not a little, and
that corporation has detailed some
penny-a-liner, some superserviceable
hack, to scribble about me in its
editorial columns. How | have hon
estly earned the implacable hostility of
that subsidized sheet! Its oommenda-
ton is a positive encumbrance to any
honest man. AS everybody knows,
the so-called Schaffer Syndicate owns
the Louisville Herald, boots and
breeches;" Daniel G. Reed, the Tin
Plate King, owns the Schaffer Syndi-
cate, and the United States Steel Cor
poration owns Daniel q. Reed He is
the he-elephant among its managers
and directors.
The incorruptible and intelligent
Democracy of Kentucky will neither
desert me nor support Mr.. Beckham.
because some literary lackey of the
Steel Trust denounces me as a "quit
ter" or a ''demagogue."
No man can oppose any form of cor
porate or political iniquity without
arousing the wrath of Richard W.
Knott The Louisville Post is as
changeless as original sin in its ad-
vocacy of everything that is evil in
our social. industrial and political ex-
istence. II Is the same sinister serv-
ant of homicide and crookedness which
yesterday bounded William Goebel to
his grave, and then, hyena-like, at
tempted to mangle his dead body and
to blacken his memory.
Let him not dream that he can ever
sneak, like wolf in sleeps clothing,
back into a Democratic fold, after can
oniZing Caleb Powers and weeping over
the neck of Bill Taylor, when an indig-
nant and outraged Democracy had
made an outcast of that usurper.
hear his relentless hate has a
badge of honor. | seek neither the
nor the support of pan
derer to corruption and an apologist
for murder.
This envenomed. viper, whose face
tious tooth ranked in the lion heart
Of William Goebel, is coiled ready to
strike at any breast barred in defense
of popular government or the peoples
rights. Who paid for the Post during
the reign of terror in Kentucky? Who
it free to whomsoever would
handle 1t with a pair of tongs? The
Louisville & Nashville Railroad is not
bankrupt, and this pariah of the press
art and made trade of traduction is
still doing business at the same old
stand
MammOn has moved a magic wand
over the reeking waters of this cess
pool of SANDER and traduction, and
expect to be deluged by this Repub-
lican cloaca of printers ink and filth
Fifteen years ago this same pair Of
against Democratic prin-
ciples and Democratic success attempt
ed to muddy the waters and divert the
issue when Goebel, the great progress
i've of this age, warned his party and
his people against their Vaccinations
with this stern and solemn warning:
Il have endeavored ever since | be-
came candidate for Governor to point
out to the Democracy of the State
what really is the issue in this fight.
am now repeating that the bottom
question in this contest is, whether the
laws Of Kentucky shall be made,
whether the laws of Kentucky shall be
whether the laws of Ken
lucky shall be executed, by the people
of the State, or by the corporation, as
the L. & n. Railroad?"
They could not cloud the issue then
and they shall not dodge it now. 1t
Is true that my opponent followed this
great reformer in sequence of time,
but | dispute his claim as his sue
cessor He has carried out all his
a stretcher." His admin
istratiOn followed tha iluut rfous Iaa dor-