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The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-07-16
REMARKABLE MEETING
GIVES AN IMPETUS To
STANLEY'S CAMPAIGN
Second District Congressman
Addresses Vast Crowd of
Supporters That Throngs
National Theater

ling down from the fetid steps Of a
throne upon a suppliant people below.
1t remained to the greatest mere man
that was born of woman to turn his
back upon the fallacies of the dead
past and his face toward the future,
and, with the audacity of genius, 10 de-
clare that all men were created free
and equal, with an equal right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
He took a mere man, because he was
a man, just as God made him, with
out regard to his worth, his learning or
his lineage, and made him the source
OF all power and all authority, clothed
him with sacred and inalienable rights,
armed him with ballot and made him
an uncrOwned king, and before this
towering creation of the mighty Amer
lean the thrones of the world did trem-
bic. ! reverenUly thank God tonight
that He who made us sovereigns all
was the author of the Declaration of
Independence, Thomas jefferson.
All that jefferson and all that the
wisdom and the courage of the fathers
could do was TO invest US with this Su-
prCme power. Ii remains for The peO-
pie, and the people alone, TO exercise
it. Eternal vigilance is the price OF
liberty. No constitution, however per-
feet, no government, however fiawless.
can ever, or will ever, protect and pre-
serve the liberties of a people who are
not ceaselessly vigilant in the eXer-
else of the power inherent in them.
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Defense of Business.

''In the words of Woodrow Wilson,
stand for setting the business and the
government of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky free, free from the machina-
lions and the control of a coterie OF
lobbyists and corruptionists who at
this hour unblushingly attempt to take
both by the throat.
The supreme power of the State and
the nation is lodged in it's legislative
Assembly. Who is it in Kentucky with
power enough to step between the peo-
pie and their duly-elected servants and
to boast that they can organize and
dominate law-making bodies even?
Does any man believe that a private
citizen, modest lawyer, devOting the
major portion of his time to the bust
ness of a couple of public service cor
poratiOns, which, according to his own
statement, paid him little over a dol
lar a day apiece-has he this tremend-
Gus authority? This is a task never
attempted before except by powerful
interests operating through cunning
and expert emissaries. Was it claimed
that Mr.. Beckham did this work? Nay,
not so. He is but a stately mask, a
painted shield, behind which Richard
w. Knott, Percy Haly and Sam Shack
elford ply their nefarious calling. 1t
is through him that they hope to get
their long and cadaverous fingers upon
the throat of a PROSTATE Democracy
and the purse of helpless people
Politics makes strange bed-fellows.
"A little while ago when Mr.. Beck
ham, then candidate for the Senate
against Gov. McCreary, denounced this
man, Shackelford, as the plunderer of
his own party, as sand-bagger of cor
porations, he told you that you dare
not entruSt any man in the Senate who
was actively supported by the known
representative of the Standard Oil Co.,
the Tobacco Trust and the Southern
Pacific railroad. These men were hard
ly on speaking terms at the close of
that campaign.
'In the course of time it became my
duty, as chairman of the committee
which investigated the affairs of the
United States Steel Corporation, to ex-
pose the methods of John d. Rockefel-
Ter in securing control of the most pre-
cious ore deposits in America. Three
times in one day was denounced by
John D. Rockefeller, by his almoner,
Frederick w. Gates, and by the cor
poration itself. secured and produced
the eliminating evidence which led
first to a petition for the dissolution
of the American Tobacco Company,
and finally to the separation of that
great combination into four more or
less independent and competing con-
Germs. AS a result of the fearless dis
charge of my duties as public serv-
ant Sam Shackelford is muzzled and
collared and delivered, surly but ODE
dent, to the hand that smote him, and
to-day he is yokemate with Percy Haly
in the organization of legislative bod
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Greedy and Voracious.

when neither insult to the Legis-
lature nor outrage to the courts did
deter the dauntless man who went Sc
renely on his way, without fear or re-
proach, who was it that reveled in
every form of cruel, false and ma
licious SANDER, who fired the black
and pitiless heart of murder, until the
dastardly deed was done, and with a
steel bullet crashing through his
vitals William Goebel fell bleeding in
front of the State House? Richard w.
Knott and the Louisville Evening
Post. AS he lay there like the muir
dered Duncan, his silver body laced
with his golden blood and all his vir-
tues crying out like angels trumpet
tones against the deep damnation of
his taking off, what ghoul, what hui
man hyena mangled that piece of
bleeding earth and then blackened the
memory of our mighty dead? Richard
w. Knott and the Louisville Evening
Post.
"Yet Mr.. Beckham has deliberately
selected and commissioned this crea-
ture as the head and front of a greedy
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Calumny For Bryan.

Bryan himself does not escape cal
umny at the hands of the head Of this
knott-Haly Shackelford triuInviratc.
On September %. 1908, .lr. Bry an
was cartOoned on the first page of this
abomnable Post, carrying a banner
reading No Prohibitionist Can Be a
Democrat His belt was made OF
whisky bottles, labeled Booze the
buckle was a beer mallet and his
breast was ircased in a beer keg. On
September II, 1908, it declared that
In Indiana il is now admitted that
a vote for Bryan and the ether Demo
cratic nominees is a vote for the liG-
UOr interests, and a vote against rea-
sonable regulation of the EquCr traf-
nc
"Mr. DeCkham himself fond no ia
vor in the eyes of Richard ". Knott
as Ions as he persisted IN GenCuGcirs
Mr.. Shackeiford, the Standard o.
Company and the Tobacco Trust II
was only after he found Sam and Per
Cy and Grips cuddled IN together as
peaceful and coy as pups IN q basket
that he lifted his UnClean hands in
political benediction.
This arch-enemy of Dem, crazy, this
traduceT of Carmack and Kern. Har-
mon and Marshall, GOebei and EryaB
is rot only the panegyTist. tIt the die
iatCT i'll this unique camrG IN. More
tLan year ago the Demo cratic editors
o. Kentucky, in convention assent led.
outlined their policy toward the Dem
riratic candidates in resolution
; OPTED without a discerning vCica.
.i"aiiZ-ng tEe necessity OF choosing the
best and the strongest standard bearer
.or the ensuing contest win ,-s com
mon enemy, and that II was p. -haia
hattie thar awaited uS-iH the LAST
presidential election Wilson's vote e.
c"ejing that of his two E-Erti.Jsn on
.1""rts by a little over z I-aa--
I'D tHs- in all probability b.. rnuub
can party, determined aHs reunited
| ,1Ud contest every foot q rls rfCGGd
"l,L the chosen champion o.. .emOc
acE, -1ey agreed to urge Democrats
.yeryv here to select their candidates
.Or tire Senate with an g. s.u-Is 70
| his Urcbity. his experience .E5 LIS ca.
gacity.
In recent editorial 'ae Neville
| lines. locking beyond trs ulst Satur
| Gay in august 10 the Id-. gf NCvem
| Ter, opened its columns 70 al The can
| 6idaIss in order that the People might
| the better Judge in the selection OF
! their champion for the T.1i contest
| tlr Knott immediately tcCz issue with
| The Democratic editors a. ,hc State
| He assumed 10 speak nCi only Tor him
self, but for the BeckEanl-T ally Shack
| elford regime.
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Sinister Control.

"This is the essence of that abom-
Unable thing known as invisible govern
ment. 1t was this secret and sinister
control of the peoples representatives
and the peoples government that hurl-
ed an effete Republicanism from pow
er and that will bury it in deserved
oblivion. a great jurist and a great
statesman met the expectancy and
gave voice to the will of a liberty-lOv-
ing people when he demanded a new
freedom, a freedom from invisible gov
eminent, a freedom from interference
by private interests with this country's
control of its own affairs. 1t was that
reiterated demand for this new free
dom that made a college president in
a State normally $4,000 Republican its
Democratic Governor by a majority of
10000. 1t was that same courageous
cry heard by forty-eight States that
made him the nominee of the Demo
cratic party for the presidency. II
was upon that issue that the Demo
cratic party elected Woodrow Wilson.
of New Jersey. In the greatest speech
of his life a few months before his
nomination he declared: Now, what
has been the matter? The matter has
been that the Government of this coun-
try was privately controlled and that
the business of this country was pTi-
vately controlled; and that we did not
have genuine representative Govern
ment, and that the people of this coun-
try did not have control of their own
affairs. And as to business
after a few committees. like the Stan
ley Committee have gone on a little
further We will know a good many
particulars
And again: Il make the assertion
that the Government was privately
controlled. | mean to put it specifical-
ly, that the Government of this coun-
try was managed by politicians who
gained the contributions which they
secured by solicitation from particular
groups of business interests, on the
understanding, explicit or implied, that
the first care of the Government was
to be for those particular interests.
= What do We stand here for
tonight, and what shall we stand for
as long as we live? We stand for set,
ting the Government of this country
free and the business of this country
free.
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No SeIf-Solicitude.

~ do not complain thas the columns
Cf l.. sheet rcek with every form Of
oSuuGcia tiOn of me. | DO no. complain
hat am subjected by il to every form
- q sGUction and abuse as an OffiCia,
r1C rF a man. | am PAINTED as q sDt
j GsT1 EOgue and a faker, the sup.
-C:E tJUie tool OF the liquor .u,eTa-.-.
I seek ne4uuer commCHdayiCu nor tie
support of the pandeEer TO corruption
aII ~ ?DOlOgist for murder. ! wear
his .l.Cntless hate as badge OF hon
c.. Ih.s facetious viper, whose Ven
cmEd tooth, but lately ranked in rne
Hon heart of William GOGbel IS cOiied.
now ready to strike at any breas;
barred in the defense of popular gov
ernInent and the peoples rights.
How this Republican sheet must
eGify the amazed Democracy of Ken
lucky with the information that while
/ an a bold, bad man, Mr.. Becllham is
sweet and neat, with pretty little
feet, and that he has never been kiss.
ed in his life,' and that he is merely
as sane and safe as Knott's once beau
ideal, William Howard Taft, that he is
as coy and modest and retiring as that
gentle and dove-like statesman, Theo-
dore Roosevelt, and that he is nearly
as careful of human life as Powers or
Howard or Youtsey.
Were | the only Democrat who had
deserved by honest and faithful serv-
ice the implacable hostility Of Mr..
Knott, were | the only Democrat who
had fallen the victim of his deliberate
perversiOn of the truth, there might
be found somewhere a member Of my
own party who might come under the
influence of his wiles.
Il am the last, not the first, to he
honOred by his opposition.
The Fifth district has been repre-
scented for six successive terms by a
man of superb ability; a ciear-Eeaded
clean and capable public servant. He
has earned and he has received the
continued commentator and support
of d splendid constituency. | hope
soon TO see him the chairman of the
great Committee on Appropriations
1t IS a fitting reward for ai.hful sery
ice and will rebound 10 the honor and
the material good of a great city and
a great Commonwealth. Yet Richard
W. Knott did not hesitate TO blast and
TO blacken his name, and 10 distOrt
The motives and belittie the services
CT your chosen Representative, Mr.
Sherley.
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duty of advising this body, clothed
with the right to veto measures which
in his opinion were inexpedient or I'M
constitutional, with whom it was ex-
pected to act in concert, for the sue
cess of the party and the good of tie
country, depends upon harmony be-
tween the executive and the legislative
branches of the government, that Gov
ernor's will was openly Haunted, and
those very men who exercised this
power did not hesitate to boast that
private citizens who had organized
and controlled the Legislature, had
come between that body and the peo-
pie whose will they are supposed to
express and obey.
Whenever it occurs that either a
Legislature or a Congress can be- or
ganized and rendered subservient to
the will of coterie of cunning and
designing lobbyists and politicians, the
interests of the people who elected
them and this free government is a
mockery, a delusion and a sham. That
is invisible government. No interest
was or ever will be able to corrupt
or control a free people. No privileged
interest, no lobbyist or corruptionist
will ever be fool enough to attempt it.
1T is only by breaking this benefi-
cent and necessary concord between
the public and the public servant that
the powers of government are ever
perverted TO the plumber of free peo-
pie and the vile use Of avaricious and
designing men.
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Support and Abuse.

"He supported Mckinley, Taft and
Roosevelt He fought Bryan and he
fought Parker. He supported Bradley
and Eli Taylor, Yerkes and Belhnap
and Augustus Z. Wilson. He fought
Goebel and he fought Beckham when
Beckham was at outs with Shackel-
ford, the Tobacco Trust and the Stand
ard Oil Company. He fought Hager.
Why this man who canonized Caleb
Powers and wept on the shoulders OF
BIZ Taylor when an outraged DemOc-
racy had made an outcast of that
usurper, should suddenly find in Mr..
Beckham all the beatitudes of his an
Gent Republican allies, is beyond my
ken.
Il do not complain of his wanton and
cruel assaults upon me. | do not be-
lieVe that the Democracy of Kentucky
will be moved by the coarse and W.
gar abuse with which the filthy col
umns of this Republican sheet -eek
from day to day. They will remem Der
that no Democrat in public life is So
upright or pure or blameleS5 rs to
escape the envenomed pen of this
Servile and corrupt enemy to decency
and Democracy.
when William Goebel made the re-
form OF corporate abuses the keynote
Of his campaign Dick Knott, then an
alleged Democrat, in obedience to the
interests which he served then and is
serving now, instantly became a
vicious and rantankerous Republican.
William Goebel was denounced as
an assassin, a fannel-mouthed incen-
Il IN. Il -Srrr,sY i ]
Nhen tTaductiOn, slandeS, misrepre-
senlation and falsehood all combined
did not avail to shake the faith of the
people in their valiant champion, this
same Louisville Post became the intel
leencer and the herald by which arm
oi assassins were notified that their
presence was needed in the peaceful
Cal ital OF the Commonwealth.
Dick Knots paper was the 5ugle
call that rang through hill and dale
and assembled those turbulent spirits
who We're shortly to make the seat of
government a scene of chaos and dis
order and at last of murder, and when
they were encamped around and about
The capital of the State and courts and
General Assembly were menaced by
their sinister presence, who defended
the assembling of this so-called peace
full army?' Richard w. Knott and the
Louisville Evening Post.
When the General Assembly were
driven in terror through the capital,
chased with naked bayonets through
the streets of Frankfort, who con-
doned the mOnstrous outrage? Rich
ard w. Knott and the Louisville Eve
ming Pest.
When for the first time in the his
tory of civilized government ruffians
| invaded the sacred temples of justice
and reverend judges, the ermine upon
their shoulders, were forced TO fee for
their lives and leave precious records
Of the Commonwealth for sack and pill
lage by ruthless and brutal savages,
who danced with fiendish gIee while
the damnable work was done? Rich
ard w. Knott and the Louisville Eve.
ming Post.
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Louisville, KY, July G, l9l4.-What
was without a doubt one OF the most
remarkable political meetings ever
held in Louisville was that last night
when Congressman A. o. Stanley, of
the Second district, candidate for the
Democratic nomination for United
asates Senator, presented his claims
% the voters of the Fifth district at
The National Theater.
The meeting was remarkable in that
il was a distinct innovation, being
probably the first time in the history
Of Louisville that a candidate for a
Democratic Statewide nomination ad-
dressed a mass meeting of voters here,
and, secondly, it was remarkable for
the crowd which packed the theater
auditorium, boxes, stage and large
part of the galleries. The crowd,
which was estimated at 200, was
coucededly one of the most represent
alive assemblages that ever faced a
sIeaker in Louisville, and MOI fifty
persons left the theater from the time
AIc. Stanley began until he Closed his
speech. which required an hour and
:. aIit 10 deliver. Many women 2raced
lie boxes, and they showed the keen
est interest in what the speaker had
10 say
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Parts of the Party.

will the Democratic party IN Ken
lucky permit Sam ShackelfG.d and
Percy Haly to name an ambassador
from a free and sovereign State? DO
the people of Kentucky wish to reach
the ear CT secure the favor OF Sen
atOr by paying obeisance to a Haly
or a Shackelford? The Republican
party owes its birth, it's life and its
death to special and privileged inter-
eSts. Hays and Shackelfords were an
essential part of its organization and
its being. For that reason the Repub-
lican press of Kentucky has already
nominated Mr.. Beckham and accepted
the lobbyist and trickster as the essen
tial and necessary parts of the pro-
gramme.
Every wash day you read in the
columns of the Lexington Leader that
| am about to retire from this race,
that | have mistreated and deceived
Gov. McCreary, that Ollie James has
organized a Federal machine for the
purpose of riding me into place and
power. Why do the Lexington Leader
the Louisville Herald and the Evening
Post seek Mr.. BecknGm's nomination
and my defeat? Either because they
feel assured that if nominated he will
be defeated, or because they find in
him and his associates the ugly attri-
butes of Republicanism under the con-
vsnient mask of Democracy. Who to-
day stands as political godfather, phil
oSOpher, guide and friend, self-consti-
tuted apOlogist and panegyrist for this
political triumvirate? Richard W.
Knott and the Evening Post. And when
and where was Dick Knott ever re-
, ceived into Democratic fellowship or
commissioned to outline the policies
for the party of jefferson and Jackson,
OF Bryan and Woodrow Wilson?
Were | to ask tonight who in all
Kentucky has besn the most inveter-
ate, the most cruel, the most false and
perfidiOus foe that Democracy ever
had, the answer would come sponta-
ncCusly from every Democratic heart
Dick Knott, of the Louisville Eve
ming Post. No man can oppose any
form OF corporate or political iniquity
without arOusing the wrath of Richard
VI. Knott.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-07-16
Outside Interference.

Here in Kentucky is the law writ.
ten in obedience to your will, by men
responsive to you alone. For weeks
before the last Legislature assembled
it was boldly proclaimed that private
citizens, having no official relation to
the Kentucky Legislature whatever,
not members of that body, or intrusted
by the law with the power to interfere
with its deliberations-that a few
private citizens would organize and
control it, would suggest the men
whom that body should elect as pre-.
siding officers, command it to the min
utest detail, even to the selection of
pages and cloakroom keepers; would
sit in its secret carcuses and deter.
mine the policies of the party and the
conduct of the lawmakers of a free
people.
THE Governor of the State, upon
whom the Constitution imposes the
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-07-16
What the Woodcock Said.

He declared that the Democratic
party was indebted to Mr.. Beckham:
that it was in'honOr bound 20 support
him; that it had no right 10 consider
the qualifications for public service OF
the strength in his party o. any ether
aspirant. He said: The one great
duty that devOlves upon Democracy
this year is 10 punish the atrcciOus
crime Of belting,' and said that since
several Democrats had bolted Nj
Beckham. every other Democrat should
support him. fit or unfit, Strong CT
weak. This man who fOF twenty years
has bOlted every Democratic nCmlreC.
State or National, now assumes 20 act
as supreme arbiter and censor Of the
conduct Of every other Democrat. lust
think OF Dick Knott deTCgrcine boit-
ers, Great God said the woodcCc&.
and away he few.
and how has The pity and tic
country become inGch5ed r.. VI EC.E-
nam? We know sometam- # OK Gutg
- our country We 40. '5-gH: ~
peace to live. and in war need re-
. die FOR that country; bit -rC f'Ct
heard Of the CCuntTy's ca g-t.On 10
any man? WhO-eEC6pf Flick Knott
and the Louisville Ty=.ul Pest?
What has Beckham done t. the rargs.
o. what has the party ever dcue 90
BcckhdG. 20 create This anomalous
condition? What great service n
peace, what great deed CT vaicr IN var.
has placed the Democrat rattr under
deathlesS debt 10 Mr Vsckram 2
Why, Sc are told that the ~d-ty sCue
years ago managed to IE5cae III PeCE
ham to kindly consent 10 :. kp a nom
| nation FOR the Senate. and. having
boon good enough to accCrt t. Gree. b.
| cue De an act OF J.s. irGTatItudr
moi 10 offer it to him again.
Kentucky once hCnCIed the great
est orator of ancient or modern times.
Il constructive statesman who was n
paragon even among such mighty
peers as Calhoun and Crit.elden, Ran
! dOlph and Webster, and Vet they have
inscribed upon the marble tomb of the
Great Harry of the West his express
sion of gratitude for the aCnor con
ferred upon him by the proud people
OF Kentucky
'The Democratic party placed the
toga of Clay upon the shoulders Ct
John c. Breckenridge. He vas Adcnis
Ia love, Mars in war, Scion in council
'HyperiGn's curls, the front Of JovP
himself:
An eye like Mars to threaten or com
mand:
\ station like the herald Mercury:
New light on a heaven-kiss hiU:
y combination and a form indeed.
Where every god did set his seal
To give the world assurance OF Il man.