The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-03-20
Bee KHAN ON STANLEY.

! In his opening speech AT EllIaDClh-
town Monday Beckham made the fol-
lowing salty refernece TO the well
lowing salty reference to the well
ley on the saloon question:
He boasts, too, Of his long ware
fare upon the Tobacco Trust, and yet
neither he nor his most ardent friend
can point to a single act OF his that
J has ever brousht the slightest sub
stantial relief to the tobacco grower.
or 10 the people, from the wrongs
perpetrated by that trust.
! "lnflammatory and incendiary
speeches are the only remedies he has
ever given for those evils, and it is
fact, that the only Weapon the to-
bacco growers of Kentucky have been
able to use successfully in a contest
with that trust, was the act OF het
General Assembly of 1906, legalizing
the pooling OF their crops, and that
measure was passed with my active
assistance, and was signed by me
while was Governor. Neither had
that trust any political strength in
Kentucky, and it was certainly not
to be feared by candidate for Con-
gross in the Second district Of the
State.
But there is trust in Kentucky
whose political power extends like
pail over the entire State, anil holds
in it's strong grasp many politicians
who dare not provoke its enmity or
wrath. Its pernicious activity has APP
peared in nearly every primary, con-
vention and legislative ASSEMBLY, held
in Kentucky for many years.
1T has sought to dominate the poll
tics of the State in every particular.
and it has fought to prevent any linz
itation upon its market or any re-
striction upon its business. 1t has
sought to establish saloons in eveIE
county, city and hamlet in the Com
monwealth. 1t has put its blight up
on more homes, it has wreckul more
human lives, and filled more I'M
timely graves, than have all other
trusts combined. 1t rewards these
who serve it and Furnishes those who
oppose it.
ut never ceases in it's efforts TO
control the Legislatures, the courts
arid the executive officers OF the
State. lit demands that it shall have
the Senators, and as many as posi-
BILE of the Congressman, from this
State, in the Federal Congress. The
Steel Trust has never exercised
more power in Pennsylvania than has
the Liquor Trust in Kentucky; and
no man ever wore the collar Of the
Steel Trust more slavishly in that
State, followed its commands more
obediently, than Stanley has done
for the Liquor Trust in this State.
"A few of the many well-known
instances of his services to that
trust will show that | am not mis-
representing him or his record In
Angus 1911. Democratic State
Convention was held in Louisville, to
prepare a platform upon which the
Democratic nominees for State Of
ficers should so before the people in |
the campaign of that year. The chief
issue N that convention was wheth- |
er or not a county plank should |
be placed in the platform.
1.-THE liquor forces mustered their |
full strength against the plank; and /
among the most active leaders on
their side was Mr.. Stanley, working |
for them TO the full extent Of his in
fluence in the front to keep that /
plank out. When the question came
to a vote in the convention on roll !
cal', he boastfully cast the votes OF
Henderson county against the coun-
ty-unit plank.
His service TO the trust was more
devoted than his service to the par
ty or TO the State; for intellisent
observers know that, without that
plank in the platform our State tick
ct would have had little chance TO
succeed in the November election.
He. of course. defended his position
upon the ground that the law would
be unconstitutional.
THAT is always the last argument
made by trust advocate in a fight
against reform measure. The Court
OF Appeals had said that the law was
constitutional. Notwithstanding his