The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1914-07-29
DEMOCRATS PAY HEED!
unanswerabe Reasons Why Gov lanes McCrea Should Be
Nominated as the Democratic Candidate For The
Long Term Senatorshp

The approaching primary election
when determines the nominee Of the
Democratic party for the long term
Senatorship is the most critical cleo.
ton which has ever confronted the
party. PROFESSIONALLY upon it depend,
whether the party is to continue SUI
preme in the affairs of the State, OF
whether it is to become a faction.torn
disrupted party, thereby destroying it.
supremacy and opening wide the ave
nues to the Republican party, the pres
ent minority party. to again assume
coatrol of the State government.
This peril is the result of the unfor
tunate issue on the liquor question at
tempted by Congressman Stanley and
Gov. Beckham 10 be used as the means
of each obtaining the nomination for
the exalted position OF the Democratic
nominee for the long term Senator
ship-one espousing apparently State
wide prohibition and the other appar-
emily championing the continuation Of
the manufacture and sale of liquor in
its many forms. The history of all
political parties is that whene, er this
question is raised as party issue that
1t always marks the decline, defeat and
ruin of the party thus hardened with it .
Tennessee, our sister and neighboring
State, is an example which all thinking
Democrats should observe. and from
its experience we should seek our
guide against political disaster Though
the Democratic party is the majority
party in that State, yet for years the
Republican party, the minority party,
has had control of the State govern
mental because there exists within
its ranks there the wet and dry
factions.
In the present campaign the bitter
ness engendered within the Demo-
cratic ranks is apparent to all From
one end of the State to the other the
followers of those two gentlemen
openly declare that ii either be ncmi.
mated the opposing faction will not
support him. the Republicans, for the
first time in several years, sniff from
afar the smoke of battle within Demo
cratic ranks which portends Repubi.
can victory at the polls in November.
the inevitable result of divided party
in the event that either Congressman
Stanley or Gov. Bsckham is the uomi
nee. That is the reason why Elk Gov.
Wilson and Col. Ernst and other
promi nent Repu blicans are fighting so
for the Republican nomina-
ton. DEMOCRATS, WILL YOU
BLINDLY FALL INTO THE CHASM
OF POLITICAL DISASTER WHICH
Is AHEAD, or will YOU. like sensible
men, weigh the consequences at stake,
and then vote in that way which will
the integrity of the Demo-
cratic party in this State'
|: is conceded by everybody every
where in the Commonwealth that il
Governor McCreary is the nominee that
no faction will oppose him; that his
iusures Democratic success
at the polls, as it always has. Ii has
been less than three years since Gov.
McCreary was unanimously called
forth by all factions of the Democratic
disrupted as now-to head
t he ticket to redeem the State from Re-
publican rule, which, by reason OF the
strife within party ranks four years
previous had surrendered the State TO
the Republicans. How well did he
succeed! The wisdom of the call for
him was Enthusiastically manifested in
the results at the polls in November,
1910, when a Republican majority of
5000 was converted into a grand, old
time Democratic majority of 81, 900!
They say, that is, his opponents, that
he's too old no. Well. he is but two
and one-half years older now than
then. His mental and physical vigor
S that of middle-aged man. This is