The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-07-09
avs previously approved by Governor

Beckhan.
Then he throws off the mask. step
boldly and detiantly into the aren,
for these very interests into who's
service he is presently to enter an,
sternly interdicts any additional legis
latiOn, declaring the now archaic Law
of 1900 ample to remedy any wrong,
that Day exist" and stigmatizing an,
legislator with the temerity to oppos,
him las a demagogue who would seel
to blackmail a railroad company" ant
las a felOn deserving of the severes,
punishment" When | call the coun
try's attention TO this remarkable coin
cldence and the subsequent cozy cor
ner provided upon his retirement from
office by those most benefited by his
lnexplicable conduct. he admits an,
proving the act, boastfully Incorporates
the shameless message in his Opening
address, confesses having the rail-
roads coin in his flank. but accuses
me of IAN utter disregard for the
truth" because | did not fully eyploin
That. having served the railroads for
seven years gratis. he took the first
Job he could get his hands on at half
price, inca culpa. mea maXima cuba {"
plead guilty. / have innocentIy.
assure him. led my hearers to believe
that he WAS not so cheap a man rs
he has proved himself to he. In the
future | shall he less severe upon NV
distinguished opponent and more caus
tic with the J.. and n. for it has treat
ed Goebel with inhumanity and Beck
ham with ilgratituIc.
Mr.. Beckham says he accented this
employment because Il had no means
upon which To live and support my
family" In other words, HE NEED
ED THE MONEY. never charged
him with spending the money on any
body else's family. | do not care a
rap how he sepndS his money. 1t was
the way he got it that interests me.
A man with a wife and children usu-
ally spends his money on his family.
whether he earns it or steals it.
Speaks at Request of Tobacco Growers.
But Mr.. Beckham charges that with
bOisterous defamation and vehement
gesticulatiOn' have strobe about over
the state delivering myself of 'inflam-
matory and incendiary harangues to
the tobacco growers" \ charge Of this
kind, emanating from one who is now
the beneficiary and has the active sup
port of the meanest hirelings of THEFT
arch enemy and who did not hesitate
to line up with Thomas Fortune Ryan.
the MOlOch of the American Tobacco
even against Bryan himself. |
need not be taken seriously. In this |
case / am rather amused at the alb |
surdity of the charge than angered at |
fits falsity.
l have campaigned FIVE states at the |
request Of the tobacco growers.
have spoken all over Kentucky, and
these utterances speak for themselves.
On Nov. 6. 1907, | delivered an ad-
dress at Springfield, Tenn, more than
10000 copies of which were printed
by the Planters Protective association
and distributed in twenty counties
throughout western Kentucky. | saiG:
Il say to the freeborn farmers of
Robertson county that there is one
thing you must respect-that is the
law. While Gods love saved the
world, it is his law that moves it.
Destroy law and turn your backs
upon the courts of justice and no
mans property is his own: no wo-
mans honor is sacred. Your safety
by night and your independence by
lay are dependent upon the law. ..
have no patience with mObs. If
Iou cannot win this fight i'm obedience
% law, If you cannot win except BY
banding together to do violence to
'Ome men, for Gods sake go burn
our own barns and tobacco and dis
'and. And We're / an officer of
he law and you did I'd hunt you |,
lown with the same fierce energy that
would prosecute a trust. You have ,
10 right to take the law in your own
lands. The law is bigger and greater ,
han you are" >
In an address to 10000 tobacco grow
rs t Lexington on April -, 1907. I .
iscountenanced lawlessness i'm the n
trOngest terms. declaring: L
THE welfare not only of the tobac-
o growers, but the entire community. =
ests upon wholesome respect for the v
NV" s
On Jan. 25. 1907. / wrote a letter. !,
in the Morganfield Sun. in 5
Thich | said: h
AS you probably know, | have at
ii times and under all circumstances
nequivOcally and strenously opposed ,
ny -esort to violence by the tobacco a
rowers or anybody else"
This silly SANDER is as old as it is >,
nfOunded. 1t has been repeated time ;.
nd again by the emissaries of the :
-merican Tobacco company. Mr.. n
eckham, however. is the first Demo- :,
rat even pretending to be interested ),
farmers organizations who has had .,
he temerity to father Or repeat it. -
find that the tobacco growers as
)ciations in Kentucky are Justly in -
ined to resent so groundless a state e.,
tent. They regard it. not without
JASON, as a reflection upon the men
hose representative. was at the ps
me these addresses were delivered. ~ =,
J is evidenced by the following letter pl
gned by the officers of the Stemming m
istrict association: 70
Henderson, KY. March %, 1874
on. A. o. Stanley, Washington, d. C: W
Dear Sir-The Hon. ]. c. w. Beckham
a speech delivered at Elizabethtown. he
y, on March 16 charged that you, among or
her sins of commission and omission. al
ID at divers times and places in the last in
W years in public addresses made to the We
bacco growers in this section of Ken be
civ given utterance to violent and In L frI