Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-18
Native kentucklans.

heard il read, that the merchants and
bankers and business men of this queenly
city were, almost without exception, born
and raised in the hills and dales Of Old
kentucky, and there repose the ashes Of
their sacred and sainted dead; there still
STANDS the old homestead, the house
where they were born, to which memory
iondly turns as the shadows are little
longer grown.
II had foolshly fancied that their for
tunes were built upon the success and the
prosperity of fertile region surrounding
this proud metropolis, and its banks and
mills and factories, its hostelries and
chambers of commerce. its vast and VA.
ried industries, were interviewer with the
development Of the rich resources of the
mountains. and the beauty and fertility Of
the Bluegrass, and the rich harvests Of
the Pennyrile.
81 had fancied that the homes and
hearts Of the people of Louisville and the
people Of the Commonwealth were inter-
laced and interviewer by ties Of common
interests Of kinship and of affection; that
it was the wise and far-sighted policy
of her capable business men to develop
at once the wealth of the city and the re-
sources of the State.
Before l perused this remarkable full
mination ! had vainly dreamed that the
farmer, the miner and the merchant,
throughout the State realized and accept
ed the wisdom of encouraging and de-
veloplng the growth of great cities within
and not without the boundaries of the
Commonwealth that they realized they
must not only produce, but market that
WNdAkh - lIlt liHilltuldlt EtWdIu OF
labor in every part of this industrial
Eden, known as Old Kentucky, and that
the best market is your own market, a
market within the gates of a sister city.
81 at one time vainly dreamed that
kentuckians were KentucSians every
where, and that il matters little, whether
they sojOurn in mountains or plains, in
village or city, whether they reside in a
stone Front or log cabin, whether they
wore fine linen or holden gray-those are
but the incidents and accidents in the
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that we Were, that we are, and that we
ever shall be observation-disclosures
the happiness, the wholesome welcome,
the splendid hospitality, the courage and
the courtesy which sanctified and glorifed
my old Kentucky home was common
heritage to common people to which, as
brothers all, we might lay claim.
Let us rejoice, let us reverently thank
God that when ties Of interest and of
blood We're sundered, that we still have
the magic of Beckham's blessing and the
bond of Hays benediction. In my mind S
eye | can see the long procession filing
throne which Mr.. Beckham has erected
10 himself and his allies. l can see those
Democratic beatitudes like a new faith.
hope and charity, in the form of Beck
ham, Shack and Haly. | can see re-
united and reconcled Kentucky bowling
in infinite gratitude to the goodness OF
Beckham, and, reverently accepting the
proffered benediction that falls from the
soft and facile fingers of Percy Haly and
the reeking. palms Of Sam Shackelford,
ITO satisfy his inOrdinate ambition Mr..
Beckham has for years insisted upon
making one issue paramount which he
dreamed would array the city Of Louis
Vile against the country round about II.
We were told in the columns Of this same
Evening Post in the beginning of this
campaign that il would be fight of tine
country against the town. that the cities
would advocate my cause and that the
country would repudiate il. Finding that
the allegiance of the planters and labor
ers throughout the state could not be
shaken, they have attempted, by cajolery
and coercion, TO compel an unwilling sup
port in the city of Louisville, and they
have sought TO secure IL by the cheapest
trick the most crooked and shallow dem
agoguery ever attempted in the history
Of this Commonwealth
mr.. Haly again assumed the role of q
political DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde--dry in
the country and wet in towns In COM
munities where they are united against
the sale of intoxicating liquors Mr.. Beck
ham is a rantankerous prohibitionist out
heralding HobsOn in his war upon the
demon rum. In the mountain counties
he assures the people that he would rath-
er destroy one barroom than to be a Sem
ator. In the cities we hear the covert
suggestion that TO Mr.. Beckham and Mr.
Beckham alone must they look for saliva
ton against impending Statewide prohi-
bition.
Gle has constituted the Louisville Post
and the Hon. Harry Sommers, Of Eliza
BEETHOVEN, his press agents and authorized
Spokesman. His opening speech is pub
lished in connection with the introductory
address Of Mr.. Sommers and choice bit
Of elOquence from his tacile pen Nils box
on the title page
Now Mr.. Knott and Mr.. Sommers as
sure the people of Louisville that Mr..
Beckham Is the avowed and capable foe
of State wide prohibition; that II was TO
him and to him alone the distillers of
Kentucky owe their escape rom whole
some destruction; and il is suggested,
with an implied and sinister menace, that
II Mr.. Beckham is not nominated TO the
Senate that their business shan pay the
forfeit, not because OF any injury 10 the
public but 10 satisfy the baitied rage OF
a disappointed politician.
"ln a recent issue of this same Eliza
BEETHOVEN News Mr.. Sommers says; Some
Of the liquor people ars trying TO hold
Beckham responsible for the Legislature.
Then they ought 10 give him credit for
defeating Statewide prohibition
mir Beckham's sponsors boast that he
controlled that Senate, controlled IL, am
told. two TO one, ana yet that senate put
Was the defeat OF Statewide prohibit
ton made the price OF the support q the
liquor interests OF Louisville Unues
g snss KING do you seTes t b Sz2 M
Beckham? Are you for or against ihe
Hobson resolution? win you, if elected
TO ne Senate sspouse Or oppose national
sassinate Statewide prohibition for Ken
lucky?
Dick Knott in the cities, or the Mr. Hyde
Of inveterate and implacable hostility to
the liquor interests in the dry countiesY
Whether a majority of the people Of
Kentucky are prepared 10 abolish or TO
tolerate the manufacture of Intoxicating
liquor within the bounds Of the Common
wealth, ! do not know. II Is difficult TO
determine the trend OF public opinion UNI
Ill the public have spoken. just how wet
or Just how dry IS the State OF Kentucky
/ do not pretend to say. but this / do
knOw-kentuckians wet and Kentuckians
dry alike adore candOr and courage Al
one time they have followed the standard
OF prohibition and another they have de-
manded the highest measure Of individual
and personal liberty. This much | do
know: diner - they may upon a moral
Issue, ktntuckians never have and never
will rally TO the standard of coward
Mr.. Beckham, In double deal and
playing a dual role, has al this hour lost
the confidence OF the advocates OF tenn
psrancs and TIE respect OF the opponents
Of prohibition"