The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-07-21

House defeated, naQ IL D0on aQOpteu
would have made the whole measure
so thoroughly unconstitutional that
you could have driven distillery
through it, And that was what the
liquor fellows were trying to do. The
Webb-Kenyon Bill would have died
at it's birth had Cantrill and his asso-
ciates succeeded in their work.
"When | announced myself can
didate for this high position Mr.. Can
trill was in Washington and he at
once addressed a communication to
the Democrats of this district de-
nouncing me, as he would have done
no matter who the candidate had been,
for having the temerity to oppose his
aspirations for fourth term (Mr.
Cantrill has already been in Congress
three terms,) and demanding to
know my position on the pending Hob
son Resolution. AS quickly as could
do so I answered him and stated that
if I were elected to Congress | should
conceive it to be my duty to vote for
the Hobson Resolution. L take that
nosition for two reasons, and the nrSt
is that a majority of the Democrats
of this Congressional District taVor
that resolution.
| Peoples Rights Approved.
"Secondly. | believe that the people
sbonld he allowed to decide for them
selves whether or not proposal VI
such consequence to them shoulo De-
come part of the fundamental law
that If should not be decided for them
by a handful of Congressman IN the
!, hack office of the Committee on Rules
at Washington. This is old-fashloned
democratic doctrine, and being q
democrat | conceive it to be my duty
, to he governed by the Democratic be-
= lief and principles.
"As soon as Mr.. Cantrill came down
/ to Kentucky he made his famous
/ speech at the Lexington Opera House
) which had been heralded as the
homecoming and keynote announce
: ment of our distinguished Representa-
!. tive. and l have been informed thai
: the reception accorded was not com
e mensurate either with the Importance
5 of the occasion or with the extensive
2 ness of the advertising which mac
Y heen resorted to. At all events Con
gressman Cantrill caught the hrs'
train back to Washington, and having
arrived there Immediately secured
l meeting of the Committee on Rules
= of which he was a member, and DegS
cd and pleaded with the commlttee
for a day, some say two days, to place
: the bill on it's passage in order ina
If might be defeated, and that M
might return to his district and say
to his constituents that measure is M
Z longer pending; there is no suci
measure before the House; it as IONS
g ago defeated
L Committee Work Reviewed.
. "You will remember, fellow DeHo
v Gratis, that a majority OF the Hous'
favored the Hobson amendment, II
e order to secure it's passage it mus
receive a majority of tWO-thlrdS. MI
;" Hohson knew that it would not re
e ceiye at the present time two
. thirds majority in it's favor, but ne Dc
;. lieyed it would receive SUCH maJorle
~ nv next fall, and he had requested Q
&c the committee not to have it repOrte
81 for passage until that time. .
when YOUR Congressman got his COD
" mittee together, nine members belh
nresent, of whom seven were Demo
Gratis and two Republicans, five Den
e ocrats voted against taking up HOT
w. son Resolution at this time, and wv
10 Republicans and only one Democra
r. r. voted with our distinguished COZ
- gresham in favor of placing 1t upo
it's passage. Then Mr.. Cantrill, sa'
- dened but good deal wiser tina
a. when he went away, came back t
e his district and started again on ri
journey of denunciation and abuse
- me and of those Democrats in Scot
- County and elsewhere who are unWil
y ~ ing to submit to brewery control
=. their political notions and ideals.
- 1.-The work was arduOuS and M
=. Cantrill was not making much hea'
= way, and the next thing we heard
H. him was that he was back in Wasl
-, ington and, according to newspape
Ill information, was turning heaven al
as earth in an effort to get some sort ;
lie a letter from the President that mlgi
cd be used in influencing help for n
40 cause. So far as the records sho
ed he has not received that letter, an
ne my Judgment is that he never will.
OF Hobson Amendment Quoted.
ne Now as to the Hobson resolutin