The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1914-04-01

| permit appropriations to be made with
| out means or provision for their pay
ment. No fear of. offending influential
people, or of injuring his chances for
| further political honors, should cause
him to hesitate in courageously dis
| charging this duty and in SAVING the
/ state from embarrassment In this
way, during my administration, we
/ protected the state from deficits and
! debts.
accomplishments Reviewed.
And yet we were able to accom-
Ilish much in the line of pr gross
and improvement. The new capltol
was built and made ready to be fur
| nished. The two normal schools were
established and the term of the p;i5-
lie schools was extended from Eve to
six months; and at no other period
in the states history was so much
ever done for the cause of education.
All of the state institutions were en-
larged and improved, and new insti-
buttons were established. These things
and others were done, not only With
out increasing the tax rate or borrow
ing money, but while We were actu-
ally paying off the debt inherited from
preceding administrations. Wise and
beneficial legislation was enacted dur.
ing that period, in the interest of the
farmers, the laboring men, and all le-
Ultimate classes of our people and
for the commercial and industrial de-
velOpment of the state. When the Re
publican administration came into con-
troll in 1908. and had complete access
to all the records and books for four
years, they were unable, after diligent
search to find anything in all those
eight years of my administration upon
which to base just criticism.
But l shall not dwell longer upon
these matters. For the part I may
have had in all of these achievements.
or for any credit l might deserve, l
leave to the fair and impartial judg-
ment of the people of Kentucky.
As to my position upon national is
sues, believe that, too, is we'll known
in this state. Since 1896, l have fol-
lowed the leadership of Mr.. Bryan and
advocated in every campaign since
then the causes for which he has
stood. l defended him and his prin-
ciples when they were not so popular
as they are now: and no one has re-
jOiced more than | have in seeing the
steady growth and complete triumph
of those principles. The people of this
country have never had an ADLER, more
devoted, or more useful leader than
he has been; and it must be of in
finite satisfaction to his patriotic
pride, for him now to see that most
of those reforms, for which he has
so valiantly fought, in times Of defeat
and adversely. and against such DOW
erful opposition, have at last become
a part Of the organic and statutory
law of the land. 1t is a greater victory
than to have won even the presidency
of the United States.
Always Favored Bryan.
At the Baltimore convention OF
1912, | voted for him for the chair
manship of the convention. When h
was defeated for that. | was one 81
those who wished to make him chair
man of the committee on resolutions. 7
But he declined the position of chair
man. | stood with him in his work /
in framing that platform, and I was
earnestly for the same man whom n.
supported for the nomination fer the
esitency-Woodrow Wilson. | am
in hearty accord with the PRINCIPLES o.
that platform. ami with the policies
and methods of President wilson AMI
his administration in redaeming the .
promises made in it. | Ike the way
in which the president does his work. /.
There is nothing Of the noisy and
tumUltuous demagOGae about him .
With a keen inteILgenae. with an earn. .
est patriotism and with that calm. vet Z
determined, Spirit Of the real states
man, he steadily and Unostentatiausly /
sets about the accomplishment of his .
reforms and his purposes; and so far
he has succeeded marVelOusly well. | /
was his. supporter for the Democratic F..
nomination for the presidency for
year or more before he was nominal
ed, not only because 7 considered him /
the most available candidate to win
in the November election. but also
because | believed he possessed to !
an eminent degree those qualities Of
craftsmanship VIII n would enable
him to accomlltzh after he was in
office, the best hopes and ideals OF
progressive Democracy. and to dem
onSt~ate that a platform Or campaign
declaration was not merely an empty
promise to WIN votes, but 4 solemn
and binding obligation uDOn the sue
cessful party and its candidates.
| shall here call attention to an
other glazing and absolutely inexcus-
able misrepresentation Of the facts and
of my position, made by Mr.. STANLEY
in his speeches, in regard to a certain |
resolution offered by Mr. Bryan in |
the Baltimore convention. No dema- |
gogue ever attempted a cheaper or
more discreditable artifice, with which |
to deceive the people or to injure |
an opponent, than he has done in his !
attempt to show that was not in sym
pathy with the sentiment of that reso-
luton as it was finally adopted by the |