The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-07-31

grave responsibilities facing him, but
aiso opportunities fer assisting the
poor people Of MS state winch had
come to no other one Of his prede-
dNssors. Not long fter his ac" ssion
to power, aI,l in the very midst of
strife and termOl attending tine great
s.ruggle, Governor Wilson invited
representatives Of the tobacco grow
t.s, officers of the A. S. of E., aud
the Burley Society to meet him in
Frankfort on a certain day with the
awvoed purpose OF settling the whole
trouble.
His action met with universal APP
proval thruCut the State aiId he was
hailed as Moses VINO would lead
his peorie cut of stress and dis
cord. The meeting was called 20 or
der in CiY old Court of Appeals room
whlcn Was crowded with Trust law
yers, tobacco growers and members
of farmers organizations from all
paris of the State. They were as law
abiding set Of people as could have
been gathered together in any state
in the Union, and they came upon
the Governors invitation. When he
called the meeting to order he at
once launched into speech which
might have been delivered with pro-
pristy ~ the COW cts in the State
penitentiary. 1t was directed to the
farmers present, whom he all but
accused of being night riders, tell
ing them that lawlessness must be
stopped, or he would call to his as
Sistance every able bodied man in The
State, etc. 1t was humiliating and
disgusting to every farmer present.
Against the Trust ne said never a
word.
1t was upon this occasion that
Judge O'Rear when called upon made
the celebrated speech in which he
denounced the Trust and said he d.h
not believe it was possible to drive
an idea through an Anglo-Saxon's
head with a bayonet.''
The Governor, upon his own request
had made an appointment with Judge
ORear for the evening before The
but instead of keeping that
appointment he took the C. & O.. |
rain to Louisville where it was pre-
;umed he conferred with the Trust
lawyers from New York and other
,,aces, and changed his entire plans.
of course nothing came from the
meeting and the farmers had wasted
% much time in resporhing to the !,
all OF he Governor, who during the |
succeeding months of excitement and
putawry never lost an
in public or private to
lenounce night riders. without any
,ffort to distinguish between the
great body of law-abiding members
If farmers Organizations, and the
aw,es3 element. He showed in all |
lis actions that his sympathy was
against the tobacco growers in their
'ne7sided struggle with greed and
monopoly. Not only this but during
is ndminisrta lion whenever he had
o make an appointment of a Mine
or an Assistant he ignored
he recommendations of the Miners
Union and appointed men outside of
he organization, dictated by the
perators.
This is the man who is asking the
armers and laboring men to vote
or him tomorrow in the Republican
Urinary for the nomination for U.
/. Senator. This paper feels it to be
IS duty to call to mind his conduct
hen he was placed in power and in .
os,tion, and to say to the tobacco /:
rowers and laborers who cast their
otes for Augustus f. Wilson, they ,
re kissing the hand that smote
lem, arid forwarding the ambitions
t a man who never drew a breath
1 all his life in sympathy with 6