Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-10-27


short term, you have done your best
to help in the Senate, and If in this
district you re-elect Sherley to the
House you have done your best in the
House of Representatives. More than
that, let me ask you to remember this,
too, that the only way in which you
can register your approval of the splen-
did record of our splendid President
is to write it on your ballot on cleo.
ton day.
Ballot the Only Way to Express That
Approval.
1t Is pleasant to have two Republic.
ans meet upon the street and say, as
he not doing great work." But it is OF
no avail If they belle their words by
voting for Republicans on election day
You might meet in mass-meeting and
by unanimous vote commend the Pres
idents course, but If you go to the
polls and vote for Republicans who
tie his hands and paralyze his efforts
you have not lived up to your rep
resentation.
Let me now call your attention brief.
ly to the larger points of this great
record that you may decide for your.
selves whether you desire to commend
the President or to condemn. l am
not here to tell you how to vote
am here rather to tell you about your
vote and how your vote will count on
one side or the other.
The first thing to which the Presi.
dent addressed himself was the tariff
question. 1t is an old question, so old
hnt Of ann h.nV. d ,,,
this fight began. | began making
stump speeches when | was twenty
years of age, and have been at it now
thirty-four years. This is my eigh-
teenth campaign. Congressional or
Presidential. l began fighting for a re-
duction of the tariff thirty-four years
ago, and Kentucky began long before
/ began. You have been pioneer in
the war of tariff reform, and your
great men have stood in the forefront
of this great conflict.
Tariff Law the Best.
The President, by cooperation with
the Senate and House, has produced
the best tariff law the country has had
since the Civil War. / speak advised.
ly, for was on the committee that pre-.
pared the only other tariff reduction
law that We have ever had in fifty
years, the law of 1894. And this law
is better than that law was. That was
the best law that We could get under
those conditions, but we have better
conditions now and We have a better
law. This law gives us lower tariff
rates than thought 1t was possible to
get, and 1t not only gave the people
relief-the consumers of the country
relief from the high tariff of the for
mer laws, but IL set nation free. AS
look back over the campaigns in
which | have participated | do not re-
call another campaign until this one
when they did not bring out the threat
of panic to terrorize the nation. The
beneficiaries of protection who had
their hands in the pockets of the ma.
ton, who had been making the laws
that determined the amount that they
should collect from the people-these
people had at every campaign used
part of the money they had collected
by unjust laws to deceive those who
could be deceived, to purchase those
that could be purchased, and TO intim.
idate those who could be inundated.
Calamity Threats Failed.
They had told the farmer that he
would lose his home markets IL he re.
duced the tariff They had told the
laboring men II they dared 10 vote for
tariff reduction their bread and but.
ter would be taken from them, and
they had warned business men that
the wheels of industry and OF COM
merce would stop II they dared to lay
a hostile hand on these sacred tariff
schedules, and in some of the cam
paigns they had posted up notices in
the shops that the laborers need not
come back on Wednesday unless the
Republican party was successful. This
is what they have done, and they had
deceived and misled. many honest
well-minded persons. and | suppose
some OF the more timid ones were al
most afraid TO wake up the morning
after that law went into effect for fear
darkness would cover the land. But
when they awoke they found the sun
rose as usual, they found the soil had
lost none Of its fertility, they found
that the energies OF the nation had no.
been impaired, and then they saw this
fhav had bQan fooled. and then the