Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-29


without this State. wherein the locs
! option or prohibition law has beer
: put into op ration, it has been d)ne
at elections held when the only issue
was the liquor question and at which
} elections. all political parties voted
their religious and moral sentiments
and not their political views.
The local option or prohibition
question end political issues will not
more mix than will water and oil.
An effort to mix water and oil ruins
the OF aud spoils the water. The
mixing of the liquor question and
politics always spoil the pol tics and
defeats the liquor question. The his
tory of the defeats of the prohibi.
ton party should be sufficient to con.
vince oil Of US. aid lead US to avoid
attempting TO mix pc itics and the
liquor question al primary elections
Tor executive Cff1ce5.
would urge every Democrat. not
only in Barren county but in Ken.
lucky, if it were in my power, to fol.
low the constitution. and keep sepa-
ate the liquor question and their
politics and not to attempt to mix
these questions Or make them an is
sue in party primary. and thereby
avoid disaster to our party. More
over. it is not the part Of wisdom,
and it is not fair to the democrats in
local option counties to have forced
upon them, by candidates, an issue
on the Statewide question in race
for the nomination for Governor. 1t
is no time for it. 1t is not good De-
mocrscy. 1t is al right to demand of
Candidates or offices of Represents
tive and Senator. a declaration of
their views on all moral and social
questions. including local option and
prohibition, for it is their duty TO
enact laws and propose constitution
al amendments, pertaining thereto.
But the Governor, after he is elect
ed, can neither vote for nor veto a
amendment. to the consti- /
tuition autho izing the submission to |
the people of the question of State
wide prohibition.
The Governor has under the law and |
the constitution, no more to do with,
or authority over such proposed |
amen dments to the constitution than
mas the Chief Justice of the Court of /
Appeals of Kentucky. Therefore the
belief ard conviction of the one on
this should not he test of his dem
)crdcy any more than the belief and
Of the other.
The eternal principles of Demos
.scy are big enough ard do embrace
he local option aud prohibition ques-
ion, but these questions should not
,e made a test in Democratic Prima-
Us for an executive Office. 1t is
leither the time nor place therefor
Democracy means more and treat,
zen better than that. Its principles
re high enough and broad enough
nd deep .OuRh 10 embrace every
ocial and moral question includ ing
he local or prohibition issue, and
democracy is good enough not to
make these a test of ones Democrl
y for an executive or Judicial office.
hey are big enough aud broad
nCu9h to found and bui d and main
ain upon them a righteous govern
pent by a righteous people and for
ghteous people. They are saving
ur country to-day. With all my
cart believe and am convinced
hat when the God of all of US. fore
aw the on-coming of the great Eu-
opean war. he called 20 service to
ave our system of government. the
treat principles of Democracy. and
hat Man. whose life and character
md broad christianity makes him
Use above the rest OF mankind like
he mou atain peaks rise above the
mist Of the valley in early morn. and
whose intellect and Democracy keep
me blood of Anne ricsns from drench-
ny, to-day. the sands Of Mexico and
crimson the waters of Eu-
'ope. IL is tue principles of Democ-
.scy that move and guide Woodrow
Wilson in maintaining the stability
n nnr Oovarnnn ant IA we'll IA the saV-