The Adair County news., 1915-10-27
Hopkins County Voters
Hear Every Charge
Explained
EDUCATION ADVANCED
Kentucky Climbs from Forty-thrd to
Near the Top Within Three Years
Under Hamietts Administration
Shows How Economy Has Been
Practiced.

Hundreds of Democrats from West
Gern Kentucky gathered in Madison
vile, Hopkins County, on October 4th,
and listened attentively to the opening
of the campaign by Barksdale Hamlet,
present Superintendent of Public In
struction and Democratic nominee for
Secretary of State at the general cleo
tion on Tuesday, November 2, 1915.
Mr.. Hamlet was literally applauded
Rnd it is quite evident that the solid
Democracy is behind him. He an
swered every charge made against him
by the Republican nominee for Gov
Jernor, Edwin P. Morrow, and showed
of gross eXtragavance in the last Re-
publican administration.
A verbatim account of his address
follows:
Fellow Citizens:
In this campaign, as the Democratic
nominee for Secretary of State, and
the present Superintendent of Public
p Instruction, l am addressing myself
particularly to what Democracy has
done for education in Kentucky, and
to an offensive reply to the Honorable
Edwin P. Morrow, who has viciously
attacked an Administration that has
done more for the cause of popular
education and the Improvement of the
public schools of Kentucky than has
been done by all Republican admins
trations in the history of the State, or
would be done by any that might come
in the future.
There is a natural hostility on the
part of Republican leaders to popular
education and progressive movements
tending to the building of great Com
-mOnwealth. Thomas Jefferson, aside
from being the author of the Declare
Gion of Independence, counted it his
next greatest achievement that he used
the remaining best efforts of his life
in building a public school system for
Virginia and in planning a model for
America; and we honor Jefferson in
his posthumous glory as much for this
as for any of his other great achieve
Enents
- Progress Under Democracy.
From the beginning of our public
school system in Kentucky all prog
ress and improvement in the system
Izi&s been accomplish; ID when the af-
fairs of State were in the hands of
Democrats and Democratic Legisla-
lures.
We have modelled our system after
the plan of Jefferson, the founder of
Democracy and the Democratic Party
of America. We have developed in
spite of the opposition of such small
politicians as Morrow, R. pea" Green,
the iIliterate "Broncho Franks" the
intrepid "Bankfailure" Bruner, the
wise and austere one-time Democrat, |
Walker, the millionaire mountaineer
Lewis, who, I am informed, has han
died school funds in times past, and
others of this ilk whom have neither /
space nor time to mention, a system of
public education commensurate in its
efficiency to that of any commonwealth !
in America. / exclaim, as Cicero did, |
20 Temporal, o mores;" andfwith the
Bard of Avon, "Alack the day" when
such men, clothes in Catilinarian hab-
iliments, should parade themselves be-
fore an intelligent public and dare to
stand in the way of educational prog /
ress-wha would attempt to deny to
the children Of this Commonwealth
their rightful heritage which they
should enjoy, literally, through an
equitable distribution of the States
equipment.
/ am glad to state to the people of
Kentucky that / know, from written
and verbal evidence, that even the
thinking, sober citizenship of the Re-
publican Party of Kentucky today con-
,demns such men and their insidious
saspersions, directed at the bedrock
and foundation of the existence, main
tenance, and progress Of great Com
monwealth.
From Forty-third to Near Top.
Since 1911, when the Republican
Party was dethroned by an overwhelm'
5ang majority, on account Of promises
made by Democrats in platform Of
principles, Kentucky has moved from
the forty-third in the scale of illiteracy
close to the top, and today stands In
tthe vanguard of Commonwealths of
hAmerica. In fact, the eyes Of the
whole nation are apen her. and she