Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1915-05-06

hillside than to live in the governors
mansion yonder in Frankfort and be
q victim Of depraved politics, | would
rather be free and be defeated than
be a slave and he elected. If ! am
elected shall, upon entering office,
be fee as mountain air-free to fight
for the rights of the people and free
to take the executive initiative In the
work of transacting public business.
Born In humble surroundings among
the sand hills OF Kentucky, trained in
every hardship known In the expert
ence of poor boy, and having earn
estly worked for twenty-three years
with the great common people for the
education Of their boys and girls, and
never turning down request for as
sistance that | could grant, feel that
| have a vision OF the needs Of the
toiling masses. and that | am pre-
pared TO give every human being
Just deal Not only have my own life
md my contact with the masses en-
ahled me 10 know the needs OF the
people, but the responsible position
which have held es the head OF 4
great institution for the past twenty
three years has given me vide ex-
perience n the executive field, and
knowledge OF those problems that en-
ter into the making OF greater Ken
lucky Every plank In the platform
upon which I am making this race s
a patriotic call for a greater moral.
intellectual and industrial state.
The greater Kentucky Is In the PEG
pie Il K tie greater spirit Y Is =
Vision O. a larger life and a purpose
on the part OF every citizen TO accon-
plish f. Il Is depth breath. \
fo,lness and fneness Of human
thought snd character Il gives every
ciifre1. Wheeler be lives IN the co9a-
try OF IN the city, 90 the bill 90 n
toe vsi,ey. n the h1i O. n the FAD
son chance 10 live sna grow A-t
N opportunity 70 re happy AMI p-o<
pervas. Il emphasizes tie tnpo-A,ee
cf ever hzrAa hs.-x necsass BE -
the fundamental Cr.t q tie stsse an
\ the source q he c.rVocs q s,srEnAl
md industrial iArtS- Deoccrscy Eev-
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can avoid dying non The sane csc>e
II can not fo7ne the citizen VITO ),
having q hard time and who has no
succeeded 10 be q Success In hi.
chosen worh. bun \ can put a ham;
In HE hand that will light up the way
To s7Hcness.
i A wise craftsmanship recognizes
that fundamental reform in ever.
state begins in the houses occupied
by our own souls II YOU would hav'
greetcr Kentucky:
Go make thy garden fair.
Thou wprtost not alone:
For he whose plot Is next 20 thine
VIII note and mend his own"
We will never have the greater Ken
. lucky until every citizen leaves hi
neighbor alone for ewhile and goes {,
/ work on himself ard gives TO his coun
try one grea, life anG one noble en-
, deavur. until fathers Leadership
, and devotion, a mothers love and ser
vice and Christian ideals and paronta
authority prevail In 0vcIy homo: unit
the members Of every church praC
, tice the religion they teach, In an
, out OF the church. and In private an,
public life; until teachers and pU
: pils N every school make the schoo
a community life where industrial
progress and moral and intellectual
/ Municipalities flourish: until all tn
, people get away from the rule Of sell
ishness and bicutry. from hatred an
envy and IN the spirit Of unity Of CO
. operation work together for n create
, Kentucky
Our civic. social end Industrial
!. problems will be solved when we u
: talise every inch II Kentucky life
; soil Gnd business and every public OF
, flce with the right kind Of brains nm
: conscience. I sometimes fear we ar
) trying TO Win battle NJ Valley Forg
I without a Washington. trying 10 writ,
: Declaration Of Independence With
. out Jeffcrson. trying 10 light al
i Kentucky without having n light Il
I our own souls. The greatest thing II
, human endeavor is a human being
, and tho greatest thing In a state Is
great citizen. The citizen Is the spir
: itual dynamo that turns the wheels o
/ progress and determines the conduc
. Of the state. Nothing has ever beer
. accomplished by human hands In IN,
, outward world that did not begin Il
, some human being. That bridge II
. southern Kentucky was burned befor,
: the blaze was witnessed by the phys
{ ical eye; that restaurant in western
, Kentucky was blown up before tn,
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