The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-04-14

ready to accomplish the greater Ken
lucky II we will give them the oppor-
tunity. I greet Kentucky and recog-
nize her patriotic call for education
and more abundant education; ideas
and more noble ideas; more govern
ment by the schoolhouse and less gov
eminent by the military camp: more
and better schools and fewer jails and
penitentiaries; more scholars and
fewer criminals; more freemen and
fewer slaves; more life and still more
life.
We cherish the public school be-
cause II is the friend Of the boys and
girls. II belongs TO democracy. II Is
every mans friend, and above all, It
Is the poor mans friend. II knocks
at the door Of the poor and at tho
door OF the rich. IL knocked at the
door of my humble home when was
O boy, and gave me and eight broth
ers a glimpse of a new world and an
opportunity to learn to read, write
and cipher a little. I cherish It be-
cause II gave me something that was
worth more than gold or silver and
because 1t is going to give every child
who takes advantage Of 1t something
that is more valuable than rubies.
The development of our rural school
Is our most important rural problem
About rs per cent of the children Of
the state live in the rural sections
and most OF them are deprived of the
educational advantages enjoyed by
the children of the city. The develop
ment of our state depends more than
anything else upon the training OF the
- Will ho-
come tillers of the soil and the max
ers of hofnes-the basis of all wealth
and progress.
believe in the development of the
material resources of Kentucky, In a
magnetic and sane progress that will
stimulate effort and efficiency In
every honorable human endeavor and
add new wealth to our personal hold
ings and put red blood in the arteries
of commerce. But would make the
motive that prompts the effort NOR
al enthusiasm that will stamp every
dollar with integrity and give it a
conscience; that will transmute .t
into ideals and into better homes,
better churches, better schools, better
roads and all other things that make
life joyous and happy. It would be
better for us to live and die In log
hut and experience biting poverty,
and preserve our integrity, our chival-
ry and our human sympathy, than to
die rich In a mansion and become a
commercialized, money loving, selfish
people. Neither one Is right. The
remedy Is in a proper use OF our In
alienable life and property privileges.
The state has no higher function to
perform than to instruct her people
concerning the inherent relation that
exists between property and life and
between the school and the industrial
development of the state. | believe
in a state policy that will ring the
moral, intellectual and industrial iris
ing bell" in the lives of all the people.
On the Sth day Of January, in an
nouncing my candidacy through the
press of the state for the nomination
for governor, I made the following
statement in reference to the temper
ance question:
Oppose Statewide.
81 believe in temperance, in law
and order and in the enforcement Of
law. / have always worked with the
temperance people and have never
cast vote for the open saloon.
stand for the present county unit law
and for making it effective. II am
elected governor and the general as
sembly should pass a bill repeating
the county unit law, or a bill that
would render 1t less efficient. l would
veto it. Under the present county
unit law, which in its present form has
been in operation less than one year,
every saloon in Kentucky can be
closed and the temperance sentiment
promoted. My interest in temperance
and in the development of greater
Kentucky causes me to look with deep
concern upon any effort to abandon,
at this time, the county unit law for
statewide prohibition. We should give
the county unit law fair trial before
going further. believe that a wise
craftsmanship demands that the APP
preaching administration devote It's
time to the work OF interpreting the
principles enunciated in this platform
into a greater Kentucky; to wiping
out the state deficit and to organizing
her different institutions and endeav-
ors upon an economic and business
basis. We must do something that
will assist the people in having more
OF the comforts of life and more to
eat and to wear. This conclusion has
become to me a deep conviction. IN
taking this position. do not ask any
citizen to surrender his views on tenn
perance"
Believing 1t to be the duty of every
Democrat to stand on the platform
enunciated at our last platform con-
vention. until the Democrats OF tho
state in convention assembled make
a new declaration of principles, and
prompted by an earnest desire TO do
the thing that would be to the best
interest of both the party and this
great state, | made the above declsra-
tion. submitted the temperance
plank. before making my announce
ment to a large number Of temper
ance workers. including many lead
ers, and asked them to criticise 1t
freely. With but two or three exceD-
tions 1t was enthusiastically indorsed.
There can be no doubt about there
being thousands and thousands Of as
noble temperance workers as can be
found in Kentucky who believe we
should rive the 0Ountv unit law a fair