Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-04-08

pe0fiIe ana lowers the standards OF
living more than a homeless law that
is forced upon a governing unit with
out its consent and over the protest
of a majority OF the people who live
in the unit Is II wise for us at this
time to force statewide prohibition
upon counties we know will not en-
force prohibition? What do we hope
TO gain by sending the temperance
cause into territories where we know
that a majority Of the people are
against Il. and will take advantage OF
IL to discredit the temperance move
ment?
There are many other phases OF the
question that | could discuss, but time
forbids at this meeting. | shall take
them up, however, from time to time
through my campaign.
Finally and summarily, | stand for
greater Kentucky, a land of happy
homes where moral, intellectual, relig-
ious. social and Industrial ideals riour.
ish and flowers bloom; land dotted
with schools taught by consecrated
teachers, crowned with our noble boys
and girls preparing for spiritual and
intellectual enjoyment and for service
in the occupation they are to pursue;
land of Christian ideals, with good
roads leading from neighbor to neigh
Dor and from everywhere to the school,
the church and the market; land
where every inch of soil is fortified
with constructive thought, with human
brains and conscience, yielding an
abundant harvest to be transmitted
into life; a land of industrial stand
ards made in the image of justice; o
land of work, worth and service de-
termining the real value Of n man; a
land where demagogy and political
trickery and incompetency have been
banished and the fundamentals of real
progress established; n land where
every citizen carries the ballot in his
conscience when he enters the voting
booth; q land where public opinion
furces the right anc leavenS life; a
land of brothers, fellowship, good will,
Christian liberty and individuality; a
land of lofty ideals, OF love, of charity;
a land where the spiritual prevails
over the material and the intellectual
is vitalized with conscience; a land
where moral and intellectual initiative
is encouraged and individuality is en-
throned land where honor rules
and democracy is crowned.
We cherish the name of our great
president. whose constructive brain
and Christian neart are leading the
fields of service ana is making IT the
agency of a more abundant life and a
real worker for the toiling masses.
Behind the present national admins
tration, which has accomplished more
constructive legislation in the inter
est of the people than any other for
forty years, stands the patriot life of
President Woodrow Wilson - the
Thomas Jefferson Of the twentieth
century. All of us shoulG be true TO
the principles of the Democratic party
and work hard to avoid any mistakes
that would endanger the success of
the party in Kentucky, for our organ
lied and unbroken influence is needed
in solving the vital problems of our
state and in continuing at the head
of the national Democracy Americas
greatest citizen.
If am elected governor, | shall try
to prove to the people that | appreci-
ate their confidence by working hard
and then working some more; and by
doing all within my power to make
Kentucky, if it is not now, the best
place on earth in which to live.
| shall gratefully appreciate your
positive surDort. If ] am nominated
| shall carry the Democratic banner
to victory in November thank you
for your presence on this occasion.