Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1915-05-06
Would Enforce Temperance Leg
isIatlon, But Opposes State
Wide Issue.
PUBLIC SERVICE EFFICIENCY
WITHOUT INCREASED TAXES
Text Of Speech Made by Demo-
cratic Candidate for Gov.
ernor al Mayfieid on -. -.
Ms Saturday. 4.

Maynetd, hys April S-lF. Henry
Hardin Cherry, since its organization,
the head Of the Western Kentucky
State Normal School until The ist OF
March. when he resigned TO enter the
ace for the Democrats nomination
for governor Of Kentucky, subject 10
the state primary to be held n Ken
tucky On Aug Z. spoke 10 an immense
audience at the mammoth courthouse
here this afternoon. This Is the ars-
est county In western Kentucky, and
has largo Democratic ma;ortty. Df.
Cherry vas IN fine voice and his
speech was Hstened % with tnsaceCt
His rsmArks IN full follow:
Ny Countymeo:
am deeply gzsrefu, TO you or you
presence upoa this occasion. Zee,
keenly the responsibility q speaking
- 10 this great andie1cs ! want 90 ssy
those things tbs; vii bring TIE great
people together rather than tfy1ce
them into warrtng facstc1S: and those
things THAI win ar1 their pacoctSu
and build 10 the standards q Ewing
in the commonwealth. al Ssre 70
appeal % the higher motives q meo-
NOT 10 their pass:oos and pfetcttceA
II can avoid Il. | shall not engage In
controversy with a single individual
during this campaign. | DO o0 -
liave that the great people q Fsr
lucky gre Gtns 70 permit 1'ahoa
sGnagCsIsq Z I'll Es Ern9T = =
much bitter politics n Kentucky ar
not enough sincerity, bozness and
statesmanshia Political campaigns
are too frequently slaughter houses.
where the needs Of tbe people are
butchered IN he tn.eses. Of votes. q.
Aces and GRAFT Ever! r,1biH isScs
should be presen1ed 70 t.e people n
such way as To illuminate The eoes-
ton. inform ire penl1e and tE1d -
their ideala Every cnesiioo sboaA
be decided upon its meriR
The hope a our country Is In peo-
pie who read. think and serve; who
preserve the right to take the moral
and political initiative foe themselves
and who challenge the right Of any
man or organization TO 20 their think
ing and voting for them. When God
opened space and threw millions OF
worlds into 1t, he made no two alike
When he swung Into existence q
young Ken1ucky, he made no two OF
its human beings the same. In fact
he made us different and give US diff
ferent missions 60 perform in order
that We might have a great rt1rte. II
has been ordained by nature that
there shall DO serious and independent
thought and multiplicity 81 ideas in
order to secure the highest develop
ment OF justice and progress In soci
ETY.. After all there is no music In 0
democracy 30 sweet as the singing Of
spinning idea rs n passes througr
the spiritual universe; no chorus like
the rattle OF spiritual artillery: No
solo that equals the boom Of nora
gatling gun; no feet so strong and
stately as O feet Of white ideas sail
preserves his individuality. who heaj
and obeys the voice uf an educated
conscience and grows and goes be
hind a conscientious life Is patrio
who fights The battles OF the fag ant
marches at the head Of the army oi
progress, whether he believes in the
county unit law, statewide prohibition
or some other thing. The people mus
investigate every question for them
selves and seek 10 be governed by
light and justice rather than by az
appeal TO the passions and preittlioes
believe In party loyalty and In IN,
principles enunciated by the Demo
cratic party. No man who knows m,
doubts my devotion TO the Democratic
party, which was organized and Il
now being promoted In the interest Of
justice and human rights. In oriei
for us TO be loyal TO this greet organ
ization, which has done so much IN
lifting burdepe from the shoulders o.
the people, n Is necessary for ne e
admit the wrongs that exist aud 4
know the needs OF the toiling and ssif
fering masses, and with fire in onl
hearts and steel I'm cur nerves, SCI
ourselves 70 work correcting u,
wrongs and providing for the needs
we must pull public service abuv,
public jobe, the people above The 10
htical machine. and the Democrat,
party above the boss The noble Dem
ocrhtic party VIII die in the hands o.
n coterfe q politicians whose eyes ar,
bloodshot with poison. political dope
There are men who talk about thei,
loyalty TO the Democratic party, bu
who at the same time are Intoxicated
with a desire 10 secure public ofic,
which they intend to use as a football
IN the game Of depraved politics. I dc
not know Of any reason for the exist
snce Of the Democratic party In Ken
lucky except for the advancement o,
the moral. Intellectual and induetrfa
life OF the state II must carry The
message of help and inspiration 30 The
woman In the home. 30 the farmer n
the field, TO the Iaborins man In ths
factory and TO the professional mar
md all Others pursuing honorable hu
man endcnvors,
Free Prom, Al Entanplements.
In submitting my candidacy TO tho
people a Kentucky for the Demo