Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-04-08
Would En',rce Temperance Leg.
lsIatlon, But Opposes State
Wide Issue.
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WITHOUT INCREASED TAXES
Text OF Speech Made by Demo
cratic Candidate for Gov
ernor at Mayfield on
b Saturday.

Mayfield, KY, April 3.-Dr. Henry
Hardin Cherry, since its organization
the head of the Western Kentucky
State Normal School until the LIST OF
March, when he resigned to enter the
race for the Democratic nomination
for governor of Kentucky, subject to
the state primary to be neld in Ken
lucky on Aug. Z, spoke to an immense
audience at the mammoth courthouse
here this afternoon. This is the larg-
est county in western Kentucky, and
has large Democratic majority. DR..
Cherry was in fine voice and his
speech was listened to with interest.
His remarks in full follow:
My COuntrymen:
| am deeply grateful to you for your
presence upon this occasion feel
keenly the responsibility of speaking
to this great audience | want to say
those things tina: will bring the great
people together rather Than divide
them into warning factions; and those
things that will fire their patriotism
and build up the standards of living
in the commonwealth | am here to
appeal TO the higher motives of men,
not to their passions and pTejudices.
If | can avoid it, | shall not engage in
controversy with a single individual
during this campaign. | do not be-
heve that the great people of Ken.
lucky are going to permit common
demagogism to elect the governor of
Kentucky. We have already had too
much bitter politics in Kentucky and
not enough sincerity. business and
craftsmanship. Political campaigns
are too frequently slaughter houses,
where the needs of the people are
butchered in the interest of votes, Of
fees and graft. Every public issue
should be presented to the people in
such way as to illuminate the ques-
ton, inform the people and build up
their ideals Every question should
be decided upon its merits.
The hope of our country is in peo-
pie who read, think and serve; who
preserve the right to take the moral
and political initiative for themselves
and who challenge the right Of any
man or organization to do their think
ing and voting for them. When God
opened space and threw millions Of
WOIiuS AiJO IT, lt uldut ~ lNO dllhts
When he swung into existence a
young Kentucky, he made no two of
its human beings the same In fact,
he made us different and gave US diff
ferent missions TO perform in order
that We might have a great state. II
has been ordained by nature that
there shall be serious and Independent
thougbt and a multiplicity of ideas in
order TO secure the highest develop
ment of justice and progress in soci-
ETY.. After all there Is no music in a
democracy so sweet as the singing Of
a spinning idea as 1t passes through
the spiritual universe; no chorus like
the rattle of spiritual artillery; no
solo that equals the boom of a moral
gatling gun; no feet so strong and
stately as a fleet of white ideas sail
ing the sea of life. The citizen who
preserves his individuality, who hears
and obeys the voice of an educated
and grows and goes be-
mind a conscientious life is a patriot
who fights the battles of the flag and
marches at the head of the army Of
whether he believes in the
unit law, statewide prohibition
or some other thing. The people must
investigate every question for them
selves and seek to be governed by
light and justice rather than by an
appeal TO the passions and prejudices.
/ believe in party loyalty and in the
principles enunciated by the Demo
cratic party. No man who knows me
doubts my devotion to the Democratic
party which was organized and is
now being promoted in the interest OF
Justice and human rights. In order
for us to be loyal to this great organ
ization, which has done go much in
lifting burdens from the shoulders OF
the people. IL is necessary for us TO
admit the wrongs that exist and 20
know the needs of the toiling and suf-
fering Masses and with fire in our
hearts and steel in our nerves, set |
ourselves to work correcting the
wrongs and providing for the needs. |
We must put public service above |
public Jobs, the people above the po- |
itical machine. and the Democratic |
party above the boss. The noble DEM |
ocratic party will die in the hands Of |
} cOterie OF politicians whose eyes ara |
bloodshot with poison. political dope. |
There are men who talk about their |
oyalty 10 the Democratic party, but |
who at the same time are intoxicated |
With desire to secure public Office |
which they intend to use as a football |
n the game OF deprayed politics DO |
not know Of any reason for the exist |
snce OF the Democratic party in Ken |
lucky EXCEPT for the advancement OF
he moral. intellectual and industrial
life of the state. II must carry the
Message OF help and inspiration to the
woman in the home. TO the farmer In
he field. TO the laboring man In the
actory and TO the professional man
mo all others pursuing honorable hui
nan Gndeayors.
Free From All Entan9lements.
In submitting my candidacy 10 bhs
scpls q Kentucky for the Dsne