The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-08-20

| assumption that the nquor issue Is
disposed of in Kentucky for some
years to come.
II will be claimed. of course. that
Mr.. McChesney was the embodiment
of the temperance propaganda and
that the prohibitionists accepted him
as such and gave him practically
their united support.
But men who know the temper of
people generally and of Kentuokians
in particular will very much doubt
the accuracy of this claim.
MIR. McChesney was Mr.. Hays
candidate. Unassisted by Mr.. Haly.
! Mr.. McChesney would have been
much more of a pitiful failure than
he was He not only had Mr.. Haly
and the Haly machinery. but the
equipment of the Anti-Saloon League
in Kentucky. to help him in his cam
paign and still he failed beyond the
expectations of his most sanguine an
/ tagonists.
This could not have been due to
widespread conviction that Mr..
Stanley was a friend of the temper
ance cause. He is known to be any
thing but that. He has in Congress
worked consistently and Industrious
ly in opposition to everything which
the anti-liquor forces have endeavor-
ed to secure and in the contest for
the gubernatorial nomination he was
both the recognized and the avowed
exponent of the so-called liberal"
element-that element which not on
ly believes in the open saloon but in
the Sunday saloon.
Was his success then not due to a
lack of confidence in-in fact, a con-
tempt for-the claims made in be-
half of the Haly-McChesney candi-
dacy, rather than because of respect
and admiration for Mr.. Stanley
among people who we're not selfishly
identified with the liquor traffic?
What had Messrs. McChesney and
Haly done to inspire confidence in the
of Statewiders in Kentucky
1t has been said by a wise philoso-
pher that
Society gains nothing whilst a
man. not himself renovated, attempts
to renovate things around him."
This quotation has no personal APP |
plication here. When Messrs. Haly |
and McChesney suddenly appeared as
the self-constituted leaders of the |
temperance cause in Kentucky the I
people naturally began to ask what |
they had done to entitle them to such |
an eminence. Had they renovated"
their immediate surroundings before |
attempting to cleanse the State at |
large, and if they had not, where |
were the scars received in mad ef- !
forts to do so?
Mr.. Haly. while potent in shaping |
all other classes of legislation, had |
never made an effort to get State
wide resolution thru. and neither he
nor Mr.. McChesney, so far as known, /
had ever given the slightest assistance !
to those who would have submitted !
the question of local option to the
people of Frankfort and Franklin |
county. These and other circum- |
stances led to distrust and suspicion !
and the Temperance vote" to a very
large extent, il is believed remained /!
at home on the day of the primary.
Similarly, is it not possible that Mr..
Stanley wake up the morning after
the November election and discover
that he is not such a popular idol
after all-that his people did not
love HON more. but McChesney less.
and that it is no more possible for !
him to fool all of the people part of |
the time than it was for McChesney |
and Haly to fool all of the people |
part of the time than it was for Nc
Chesney and Haly to fool part OF the
people all of the time?
Let us have patience and see
Leader.