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

ready 10 accomplish the greeuer ken-
tucky IL we will give them the oppor
tunity. I greet Kentucky and recog-
nize her patriotic cali for education
and more abundant education; Ideas
and more noble ideas; more govern
ment BY the schoohouse 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 1t is the friend Of the boys and
girls. II belongs TO democracy. 1t IL
every mans friend, and above ally II
is the poor mans friend. II knocks
at the door Of the poor and at tho
door Of the rich. II knocked at ths
door of my humble home when ! was
boy, and gave me and eight broth
ers glimpse of a new world ana an
opportunity to learn to read, write
and cipher a little. / cherish IL De-
cause II gave me something that was
worth more than gold or silver ana
because VI is going to give every cnilu
who takes advantage Of 1t something
that is more valuable than rubies
The development of our rural schoof
is our most important rural problem.
About rs per cent OF the children oil
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
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come tillers of the soil and the max
ers of homes-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
conscience; that will transmute Il
into ideals and into better homes.
better churches, better schools, better
roads and all other things that mako
life joyous and happy. 1t would be
better for us to live and die In a 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
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, 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 neve:
cast a vote for the open saloon.
stand for the present county unit law
and for making it effective. If | am
elected governor and the general as.
semDly should pass a bill repealin;
the county unit law, or a bill that
would render it less efficient. | 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 br
closed and the temperance sentiment
promoted. My interest in temperance
and in the development of a greater
Kentucky causes me to look with deep
concern upon any effort to abandon,
at this lime, 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 ap.
preaching administration devote its
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 endeay.
ors upon an economic and business
basis We must do something that
wiz NSSioh tue pNopit
OF the comforts of life and more to
eat and to wear This conclusion has
become to me deep conviction. IN
taking this position, do not ask any
citizen TO surrender his views on tenn.
perance'
Believing It to be the duty Of every
Democrat 10 stand on the platform
enunciated at our last platform con.
~
state in convention assembled make
a new declaration of principles, AMI
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 declara
ton. | submitted the temperance
plank, before making my announce
ment to large number OF temper.
ance workers, including many lead.
ers, and asked them to criticise It
freely With hut two mr. thraa $780,