The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1916-10-20

land. have wanted TO see the country
from which poured forth so many stall
wart men for the defense of the Union
M the time OF our great struggle
have wanted to see the country which
was distinguished Tor It's pure Ameri-
can stock to so large a degree, and !
have wanted to see the good people OF
the mountains. where. | am sure. we
can look, II anywhere, for sttlwart
Amcri icanism'
The only fact ON which the lie about
an attempt to wreck the train was
based was a broken rail near Paints
viic II was broken by the regular
train Thursday morning Section men
discovered II soon aftcrward and two
freight trains were held up to await re-
pi,lrs long before the Hughes train
came along No comment rs necessary
The shnder carries its own condcmHa-
| ltion who wants To iniure or Kill MIR,
| ffughcs2 Not The Democrats. because
he'is as weak candidate as they could
hope to see ~ the head uf the Eepub
lican ticket Tho Republicans might.
want 10 eliminate him from the race
tut no Big SANDY Republican would do
u except by way of the ballot box,
lis dincult TO hud words to express
the condemnation due the author ol
the article In the New York Times
The pin n2headod pustulc who wrote II
Is evidently a cigarette sucking son of
degeneracy who should not be permit
ted 60 run az large, much less to travel
on sucha "A train a. The Hughes special
should be. and slnnder people who are
better and more intelligent than any
10 be found amongst his ancestry.
II ii nearly a third Of a century since
the Hatfield Mccoy fcud occurred. but
il Is sim used TO piackcn the name OF
the big Sandy Valley Possibly two.
score OF men took part I'M that feud,
connhing their operations TO their own
families and To radius OF only few
miles on the West Virginia border OF
PtkG-co West Yirginia,s present Gov
ernor Is member Of one OF the feudJ
families, and the Republican party
placed him In that exalted position.
John c. c. Mayo was born within a.
few miles Of the feud spot
one OF the mos: prominent preachers
In the city OF Brooklyn, n v. Rev r.
+. shannon. is a native OF Louisa. which
the Hughes reporter includes Ia the
feud district We sent him there ten
years ago as a missionary 10 try toI
save such ignorRmlses as these report
ers. and we now apologize for having
cut out such hopeless job for him
That reporter who wrote the Times AT
ticle VIII get the surprise Of his life ilI
no goes TO hear this feud preacher who
is now civilized and perfectly harm
less The only trouble vii! be for him
TO comprehend and appreciate the pure
and beautiful language and thought
that flows from this son OF the despis
cd mountains of Eastern Kentucky
Another I.ouisa product Major w Q,
johnson. has twice been assigned 70
duty at the United States Military
Academy at West Point New York. as
"A teneher Ia that eminent institution
OF learning.
we could 20 on at great length enum
Grating natives u this. 'fcud district
who have gone ont into all parts of the
world and become prominent and sue
cess 4
Even w j, hampton the noted hu-
morlst now living in New York, had a
narrow escape from being included with
us leudists, having been reared in the
next hill county To this
According to the newspapers the
Hughes party came into the Big san r.
dv Valley at the request OF John Lang
ley and Caleb Powers Our people had
nothing To do with IT, but received them
with that hospitality for which this
section Is noted 4 crude form OF hos
piiality. IL may be, in the eyes Of hot
house weed travelling by special train
In all the elegance and luxury that
money can provide. But it was true
hospitality, because the right spirit was
behind it. In return FOR it what do we
get2
Nobody interrupted Mr.. Hughes in
his speeches. He was treated with the
greatest respect No one even asked
him what he would have done In Mex
leo That reporter says they cheer
ed Hughes whether they were quite
sure about the points he made or not
The writer missed his mark with this
shaft OF contempt The joke is onl
Hughes because il is his first audience
with perspicacity enough to suspect
that his utterances contained any
points. All through the campaign the
complaint has been that his speeches
are made up wholly Of platitudes and
evasion. and they were just the same
in the feud district.
The reporter also says many in the
audiences never see newspapers, We
may be pardoned for stating that the
Big SANDY News, published Tor 81 years
In the "feud district has a record OF
having attained a list OF 4450 subscrib- {
ers n fact which was substantiated by
sworn statement of the publisher, This
exceeded by ESQ the circulation OF any
other local newspaper In Kentucky
which includes the Intelligent and cul-i
tured bluegrass country. There is no
Ignorance here as dense as that which
envelopes that pimple on the body poll
itic who wrote the Times article. He Is
too narrow TO SEQ the real worth OF a