The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-25
news and COMMENT
(By Frussell.)

The dismissal last week Of his
contest proceedings against Secreta-
ry of State Lewis marks the passing
of Barksdale Hamlet, but the State
debt created by the McCreary adj
ministration, of which he was q
part, will haunt the dreams of the
taxpayers for some time to come.
The selection of Thurman b. Dix
on. of Allen county, ~ temporary
chairman of the Republican State
Convention to be held at Louisville,
March LIST, is favorably commented
upon by the Republican press Of the
State and the reference to him as a
splendid speaker and a promising
Republican is complimentary indeed.
The party is wise in bringing their
young men to the front.
The State Central Committee is to
be reorganized at the approaching
Republican primaries and there is
some rivalry on for places from some
of the districts, the Eleventh being
one In point. We learn that the
friends of Mr.. Charles Finley, of
Williamsburg, Secretary of State in
the Taylor administration, are back
ing him for the Craftsmanship of the
Eleventh District Congressional
Committee, the place now held by
Mr.. A. T. Siler, former Railroad
Commissioner from the Third dis
trict.
Information comes from the Third
Congressional District which seems
to be authentic, that j. Frank Tay-
Tor will be the Republican nominee
for Congress and without opposition
in his ranks. Mr.. Taylor was Sur
veyor of the Port at Louisville under
both Presidents Roosevelt and Taft
and was the Republican candidate
for Congress in the Third in 1914.
making a creditable though unsuc-
cessful race. This district gave the
Republican State ticket a majority of
around 900 last fall and the chances
are good that Mr.. Taylor will be their
next Congressman.
None of the avowed candidates
for the Republican Presidential nom
nation have made a runaway race.
IL in fact, they have showed any per-
ceptible strength other than as ia
vorite sons. This has developed
feeling of uncertainty which will re-
feet through the primary voter to
the selected delegates the idea that
a new Richelieu will be sought and
the chance for Ohio to produce him
is thought to be as good as when
she came forward with Garfield.
This is not an individual prediction
or hope but is worth while relating
as an unbiased prophecy, not SO much
from Kentucky as from the Repub-
lican eastern States.
49,
The coming together of the Repub-
licans of the State at Louisville on
the 18th inst, under the auspices of
the Lincoln Protective League which
celebrated Lincoln's birthday with
a splendid banquet. serving $50 par
ty workers, is followed with the an
nounced plan of the league to ex-
tend their membership into the rural
districts of the State by accepting
nonresident members at a nominal
and popular initiation fee. This is
preliminary to further plan to later
organize a local organization, first in
the larger towns and later in the
smaller ones of the State. This
league was started here two years
ago by some twenty young Repub-
iicans and is fast developing into a
party organization whose work and
influence will be far-reaching and eff
fective. 1t should be and likely will
be encouraged BY official party en-
dorsement. qis- ti.ss,-4
a a --'-s-psy--'.
The selection of delegates to the
Chicago convention has practically
been decided in some districts of
the State, particularly the Fifth, the
Seventh and the Ninth, all with Fair
banks leanings and their conventions
will most likely so instruct them.
The personnel of these delegates are
as follows: VIM. Hepburn and A.
T. Hert, of Louisville. Fifth District;
Richard p. Stoll, of Lexington. and
John Hardwick, of Winchester, Sew
enth District; Judge Robert H. Winn,
OF Mt, Sterling, and w. d. Cochran,
of Maysville. Ninth District. Some
opposition to sending instructed del
egates has developed in the Third,