Licking Valley courier., 1917-09-27
GUMPTION, ~H~
Which is plain Common Sense, in United States
language, without Educational Furbelows.
ees. BT l.. Il. 1OVERNIALE.

IllS ClldllplOD vi any llOVCIuCHI
that had for it's object the moral
uplift Of humanity; but that, on
the contrary, he has stood by
and supported the Republican
organization in Breathitt county
throughout it's questionable ways
and doings. Hence, the most
active and ardent of the known
whisky Republicans are for him.
This ought to and will success
fully refute any claim that he
may make as a temperance advo-
cate, and put the effort to elect
him in the category Of useless.
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But the most palpable case of
misdirected energy is the alleged
attempt to give Charley Henry a
a race. Charley and his oppo-
nent in the primary, Mr.. South.
Stamper, made a spirited fight
and Charley won out and | have
no doubt of South's loyalty 70 his
party. Sherman Lewis, a good
miller and an adroit politician, is
threatening to run, but many
believe that he will abandon the
idea when he reads the writing
on the wall. -
Scarcely any one questions Mr..
Lewis shrewdness and astute-
ness as politician. Most of the
political coups and surprises that |
have been pulled off recently to
the discomfort and chagrin of
the Democrats, locally, originat-
ed in his fertile brain, although
others may have reaped the glo-
ry. So thoroughly acquainted is
he with the political situation
that his advice and counsel is
frequently sought by his party
leaders higher up. And when
the necessity arrives to remove
one doctor as county chairman to
make room for another, Sherman
is the right man in the right
place. | am not seeking to fiat
ter or causelessly eulogize. If
any there be who doubt me, let
them ask Sherman.
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But even the most mastery
geniuses overlook a small, but
necessary, link in the chain of a
mastery plan of conquest. Ma
polean failed to take into consid-
Grafton the report of the weather
bureau and the Russian winter
did for him what the combined
armies of Europe had failed to
do; James 6. Blaine failed to see
that DR.. Burchett was safely in
carcerated in a "bughouse" and
his famous Rum, Romanism
and Rebellion" address put Gro
YER Cleveland in the White House;
Bill Hohenzollern didn't know
that such thing as national hon.
or existed and plucky Belgium
thwarted his carefully planned
scheme Of worldly conquest, So
in his mastery plan to rout the
Democratic party horse, foot and
dragoon (whatever that isl, and
so covering himself with glory
that Doc. Wheeler would have to
relinquish the party leadership to
MIN, this towering genius of po-
litical diplomacy overlooked not
one but many links that are fa-
tai to his hopes.
He failed to consider that 10y
atty to'party and honesty of pur-
pose in the breast of every Dem.
that makes him respect and per-
form his sacred pledge to sup
port the choice of the majority
of his party.
He failed to consider that in
refusing to ask for the Republi-
can nomination and running as
an Independent he renounced
all claim to the Republican vote
so that a Republican can vote for
Charley Henry with as much pro-
priety as for him.
He failed to consider that if
either Republican or Democrat
should vote for him he would
have to cross his ticket.
He failed to consider that C.
?. Henry is a nice, clean, Christ
ian gentlman, a good officer and
won his nomination cleanly ana
gave no Democrat a good reason
for not supporting him.
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Maybe Sherman wants to dis
cipline Charley for leavinV tbot