Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-07-26

Wolfe countless
AS it has come to that point in
my race for Representative
where my opponents and their
friends are resorting to every
known political trick to deceive
yDu and poison your minds a.
gainst ssme, | take this oppor-
tunity Of refuting some of the
falsehoods which they have
started, asking you to read what
| have to say and then pass it on
to your neighbors.
Twice in the good county of
Wolfe and once, in Morgan they
have started the rumor and
scattered it broadcast that | had
quit the race. This rumor was
absolutely unfounded and was
the offspring of desperate, ma
licious hearts, who, with defeat
staring them in the face, in their
desperation are ready and will
ing to resort to any method how
eyer low and debased, to rob me
Of votes.
One Of my opponents / am re-
liably informed, has been telling
the laboring men around Camel
City that | had made the remark
that Il was not depending on
overall men for my votes. "
That my friends is a deliberate
lie of the first water, and the
death-song Of a dying two-by-
four politician. If it were not
for the laboring people of this
district who have been duped,
swindled and sold by machine
politics until they are almost
hopelessly buried in the cess
pool of graft and corruption, l
would not be in this race. | am
the laboring mans candidate, -
| am the laboring mans friend,
and I'll stand by him so long as
God gives me mind and physical
strength to do it. 1t is because
the selfish, CORRUPT politicians. Of
this district realize the fact that
am able to expose their rotten
ness andthat | will do it if elect
ed, that they are so unfair, Sc
unmanly and so crooked in theil
designs as to start such lies a!
this one in circulation against
me.
The friends of another one ol
my opponents have been telling
that in one Of my speeches a
West Liberty | made the state
ment that "a farmer was not fit
or did not know enough to be ;
member of our legislature. ,
Two or three hundred of yol
my friends heard my speeche
and two or three hundred of 20,
: know that this rumor is a deliber
ate lie. Ihave always held tn
) farmers up as being the yer.
4 backbone Of our country, an,
there Are farmers who are quail
! fled and in every way competen
to fill the governors chair o
> this State. If | am elected | will
: be elected by farmers votes, an
, when elected Ipropose to put
lot Of blood-sucking politicians
who live from the honest toll @
: the laboring class, out of busines
| and give the farmers and thei
, families a chance.
e Another rumor being circulate
l is, that | have sold out to tn
: present administration and to tn
p liquor interests. That rumor m
S friends, that black hearted lie,
originated in West Liberty an
was started by a man who woul
trade on your votes as he woul
n your cattle or your hogs. He
d a man who has made what /
e has got in politics.. and WI
$ stands out today pre-eminentI
l. the king Of boodlers who Suppo
IS men for a job of some kind
n is such men as he that has plunI
l. ed Kentucky four million dolla,
# in debt, leaving the burden
a his patronage filed" purse {
you and your sons. Listen n
friends, if the present Admi
r. istration is for me, l am gratef
st for it and have no apologies
\ make. | have not sacrificed OF
principle | advocate or surende
ed single plank in my platfor
in order to secure any mans vo
or political support, and God hel
n