Licking Valley courier., 1917-09-27
Useless Effort.

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one lone race that Of State Sen
ator. q still insist that notwith
standing his announcement as ;
candidate Mr.. Lewis will not rul
on for sheriff. And the effort t,
\ defeat DR.. Whitaker is useless
effort or wasted energy. Tht
fact that the Republicans never
entertained the faintest hope o.
citing a Senator from this dis
Is amply evidenced by theil
te. A look into the polit
ation in Breathitt county
Explain the situation. 1t is
aently said that Breathitt
sy-has no politics. A resi-.
ence of four years in that coun-
rty convinced me that a great "a
percentage of the citizenship of
that county. Republicans and
Democrats, desire law and Or
der as exist in her neighboring
counties, and more of them will
, vote for what they think is right,
regardless of politics, than in
most counties. Unfortunately
.fe-sshat county the worst ele-
ments of both parties have been
in control for decades. The out
and-out whisky men control the
machinery of both parties, and
private citizens rarely get the op-
portunity of choosing the better
between two good men. 1t is
usually a matter of deciding the
least evil Of two bad men.
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Political principles, i. e., the
fundamentals of the two parties,
rarely, if ever, figure in election
contests in Breathitt. Control of
local business rather than politics
has been the contention that has
dragged that county through a
deluge of blood for more than a
quarter of century. The off
cial control has been sought as an
aid to oust competition.
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: M. S. Grain, Republican candi-
date for county judge, and j. C.
Hurst, "the Boss of Frozen,
represent big money" in Breath
lit county, and control the Re-
publican machine, and their per-
sonal and political records are by
no means sanity. In fact they
are decidedly the reverse. To be
candid, | can't throw any boquets
at the Democratic county ticket
in Breathitt. I'm dealing in
facts. There are a thousand in
dependent unpurchasable voters
in Breathitt who may have some
difficulty in deciding between
the respective candidates on the
Democratic end Republican coun-
ty tickets who will have no
trouble in deciding in favor OF
DIR. Whiteaker as against Mr..
Griffith.
DR.. Whiteaker is a man whose
personal and political life is so
clean that it attracts to his sup.
port the best men of both parties
throughout the district. So well
recognized was his convictions in
regard to temperance that the
temperance Democrats demand.
ed his nomination notwithstand-
ing the fact that he was not a
candidate for the nomination and
that two former Senators were.
DIR. Whitaker is a man of un-
questioned ability and has the
confidence Of all State-widers of
all parties.
Who is John Griffith, the Re-
publican candidate, and what
he stand for?
He is a well-to.do farmer of
Breathitt county, who some years
ago served a term in the Legisla-
ture without any more notable
achievement than drawing his
salary. Since that time he has
made several unsuccessful races
for county offices. He has not
publicly taken a stand on the
liquor question, though he will
doubtless line up on the prohibi-
tion side FOR the purposes of the
campaign Everybody has since
public sentiment is so overwhelm-
ingly that way, but has any
thing in his past life indicated
that that would be his natural
aphoicp2 am. NOT cenkino to con.