The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-10-25
DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER
FLAYS GOV. STANLEY
Todd County Times Speaks
Right Out In The
Meetin'.


Weathers' paper, published at Elk
ton, is one of the highest class week
ly newspapers published i'm the State,
and IL is published in county that
i'm several precincts does not have
Republicans enough to serve as cleo
tion officers.
But the Times. for Twenty-Five
a loyal and able exponent of Democ-
racy balks at Stanley. The Times
is a real newspaper. that dares pos
sess its own soul, and stand for the
best interest of its country But
we shall not speak for the Times, but
let IL speak for itself Referring to
the present campaign for the United
States senatorship. IL says:
Gall.
Those esteemed gentlemen who are
quartered in the Seelbach German
name) hotel, under the title of the
democratic State Campaign Commit
tee" would have deprived the papers
of all space given the advertising of
lilt oullH Ivan IL NhtN hoh
only had their way about it. Filling
their stomachs on Sc beefsteaks and
sleeping on the best beds in the city
(free advertising. Herr Seelbachs)
they have been bombarding the Dem
ocratic papers of the State with lot
of rot as to the "unimpeachable in
tegrity" of Owsley Stanley, etc, etc,
etc, which they wished run free of
charge. The Times has burned these
communications with all possible
rapidity. and ABSOLUTELY GIVEN
to Uncle Sam every Fourth Liberty
Loan advertisement. Not a cent has
this paper received during this loan
for one inch of its advertising space,
and It hasn't attempted to get II. It's
doing mighty little anyhow. it thinks.
compared with the humblest boy,
God bless him, who is over in the
trenches fighting coolies and Huns
for our freedom and the freedom
of all the people of the world.
However. II doesn't think II neces-
sa-y to display its patriotism that 1t
give. free of all charge, to a bunch of
politicians space which constitutes its
stock in trade in order to help to a
81, 500-a-year-job man whose chief
distinction is that for nearly four
years he has held an Office that
was stolen for him and who now
holds a machine-made nomination,
and Of whom ONE OF THE VERY
BIGGEST GUNS on the present cam
paign committee once remarked, on
train coming out OF Louisville
"Of course, everybody knows Owsley
Stanley is tho biggest lar in tie
State of Kentucky"
$50
The most disgusting and outrage
Gus stunts in all the history of Ken
lucky politics was the writing of a
letter from democratic" headquart-
ers TO the preachers of the State. tell
ing them it was their CHRISTIAN
patriotic duty TO line up everybody
they could for Stanley. God never
made a better man than Owsley Stan
ley's father, and he never made a
more shining example OF an unworthy
son of most illustrious sire. To
associate Owsley Stanley's name with
that of the man of Gallilee is to
openly insult the life and works of
1.-THE most sublime character that ev-
er graced the mighty tide of time;"
and the preachers are going to re-
sent il just as they should resent 1t.
$50
There are numerous Democratic
speakers in the country who are true
blue patriots and 100 per cent Amer
leans. Therefore, il is to be hoped
that the Democratic campaign COM
mittee won't insult the patriotic citi-
zenry of the State by putting on the
stump Crepps Beckham, who urged
everybody to support the President
and then proved his sincerity by de-
sorting him on war measure the
President plead with him to sup
port
Stanley can always be depended
on. STANLEY editorial headline.)
He certainly can To stab in the
back every friend he ever had, to
violate every promise he ever made
to insult the decent citizenship of
Kentucky on every occasion, and It.
daddy the most iniquitous, thieving
tax law that Was ever devised to roo
the farmer and the owner of modest
little home.
So
Augustus OWsley Stanley dominat-