The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-14

The growing feeling of opposition t,
the league of nations was strikingl,
reflected in the recent special election
in the eighth congressional district o
Kentucky. in which comparativel!
obscure Republican candidate defea.
ed democratic leader of great In.
fluence in a district that has with one
exception invariably returned a beast.
ly democratic majority. Judge vii.
liam c. Halbert. of the twentieth ju.
dicial district, whose home is al
Vanceburg. KY, has written Senator
Borah Analysing the contest, the is
sues of which were confined to the
league Of nations and the Wilson ad-
ministration. The letter follows and
will be found most interesting reading
to those who desire to keep informed
upon the trend of public opinion on
the questions involved:
Commends 6orah's Position.
Vanceburg, KY, Aug. 5, 1919.
Hon. w. E. Borah, Washington, d. C.
Dear Senator: AS one of the leaders
in the battle to preserve the freedom
and liberty of our country endangered
as believe, by the so-called league OF
nations. but more appropriately styled
a measure to give the democratic par
ty new issue in the coming campaign
for president and incidentally place
President Wilson at the head of the
league Of nations with a comfortable
salary, / write to encourage you n
your fight for America and to call
your attention to some of the incidents
in the recent election held in the
eighth congressional district of this
state to elect a successor to the late
Harvey Helm; as the.question was di-
rectly in issue in the campaign and
the verdict Of the people on the issue
was clear and most decisive for a
Kentucky democratic district
The eighth district is composed Of
II counties in the central part Of the
state, extending from point within
Is miles of the Ohio river, near Louis
vile. to a point about 80 miles from
the Tennessee line and coming within
IL miles Of Frankfort and about the
same distance from Lexington. The
do II,
the state were in the district Of
Boonesborough, by Boone, and at Har-
rodsburg by James Harrod, and the
first college in the state or in the west
was old Center college at Danville in
this district. The population of the
district Is perhaps as little mixed with
foreign elements as any in the United
States and the average intelligence Is
much above the general average.
The democratic nominee, Charles A.
Hardin of Harrodsburg. was the
chairman of the democratic executive
committee of the state, an accredited
leader of his party and a man of high
social and party standing and prob
ably the strongest man his party could
have selected in the district to carry
its standard in the late campaign. He
was circuit judge of the thirteenth
judicial district which includes four
counties Of the congressional district
Mercer Boyle, Madison and Garrard,
and to show his standing and his pop
ularity in his judicial district in his
party I can state that in the primary
in which he was candidate for re-
romina ton as circuit Judge in Aug
ust, 1915, that he carried every voting
precinct in the four counties cOmpos-
ing his district over his democratic
opponent.
In the late campaign Judge Hardin
Endorsed the league of nations and
the course Of President Wilson In
framing the measure and pledging
America to its maintenance and sup
port and asked the people OF the dis
trict to elect him in order to sustain
the hands Of the president in his eft.
forts to secure the ratification of the
league by the senate
The republican candidate, King
Swope of Danville. late az soldier in
the army and young and compare
lively unknown lawyer outside his
own county, stumped the district and
took decided and outspoken ground
against the league of nations and also
the national administration and its
conduct and management Of the war
and the business of the nation gener-
ally.
The only time republican had ever
carried this district for congress was
In the landslide in 1894, when the late
Geo. Dawson carried it by small ma
jority but was defeated for reelection
in 1895 although Mckinley carried the
state then on the sound money ques-
ton over Bryan.
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