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fence against future war. But such
scholars as Judge Kerr. stamping such
quackery as pernicious and panderings
TO ignorance, have come out in Kentucky
newspapers to call attention to Article
X pointing out that the United States
Is therein pledged to preserve the in
tegrity of members Of the covenant and
showing the vagueness of the stipulated
means of such preservation. To cllnch
that they have called the perplexed
populace's attention to the lack Of con-
ndence In the covenant manifested by
FRANCES insistence upon French
Anglo-American treaty and England's
contention that the retention of Ireland
as a colony is necessary to the protec-
ton Of Englands west coast.
Dodge National Issues.
As a matter OF fact. both sides are
eschewing national politics so far as
possible. The Democrats are fighting
on a straight Wilson platform without
being too specific. The Republicans are
making a straight State issue Of It and
are thereby drawing down Democratic
insinuations of cowardice.
To predict a rejection Of Wilson in
Kentucky. even IL Morrow is elected and
would be outrageously presumptuous
But were the national elections to take
place to-day or this month or even next
It would be entirely pertinent to venture
the defeat OF Mr.. Wilson. And he polled
$4,000 votes in Kentucky in 1916
against 100000 for Mr.. Hughes.
And to signify further the futility of
gauging what Kentucky will do by stand
ards Of what Kentucky has done, 1t IL
shown that while Senator Stanley's pred
ecessor in the Governors chair defeated
his Republican rival. Judge O'Rear, by
$4,000 votes. and while Stanley became
Governor In 1915 by the grace of only
451 votes over Morrow-a stupendous
Democratic decline or Republican prog
ress, as you will-Mr. Wilson found that
puny Democratic majority swelled to
$4,000 when he came to Kentucky for
Presidential votes in 1916.
So you get nowhere at all predicting
Kentucky political futures. You merely
can accept II as probable that, unless
public opinion undergoes a radical re-
versal before the elections in November.
Edwin Porch Morrow. Republican. will
be Kentucky's next Governor.
And on general lines you may accept
It as positive that at this writing the
yagaries Of Article Y. of the covenant
Of the League Of Nations have repealed
the soldier vote. which is seeing therein
the possibilities of another trip across
tho seas to fight an alien Power.
Finally the notorious inexactitudes
OF the covenant seriously have impaired
the merited cordiality that otherwise
would have been the heritage of the
proposed universal military training bill.
do not know yet what the sentiment
Is In other Southern States. but I have
heard trainmen and porters bakers and
butchers, hotel men and merchants say
this:
IA trained army and a trained re-
serve yes But not to act as a stop
gap for laws in a covenant that makes
It an imperative necessity that we Gre
ate and maintain such an armed force
to fight anywhere in the world Just
because two foreign Powers become
jealous and inconslderate Of their po-
litical duties"
II that sort of talk is Indicative OF
what Kentucky will do when the Dem
ocratic party in 1920 seeks national vim
dication for Mr. wilson's Administration,
so be II.
Hardin's Defeat No Joke Now.
At first the defeat of Circuit Judge
Hardin, Democratic State Committee
man, by Capt Swope. Eighth Con-
gressionai district was considered a
huge Joke. Swope won seat in Con-
gress over the veteran Judge. Many and
varied were the reasons offered by Judge
Hardin and the Stanley machine as an
organization.
Inasmuch as Swope never had been
heard of before announcing his can
didacy and that Just once before had
the Eighth Congressional district failed
to return an overwhelming Democratic
plurality-and that back in 1896 when
Kentucky Democrats deserted William
Jennings Bryan almost unanimously,
Hardin's election was conceded to be a
foregone conclusion and the necessary
balloting a great waste Of time.
Just at present the victorious Swope
Is maintaining a discreet silence re-
garding his campaign propaganda. he
admits that he made direct appeal to
.the soldier vote to stick together for
the common good of the soldier re-
CARELESS OF party" He admits that he
included in this appeal a general scat
tering fire upon the deficiencies In the
conduct of the war by the Wilson Ad-
ministration. And while he now re-
fuses to talk League OF Nations, men
who voted for him declare that he
made 1t very plain to them that the
league was not something to pin great
hopes upon and therefore called for
much interpreting and investigation be-
fore being accepted as panacea for
all international sicknesses."
The Democrats sat up. rubbed their
eyes, began to Singer at Judge Har-
din's tremendous discontinue and then
began looking around them for facts
wat they have learned wiped the
smile from their faces and has caused
Judge Hardin to embark upon a cam
paign- of letter writing In which e
| seeks to inform the people through the
newspapers how he was "tricked." The
| veteran Democrat. in a letter to the
Louisville Coarier-Journal, AYERS that
"a microbe is more dangerous than a
lion" and that the Republicans duped
him and his adherents by holding the
special Congressional election on a pri-
mary day. The Judge does not say
why he and his campaign managers
did not tell Democratic voters that the
| Congressional election and the Demo
cratic primaries were to be held the
J same day. But he admits that his
opponent saw to It that all Republicans
and a great many anti-machine Demo
Gratis were apprised of the fact.
but II is comforting to me to be
lieve," writes the Judge. that my race
has been OF great Importance to both
the State and nation in revealing the
state OF mind existing in this district
and in Kentucky to-day"
Real Republican Victory.
And right here it may be said that