The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-20
COL. |. ". BuRNHElM OUT
FOR COX ANO LEAGUE
Lifelong Republican Calls League
The Worlds Hottest
Possession

Louisville, KY. Oct. 1S.-"Next
to my religion came my deep attach
ment for the Republican, |party, but
shall have to forget my past record
and vote this time for the Democra-
tic Presidential standardbearer" de-
clared Mr.. 1. w. Burnheim in
statement Saturday. Mr.. Burnheim
has always been a liberal contribu-
tor to Republican funds and Is one
of the leading .philanthropists OF the
state. He recently gave the city OF
Louisville a statue of Abraham Lin
coin to be placed in Central Park and
is also the donor Of the Thomas JET
ferson statue at the Jefferson !Coun-
ty Court House.
MIR. Bernheim's Statement Y
The statement of Mr.. Bernheim
follows:
IT have been a Republican down
in the so-called Gibraltar District OF
Kentucky's democracy for more than
half a century. In fact, l have been
a Republican when in McCracken
County they were known only as
Black Radicals
Next to my religion came my
.deep attachment to the Republican
party, but 1 shall have to forget my
past record and vote this time Tor
the Democratic Presidential stand
ardbearer, solely because my con-
science won't permit me by my vote
to confirm the acts of our Repubfi-
can leaders, who committed the
crime of playing politics when an
IMPOVERISHED and starving world was
looking to us for guidance and lead
ership.
"In the Spanish-American War we
became the owners of Cuba the
choicest piece of real estate in the
entire world. We surrendered it to
the rightful owners in the fullness
of time and thereby furnished to
the world an object lesson in unset
fishness unmatched in modern or
ancient history.
1--WE entered the World War in the
same unselfish and noble spirit.
1--WE asked for neither territory
nor compensation.
1--WE made untold sacrifices. Our
best blood was sent overseas, and
many of our heroic dead are resting
in foreign soil.
Past HOliest Possession
Thanks to the heroism of our
boys and the wonderful resourceful-
ness of our people, we finished the
task and did it well. At the conclu-
sion of the ~armistice we became by
unanimous consent of the world its
leaders. The hundreds of millions
of human beings-unhappy, impov-
erished and starving, looked upon
us as their big brother. Providence
had showered upon us everything
needfuT for the task, including
boundless wealth, and selected us as
"The Moses to bring the children
of Israel out of Egyptian slavery and
darkness"
"But a narrow leadership in the
Republican party has trampled un-
derfoot the worlds holiest posses
sion, the League of Nations, the
pact which foreshadowed, perhaps
in as yet an imperfect and crude
way, the time when
They shall beat their swords in
to ploughshares and their spears IN
to pruning hooks; nation shall not
lift up sword against nation, neither
shall they learn war any more.
"The suffering Of the world has
in the meantime measurably increas-
ed since that November day of 1918.
Death Holds High Carnival
death and poverty continue to
noiu hiSu carhi'oi III soiho VI INV
fairest portions of Europe and the
end is not yet On the contrary,
the coming winter promises to break
all recods in disease and death and
suffering and want for the necessar-
les of life. all because the Republican
party allowed itself to be led by
selfish. greedy and criminally mar
row leadership--a leadership which
has almost destroyed the fruits of
the war and has laid us open and
perhaps Justly to the charge OF CO.
wardice.
"I am for the League Of Nations
because back of It stands the Ameri-
can priaciple of life, liberty and the