Show i o. o KENTUCKY POLITICS A local contemporary grieved exceedingly that by j the help of sonic Democratic votes voles a Republican I In Kentucky ha had been elected to the senate of the United States and was vas fierce in ill its denunciation of those Democrats who made the election of the thc Republican Republican Re Re- publican possible le But the Journal Courier is not inconsolable inconsolable in in- n- n consolable over oyer the result It sa says s 's The rhe political death of Beckham like the ph physical death of his Hargis was logical Each reaped as he sown it is also the end of it will willbe willbe willbe be the beginning of Democracy The senator-elect senator is an ui old line thorough going Republican and regrettable as it is that a sound exponent of Democracy could not be he elected the elimination of Beckham both now and find in the next campaign clears the way for the party part to kick the remnants of the shattered machine out of its path and to come into its own again These rhese arc lays days when it is pretty hard for Kentucky Kentucky Ken Ken- tucky to prove that it is a civilized state Its night nightriders nightriders nightriders riders who with the torch consume property with guns gulls kill men and ind who who for pastime cruelly whip women and children might be passed over a as mere lucre outbursts of a n few bad men but when the whole power of the state is not hot sut sufficient cieni to st stop p the outrages outrages out out- rages ages the impression seems to be that decent men are e too much in in the minority to cause any man nian to want to go there But even Kentucky Democrats ought to be a little proud of their Republican sena sena- sena-I sena tor He i-fe entered the union army a boy of 15 5 which was a clear proof o of his pluck And he lie has hns a high record lie Ic was the first Republican governor ever elected in in n Kentucky which h ch was clear proof that there was the b best st kind of stuff in him lie He is the second Republican senator ever elected in the state stute lIe He has hns been three times a candidate for congress and though defeated every time he every time received re ye- a very heavy vote yote Tic He seconded the nomination nomination nomina nomina- tion of Grant for president in in 1880 A ver very strong strongman man is Senator William 0 O. Bradley |