The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-15
The GubcrnatOrlal Canvass IL
kentucky.

ratio nominee, and General Harlan,
he Standard bearer of the Radical
Hon. James Beck, is also stumping
he State in behalf of Gen. Leslie, with
Cling effect, We make the following
from his speech ut 30 Wing
Sreen, which we find in the special
dispatches to the Couricr-Jonrnal
"Mr. Beck commenced Try saying he
had not always been n Democrat. In
1914, when at the age of twenty-one,
he east his first vote for Clay, but with
the Reorganization of that party had
q Democrat, and rs long as
their principles are as they are now
he expected to remain one. You are
brought face to face with men
who admit there is no such thing us
virtue; and let them get the power
let them have two years more lease IN
Congress, and you may as well turn
your court. houses into barracks, for
your law will become q mockery and
a farce.
Mr.. Beck then deliberately reviewed
the failure of the Republican party to
keep the promises Of the past, in VIC
la,inc every feature Of the lCrittcndcn
resolutions; in enforcing the AVth
amendment upon the North by the
vote Of the South, procured at the
point of the bayonct; and denounced
as heartless mockely the profession
of u~aiversai amnesty. He again re-
viewed the protest of leading Rcpub,
licaps Of Kentucky Zone of whom, Gen.
Fry, was not on the ticket, and VIM.
Cassius Goodloe, candidate for the
Legislature from his own district
against amnesty asked as 4 personal
favor for q few Kcntuckians. In the
face Of this record, plank was iGtro'
duced in the platform in favor of Uni,
vcrsal amnesty.
Gen. Harlan alluded in his speech
Yesterday, to fifteen thousand dol.
lars allowed for the Improvement OF
the Gubernatorial mansion and the
extravaganza Of the Democratic adj
ministration Of Kentucky. We have
a debt ofnot more than two millions
and that debt could be paid off if the
Government would allow to Kentucky
what it allowed Massachusetts-in
dcmnity for raj claims. Compare the
condition of Kentucky under Demo
cratic rule with the administration of
Southern States over which the Re
publican party have had control.
Kentucky is in q better condition than
any State in the Union. You cannot
buy her bonds. They are not on the
market. Look at South Carolina, on
the other hand. She has an annual
tax raised from 100000 to $4,000.
coo. Gov. Perry, an honest mar and
Il gentleman and Union man, has pro.
ven Gov. Scott and the Legislature,
composed Of negroes, with the cxcep-
ton OF nineteen white men, to have
been guilty Of every extravaganza and
corruption. Lands have been bought
at a forced depreciation and sold to
the State at much more than theiI
worth. Every railroad in the State
had been sold out and things caIe TO
such a pass at last that the tax payers
held n convention and decided that the
condition of things must be changed
else they would leave the State. Ii
North Carolina the debt increaset
fIom Sl3,000,000 to $39,00O,O 900 il
three years. Gov. Holden committc,
every enormity, and at last, despair
ing of success and afraid of the jus
vengeance of an outraged people sen
into East Tennessee and brough
those two scoundrcls. Kirk and Der
gen, and invested them with absolut,
power. They took the best citizen.
and tortured them rs never have mel
been tortured since the Spanish In
QUESTION. Yet We redeemed the State
from its Radical claims. Within thu
past three months, with this rccor(
fairly before him, the President nom
mated Bergen, United States Consul tC
Pernambuco. So with Tennessee
Her debt of $4,000, 600 contracted
under Radical rule has been diminished
under Democratic care to $1,000 0C
There was Il large amount of money
belonging to State School Fund at the
beginning of the var TO save this
from the clutches Of the army it was
taken by Confederate soldics, carried
all through the war, and at its close
returned intact to the proper officials
When the Radicals got hold of the
Sta.e finances they stole every dollar
of the lHnd. so with Bullock. OF
Georgia. lie vas charged on the
floor of Congress with theft of the
money. and Le could not prove his
innocence. apl that old sroundrel, 81