Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-01
DEMOCRATIC REFORM IN KEN.
lucky.



Republican and Of great native ability.
In . speech delivered upon the floor Of
the House on the 10th of last month. he
reviewed with a bold and unsparing
hand, the Reforms" carried on by the
Democracy of his State. The occasion
of his speech was the consideration of
the river and harbor bill; and in criti-
cising Democratic rule in Kentucky he
said:
The class legislation which has char
ac,erized the administration of State
affairs by the party in power in my State
has not made the most favorable im-
preston on immigrants. Take for ex-
ample the legislation which permits,
sanctions, and so controls affairs that
hundreds and thousands of its citizens
can receive no education at all, as Is the
case in my State. What impression
must this fact alone make on the mind
of a man seeking q home among
strangers?
/ clip the following from the American
Citizen. newspaper edited and publish
ed at Lexington, Kentucky. by colored
gentlemen:
According to the laws of Kentucky no
colored man is qualified for juror.
Colored men are taxed 81 head more
than white men.
Colored citizens have no voice in elect
ing their school trustees.
The school age of coiored children is
from six to sixteen, of white children
from six to twenty.
Taking into account this disparity as
to the school age, the State approprl-
alton for cciored schools is less than one
eighth as much per scholar as for white
schools.
The colored voters of Kentucky will
be interested IN the success of any point
ical party which will earnestly set itself
against these wrongs. but they acknowl-
edge no obligation to any party which
by silence makes itself responsible for
these outrages upon their race.
OF beni6cent measure Of Republican
legislation he said:
So great is the illiteracy of the people
in certain States of the Union that the
Committee on Education and Labor to
which belong, has reported bill to set
aside the public lands for educational
purposes and providing that the pro-
ceeds of the sales of those lands shall be
distributed among the States on the
basis of the illlteracy of the people. II
this bill should become law, as We con-
Adsntly trust it may at the next session
of Congress, it will do much to make the
school fund for the colored people of my
State equal to that of the whites, for
there is statutory provision which de-
clares that all moneys received from the
United States for educational purposes
shall go to the colored school fund till 1t
equals that for the whites.
Picturing the dreadful state of affairs
in certain parts of Kentucky Mr.. White
says:
MURDERS AND kU-KLUx oUTRAGEs.
Another cause for the lack of immi-
grafton to my State. and some other
States as we'll, is to be found in the fact
that too little regard is had for the lives
and liberties of individuals.
The number of homicides, murders
and assassihations. is fearful TO contem-
plate. / hang my head in shame to
confess that the number of such outra-
geous violations of the law and horrify-
ing crimes in my State is probably not
over estimated by the Democratic editor
who makes the the following state
ment:
ABAD rICTUEE FOR KENTUCKY.
During the last sixteen years there
u T..
eighteen homicides in Mason county.
only one man, Collins, who butchered
the Cobb family, was punished for his
crime. Bloody as this record seems. 1t
is less so than that of any other county
in the State of equal population. 1t is
safe to say that, since the war, there
have been three thousand homicides in
Kentucky and the hangings have been
scarcely 1 per cent. of the number of
murderers.-Marysville Eagle. (Den-
ocrat) Kentucky.
Almost IS soon as the Democratic
party declared for Tilden and reform"
the ku-klux element of that party began
their ancient practices, which are set
forth in the following articles:
AN ENTHUSIASTIC REFORM DEMONSTRATION
AT LANCASTER. Ky.
nc ,rrespordence Louisville Commercial.
Stamford, Ky, June 3O.-A mob.
composed of the good Democracy of the
enlightened bluegrass region of Ken
lucky. visited the Jail Of Lancaster. Ky,
this morning, and released one Samuel
Williams, q white man who had COM
mitted q deliberate and cold-blooded
murder in Casey county q few weeks
since. Then, on the spur of the mo-
ment, the same party of reform hung a
negro who had killed Fred Zakey dur
ing the Lancaster riot last summer. He
had been tried and acquitted. but was
aftsrward rearrested and placed in Jail
to be hung by this mob.
The party passed through here about
four A. NJ. This is surely q glorious be-
ginning for the party of reform.
JUSTICE.
Commenting upon this sickening re-
cord he spoke in plain terms At follows:
1T is Just such reform AZ this that the
nomination Of Tilden and Hendricks en-
courages, and it is just such disgraceful
and murderous reform as the above that