The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1892-08-12
KEYS, TINS WIG WuMr.
Peeple'S PaPtv Candidate
Fbr lsOngreaa.

uOe NoW8Voks
Hon. B. r Keys, the Peoples
Party nominee for Congress, yoke
at Hickman, Monday, to . mail
bot attentive audience. He's no
doubt q clever gentleman peson.
ally, bat, ct the came time, Be 10 .
very adroit politician and rskes
very different speech 70 what
has been the want II hlpsirsi
party hsranguers In mis- section.
Indeed, Brow Erwin, SIvglessry 4
Co., would scarcely recogntxe II
- orthodox hessy except for Ito
continuous abass Of the Demo.
cratic PARTY. The sdroitness Of
the speech was that eight.tehths
Of his time was taken up In oh.
jeciions to the Democratic party,
and thereby avoiding any expls.
nation or defense Of the teachings
Of his own pert. His objections
were recklessly made, half truths
and half error, and sometimes
wholly erroneOus. He insists that
there 10 no Other issue Of impor
tance except money, aud that his
party has discovered the universal
panscsa for oil the lille resulting
from q lack OF money, and yet,
sIngulsrly enough, he skipped
over the main contsntious Of HE
party and only presented the Pos
tai Savings Bark 40 the great
remedy to give relief He evi.
dently intends to dodge . defense
of the Picker Sub.treasury bill
and the Land Loan scheme IN this
canvass, and to hedge round .
little post Office m,ney order de.
post system as a iubiifuge. He
did face up somewhat on the pur.
chase Of the railroads, telegraph
lines, &C., 10y the Government, In.
sisting that such property could
be condemned, paid for and oper.
ated so as to be a source Of great
revenue to the Government, but
with this exception he evsded 81
the chief contentious Of bis party.
Keys, like ell the Third Party
speakers in the South, boasts Of
having been . Democrat, . Tom
J Observation-Disclosures fellow, ID.
Dne thing politically In his life to
DO proud Of, and yet he abuses
everything the party does or has
lone since the days Of these two
historical characters. Jefferson
md Jackson we're, each. President
light years, aud enjoyed long pub.
10 lives, and strange to cay that
,either Of these great apostles,
vhose teachings the Third Party.
tes profess to love and venerste,
yer uttered one word in favor of
The Government ownership OF
steamboats,, steamships,
md telegraph lines; or
Ofs Land Loan scheme; or
OF the GovernsIent taxing the
'eopIe to get money to loan to Q
'ertain class Of people on their
Orn, wheat, tobacco or cotton.
And strange again to say, that
10 Democratic platform Of 1910,
n any other year, ever favored or
any such measures.
Mr.. KEYS may have voted the
Democratic ticket in life, bat we
Inspect 1t has bean many yssrs
isee. But, however that may be,
'cehsan who holds that the Gov.
rnsaent, which has no money ex.
'ept that which it gets by taxing
10 peOple-the merchant, mechsn.
c, farmer, and the laborer IN every
Ealk Of life, can take OF their
earnings to lend to some land own.
r. or speculatOr, can no more be
Democrat than man can DO Q
Christian who denies all belief in
Jesus Christ. Men have the right
70 believe In and teach such things,
but there IL not q drop Of Demo.
cratic blood about such men, aud
u their own conscience they know
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