The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1892-08-12
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Peeple'S Pasev (:aodlAaee
N6e Congress.

uO6 NOWB
Hon. B. Z, Keys, the Peoples
Party nominee for Congress, poke
at Hickman, Monday, to . mail
bot attentive audience. Heis no
doubt q clever gentleman peson.
ally, bat, st the same time, Be 10 .
very adroit politician and sakes
. very different speech 70 what
has been the want Il Estrtl
party hsr.nsuers In mis- section.
Indeed, Brew Erwin, Siugletary 4
Co., would scarcely recogntze II
% orthodox hssssy except for Ito
continuous abuss Of the Demo.
cratic PARTY. The sdroitness Of
the speech was that eight.tenths
Of HE time was taken mp In oh.
jections to the Democratic party,
aud thereby avoiding any expls.
nation or defense Of the teachings
Of bis own psry. His objections
were reckless,y made, half truths
and half error, and sOmetines
wholly erroneou,. He insists that
there 10 no Other iasue Of impor
tance except money, and that his
party has discovered the universal
panscsa for oil the Tile resulting
from q lack Of money, and yet,
singularly enough, he skipped
over the main contsntiOus Of bic
party and only presented the Pos
tai Savings Bark - the great
remedy to give relief He evi.
IDENTITY 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 iub,ifuge. 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 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 tho South, boasts Of
having been . Democrat, . Tom
] Observation-Disclosures fellow, the
one thing politically In his life to
be proud Of, aud yet no abuses
everything the party does or has
lone since the dsys Of these two
historical characters. Jefferson
md Jsckson we're. each. President
tight years, aud enjoyed long pub.
10 lives, and strange to cay that
neither Of these great apostles,
Vhose teachings the Third Party.
tee profess to love and venerate,
'ver uttered one word in favor of
Tho Government ownership OF
Silroads, steamboats,, steamships,
md telegraph lines; or
Ofs Land Loan scheme; or
OF the Government taxing the
'eOple to get money to loan to o
'ertsin class Of people on their
'orn, wheat, tobacco or cotton.
And strange again to say, that
10 Democratic platform Of 1910,
" any other year, ever favored or
'uggested any such measures.
Mr.. KEYS may have voted the
Democratic ticket In life, bat we
inspect 1t has bean many yesrs
'isee. But, however that may be,
'othsen who holds that the Gov.
'rnssent, which has no money ex.
'ept that which il gets by taxing
to peOple-the merchant, mechsn.
c, farmer, and the ,aborer 10 every
walk OF life, can take OF their
to lend to some land own.
tr or SPECTATOR, can no more be
: Democrat than a man can DO Q
Christian who denies all belief in
Jesus Christ. Men have the right
10 believe in and teach such thin 70.
but there 10 not q drop of Demo.
cratic blood about such mep. and
IN their own conscience they know
H.