The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-07-04
split in the Kentucky Democracy
oyer the money question.

large personal following and is
known as fine party worker.
THE PLATFORM.
! FIRsT-The Democracy of Kentucky
in convention assembled congratulate
the country upon the repeal Of the Nc.
kinley tariff law, and upon the evidences
we have on every hand Of returning
prosperity, under the operations of re.
duced and equalized taxation; and we
denounce as fraught with danger and
disaster the threat of our Republican
adversaries to re-establish a protective
tariff and to reinaugurate a policy of
unequal taxation, which in connection
with general misgovernment by the Re.
publican party eliminated in the bus.
sinss panic of 1893.
SEcoND-The Democratic party, which
has always stood for the separation of
Church and state, for the sake alike Of
civil and religious freedom, does not hes
itate to condemn all efforts to create a
distinction among citizens because of
differences in faith as repngnant to an
enlightened age and abhorrent to the In.
stincts of American freemen.
THIRD-We reaffirm without qualifi.
cation the principles and policies de-
clared by the National Democratic Plat.
form of 1892, and declare that our pres
ent National Democratic Administra-
ton is entitled to the thanks of the
party for its honest, courageous and
statesmanlike management of public af'
fairs; and we express our undiminished
confidence in the Democracy and patri-
otism Of President Grover Cleveland and
his distinguished co-adviser and Secre.
tary, John G. Carlyle, of Kentucky.
FOURTH-When the Democratic par
ty came into power in 1867 the bonded
Indebtedness of Kentucky was over
$4,600,000. The nominal value Of the
assets of the sinking fund was about
S., 100000, made up in part of internal
improvements that cost over and were
. carried at a valuation of 81 800, 900, but
which yielded at that time no net reve-
nue., and were worth in cash only about
$500, 900, thus showing an actual deficit
in the sinking fund as compared with
our Indebtedness Of about 100000.
Since 1867 the bonded Indebtedness has
} been reduced to $65O,00O, and the avail
able assets of the sinking fund more than
, equal that sum.
We have increased the annual appro'
+ priation for support of our charitable
institutions from $250,000 in 1867 to
: 100000 in 1895, and while improving
t our judicial system by increasing the
: number of courts and the frequency OF
], their terms we have been compelled to
/ increase our expenditures, one of the
greatest items of which is the cost OF
criminal prosecutions, and a not ceabIe
T. fact 10 connection with which is that the
p increase is greatest in districts controlled
; by Republican officials. We have new
ertheless been able to decrease the cur
!, rent rat, of taxation for general reve
:, nue. purposes from twenty cents on Tho
one hundred dollars of taxable properly
in 1867 to fifteen cents in 1895. Th'
Democratic majority have voluntarily
increased the annual expenditures fo
= the support of common schools iron
1856, 900 in 1867 to about $4,000, o0o !,
i 1895, and by wisely providing separate
schools for the two races are today Civ
ing to the. children of the colored rae
opportunities foreducation they nowher'
: else enjoy. ,.., =.
q Ia the face Of unexampled diflicnltie
the Democratic party has succeeded u
q wholly withdrawing convict labor iron
n competition with free labor and IN abol
ishing the practice inherited from the Ike
: publican party Of leasing the conYlcts 2
: parties interested solely ~ making prom
i out Of their labor, and in adopting %,
modern md improved methods by which
vi the htate and its officers are made direct
!. 4 ly responsible for the management Q
y our state prisons and under which on
= penitentiary system has been and ~ De
\ ing greatly improved i,
4 During the twenty,eight years th
4 people have intrusted the Democratl
Z narty with the control q the state gov
eminent its administration has bee'
characterized hy the strictest econom.
= Eand integrity, and in this regard we IN
VIC comparison with any Republicai
state government
n FIPrH-We express our confidence q
Z Ellie wisdom aud honesty with which Tn