The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-09-12
Kentucky Democratic stSte Platform.


FfRsT--Tbe Democracy Of Ecntuck,
IN convention assembled congratulate
the country upon the repeal of tile Nc.
kinley tariff law, and upon the egideuces
we have on every hand Of returning
prosperity, under the operations of re-.
duced and equalized taxation; and we
denounce rs fraught with danger ard
disaster the threat of our Republican
anniversaries to re-establsh protective
tariff and to reinaugurate a policy OF
unequal taxation, which in connection
with general misgoyernment bythe Re.
, Tr.1lican party culninated in the BUS.
SIMS parie Of 1898. q a&%
SEcoNp-The Democratic party, which
has always stood for the separation Of
church aud state, for the sake alike OF
civil aud religious freedom, does not hes
itate to condemn all efforts TO create q
distinction among citizens because Of
differences in faith as repugnant to an
enlightened age aud abhorrent TO the IL.
stincts of American freemen.
THIRD-We reafiirm without oualii.
cation the principles and policies de.
clared Ivy the National Democratic Plat.
form Of 1892, and declare that our pres.
ent National Democratic Adminstra.
ton is entitled to the thanks nf the
party for its honest, courageous and
statesmanlike management of public af.
ialrs; and we express our undiminished
confidence in the Democracy and patri-
otism Of President Grover Cleveland and
his distinguished co.adviser and Score.
tary, John G. Carlyle, of Kentucky.
FOURTH--When the Democratic par
| ty came into power in 1867 the bonded
Indebtedness of Kentucky was over
S4,600,000. The nominal value of the
assets Of the sinking fund was about
SS,OOO,OO0, made up in part of internal
improvements that cost over and were
carried at valuation of "a 100000, but
which yielded ut that time no net reve-
nue., aud were worth in cash n'y about
S5OO,OOO thus showing an actual deficit
in the sinking fund as compared with
our Indebtedness Of about 5000, 600
Since 1867 the bonded Indebtedness has
been reduced to $G50,000, 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 $2j000O in 1867 to
$500,O00 in 1895, and while improving
our judical system by increasing the
number Of courts and the frequency Of
! their terms VIC have been compelled to
increase our expenditures, one of the
greatest items of which is the cost of
criminal prosecutions, and a not ceable
! fact in connection with which is that the
increase is greatest in districts controlled
| by Republican officials. We have new.
ertheless been able to decrease the cuer
rent rat1 of taxation for general rev.
nue. purposes from twenty cents on the
one hundred dollars of taxable properly
in 1867 to fifteen cents in 1895. The
Democratic majority have voluntarily
increased the annual expenditures for
the support of common schools from
1886, 600 in 1867 to about 100000 in
1879, and by wisely providing separate
schools for the two races are today Civ
ing to the children of the col0red race
opportunities for education they nowhere
else enjoy.
In the face of unexampled difficulties
the Democratic party has succeeded in
wholly Withdrawing convict labor from
Cohi tCtlliou Win Tree iaDOf anu IN aOOl"
ishing the practice inherited from the Re
publican party of leasing the cOnvicts to
parties interested solely in making profit
out of their labor, and in adopting the
modern and improved methods by which
the state and its officers are made direct.
ly responsible for the management of
our state prisons and under which our
penitentiary system has been and is be-
ing greatly improved.
During the twenty-eight years the
people have intrusted the Democratic
party with the control of the state gov
eminent its administration has been
characterized by the strictest economy
and integrity, and in this regard we in.
vite comparison with any Republican
state government.
FIFTH-We express our confidence in
the wisdom and honesty with which the
present state administration has con.
Quoted the affairs of our state govern.
ment.
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