The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-06-14
Winchester Convention.

10 nominate candidate lor hall-
road Commissioner for this district
adopted the following 'rsolutlons
AS representatives OF the Dem &C.
racy Of one-third of the Common
wealth met to nominate a candid i'e
for a single Office, we do not pre-
sumo To believe that We are author.
lied to formulate platform but
as free men, with convictions ",
feel lha. il would not be amiss in u:
TO express our views a. To the pol
icies that NAV be considered by th,
State conventiou, soon to assem-.
| Bile in Louisville.
| We endorse the declaration oil
principles adopted by the NatiOna
| Democratic Convention at Chicago
in 1892, AMI the conservative course
of the party on financial questions
which has restored confden e il
the business future OF our country
The reduction of the tariff has
brought such relief to the peopl,
that even the Republican State
| Convention of Kentucky has moi
dared to demand tho re-enactment
Of the Mckinley act; the wipinl
| from the statute book of the Fore.
bill has brought the country nearer
to free and fair elections thar
ii could have hoped to be whilst
under the control of partisan United
States Deputy Marshals. The Re
publican party is responsible fol
laws which produced the recent
business depression and those dan.
gers which so seriously threatened
ou- peace, happiness and prospect.
ty have been happily removed by
the firm and patriotic course Of the
Democratic party under the present
Administration.
Even with the income tax elimi.
mated by the action OF Supreme
Court, which did not divide on 20,
litical lines, and with the disturb.
ance to business resulting from the
commercial debauch into which We
were led by vicious Republican pol
lcies, we find our Federal revenues
almost sufficient to conduct the
Government on the more econom'
ical lines enforced by the Demo
cratic party. Capital is rapidly
seeking investments in manufacture
ing enterprises, which will be more
stable, because not unduly stimu
lated. Tens of thousands of labor
ing men have found in the sub
stantial increase IN wages that they
have had this spring that the Re
publican policy of protection wa'
not in their interest at all. The
firm and healthy rise in the value
of farm products has again demon
3trated to our agricultural classes
that ireer markets will bring bet
ter prices to those who have sup
ply for sale. These and other con
ditions resulting from Democratic
Administration of our national at
fairs are the answer tina: the Demo
cratic party gives to the bowls Of
the Republican press and speakers
and to all the charges that the
agents Of monopoly and class in
terests have used to prejudice the
minds OF the people during the
period of financial depression,
which was the logical consequence
of Republican rule.
That we point with pride to that
Democratic Administration at
whose head is our matchless Presi.
dent, Grover Cleveland, and in
whose councils is the great Ken
tuckian, John Griffith Carlisle,
which has guided this Government
from the abyss Of financial ruin to
the threshold Of a prosperous flu
ture.
We would have the eonyention
at Louisville boldly and defantly
accept the challenge made by the
Republican convention just adj
journed T; TO discuss before the people
in the coming campaign the man
agement OF our State affairs since
the Democratic party came into
power in 1867. We venture to af-
firm that no Republican State has
had its affairs conducted In a man.
ner SO clean, SO economical, so
honest, and yet so progressive.
We deDounce the hypocritical
and mendacIous efforts of the re-
cent Republican State convention
to prejudice the minds Of the peo-
by demanding a rigid inspection
of tie books" of our State Govern
ment, when it knew that they have
ever been open as the day 10 all
men.
To that great body whose course
will not be dominated by the single
will of an ambitious leader, bul
which will be composed of repre-
sentatiyes Of the free thought Of
every element Of Kentuckey's pop
ulation we submit these suggestion:
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