The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1897-11-24
A REPUBLICAN TEARS HIS
PARTY TO TATFERS.
EDITOR WALTER FoaRssTsR's LETTER.

administration is still in a trance, it
seems. Hanna is running the machine,
and Hanna thinks that the party that
carried Kentucky in 1895 and 1896 WAS
composed Uf Hunter, Roberts, Todd,
anu tie Negro. And so Hanna is hay
Ing affairs in Kentucky run on the lines
II hunters policy. Right in the face
Jf the terrible rebuke administered to
the Hunter machine at the recent cleo
ton, Mckinley appoints Hunter as
Minister to Guatemala Think of 1t!
Brutus J. Clay set aside and Hunter
selected as the only appointee from
Kentucky to foreign post.
And not satisfied with this criminal
blunder, the president consummates one
OF the most disreputable political tricks
ever witnessed in this Stale, in the mat
ter of the second District Collectorship.
When during the session of the United
States Senate, it became apparent that
"Banquo's Ghost" Franks conld not be
confirmed, Mckinley appointed Yam
dell and Franks become chief deputy.
Bat now comes the president with a
shell game Performance, removing Yam
dell and putting Franks in as a collector
\ more unpopular and unworthy APP
pointment after that of Hunter and
Sapp could not have been made. Sapp
the president of the A. P. A. in Ken
lucky and Hunter the repudiated trick
ster who pledged his vote for free silver
as bride for populist votes in the Legis-
lature, and Franks whose name he dar-
ed not send to the Senate. The decent
republicans OF Kentucky will not submit
TO this combination in local affairs with
the A. z. A., the carpet-bag uicksters
and the ignorance of the party.
1t is unfortunate for the State admin
iStration that the Louisville A. z. A.
Know-nOthing gang is demanding that
the State Board of Control reverse the
will OF the people of Louisville and JET
ferson county and unseat the recently
elected circuit Judges and Common
wealth's Attorney. The State Board is
composed of the governor, attorney gen.
erai, auditor, treasurer and secretary of
state, and if the A. z. A. KnOw-nothing
gang gets favorable decision from the
Board, it will draw upon the republican
State officials the storm OF indignation
that they ought not to invite. Assum-
ing that they will do what they believe
to be right, every intelligent person in
Louisville knows that the citizens of the
metropolis will bitterly resent reversal
Of the popular will as expressed al tie
polls.
There is absolutely no public senti-
mentto support this attempt to steal the
judgcships. The fight has not been
against republicans so much as against
the vile A. Z. A. and know-nothing
crew that has taken full control of the
republican organization in Louisville
and brought it a deserved defeat. The
State officials must try the contest if It
| should be brought up to them; but il
seems that some of the officials are not
only willing to try the case, urging the
/ Todd gang to make contest. 1t is a
dangerous thing for them to do, and a
| Legislature about to meet, with three
to one Democratic majority, ready to
bring 20 the bar any official who has dol e
wrong. However, the Hunterites are
blind to everything but their own bri, +
authority.
Contractor Martin is having things
pretty much has own way in the farci-
cal Investigation of the rotten chair Con-
tract. The Sinking Fund Commission
refused to allow Gov. Bradley 10 grant
tue request of the Board of Trade OF
Louisville, when they asked permission
to send a chair expert to assist in the III
vestigatlou. And the investigation will
be investigated when the Legislature
meets. Ire cyclone is forming but the
fated victims DO not see it
With malice toward none and charity
to all, the disinterested observer will Lt
edited if not instructed when the whirl-
wind begins to toy with the card house:
and straw bonds that the accidental re
publican bosses are so solemnly interest
ed in. There will be a 'loOk at til,
books" and by experts too, but not as i
should have been under republican di
rection. A Democratic ''Lexow Com
mittee" will not he as considerable as
friendly and unbiased COMMITTEES of bust
ness men would have been, had they no
been rudeiy excluded from the books
Well the game must be played out
There are those who know the value o
a royal straight flash and an ak handle
and there are those who do not, bu
persist in moving in their stack on
pair of deuces and cold bluff.
) Walter Forester.
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On the account of the Big Foot Bal
Game Mt Lexington THANKSGIVING Da,