Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-10-26
REPUBLICAN RECORD.
EXHIBIT suOwfNo WHAT 'rHE
OHANGEr vO ED FOR HAS
COST TUE STATE.
Prepared By the Democratic tampaig"
COMMITTEES ~ Barren county.

OF iuianly hat even The Republicans
themselves dare not d. feud il. Not
single Republican speaker Of note
is now on the stump advocating the
record made by his party-from the
Governor down they are dumb
while the severest criticisms oi the
official acts Of the Republicans come
from the Republicans themselves.
Among the first acts OF the Repub-
lican Governor Of Kentucky was the
calling out of the militia Of the State
to overawe, bully aud brow beat the
Legislature in the peaceful discharge
of its duty of electing United States
Senator an act without parallel in
the political history Of the State, and
which clearly demonstrates the inca
pacity Of the Republican party to rule
without resort to its Gavorite methods
and weapons of violence, fraud and
intimidation of the people.
This outrage was Immediately fol-
lowed by the issuing of S5O0,0OO IN
terest bearing bonds and the raising
of the tax rate of the State from 42a
cents on the hundred to 52a cents Oh
the hundred. And this measure was
signed by the very Republican Gov
ernor who had denounced the Demo
cratic party all over the State as ex
travagant and dishonest, and who
had declared i'll every speech made
for the past ten days that the rate OF
taxation was too high, that it should
be reduced, and that the Republican
party would see to it's reduction!
1t was further declared by the Re
publicans that frauds were being per
petrated by the Democratic admins
traton at Frankfort, and that so soon
as the Republicans could get control
of 1.-THE books" they would show this
to be fact. "The books" and the
State Government have both been in
their hands for year and a half, AND
NOT ONE CENT WORTH OF WRONG DOING
HAVE THEY DISCOVERED.
How is it with the Republicans
h5mselves9 Let the reports of Leg
islative Republican investigating com
mittees, and the reports oil State In-
spector Lester-another Republican =
answer. The lumber steals and the
chair factory steals, involving the loss
of thousands of dollars to the State,
the scandals in the charitable iustitu
tions, the penitentiary infamies, paint
"a chapter of Republican disgrace So
dark that it is utterly defenseiess, AN
rot even Republican speakers are az
tempting to defend it. La the Lex
ington asylum, the Republican Gov
ernor of the State has been forced 10
remove his own brother-in law from
the SUPPLEMENTARY, while Republi
eau investigating committees, and a
ReT ublican State Inspector, in their
reports and after due investigation, de
Inounce the management OF the Frank
fort and Eddyville penitentiarles and
the Hopkinsville asylum, describing
a condition of affairs that should
bring the blush of shame to the
cheeks of all honest, honorable men
aud citizens Of Kentucky. Not only
this, but last week, when the Assist
ant Attorney General of the State
himself Republican, and commit
tee Of business men, attempted to IN
vestigate the chair-steal, and the
charge that $500 per month was be
ing taken from the State, look al
the books was refused them, and they
were ordered out of the institution.
While the circumstances detailed
in these penitentiary reports are unh
for publica IN, it is sufficient indi a
ton of the Infamous condition of al
fairs existing TO state that more illeg
Inmate children have been born II
the penitentiary during the eighteen
months OF Republican rule thai
throughout the whole of the proceed
/ ing Democratic Administrations,wh while
the horrible condition of affairs pre-
yailing is disgrace to morality anC
, a reproach to civilization.
: To sum up, the record OF the Re
publican party on State issues is:
LIST. An increase in the rate of taxa
ton from AZ cent to 52a cents.
2nd. A falure to mud where th'
Democratic party had been guilty {
a single lola Of official wrong doing
} where the Republicans had all along
| charged that everything was rotten
! 3rd The issuing OF 100000 il
5 State bonds which tax payers will b.
' forced to pay
4th. An unparalleled infamy anC
4: scandal to the State in all its publ
institutions under republican rule
? c1udition of affairs SO utterly indefen
sible that no Republican speaker cal
j. be found to defend it, and that tn
{ Republican Governor, the Republi
eau State Inspector, and the Repub
r lican Legislative investigating com
mittees denounce.
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