The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1897-04-16
DEMOCRATIC RESOLUTIONS
AS Adopted at Their Con-
vention last Week.

they could make up. Read for yours
selves:
WHEREAS The people Of Ohio
county are groaning under the bur
dens Of taxations imposed to support
Government wholly Republican,
national, State ard county; this Cow
eminent in the county is maintained
at the very highest tax rate the Guns
stitution will permit and meager aud
inadequate benefits thereirom; the
State Government is shameiully inef.
fcient and incompetent, If nothing
worse.
Under it our asylums for the care Of
the helpless uufortunates have become
veritable charnelhouses from which
death is rapidly taking away the vic>
Tins Of ignorance aud neglect; our
peniteutiaries are neglected until
they are declared by Republicans
themselves to resemble "a widow
woman's farm" and they have become
nauseatiug cess pools reeking, in filth
and breeding crimes and criminals,
where dicipline is reduced to a farce
and the most revolving practices are
not only permitted among convicts,
but shared in by the Republican Off
cials in charge of the prisons them-
selves. The public schools ofthe State
have not escaped the touch or moral
distemper which the present State ad-
ministration seems to have introduce
ed The examination OF papers for
the selection of teachers for the chill
dreu Of the State have been peddled
out to those who we're able to buy, and
the whole school system has been per-
mitted to go backward.
The Treasury of the State has been
emptied to pay Republican ofiice-hold-
ers, while hundreds of men from the
farms who hold claims against the
State have been forced to remain unN
paid, and reputation has been prac-
ticed when these claims have been
rendered and refused in payment OF
taxes.
The moral toned the public service
has been lowered until under the dome
of the State Capitol bribery is at
tempted If not in fact consummated
in an effort to secure the election of
Republican United States Senator, In
this effort more than 81. 10000 Of the
peoples money is being wasted ev>
cry day by Republican Legislature
which seems incompetent to accom~
plish this or any other thing.
The present Republican Governor
made his campaign upon false allega-
tions of dishonesty on the part of
honest Democrats and the alleged in~
ability OF the Democratic authorities
to enforce the law; yet under ais adj
ministration lawlessness has been
more prevalent in Kentucky than evN
er before; more than 1000. 900 90 of
private property has been rendered
worthless and numbers of murders
committed by mobs. and yet there are
laws before this Governor and his
party's officials for the punishment
OF these mobs, but no one has been
brought to justice. Under Republic
an domination to taxable property of
Kentucky has fallen off more than
$7o.o 900 in value and OF the public
property of the State nearly $1,000
600 has been destroyed entirely. The
laws OF the State have fallen into dis
respect among the people and lawless-
ness everywhere prevails.
In the national Government whose
present head was hailed as ''the ad~
vanced guard OF prosperity" we see
no promise save the added hardships
to the poor and bounties to the rich
and powerful; taxes are to be increas-
ed by the addition OF more than $780,
600, 900 per year to the already heavy
burden the people are bearing, while
distress and disaster are spreading
over the land, leaving ruin and bank
ruptcy to mark tne course Of vicious
legislation.
1t is now Ave months since the cleo
ton which placed the Republicans in
control OF the National Government;
every day since that election has wit
messed the increasing failure of finan-
cial institutions all over the country,
individual and aggregate insolvency
amountiug to alarming sums, the ex
pansion OF trusts and monopohes
which Republicanism is pledged to
promote and the constant decrease in
the ability OF the American people to
successfully carry on the business Of
the country under existing conditions.
In view ofthese experiments with
( Republican domination, it is by the
Democrats Of Ohio comfy, resolved;
Ist. That we spprovetheeall Of thus
convention and call Of the precinct
conventions which met Satu rday
last.
and. We approve and heartily en-
dorse the arrangement agreed upon in
this county which has brought to-
gether all those who oppose Reptile
anism and who are honestly seeking
to better the conditions and the Gov
eminent Of our people.
srd. We reaiiirm our allegiance to
the Democratic party and the prinei-
pies OF that party as enuuciated by
the Chicago convention OF 1890.
4th. In the administration Of eoun-