The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-08-30

proved effective to crush the opera
lions Of the trusts in this state. In
both the house Of representatives and
the senate every Republican vote was
cast against this bill. 1t failed of pas
sage in the senate solely because there
two members, elected as Democrats,
Joined with the entire Republican
membership of that body in voting
against it. Notwithstanding this rec
ord of the Republican party in both
nation and state, the Republican plat
form in Kentucky declares. We pledge
the Republican party to the enactment
Of all such laws as may be necessary
to prevent trusts, pools, etc, etc.
"And Mark Hanna, the real head OF
the Republican party in this nation,
the gatherer and disburser of the i'm
mense corruption fund used to make
Mckinley president, which included
100000 contributed by the sugar
trust; Hanna. the agent through
whom the powers of government were
by the Republican party bartered to
the contributors OF this fund, in order
that they might not only reimburse
but magnificently compensate them
selves by levying tribute. through un-
equal laws, upon the people; Hanna
himself one Of the foremost manipu-
latOrs and benefciaries of trusts. actu-
ally had the recent Republican state
convention in Ohio to denoJnce the
trusts
THE Republican party has become
merely the political agent of the
money power and the trusts. 1t holds
power now, and hopes to hold power
in the future, solely as the result of
the use of immense corruption funds
contributed by the money power and
the trusts. and it uses the powers of
government chiefly to repay the con-
tributors of those corruption funds. It
exalts money, the servant; it debases
man, the master. [Appiause.l
Lincoin's Warning.
"The growth of trusts and the poll
cies of the Republican party forcibly
recall the language of one of the great
men of that party. In a message to
congress in 1861 Abraham Lincoln said
this:
Monarchy itself is sometimes hint
ed at as a possible refuge from the
power of the people In my present
position | could scarcely be justified
were / to omit raising a warning voice
against this approach of returning des-
potism. Il is not needed or fitting here
that a general argument should be
made in favor of popular institutions,
but there is one point with its connec-
tion not so hackneyed as most others
to which l ask a brief attention. 1t
is to the effort to place capital on an
equal footing with if not above, labor
in the structure of government. 1t is
assumed that labor is available only
in connection with capital, that no
body labors unless, somebody else own
ing capital somehow, by the use of it,
induces him to labor Labor is prior
to and Independent of capital. Capital
is only the fruit of labor and could
never have existed if labor had not
first existed. Labor is the superior of
capital and deserves much the higher
consideration
ct is only through the party of JEFF
ferson and Jackson that this .Lation
can be saved from complete subjec-
ton to the money power and the
trusts. GCheers.1
THE Democratic platform approves
of, and the Republican platform de-
mands the repeal of the statute amend
ing the election law enacted by the
last general assembly. The gist OF
that statute is that it takes from the
county judges and confers upon three
commissioners in each county the
power to appoint each year the pc
cinct election officers that are to con-
duct elections, the county commission
ers being appointed by a state board
of three commissi toner's chosen by the
general assembly.