Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1899-08-18

proved efrective to crush the opera.
tions OF the trusts IN this state In
| both the house Of representatives and
the senate every Republican vote was
cast against this bill. It 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 1t. 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 inn
mense corruption fund used to make
Mckinley president, which included
$l,000.000 contributed by the sugar
trust; Hanna, the agent through
by the Republican party bartered to
the contributors Of this fund, In order
that they might not only reimburse
but magnifcently compensate them
selves by levying tribute, through un-
equal laws, upon the people; Hanna
himself one Of the foremost manipu-
lators and beneficiaries of trusts, actu-
ally had the recent Republican state
convention in Ohio to denounce the
trusts.
"The Republican party has become
merely the political agent of the
money power and the trusts IT 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 1T uses the powers of |
government chiefly to repay the con-
tribators of those corruption funds. II |
exalts money. the servant; it debases |
man. the master. TApplause.1
LincoIn's Warning.
"Ths 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 k
congress in 1851 Abraham Lincoln said /
this:
Monarchy itself is sometimes hint
ed at as possible refuge from the
power OF the people. In my present |
position l could scarcely be justified
we're to omit raising a warning voice
against this approach of returning des- l.
,otism. 1t is not needed or fitting here
hat general argument should be
made in favor OF popular institutions,
,ut there is one point with it's connec-
ION not so hackneyeu as most others
o which I ask brief attention. II
S to the effort to place capital on an
qual footing with, ifT not above, labor
n the structure of government. 1t is
lssumed that labor is available only
n connection with capital, that mo-
'ody labors unless somebody else own
ng capital somehow, by the use of it,
induces him to labor. Labor is prior L
o and Independent of capital. Capital
8 only the fruit of labor, and could Il
lever have existed if labor had not
rst existed. Labor la the superior OF
apital, and deserves much the higher
onsideration.' L
ut is only through the party of JET
erson and Jackson that this nation L
an be saved from complete subjec-
ion to the money power and the
rusts. GCfieers.l
"The Democratic platform approves
II, and the Republican platform de-
nands the repeal OF the statute amend II
ng the election law enacted by the L
asst general assembly: The gist of
hat statute is that it takes from tho L
ounty judges and confers upon three
in each county the
,ower to appoint each year the pre-
inct election officers that are to conf
act elections, the county commission
rs being appointed by state board
I three commissioners chosen by the.
eneral assembly.