Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-22
Says The Republicans Will Go
Out With Flying COIors.
Awfully Opposed To The Ballot Re-
form Law, But Dodges The
Separate Coach Question.

J Whlle there was no general out
pouring to hear Gen. Taylor We'd
nesday, his crowd was large enough
to comfortably fill the court house,
and at times there was considerable
enthusiasm among the white Repub-
licans. About 100 negroes were
present, but there was but little
applause from that side of the house,
and when Taylor refused point
blank to give his position on the
separate coach law, the colored
contingent maintained a disguised
silence.
The speaking was advertised to
begin at one o'clock, but at that
hour only about 300 people were in
the court room. The bell was ener-
getically rung up and down the
streets and when the speaker began
at LIS there were about 375 people
on hand. Others came in later and
probably $50 people heard the
speech. There were about a dozen
ladies and the Asylum crowd, that
tried so hard to prevent Taylor's
nomination, was out in force and
did much of the clapping.
Gen. Taylor was introduced by
Judge James Breathitt, who said he
had sprung from the people and
had risen by his own exertions, but
he did not dwell any considerable
length of time on his pedigree.
General Taylor at once began a
fierce onslaught upon the Goebel
law and the English language. He
spoke for nearly two hours and
half. He discussed in a general
way the conditions of the country
under Republican and Democratic
administrations, claiming a great
many things that were not true, and
attempting to hold the Democratic
administration responsible for the
panic of 1898. He ridiculed the
evils of the trust system, defended |
the conquest of the Philippines and |
upheld the single gold standard.
He then turned his attention to
state matters and every five min
utes depressed from other matters
to take a fresh whack at the Goebel
law. He grew revolutionary at
times in discussing this measure
that makes it impossible for Mark
to buy Kentucky, and ad-
vised his partisans to defy the law
and "stand by the ballot boxes and
see their votes counted and drive
away every man who tried to pre-
vent it"
This advice coming from the very
fountain head of Hannaism in Ken
lucky, shows how desperate the
baffled conspirators are when con-
.ronted with a law making it i'm '
possible to steal elections in the
,uture.
He declared that the Democrats
made no serious effort to pass the
Chinn school book bill. That the I
'eason Indiana had a cheap book
oil was because it was a Republi- 5
AN State. He then took up the e
>hinn bill and ridIculed 1t and it's
Luthor. Said it was written by
ne of Jack Chinn's boys who spell
d physiology ''fiziology."
He then turned againt the Repub-
can Indiana law and said Ken =
lckians would not use the cheap it
ooks used in Indiana. Kentuck- RI
ms did not ride $40 horses al
or would they use ten cent books gi
n their children. He tried to be hi
Inny along this line and attempted We
prove by figures that Indiana s sc
reap books cost 100000 a year tn
ore than Kentucky's high priced fol
les. In spite of the fact that al
IMPLIES of the books used in the tel
70 states were laid upon his stand tel
Calhoun he repeated the state
ent that the Indiana books were lei
cheaper material and binding. pc
, got on both sides of the book Use
estion and finally wound up by