Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-08-25

proved eff-ctive 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 II 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 Il. 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
81 900 900 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 megnifcently compensate them
selves by levying tribute, through I'M
equal laws. upon the people; Hanna
himself one OF the foremost manipu-
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. II 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 II uses the powers of
government chiefly to repay the con-
tributors of those corruption funds. II
exalts money. the servant; 1t debases
man. the master. tApplause.l
Lincoln's Warning.
1.-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 70
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. 1t is not needed or fitting here
/ that a general argument should be
] Uldut III ldNOI VI
| but there is one point with Its connec'
| ton not so hackneyed as most Others
/ to which I ask a brief attention. II
| Is to the effort to place capital on ar
| equal footing with. IL not above, labor
/ in the structure Of government. IL IL
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 II
/ induces him to labor. Labor Is prior
| to and independent of capital. Capita
is only the fruit of labor, and could
never have existed II labor had not
first existed. Labor is the superior o.
capital. and deserves much the higher
consideration
1T is only through the party OF JEFF
ferson and Jackson that this nation
can be saved from complete subjec
ton to the money power and tn
trusts. lCheers.l
The Democratic platform approve
Of. and the Republican platform de
mands the repeal of the statute amend
ing the election law enacted by tn
last general assembly. The gist o
that statute is that IL takes from tn
county judges and confers upon thre
commissioners in each county tn
power to appoint each year the pre-
cinct election officers that are to con
duct elections, the county commission
ers being appointed by a state boar
of three commissioners chosen by tn
general assembly.