Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-18

/ Jury to. or deatn or, Runway employees
by reason OF negligence that the law
gives to strangers. This bill, II APP
proved. would have given a large class
of employees who daily hazard their
lives, for an inconsiderable compensa-
ton, in public service. the same right
that the law gives the traveller upon
the highway The gross discrimina-
ton that this bill would have elimin-
ated from our law was removed from
the law of England 20 years ago by a
bill offered by Mr.. Gladstone.
"The governor even vetoed the bill
requiring railway companies to carry
bicycles as baggage.
As to Newspaper Support.
"In view of this record of the Repub-
lican party, there is but one thing that
compares with the superb effrontery of
the platform of that party, and that
thing is the effort of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad company and
its newspapers, attorneys and paid
agents to save William Jennings
Bryan, Joseph c. S. Blackburn and the
national Democratic platform of 1896.
LAS to the support which the Louis
vile Courier-Journal and Louisville
Times are giving the Democratic ticket
have this to say--and in making this
statement | speak for all the candi-
dates upon the state ticket and for
the state committees, including the dis
tinguished chairman of the campaign
committee, Senator Blackburn: The
support of the state ticket by the Cour-
ier-Journal and Times was and is who'll
ly unsolicited by any candidate upon
the state ticket or by any member of
tho npmnaratin n IL
purely voluntary upon the part of the
owners of those newspapers. There is
not. nor will there be- any obligation
OF any kind due from the Democracy
of Kentucky. nor from any of its candi-
dates, to any one for that support. No
favor or recognition of any kind will
be accorded to those newspapers, nor
to any one connected with them, for
that support, nor upon any other ac-
count. Nothing whatever Of the prin-
ciples of the Chicago platform of 1896,
nor OF the declarations of the state
platform Of this year. nor of the devo-
tion of the party to Bryan and Black
burn, Will be surrendered or abated
because Of this support by those news
papers. nor upon any other account
Our position with reference to this
matter is precisely that of Mr.. Bryan,
as stated in his recent letter to Mr.
Woodson, namely:
1T is not the policy OF the party to
drive people away from it, but rather
TO invite people into the party The
party stands committed to the doc
trines set forth at Chicago, and, while
1t will not turn its back upon those
doctrines in order 10 gain the friend
ship of Gold Democrats. it does not and
q nnf -
who are willing to aid ia indicating
the principles OF the platform by elect
ing candidates who are pledged to
those principles
THE Louisville Dispatch was estab-
lished with the money of 1000 Demo-
Gratis in the hour of Democracy's
peril. 1t has fallen into the hands of
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
company. 1t Is the blacklist traitor
that has ever attempted to destroy the
Democratic party. The election law,
which 1t DOW denouuces and calls upon
the Republican governor to have re-
pealed at special session of the gen.
eral assembly, was passed by its aid,
and after the enactment of that law it
claimed exclusive credit for it.
THE people of Kentucky are to de-
termine this year whether next year
kentuckyS vote Will be counted as Ii
will be cast for Bryan for president
and for the national platform of 1896,
or whether the theft of Kentucky's
vote perpetrated in 1896 shall be re-
peated; whether another Deboe or
some Democratic renegade, or Joseph
c. S. Blackburn shall succeed William
Lindsay in the federal senate; whether
British financiers or American voters
shall control this nations financial
policy; whether the trusts or the peo-
pie shall rule; whether imperialism
shall replace Democracy; whether the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad COM
pany is the servant or the master of
the people Of this commonwealth. The
issues are clearly drawn, emphatically
presented. There ought not to be,
there cannot be, doubt as to the
verdict" loud and continued APP
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