The age-herald., 1899-09-08
CAMPAIGN IN
 KENTUCKY HOT TomIinSon Returns from the
 Blue Grass State. VANQUISHE0 A REPUBLICAN Bill to Give More Power to Railroad Commission and the School
 Book Trust are Lively ls-
 sues in the Fight
VANQUISHED A REPUBLICAN

Hon. John w. Tomlinson has returned from Kentucky where he made series of speeches for the democratic ticket.
 Mir Tomlinson also went up against a re- publican in joint debate and, according to the Kentucky press. acquitted himself no- bly,, making masterly defense of demo- cratic principles.
 He reports the campaign in the dark and bloody grounds" of the "blue grass" state as being a most vigorous one.
 Tt is hot in Kentucky in more ways than one," said MT. Tominson. The thermome- ter stands at 100 and politics at white heat, though the election does not come off until November.
 'In national politics the Kentucky plat form endorses the Chicago platform, de- clares against trusts and follows MT. Bryan on the question of imperialism, while in state matters it declares for the Goebel election law, for the McCord rail- road bill and the Chinn school book bill.
 .'The Goebel election bill was passed to prevent a repetition in 1900 of the frauds in 1896, by which the state of Kentucky was lost to the democrats l learned that in many counties the democratic party was allowed no representation in the voting boxes, the Palmer and Buckner crowd be- ing treated the regular democracy and gVon representation as such, which shut out entirely the Bryan democrats.
 'The McCord railroad bill is d bill to invest the railroad commission with pow i, ba of ha democratic party of Kentucky has made this bill issue and the fight on it is red hot one.
 rae school Book Is-ue.
 "The democratic party has also made the school book question an issue in the cam paign by making war upon the book trust, which, it is charged, is compelling parents iii Kentucky to pay much more for school books than they are sold for by the trust in the adjoining state of Indiana, that has a law on the subject. Hon. H. V. Me Chesney, the democratic nominee for state superintendent of education, who accom- panied me at the places l spoke, is making a magnificent fight against the book trust. He exhibited list of books, showing that they are sold by the book trust in Indiana and West Virginia where they have laws regulating this matter, at one price and in Kentucky at a much greater price, where they have no law on the subject, but where the democrats propose to pass what Is known as the Chinn bill, fixing maximum already. He shows that the book trust threatened not to sell in Indiana a the price fixed, but that they are doing 1t, nevertheless.
 "Mr. McChesney" said MT Tomlinson, lis a brilliant campaigner. His exposure of the methods of the book trust at this time, when parents are having to buy books for their children, is having and will continue to have a telling effect in the Kentucky campaign
 "On my return home today" continued MT. Tomlinson, q took occasion to price some school books which MT. McChesney in his speeches showed were sold in h. diana and West Virginia at one price, and in Kentucky at much greater price, and l find that some of these books are sold in Alabama even at greater price than in Kentucky. This is not the fault of the book dealers, who, l am inforMed, sell from list that is furnished them, and are merely allowed a small discount While they do buy from different book concerns, yet it is a fact, as l am informed, that there is only one price list
 '"The democrats of Kentucky are in the saddle; they mean business; they are de- termined; and the way 1t looks now to an outsider is that there is no doubt of the democrats winning in November by at least twenty thousand"