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

The governor even vetoed the bill
requiring railway companies TO carry
bicycles as baggage.
AS TO Newspaper support.
"1n 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 " 1896.
AS 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 fol
| the state committees. including the dis
/ tinsuished chairman CT 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 me Der OF
the Democratic organization: II Is
purely voluntary upon the part of the
]
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-
ton OF the party 10 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:
" IL is not the policy Of the party to
drive people away from il. 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 to gain the friend
ship OF Gold Democrats. IL does not and
should not reject the support Of any
who are willing to aid in vindicating
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. II has fallen into the hands OF
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
company. IL is the blacklist traitor
that has ever attempted to destroy the
Democratic party. The election law,
which IL now denounces and calls upon
the Republican governor 70 have re-
pealed at a special session OF the gen.
eral assembly. was passed by its aid,
and after the enactment OF that law Il
claimed exclusive credit for Il.
The people Of Kentucky are to de-
termine this year whether next year
Kentucky's 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 ap-
plause.l