The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-11-01

on the one side and democracy is on
the other side. We had a campaign
in 1896, when the Republican party
was compelled to raise from the cor
porations Of the nation such a cam
paign fund as no party ever used be-
fore. Ayel more than that, a cam
paign fund that / think l may safely
say was larger than all the campaign
funds used by the Republican party
from the days OF Fremont to the days
of Hanna.
We had that campaign. BY the use
of money and coercion the Republican
party won. 1t has made not an ad-
vance. but retreat even from the
position that it occupied in 1896. It is
worse today that it was then, and is
applying to every question the same
vicious principles that it applied to the
question before the country in 1896.
We are on the eve of another ma
tional campaign-a campaign that will
determine whether this is to be a gov
eminent of the people, by the people
and for the people, or a government
Of monopolies. by monopolies and for
monopolies. (Applause) You met
in convention at Louisville; you in
dorsed the Chicago platform The
p atform adopted at Louisville con-
tanned not only an Endorsement of the
Chicago platform, but it announced the
party's position on the new questions
that have arisen since; and that plat
form, among other things, Endorsed the
Goebel election law. There was no
minority report in that convention.
There was no fight on that platform,
and when that convention adjourned,
and tie ticket was nominated, that
ticket stood before the country as rep
resentative of that platform.
The Boilers Convention.
Some Democrats met and organized
another convention. 1t was not a con-
venton called in the regular way, nor
a convention to which delegates were
sent in the regular way 1t was a con-
venticn formed Of those men who were
opposed to the other ticket that was
nominated. It can not be called a
representative convention. 1t can not
be called i convention representing the
Democratic voters of this state; and
now the ticket nominated by the bolt
ing convention is in this campaign with
no possible prospect of election, and
with but one influence, and that is 70
aid in the election of the Republican
ticket (Applause.) And the basis
upon which they rest their fight is that
the convention that met at Louisville
did things that relieved the voters
from any obligation to support the
ticket When a man tells you that
you are justified in helping to elect a
Republican governor, you ask him
whether if Mr. Taylor had been a can
didate against AIr. Goebel in that con-
vention, there would have been any
doubt Of Mr. Goebel's nomination in
that convention. (Applause.)
Because a man was nominated who
the boilers do not like, or to whose
nomination they objected. they offer
as a remedy the election of a Republi-
can governor and Republican state Off
GERS. want to say to you, my friends,
that in my humble judgment, you have
time to settle your grievances after
this without jeopardizing every great
principle that you love, and for which
you have been fighting. applause
You may think what you believe of
that convention. You may think what
you please as to the relative merits
OF the candidates before that conven-
ton. You may think what you please
Of the method employed in that con-
ventiOn. Today the question is not
between the men who were candidates
before that convention. The question
is whether you viii elect the ticket
nominated on that platform or a Re-
publican ticket
That is the question submitted to
the people of Kentucky, and you may
think all you please and say all you
like against the ticket nominated, and
against the Platform or against the
convention that nominated the ticket;
and yet that ticket and that Platform
stand for Democratic principles and
Democratic policies, as against Repub-
lican candidates, Republican platforms
and Republican principles. CAP
plause.)
have never denied the right of a
man to bolt. In fact, I-have always
insisted that a mans vote belonged to
him, ard to him only. There were
boilers in 1896. l had a chance to say
things hard against boilers because
my nomination came from a conven-
+ tion elected by the people, and nobody
ever rose to dispute the authority OF
that convention A platform was
adopted by two-thirds of that conven-
ton, and 1 was nominated by two
thirds. and yet never during the cam
paign did l say one word in abuse Of
any man who felt it his duty to vote
against me. l said if man believed
/ that my election would be injurious tc
the country, then he ought to vote
against me.
But, my friends, those who voted
against me took the responsibility Of
helping to elect a Republican presi-
I dent, and became responsible for every