New-York tribune., 1900-09-04
KENTUCKYCAMPAIGNOPEN
SPEECHES BY REPUBLICAN AND DEM
OCRATIC CANDIDATES FOR
GOVERNOR.
ELECTION Law AND THE PARTY Be
HIND 1T AT BOWLING GREEN.

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Frankfort, KY Sept. 3.-The campaign in Ken
tuoky was opened by both parties in nearly every
county of the State TO-DAY The principal meetings
were at Bowling Green and Henderson. At the
former place John W. Yerkes. the Republican candi-
date for Governor was the leading speaker. At the
latter place Governor ]. w. C. Beckham the DEM
ocratc candidate for Governor, and ex- Governor
James B. McCreary spoke. At Bowling Green the
Democrats also had meeting. addressed by r. +.
Peake, Of Shebyville.
Bowling Green Ky, Sept. AT the Republican
campaign meeting which took place here to-day
John w. Yerkes. the Republican candidate for Gov
erhor; Secretary Long of the Republican State
Committee and other State leaders were present.
One of the largest crowds in the city attend
political meeting present when Mr.. Yerkes
spoke in Fountain Park this afternoon. In his
speech Mr.. Yerkes said in part:
A A grave emergency and crisis in our State his
tory Is on us to-day Marvellous 1t may seem
10 coming generations monstrous as it may seem
years been forced to make Contest for u our 9oit
liberty for the sovereignty of the people Of this
SSIate Dy reason OF the enactment OF the Goebel
Democratic party forgot, in lust for Office and
power In hate and passion the past history Of
true democracy. This new organization forgot the
ereat gre decaratlons and defence OF human liberty
got that a Democrat. according to the definitions,
utterances and deeds of the founders and fathers
fendlng government controlled by the people, IN
which ssoyeregnty resided in the people where 10
cal and legal equality must be preserved where
selected by and representing the people and where
free and honest elections were sacred and consti-
tuted the foundation of all these great gov
ernmertal ideas. These principles Of free gov
eminent by the people are as eternal as the pillars
The new Democracy further failed to recognize
power of the teaching Of such principles for a
GIicEy threw e them TI ASIDE as east off garments
and formulated a party creed, to the destruc-
ton of every cardinal principle of Democracy and
epublcaniSn. blinded, believed
that Caucus was king, and that every Democrat
commands They assumed that all Democrats
science for Office barter con7iction for controi ana
believed anything right that would aid their cause
sG ersbp n m hGT S m 9be the SEN
ate and Speaker Beckham the House, looking
failed utterly and to their 70: own undoing to stand
on the high plane of true Democracy, and refused
to believe, after repeated warning that there were
more than seven thousand Democrats in Ken
lucky who would never bow the knee to the mod.
Baal the party god, the machine they
had fashioned. They refused to believe that thou
Wh burnns 61 TTe oVe for cv bery stood ready
to follow the leadership of Ex-Governor Brown. ex
Governor Buckner OF Hines and Moss IN southern
Kentucky and similar leaders in every section Of
To-day / stand before you and the men of this
State, the nominee of the Republican party, and
me- ment Of the GoVefnng Committee Of the Brown or
Independent, Democracy.
RIGHT TO FAIR COUNT OF VOTES.
The Goebel law. the rights destroyed by it's
passage the wrongs done by its enforcement the
crimes committed in its name against individuals
and against the people as voting unit, lead up to
the supreme issue in Kentucky politics to-day,
the written on the hearts of the people-ciVl!
liberty political freedom the right to a fair count
of the votes cast the right of majorities to control
and the right Of the majority to say who shall
bear rule them. This issue is the States pres
ent problem. Its solution rests upon us all 1t Is
too serious to stihe. 1t is too earnest for repose
That issue was forced upon us by the passage OF a
law that resisted by a combination consisting
of every Republican and a number ,of, democrats
in the General Assembly. ,---
The wrongs, outrages and crimes iHEainSI popu-
lar sovereignty and rePresentattye sSse ne
law in atmosphere and spirit or partisan in
Justice created by it. have intensified that opposi-
tion. Every element of fairness, every prlnclpe OF
rights, is eliminated by this law. AS a result Tor
the first time in the history Of this Conronweaitn IN
ties done or left undone by men defeated at the
polls. The people have been disfranchised offlcialS
chosen by them the ballot box unseated counted
out and commissions Issued to men reJecteo oy
the voters but declared elected by Democratic
Legislature and Democratic State Election Board
The courts have declined to grant relief -
the power Of the judiciary to review the acts and
findings of a legislative body: but remember nc
court has adjudged that any Democratic candidate
on the State ticket of 1893 received a majority OF
the votes cast. The count stands TODAY where It
stood when it left the hands OF the 1ls Democratic
county boards and certified by them 10 the
under that count to every Republican candidate
Bv that count the Republican nominees were
elected by majorites ranging from l'5O 70 24Uo
fathers suffered denial or ther rights to
select those who should bear rule over them Nav
our children be spared the humiliation and wrong!
The murder of Senator Goebel was crime OF
must earnestly hone that the assassin and All
other if any parties to this crime and partici-
pators in it may be brought to a speedy punish