The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-11-02
Ellington.
DEMOCRATIC PRESCRIPTION.

DEMOCRATIC PRESCRIPTION.
We have had too much Democratic
prescription in Kentucky. Carlisle
and Lindsay have been driven into po-
litical exile, and for years that splen-
did orator and courageous citizen, W.
q. P. Breckenridge. was forced from
the support of Democracy. Hundreds
of brave and intelligent Democrats
who have won enduring fame on the
battlefield and in tina forum. have been
driven into the Republican ranks, and
are today working for Republican sue
cess and supremacy.
But we are told that Republicans
are inferior to Democrats. morally and
intellectually. and are composed chiefly
Of ignorant negroes and vicious white
mouptaineers: that the Democratic
party pays three -fourths Of the taxes
in this state; that Republican coun
ties are, in many instances, psuper
counties, drawing out of the treasury
more than they pay into it; and that
Republican rule in Kentucky means
negro domination and equality.
BRAVE MEN OF OLD.
1t is true that in the infancy Of Re-
publicanism in this state there was
comparatively but handful of Re-
publioans, but for them, allow me to
say. a nobler, drawer and more intel
leotual class of men never inhabited
any spot on this globe. 1t required
unfiinohing courage to be . Republi.
can in those days of political proscrip-
ton, when Kuklux horrors disgraced
the state, and when every Republican
carried his life IN his hands. Justice
has never been done to this brave, sac
riaciug few, but in years to come
when the truth shall be fully told, the
historian shall dwell with rapture
upon the character of those noble
men, and carve their names broad and
deep on the pillars Of undying fame.
Among them we recall with pride
such men as Anderson, Randall, Mil
Ter. Murray, Hobson. Ballard, Caper.
ton, ellis, Morrow, Boyle, Thomp-
son, Young, Breckenridge, Harlan,
Crittenden, Speed and CLAY. There
is not one Of them now living, nor one
dead, who. If alive, would not scorn
to allow one Of his traduoers to be his
slave.
NEGROES' POLITICAL RECORD.
When the negro was enfrsnchised
he Naturally became q Republican vot-
er-not because he was ignorant, not
yet because he was a negro, but be-
cause of his gratitude to that party
which had taken him from the mire
ana clay OF bondage and placed him
upon the eternal rocks of freedom.
And they would all Re Republicans to-
day but for Democratic intimidation
and corruption. which have made
many of them Democrats. And now,
that so many of them have joined the
Democratic party and so many intelli-
gent, brave, white Democrats have
taken their places in the Republican
ranks, the Republican party can 70
longer be called the negro party of
Kentucky.
Now, as to who pays the taxes. l
affirm that the counties of the state
which gave msjorities for the Repub-
lican ticket in 1895, which gave major
lies with the exception Of one elector
fJr Mckinley in 1895, which elected
Taylor in 1899. and voted for McKin'
ley and yerkes in 1900. pay largely
more than one-half Of the total taxes
of the state. Nor were these sporadic
votes. Let the hands Of the election
commissioners and their allies be tax.
ELI from the throats of the people, and
a fair, free election held, and not only
will these, but the other counties give
tn Republicans . majority in every
election.