The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-22

IL. Ine oDOlit1uu VI tho Anohopoiy
system Of landholding and SUBSTITUTE
ing therefor Q title of occupancy and
use only.
10. Repeal Of ali conspiracy and
penal laws affecting the seamen and
other workmen incorporated in the
federal state laws in the United States.
10. The abolition Of the monopoly
privilege Of issuing money and substi.
tuting therefor system Of direct issu.
ance to any of the people.
IA. The lettering of our public
school system in such manner and by
such means 80 will accomplish the
rgeatest advancement Of all pupils
without discrimination between pu-
pills of the same or different grades. /,
IS. The appointment Of competenf
mechanics in their respective cal)ings
to all appointive offices, and to that
end that competitive examination Of
all applicants take place before ap-
pointment.
People can see for themselves that
this platform" is . feeble effort to
attract votes from every conceivable
direction, but it will not succeed
Men who indorse part of it cannot
indorse the rest, and they will not vote
for candidates who can.
The plank about municipal owner.
ship is amusing. Some Of the men
who indorse it are now officials who
have been trying to manage the light
plant in Paducah for several years
with very unsatisfactory results. The
light plaat IL the only utility the city
owns. and IL its management 10 fair
sample Of the crowds ideas of munic.
ipal ownership, the people can well
afford to get along without any mu.
nioipal ownership and doubtless would
prefer to do so. If the Democratic
officials had charge of the water works
the street car and other plants, they
would run them all Just about like
they have run the light plant.
The Matchmaking of telegraph,
railroad and telephone lines, etc. lis an
other sample Of socialism and popu-
lism that these Democrats have in.
dorsed, although . national. not 10.
cal issue.
But any intelligent man can read
the platform and see for himself what
irrelevant and nonseusicsi things these
Democrats are willing to sign and in
dorse in order to get o few votes.
The platform was submitted 10 rep
of the Republican party
in Paducah. who informed the gentle
men who got it up that the Republican
were willing to indorse
some of it, but not all Of it. 1t was
all or none, and the Democrats have
it all.
The platform is not enc, as some
claim, that union labor has or can in.
Torso in its entirety. In fact it has
already teen denounced by some of
he most prominent labor men in the |
,ity, who say that while some of lit |
can be Endorsed by union labor, muk Bin |
Of il cannot.
Other portions OF the platform strik BE
1t some of our soundest and most SUB.
,tantial institutions, including rail- |
loads, telegraph, telephone, street car
ines. heat, light and power plants,
systems and at some of the
federal laws themselves.
OF course only one or two Of the
clauses have any bearing whatever on
local Affairs, or could possibly be in.
q uenced by a municipal election, but
thc platform only shows what rub
bish these Dsmoc,sts say they stand
Tor in order to dodge tie real issues; a
platform adopted in toto, according to !
reports only few nights ago by the !
of Paducah.
1t would be about as sensible for the
Democrats to have adopted extracts
from the Koran or Zend Avesta for a
platform, as what they have Endorsed.
The people of Paducah are interest
I'd in whether the Democrats favor
good streets. clean cutters and . sani-
AIRY city; the saving Of money now
wasted in every department, for the
Of the schools so hundreds
who now want to go To school may be
whether they favor
letting contracts at the highest price
Instead of the lowest, and OF letting