The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-05-11
JOHN D. WHITE
And That Republican Convention
fakes the Floor.

Onioltdlh, eX. COngressman J0hn ID.
White, writes the Courier j Journal
requesting that it publish the
amendments which he offered to the
State platform and which he com
plains the Republican organs,
though their editors were elected
to report faithfully the proceedings
of the convention, have refused to
publish.
These amendments, which Mr..
White says we're. latter sad faux
pas, unanimously adopted" were
as follows:
"First-We sympathize with all
wise and legitimate efforts to lessen
and prevent the evils of intemper-
ance and promote morality.
"Second-We demand that laws
be passed and rigidly enforced, ex-
Guiding from entrance to the United
States those who cannot read or
write, or who are criminals, paup-
ers, or dangerously diseased.
"Third-We declare our unqual-
fled condemnation of the barbarous
practice, North and South, or else
where, known as lynchlng or assas-
sinating human beings, suspec ted
or charged with crime, without due
process of law"
Having made his request for the
publication of these amendments,
in order that the public may be
able to form a just opinion as to
whether the criticisms OF mis- course
were fair, Mr. White adds:
I'm reply to your charge that the
platform adopted by an office-hold-
ing convention was, appropriately
enough, mainly eulogy, or an ad-
ulation, rather, of the chief dis
penser of patronage allow me to
say that feel sure that the Re-
publican party throughout the State
of Kentucky is determined to draw
the line on the governing authority
of the party so as to have the
members of the precinct, county,
district and State committees or
governing authority of the party,
composed of free men, selected by
the Republican voters themselves
rather than by "a chief dispenser of
Federal patronage whether located
under the shadow of the White
House in Washington or occupying
some subservient Federal position
within the State of Kentucky"
Properly enough, Mr.. White
seems to recognize the fact that
something more than his feeling is
requisite to convince anybody that
the Republican party of Kentucky
contemplates any such reform; so
he cites as an earnest of such pur-
pose the report that Collector Craft
has demanded that three of his
subordinates must resign from the
local committee of fifteen office
holders. Mr.. White must be an
unusually sanguine man if he ex-
poets such a reformation to proceed
from the removal of three office
holders from one local committee,
after the work of constituting and
running the convention in the in
terest of the officeholders has been
done.
Having made known his feeling
and offered the meager evidence in
confirmation of it. Mr.. White pro-
ceeds:
when we consider that the
members of the committees in the
100 counties of the State are large
ly composed OF persons holding
| Federal positions either as United
States Collectors of Internal Rev
enue or United States Marshals.
Deputy MMarshals, Postmasters Or
Storekeepers and Gaugers and
United States District Attorneys,
and that there are more than five
thousand of such Federal office
holders within the State of Ken
lucky, it can readily be seen how
utterly Inappropriate it was for
the United States Commissioner of