The Adair County news., 1907-10-02

annual average or 1U,316.7S, certainly
a most reasonable amount upon which
10 conduct this business. 1t should
he remembered. too. that since the
passage of the railroad rate law in
1900. The railroads, with the ablest of
counsel, have contested every inch of
the law through the state and federal
courts. and it has been necessary for
MS to employ good counsel Tin each
instance 80 uphold the laws validity,
and liese fees have augmented this
amount Is it fair, therefore, for them
TO pad this amount with items which
do not properly belong to it, especially
amounts contracted for under other
administrations? | have explained
these matters, with which the people
have been made acquainted in previ-
Gus campaigns. merely to show the
character Of campaign now being con-
Quoted by the Republican candidates,
who have shown their willingness to
dstort the facts and pervert the rec
ords in order to deceive the people
II is certainly unworthy of men who
seek high offices in the commonwealth
TO so out INTO remote places and
peddle such menstrous and well-known
receptions. The only possible excuse
they could offer for doing so would be
to admit that if they confined them
selves Ia the truth about the Demo
cratic administration they would have
to praise il. and to praise it would
eliminate every chance they have of
election
Shall Not Evade the Issues.
But we do not intend that they shall
evade the Issue. This Democratic adj
ministration has redeemed every
pledge it ever made to the people, and
when it closes its term at the end of
this year no one will be able to point
to promise it has violated or to a
single instance where ii has been
faithless 10 its trust 1t has managed
the public institutions of the state
better tlrau ever before
When the Republicans were in con-
troll the conduct of the two peniten-
tiarieS was the worst ever known, and
they were , great burden upon the
taxpayers. Since they came under
the control Of Democratic board
revolution and reformation have been
accomplished in their condition. Now,
instead of costing the state large-sums
to maintain them. they are self-sup-
porting and cost MS nothing. Excel
lent improvements and Announcements
have been made, too, in the manage
ment of all our charitable institutions.
Never before have they been more
economically and successfully con-
trolled "a wide difference from the
unfortunate condition in which we
found them in 1900
Great Progress in Past Eight Years.
What has the administration done
toward the material and industrial
welfare of the state? 1t may be safe
~ said that in the last eight years
greater progress has been made than
IN the thirty years preceding that
lime II may be shown, too, that more
Iapital has been invested In the state
in sny one year of the last four years
of Democratic administration than was
invested in the entirs time that the
Republicans ware in power This
would not happen if business people
did not have confidence in the state
government and in the enforcement OF
the laws
What has the administration done
for the farmers and agricultural inter
ests? More than was ever done for
them before in all the preceding ad-
ministrations together. 1t has put life
and vigor into the agricultural depart
nent of the state and made It. liv-
ing, active force for usefulness. The
vast good it, has done is we'll known to
the farmers. This Democratic admin
istration has also given to the farmers
and tobacco raisers a law that more
effectively enables them to fight the
trusts. Every intelligent and fair
minded farmer in the state can tes-
tify to the fact that this administra-
ton has not neglected their interests,
but has done more than all others to
build mp and advance their business,
recognizing that our farmers consti-
tute such a splendid citizenship.
What has it done for the miners and
mines of the state? Go look at the
statistics and find the answer The
mineral production of Kentucky has
about doubled under this Democratic
administration. and new mines are be
ing opened mp as fast as labor can be
found to work them. Fewer strikes
and serious difficulties of that kind
have happened here than elsewhere.
In several instances the administra-
ton has interpOsed successfully its SER
vices to bring about peaceful adjust
ment of the differences. In its gen
eral atiitnda If has been SO fair and