The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-07-31
ACCOM- L|SHMENTS
Credited to Democratic
Party of Kentucky.
DONE FOR STATE AND PEOPLE
Good Management and Wise
Counsel has Prevailed
All Along.

Guiding appropriations of the public
money from 1900 to 1907, the years
Of Democratic administration of af-
fairs since the Republican party under
Bradley and Taylor was ousted from
power, will afford most interesting
reading in the outset of the campaign
people of Kentucky at the polls in
for State offices to be filled by the
November of this year. The policies
represented in these legislative acts,
the use to which the money of the peo-
pie was devoted during these years,
and the steps taken by the Democratic
party through two administrations to
keep Kentucky abreast of the times,
to meet the growing demands of her
State institutions, and to raise the
moral and financial status of her cit
izenship, are the planks of the plat
form upon which her nominees are
presenting themselves to the voters.
In making it's nominations forState
offices, the Democratic party, unlike
its opponents, needed no written plat
form of pledges to the people of Ken
lucky. 1t presents to them a COM
pact organization which has minister
ed their public affairs for the past
seven years in a most satisfactory
manner, and which is content to make
the race this year on it's record of
deeds done in the past rather than
upon a platform of high sounding
to suit the person who happens to be
reading them. 1t is willing to rest
| its chances of success in the battle
of the ballots upon what the people
who are to elect know of the conduct
of public affairs since Goebel was as
sassinated and Taylor fled a fugu-
tive from the State seven years ago,
1t is confident of their approval of
it's acts as a whole and in detail, and
is DESTROYS that a most thorough re-
view of these acts be given the people
by the orators upon the stump in the
campaign.
Coming into power following the
brief and disastrous reign of Taylor,
who left behind him a depleted pub
lie treasury, and the affairs OF ev-
cry department of the State govern
ment in a chaotic condition, the Dem
ocratic officials have, during seven
years which have passed since that
time, expended over two million dol
lars in the establishment of new insti-
tutions and departures for the better
development and welfare of the people;
in the care OF her unfortunate and
criminal classes; in the undermining
| tons; and best of all, in the
of the penal and charitable institu-
building up of her educational insti-
tutions, and in keeping Kentucky and
her resources advertised before the
people of the United States and of the
world, much to her material advance
ment. And all of this without an in
crease of a single penny in the tax
rate.
1t has been under Democratic adj
ministration of publ affairs that
laws authorizing the regulation of
freight rates charged by railroad COM
panies have been enacted, and great
benefits to the shippers of town and
country resulted. 1t is under Demo-
cratic administration that Statutes
have been enacted to place the Ma
tional banks upon the same footing
as State banks in the matter of pay
ment of taxes. 1t is under Democrat
ic administration that a Pure Food
law has gone upon the Statue books.
1t is under Democratic administration
that the great rectified liquor inter-
ests of the State have been brought to
the payment of taxes 1t is under
Democratic administration that q life
service in the police and fire de-
partments of the leading cities of the
State has been rewarded by pension.
1t is under Democratic administration
that &c 1-2 CENTS instead of % cents
of the General Revenue of the State
goes into the Common School Fund.
1t is under Democratic administration
that co-education of the races has
been prohibited.It is underDemocratic
administration that new Kentucky
Capitol is being erected without inn
posing a burden on the taxpayers. 1t
is under Democratic administration
that the big war debt of the Ma