The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-08-02

did dozen years ago, people before
whom Democratic orators had not
gone, he will find people who have
been reached through the Democratic
press, and will find them conversant
with State affairs and with the good
record which Democratic officials have
made IN seven years past.
Notable among these Democratic
papers, whose every issue these days
deals with public affairs. are the
Somerset Journal, the Campton
Courier, the Ashland Independent, the
Catlettsburg Democrat, the Hazel
Green Herald, the Estill / County
Herald, the Big Sandy News, French
burg Agitator, Morgan County News,
Mt. Vernon Signal, and the Mont
gomery, Clark, Madison and Bath
county papers. The knowledge of pub.
lie affairs exhibited by the eastern
Kentucky editors in their discussion is
well shown in a recent issue of the
Campton Courier, published in Wolfe
county. In an editorial that paper
has the following.
The Republican press in this State
is bowling 'Goebelism'. No Democrat
is ashamed of the record of the martyr
ed Goebel, and his life and work will,
when history become truth, be the
brightest pages in Kentucky. history.
The freeing Kentucky from the pOliti-
cal domination of the l.. & N. railroad
should, of itself, endear him to every
Kentuckian. We do not shrink the
issue if it is put on the ground. Will
the Republicans stand for Taylor and
his bloody deed?"
And yet, Notwithstanding that the
present Democratic Administration
has rescued the State from the terrible
condition that the Republicans left it,
by putting the prisons on a paying
basis by wiping out the State debt, by
increasing the school term and increas-
ing the pay of the teachers, by throt-
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Ting the book trust and compelling it
to decrease the price of school books,
by building a new State capitol, and
by lowering the taxes in the mean
tims, and in spite of the fact that the
Republican party by practical test has
proven its utter inability to give Ken
lucky good government, the Louis
vile Herald says in speaking of the
redemption" of the State: Her one
hope is deIlverance by the Republical
party: THAT party I alone has the
strength and faculty to accomplish the
task. Z - s--% 80 "a $500. .-.s
There is not State in the Union
that is as we'll governed as Kentucky.
There is not one with clearer, genu-
inc business-like administration. And
knowing this the Herald wants the
people to turn 'er loose" Wants the
State turned loose from safe, economi-
cal, business-like management to
party that has not and can not come in
mile of the present method of man
agement. If you had hired man to
attend to your affairs and he had bank
rupted you, and you had then discharg-
ed him and hired another who had
brought order out ofychaos and had
made your business better than it was
before you had bankTupted, would you
then discharge the latter named man
and give your affairs over to the one
who had failed, just because ne wanted
the salary? You would not, Yet this
is what the Republicans are asking you
to do. They tried and failed, and the
Democrats succeeded and have made
the State one of the best in the Union.
And now the Republicans, because they
want salaries, ask that you give them
charge again, or an endorsement of
their failure. But you wont.