The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-10-04
Republican Campaign Handbook
the Work OF Clumsy Dodgers.

platform of that party in the present
State campaign, the document from
which the leaders Of that party expect
their orators to get inspiration for the
work upon the stump among the
voters, has been issued by its Cam
paign Committee. Aside from its own
campaign hand book, the literature
which it is distributing, the Democratic
State Campaign Committee could find
no better document to place in the
hands of its speakers with which to eX-
plode and clear up the Republican
charges of mismanagement of the
public affairs of Kentucky during eight
years past. Like August E. Wilson,
the Republican Gubernatorial nominee,
the author of this Republican publica-
ton has demonstrated that he is a
clumsy dodger on the live issues of the
campaign; that he isn't even an expert
at Juggling figures in ali effort to show
bad financial condition for the Com
monwealth, and has contented himself
with reviving matters brought up a
year ago by a defeated candidate for
Gubernatorial nonors, and which the
people of Kentucky then had no oppor-
tunity to investigate and found without
foundation in fact. Also with repro
ducing so-called editorials from a
Frankfort paper. which ceased publica-
ton for lack of support, veritable
campaign sheet, issued by disgruntled
Democratic politicians making fac
tional fight within the party.
With such Misrepresentation abused
by men. who, like Mr.. Wilson, have
been unsuccessful in every political
ambition, the author of this campaign
handbook contents himself, hoping
thereby to draw to the Republican side
such Democrats as were not lined up
on the side of those who were success
full in the Democratic State primary
election of. last year. Not a word does
this Republican publication contain re-
garding the fragrant violations of law
by use and abuse of the military power
during the dark days of Bradley and
Taylor, from 1896 to 1906; not word
of criticism has it, as had William
Marshall Bullitt in the convention
which nominated Mr.. Wilson, for the
murderers of William Goebel, or of
Republicans in power at that time, and
who are now fugitives from justice,
declining even TO return under promise
of immunity from arrest, offered by
the Commonwealth that the Goebei
murder may be laid bare in all of It's
details by those who were responsible
for its commission. With an announc-
ed motto 1.-The Firm, but Judicious,
Enforcement of all Laws" and a re-
production of the weak, vacillating
plank Of the Republican platform upon
temperance, and not word upon the
important subject of observance of the
Sabbath Day laws, the book authorizes
formation it isl intended, Il to dodge
about on these live issues, and to talk
to suit the community in which the
speaker happens to be at the time he
has them under discussion. 1t repro
duces the letter of Rev. E. L. Powell,
of Louisville, charging Governor Beck
ham with being insincere in his fight
for temperance and of observance of
the Sabbath, a letter which has been
discredited in it's every line by the
policy which the Governor pursued in
the city of Louisville. The an ;,0r and
publisher didn't ask the Rev. DIR.
Powell for his latest views on this
matter, or he would have had a con-
trary view to publish. The word
"judicious" inserted in the Republican
motto on the opening page of the pub
LEGATION is undoubtedly the loop hole
through which the Campaign Commit
tee expects the Republican Guberna-
torial nominee to escape should ne ever
have the good fortune to be at the
head of the government of Kentucky.
This rather remarkable publication
contains, from beginning to the close,
rumors and hints of what it plays up
in black face type as graft" but in
not single instance does it make the
charge specifically, always contenting
Itself with reference to an editorial of
an unfriendly newspaper, and going
only far enough, as its editor thinks,
to arose a suspicion that all lis not
right in the affairs of government.
representatives of the Republican
party, among them Postmasters, and
the former private Secretary of the
fugitive. William S. Taylor. had access
for months to every department at