The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-16
Shall the Same Old Crowd Be
Retained in Power.
Editorial from Tuesdays Louisville
Times.


Times.
Three weeks from today the citizens
of the United States will choose their
President and House of Representa-
tive. We have heard much about rail-
road regulation, injunctions, postal
savings banks, tariff revision. guaran-
tee of bank deposits and other matters
as the issues of the campaign. But the
one supreme issue is this:
Shall the same old crowd be allowed
to dominate the country?
A vote for, Mr.. Taft is vote for the
system back of MIN.
He is but one man, while the powers
of his party are numerous and sinister.
We hear much of the money Power.
1t is not so much a question as to
whether the Money Power shall rule
the country as it is whether men who
represent the vicious methods and ten
denotes shall. The Money Power is
sometimes overused by demagogues as
the all-possessing monster, when it is
the political agents of that Power that
are the evils mainly to be combatted.
The Money Power would be incapable
of wrong if it had no instruments in
the seats of government. Indeed, it
would be impotent. AS far as the
people are concerned it would not ex-
list. Its magnates would be simple in
dividuaIs who would have to take their
legislation in the same fashion that
mere individuals must take it today.
1t is the political bridge, then, between
the Money Power and the Government
that gives the Money Power its ca
pacity for i'll.
However righteous a man Mr.. Taft
may be, vote for him and his party
is a vote of confidence in the emissaries
of predatory wealth who have controll-
ed the nations legislation in the past.
1t is a vote to perpetuate them in their
sway.
Do you want them retained in power?
Do you want the country to remain
in the hands of Cannon, of Jim Sher-
man, of William Nelson Cromwell, of
Standard Oil Aldrich, of George Runey
Sheldon, of ,Dalzell, of Payne, of Platt.
of Depew, of Senator Steel Trust, of
Senator Sugar Trust, of Senator Har-
vester Trust, of Senator Coal Trust
and the rest Of their kind and pedigree?
Under their domination in the past
the present evils began to grow. They
have caused all the political travalls of
the recent years. They have made
poor men bitter; they have brought
shame to the conscientious American !;
they have caused the reformer to arise
and call the people to arms.
After their SINS. must they be re-
warded by a vote of confidence,
After their mistreatment of the
American people, are the American
people going to turn and lick the hands
that bruised them?
Whether a voter be a Democrat or
Republican he should consider the mat
ter we'll. If he be Republican and
be not lacking in patriotism, ne will
vote to GUST such evil agents from
office. He will vote that way because
it is right that the nation should be
freed from their yoke. If it be not
done this year they will be more.frmly
entrenced four years hence; their harm
will have increased manifold they will
have established a closer alliance be-
tw cen the Money Power and the Gov
eminent. Mr.. Taft as President would
be helpless to do wha. only the people
with their votes can DO.
And it is for the people to come for
ward periodically this fall and with
their votes give the nation a new deal.
new set of men in Office, house
cleaning. The nation deserves II II