The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-06-24
WHOLESOME WORDS.
Is the Democratic Party to Pre-
serve Its SeIf-RespeCt and
Power In the Nation ?
Bad Practices and UnwiSe Meth
.OdS Resulted In Disaster.

Below we give extracts from a
speech from Col. Jno. X. Allen, of
Lexington, before the Democratic
State Convention
SAMPLE OF REPUBLICAN RULE.
The few short months of Re
publican Government in this State
has already demonstrated to those
wandering Democrats who gave its
ticket support in the last election,
its incapacity for wise and patri-
(. otto rule; its surplusage of anti
cleo rN promises and it's subse-
quent paucity of performance.
FORGETFULNEss OF PRINCIPLE.
The chickering's among their
leaders, their ordinations and re-
ordinations, the fierce Struggle
for peace and honor, the violation
of every principle of civil rules,
the utter forgetfulness of principle
in the mad and painting fight for
position indicates that the sole aim
of that party in it's insincere cam
paign for purity and reform was
larceny of the spoils and patron
age of office.
BAD PRACTICES BY DEMOCRATS.
That there have been bad prac-
tees and unwise methods in our
own party, which has resulted in
Temporary disaster, none of us can
deny, but their corrections and
reform is not with our enemies bat
is duty resting today upon the
conscience and manhood of Demo-
Gratis who have the real interests of
the party at heart, and who believe
that in the preservation of its prin-
ciples lies the salvation and perpe-
tuity of free institutions and good
government.
FREE FROM DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES
Il can say with another that in
spite of some excuses of feeling
and mistakes of judgment, the
Democratic heart beats true to the
essential principles of the republic,
as it was created by the sublime
Declaration and ordained by our
Incompatible Constitution. But it
behooves the thoughtful men of
the party to see to it that not only
our hearts beat in unison with
those principles, but that we show
our faith by our work, for as the
body without the spirit is dead, so
faith without work is dead also.
POLITICS ON HIGHER PLANE.
And the kind of works which
we should do are those that will
indicate to the people of the State
and the Nation that our party in
tends to lift politics to a higher
plane. to make it cleaner and more
wholesome, to divorce it from cor
ruption, to stand for honest cleo
tions, free and unpurchasable
ballot, the right of every freeman
to cast his ballot without obstruc-
ton and to have it counted as cast,
to curb the aspiring ambitions of
any selfish men who would use its
sacred principles as garb to dis
gulA unworthy personal ends, to
say that no man or set of men shall
use it's machinery for selfish per-
petuation of power, but that the
people shall dictate both its polf@'
cies and leaders and thus attract
new coherents to its principles,
gain the loyalty and trust of every
lover jof his State and country,
bring back under its banner men
who are in sympathy with its prin-
ciples and at heart Democrats, but
who have registered a protest
against tendencies which did not
meet the approval of their con-
sciences.
NOT A LADIES' GAME.
Il know that practical politics is
no ladies' game of lawn tennis, that