The Bourbon news., 1910-06-24

Below is reprinted an editorial from
the Lexington Herald of June 20:
THE RECORDS OF CANDIDATES
FOR CONGRESS.
1t is less than a week till the Demo
cratic primary will be held for the Sc
lection of candidate for Congress.
Saturday, the 25, between the hours
of 6 and O'Clock, the Democratic vot-
ers of the Ashland district will have
the opportunity to cast their ballots for
their choice for Representative from
the most famous district in Kentucky,
which was at one time the most fa-
nous district in America.
Their choice is restricted to J. Camp
bell CantriH. Representative in Con-
gress at present from this district, and
Claude M. Thomas, representative in
the State Senate from the senatorial
district composed of Bourbon, Clark
and Montgomery. Every Democrat
owes duty to mis- party and to mis-
State to cast his ballot in that pri-
mary. No Democrat who does not vote
will have right to complain of the
result of the election or to criticise
the successful candidate. 1t is a duty
not only to party and the State but to
his country for every man who has the
right so to do to participate in that
election. In this district the nOmina-
tion is equivalent to an election, so
that it will be decided on saturday
who is to be the representative from
this district in the halls of Congress.
There was never more important crisis
in the history of Central Kentucky !:
there was never time when the Dem
ocratic party needed the services of
its best men more than at preseu+. The
next House will be Democratic. it
seems as certain as that the sun shall
vision of the tariff. No man ought to
be elected to Congress who is not ca
pable by reason of ability and educa
tion to take an intelligent part in the
framing of tariff bill and by reason
of character and honesty to be free
even from suspicion of being controll-
ed by "the interests.
The people of America are more
awake today than ever before to the
vital necessity of having men repre-
sent them in Congress who are not
subservient to the interests. In
the last few years there have been as
founding revelations of the manipula-
tiOn through which the Sugar Trust
has garnered it's untold millions; of
the control of members OF the House
and Senate by reason of which the
Steel Trust has been able to capitalize
$500, 900, 900 of watered stock and pay
on it dividends at the rate of S25, ,000,-
900 year; OF the negligence, igno-
rance or corruption of public officials
which have permitted the Tobacco
Trust to pay in the period of six years
$40, 900, 900 as dividends on stock which
did not cost the original owners a sin
gle cent; of th4 hOid that the Smelling
Trust and the Guggenheims have got
ten on the mineral resources of the
;.of TIE untold wealth that has 4
been / ken from the people through
the ineq uol lies anO inIquitIes of the
tariff laws.
The insurgency OF the Republicans
in the West Is DIE TO the education of
popular opinion ana the awakening of
the public cOnSci ence, as is the revolt
of t;.e plain people OF Massachusetts.
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makes it possible III all these states.
even in the rock ribbed Republican
State of Pennsylvania, Democratic
victories.
The Ashland district ought to send
a man tU Congress whose whole life
is proof that he will raise his voice
and cast his vote in the interests of
the people instead of at the command
of the trusts. OF supreme Importance
as is the tobacco question to this sec
tion it is OF No greater Importance
in the ultimate analysis than is the
reduction of the tariff. If it were
not for the subserviency of the men,
bers of Congress and the connivance
of officers Of the law, no trust would
ever have attained such growth as
has the Tobacco Trust, nor secured
such power as 1T has secured to |
blight the prosperity of a whole sec
on.
Every Democrat in casting his vote
next Saturday ought to ponder well
The questions that will be considered |
)y the next House of Representatives
and weigh with care the ability. |
character and records of the two can
lidates for the Democratic nomination |
Tor Congress in this dist. let.
Senator Thomas has been in the
public eye for a quarter of a century.
He was a member of the Legislature
twenty-five years ago; consul of the
United States at Marseilles frequent
y a candidate for office in his home
town; now a member of the State
Senate, during the session Of which
mis- course was such that those oppos
ed to him scrutinized his record with
care, with the certainty that they
would have attacked that record with
bitterness had it had Dlot upon it.
There has not been an intimatior that
ne was controlled by other than
nigh sense of duty. There has never
been a suggestion that he was the re-
of any especial interest,
,r that any action was taken by
lim save from what he believed to
ne for the interest of the people.
Mr.. Cantrill was member of the
State Senate during the terrific times
and following the death of
Governor Goebel. After the expira-
lion of his term as Senator he was a
constant attendant at the sessions. of
The Legislature, representing in erests