The Hartford republican., 1911-11-03

Of the Commonwealth. Well, he said,
that II was a cowardly man that would
make war on womanhood and child
hood.
Let me state here that agree with
every statement that the General made
concerning this picture. II is bad
picture ! regret that he did not turn
to the other side of his canvas and
look at the other picture also. This is
a picture that has two sides to 1t.
Is HeartIess Warfare.
Il agree that II is heartless war.
fare that declares war upon women
and children: but there are features
of war that are as distressing as shoot.
ing and burning. Starving is just about
as bad.
Here was a warfare which has been
conducted in Kentucky for ten or If
teen years by lawless marauder and
invader Of Kentucky's soil, defying her
Constitution and her statues, robbine
her people hand over fist, depressing
the poor, taking the bread out of the
mouths of these women and children
not half dozen, not score, but TO
the extent of more than eighty thou
sand of them.
How have they robbed them? The
laws of the United States and the Con
stitution of Kentucky forbid the com
bination and confederation of those
engaged in manufacturing or business
to raise the price of commodities
above or to reduce them below their
fair value.
"The American Tobacco Trust has
thus conspired, and had reduced the
price of this commodity in Kentucky
below its fair value at least one-half,
amounting in the aggregate to not less
than $20,000,000 a year, fair equiva.
lent of the value of at least four or
FIVE average counties of this State,
actually wiping out that much of Ken
tucky's wealth, and taking it, too, from
a class of people who could i'll afford
to spare it.
How Children Work.
Il have in this campaign passed
scores and hundreds of tobacco patch
es where the man and wife and his
children we're all engaged in the cul
ture of that crop. Those children
ought not to have been thus put to
work. That wife ought not to have
been put into the field to work. Yet
the price of the commodity has been
made such by this trust as to make
cattle of the women and children of
the tobacco growefs of Kentucky.
What kind of warfare is that. that
yokes the women of this country to a
plow in the tobacco field and robs the
children of decent clothing and food;
and, worse than that, robs their i'm.
mortal minds of training and educa.
ton?
ITO my mind, that was a condition,
too, that called for public attention;
and the episode that excited the indig
nation of Gen. Buckner grew out of
my familiarity with these conditions
have just described.
Did Not Condemn.
1T is not true that at the meeting
the General refers to ! condemned the
Governor of Kentucky for his efforts
in putting down rioting. l approved
the putting down of rioting.
my advice on that occasion was
not to let up in the punishment of any
man who had violated the laws of this
State by night riding or otherwise, but
to enforce the criminal laws against
the trusts at the same time. ZAP
plause.)
my position was three years ago as
il is now, that there is enough virtue
and power in the statutes of Kentucky
now upon the books to regulate the
great tobacco trust in this State. and
it is my purpose, if am elected Gov.
ernor of Kentucky, to execute those
statutes to the letter. Great Ap-
plause.)
Nov, because of that attitude, you
may be sure that that trust is fighting
me in this campaign. 1t is behind the
people who are making this manevo-
lent fight. Didn't you hear Capt. Mar
tin say a few minutes ago that at the
beginning of this campaign the press
with one accord said, here are two
good, fair men, and all at once il
changed? Let's see if can give you
some light on the subject.
Editorials All Alike.
Here is a piece cut from a Frank.
fort Democratic paper. 1t says this
Nearly every Democratic paper in the
State uses the editorials sent out by
the Democratic Press Bureau. This
makes the reading of Kentucky papers
an uninteresting performance
THE whole tone of the Democratic
press of Kentucky is being colored
from the Democratic headquarters at
Louisville.
HaIy At the Helm.
Now you have the man who is at
the head of the Democratic machine,
at the same time in the employ of a
millionaire trust in Eastern Kentucky,
working upon a salary for il, a con-
victed libeler, running this press of
Kentucky, filling its columns with ma