The Bourbon news., 1912-11-05
A TARIFF FOR
REVENUE ONLY
Last Means of Kentucky Farmers
For Obtaining Relief.
CAMDEh'S TELLING ADDRESS


Plain Truths at the Meeting of the
State Central and State Executive
Committees In LouisviIIe-Present
Political Situation the Subject of
q Mastery Analysis.
At the meeting of the state central
and state executive committees in
Louisville on Oct 29th, ]. N. Camden,
chairman of the state campaign COM
nittee, delivered strong and effec-
tive address on the present political
situation. The speech was of a very
progressive character. He advocated
and declared emphatically for a tariff
fer revenue only as the last means
o. obtaining relief for the agricultural
interests of Kentucky.
Chairman Camden spoke in part as
follows:
In August you honored me with
the position Of chairman of the state
campaign committee, for the purpose
Of conducting the presidential cam
faign In Kentucky. Since then the
committee has labored hard, to the
end that every precinct in the state
should be properly organized and the
full Democratic vote polled on election
day. We are now on the last lap of
The race; we are rounding into the
home stretch, and week from today
the race will be over
However, this is not the time for
me to talk as to what has been done
The results next Tuesday will speak
for themselves. After election day it
will be the duty, as well as the pleas
ufe, Of the campaign committee to
render to you, the constituted and
governing authority of the state Dem
ocracy, full account of our steward
ship.
Express Thanks.
'Tn the meantime, / can not allow
this opportunity to pass without bear
ing testimony in your presence to the
intelligent, faithful and unremitting
labor of the vice chairman of the cam
paign committee, Judge S. w. Hager;
Of our very able, forceful and con-
scientious secretary, w. o. Davis; of
II. V. McChespey, chairman of the
speakers bureau, the value of whose
work, day and night, is beyond any
power of expression; and each mem
Der Of the campaign committee, from
the First to the Eleventh districts.
They have certainly fought a good
fight and kept the faith. Their labors
have been supplemented and their
hands upheld by the members of the
state central and executive commit.
tees in their respective counties; by
the county and precinct chairmen, by
the Democratic speakers. who have
contributed freely of their time and
their talents toward expounding the
principles of Democracy upon the
stump, and last, but not least, by the
earnest and conscientious support OF
the Democratic press of the state.
National Politics.
"A few words as to national poll.
tics, and the condition of the parties
throughout the country. The Repub
ncan party is today hopelessly rent
tn twain. Its house is divided, but not
over any real question of national pol
icy or abiding political principles, but
in divided largely by a personal quar-
rel and political feud between the two
chief leaders Of the Republican party;
one the president of the United
States, the other the only living ex
president.
at has gone the way of the old
Democratic party of 1860, when John
c. Breckinridge led bolt against the
termination Of Stephen A. Douglass
The feeling between the Republican
factions is even more bitter, and the
split in the party more deep-seated
end lasting than in the seventies and
early eighties, when James G. Blaine
and Roscoe Conkling fought for SD
premacy. The Democratic party has
~aited long, but it is now coming into
its own.
Taft and Roosevelt.
THE Republican party, as led BY
President Taft, represents the reac
tionary or so-called stand pat or higE
tariff element of the party who are
now in Office, and whose thirst fol
spoils is so insatiate that they desire
20 hold on to the pilot wheel of the
United States government at any cost
"The Progressive party, under the
leadership of ex-President Roosevelt
has adopted a platform dealing prin
cpally with matters Of state legisla
tion, in the faint hope of being car
rie6 into power in the general polit
fcal confusion. Some planks are good
and some bad, but it is clear that they
were grouped together in a conGlom
crate mass for the sole purpose oi
getting the votes of emotional and un
thinking people, regardless of the fact
that they could not be put into effect
by the federal government, even i!
the Progressives through any miracle
oosld elect a president or secure a
majority in congress. Roosevelt
stands for a high tariff also.