Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-11-05
A TARIFF FOR
REVENUE ONLY
Last Means Of Kentucky Farmers
For Obtaining Relief
CAMDEAS TELLING ADDRESS

Campaign Committee Tells Some
Plain Truths at the Meeting Of the
State Central and State Executive
Committees In LouIsvlIIe--Present
Political Situation the Subject of
a Mastery Analysis.
At the meeting of the state central
ard state executive committees in
Louisville on oct. goth, ]. N. Camden,
chairman Of the state campaign com
mittee, delivered a strong and effec-
tive address on the present political
situation. The speech was Of very
progressive character. He advocated
and declared emphaticaIly for 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
paign 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 polIed on election
day. We are now on the last lap of
the race; we are rounding into the
home stretch, and a week from today
the race win be over.
However, this is not the time for
NE 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
ule, 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.
'In 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
raign committee, Judge S. W. Hager;
of our very able, forceful and con-
scientious secretary, w. o. Davis; of
H. " McChesney, 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 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-
lican party is today hopelessly rent
in twain. It's house is divided, but not
over any real question of nationah,pol-
icy or abiding political principles, but
is 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.
1T has gone the way of the old
Democratic party of 1860. when John
domination 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 SUI
premacy. The Democratic party has
Saited long, but II 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 high
tariff element of the party who are
now in office, and whose thirst for
spoils is so insatiate that they desire
10 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-
cipally with matters Of state legisla-
ton. in the faint hope of being car
ried into power in the general polit-
zeal confusion. Some planks are good
and some bad, but II is clear that they
were grouped together in a conglom-
crate mass for the sole purpose of
getting the votes of emotional and UNI
thinking people. regardless Of the fact
that they could not be put into effect
by the federal government. even If
the Progressiyes through any miracle
could elect a president or secure a
majority in congress. Roosevelt