The Adair County news., 1915-10-06

them. often find themselves between
the conflicting forces which Root so
graphically described, the people de-
handing pledge of faithful service
and the interests the omission of such
pledges For that reason, more sig
nificance should attach to the omis.
sions in a political platform than in
the things which are actually said.
From the things which are said, you
can, In a measure, determine what
the party proposes to do for the peo-
pie, and from those things which are
omitted, you may know with reason
able certainty what the same party
is about to do to them. Thus it will
be seen there is an endless conflict
between the advocates of honest gov
eminent and these emissaries of plum
der and privilege, who come to party
leaders like Nicodemus. by night, in
sisting upon silence and a covert un-
Outstanding to commit the party to
no policy which may result in the
punishment of their crimes or the pro-
lection of the public.
The platform of political party has
an infinitely greater significance than
the utterances of it's candidate. One
is the solemn covenant of the many
thousands of men and the other is
perchance the private opinion of
single individual.
Analysis of the Republican Platform.
For that reason, 1 shall in the very
beginning, call your attention to
brief analysis of the declarations upon
which all the candidates of the Re-
publican Party stand and which has
been described by the head of the
ticket as his party's WORD of honor"
which when accepted by the SUI
frage of the people to whom it is
given, becomes a solemn contract
sealed with the great seal Of the
Commonwealth. + : A covenant
with the people of Kentucky"
What covenant has Mr.. Morrow or
his party made to protect the State
from the miners and sappers" of
every form of free government and
honest endeavor? Search it, and from
beginning to end, from Alpha to One
ga, there is not line, not a word,
not syllable against invisible gov
eminent" not pledge to the people
to cleanse the Legislature of corrup-
ton or the corruptionist, not a SEM
blance Of an anti-lobby plank or an
antitrust declaration. Why in the
name of reason and justice and COM
mon sense, did not my distinguished
opponent, who was present when that
platform was reported, arise in that
Convention and say then as he says
now, "the Third House is still greater
than the peoples house; still throws
upon it its dark and damning shadow;
while open graft and brazen lobby.
ing is charged by Kentucky's great
est Democratic editor?" Why did he
utter no warning that such an omis-
sion would be regarded as the evil
dence Of inexcusable ignorance or the
badge of cowardness and of shame?
He calls Democratic Legislature to
task for failing to pass an anti-lobby
bill, but neither he nor his party offer
to the people one ray of hope that in
the event of his election he will sug-
gest or will enact, such a law.
Invisible Government.
The Democracy of Kentucky, pure
and undefiled, has declared war upon
this monstrous thing, invisible Gov
eminent Elihu Root on the same
day in the very citadel of privilege
and plumber admitted:
Both parties are alike; all par
ties are alike. The system extends
through all. 80 I assert this
perversion of democracy, this rob.
bling of democracy of its virility can
be changed as truly as the system
under which Walpole governed the
Commons of England by bribery, as
truly as the atmosphere which made
the Credit Mobilier scandal possible
in the Congress of the United States
and has been blown away by the
force of public opinion.
.
eve can take this one step toward
| not robbing the people of their part
in government, but toward robbing
an irresponsible autocracy of it's in
defensible and unjust and undemo-
cratic control of government, and
restoring it to the people to be ex:
ercised by the men of their choice
and their control"
From the north woods to the Ever
glades of Florida and from Cape May
to the Golden Gate, from the valleys
to the mountain tops, the length and
breadth of the land is filled with what
Mr.. Root has well described as the
deep and. sullen and long-continued
resentment at being governed by men
not of the peoples choosing"
1t was war upon invisible govern