The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-09-24

The party proposes to do for the peo-
pie. and from those things which ara
omitted. you may know with reason.
able certainty what the same party
Is about TO do to them. Thus II will
be seen there Is an endless conflict
between the advocates OF honest gov
eminent and these emlssaries OF plum
der and privilege. who come to party
leaders like Nicodemus by night in
sisting upon silence and q covert I'M
derstanding 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 its candidate One
is the solemn covenant OF the many
thousands OF men and the other Is
perchance the private opinion OF a
single individual
Analysis Of the Republican Platform.
For that reason, shall In the very
beginning, call your attention TO
brief analysts 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 suf-
frage OF the people TO whom II ia
given, becomes 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 endeayor? Search It, and from
beginning to end, from Alpha to One
ga. there is not line. not word.
not syllable against invisible gov
eminent" not a pledge to the people
to cleanse the Legislature OF corrup.
ton or the corruptlonist, not 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 II its dark and damn!ng shadow;
while open graft and brazen lobby.
Ing is charged by Kentncky's great.
est Democratic edltorT Why did he
utter no warning that such an omis.
sion would be regarded as the eyi.
dence OF inexcusabe 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 VIII enact such a law
Invisible Government,
The Democracy OF Kentucky. pure
and indebted, has declared war upon
this monstrous thing, invisible Gov.
ernment 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
N'''N hNH hAAF assert lUlh
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 MobllIer scandal possible
In the Congress OF the United States
and has been blown away by the
force OF public opinion. j
we cen take this one step toward
not robbilg the people OF their part
In government, but toward robbing
an irresponsible autocracy OF its in.
defensibe and unjust and undemo.
cratic control OF government, and
restoring II to the people to be ex.
ercised by the men OF their choice
and their control"
From the north woods to the Ever.
;lades Of Florida and from Cape May
o the Golden Gate. from the valleys
o the mountain tops, the length and
OF the land is filled with what
Mr., Root has we'll described as the
deep and sullen and long-continued
resentment at being governed by men
lot OF the peoples choosing" +
II was war upon invisible govern.
nent, II was the declaration OF the
lew freedom. inspiring trumpets
all, that made the eloquent school.
master OF New Jersey first its Gov.
rnor and then the President OF the
United States The exposure OF this
hidden and abominable thing by the
outrageous representatives OF the PEG.
he has been the GROWING glory OF
he 63rd Congress, rich as II is In |
chievement and historic in great
asks nobly done. There is but one
tate In the Union that can boast OF ,
dozen intelligent men and but one
arty on earth, that possesses a politi.
an organization which is either liz.
GRANT OF the existence OF invisible !
overnment or too corrupt or too cow
rdly 10 say anything about it-that $
arty is the Republican Party OF the {
tate OF Kentucky and the dozen men '
re the Committee on Resolutions
hich, on the 18th of last June. wrote I
he platform upon which Mr.. Morrow !
lands. d
During more than decade in the pub 7
c service, the best years of my life have !,