The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-09-17

what campaign expenses shall be ,e
Ultimate aud which shall provide FOR
the compulsory publication in detail
under heavy penalties, of the CAM
paign expenses Of every candidate fo'
public Office"
Fulfllment: No such act was passed
One was offered and smothered to
death in the Legislature.
Result: The bribe-siver and the
bribe-taker still flourish. The unlim
tied use OF money, damning and cor.
rupting. still blasts at the very foun'
dalton stones of the government. Con.
tested elections everywhere. The ju.
dcial ermine besmirched. the prose
cutor's sword dulled. juries impotent
while the two leading candidates for
their partys nomination for the high
office of Governor hur charge and
counter-charge of the use of gigantic
campaign funds.
Fifth--it promised Eve favor such
laws as will, under appropriate penal.
ties, destroy all corrupt lobbying"
Fulfillment: No anti-lobby law pass.
ed; no attempt to pass one.
Result: The Third House is still,
greater than the peoples house; still
throws upon it its dark and damning
shadow. while open graft and brazen
lobbying is charged by Kentucky's
greatest Democratic editor.
Sixth-This party promised State
Public Utilities Commission.
Pledge: I'VE favor, under wise and
proper restrictions, the creation Of q
State Utilities Commission"
Fulfllment: No such commission
and no such powers given any com.
mission.
Seventh-This party promised an
antitrust act for the benefit Of farm
ers and laborers-a non-partisan bank
ing department, law to regulate the
arbitration of labor strikes and dis
putes. an anti-railroad pass law.
Fulfillment: None. No such laws
passed.
The same party. by its law-making
body, passed two and half-cent rail-
road fare bill, but, in doing so. joined
THE State House Forgetters' Club"
and forgot to place an enact;ng clause
to the bill, and thereby made it null
and void. 1t attempted compliance
with the promise OF a workmen's COM
pensation act, but, after repeated
warning that in the form it was drawn
it was unconstitutional, they passed
the law and it was later decided by
the Kentucky Court of Appeals to be
unconstitutional.
The same law-making body passed
a fire insurance rating bill which al
insurance agents, drove every fire in
surance company out of the State and
left millions of dollars worth of prop
erty without protection; and finally
compelled TIE laughable, yet miserable.
spectacle of the Governor who had APP
proved it. the States Attorney Gen.
eral and other State officers solemnly
affiXing their names to contract
agreeing not to enforce it.
Three years ago we were promised,
through national legislation, a reduc-
ton of the high cost of living, the
ana increase of business,
industrial and financial prosperity. To-
day business is paralyzed; American
industries of mill, mine and factory
are decreasing their output, shorten
ing the hours of labor and reducing
the number of working days. The
high cost of living has grown higher,
while more than three million wage
know the bitterness of enforc-
ed idleness, the want which comes
from the lack of pay envelope and
the hollowness of an empty dinner pail. |
'Ye promised and promised and prom
In words we'll smoother and fair,
But when it came to the deco and the
doing,
Ye halted and stumbled and failed" !
In the name of an empty treasury
Ind overwhelming debt, in the name of
air taxation and honest elections, in
he name of the peoples house against
he Third House, in the name of econ.
my, efficiency and good faith, in the
lame of every one of these broken
which cry aloud for condem-
lation. arraign this party before the
,reat tribunal Of the people and de-
nand judgment upon its broken cove
ant.