Licking Valley courier., 1915-09-30
lection of the public.

ne utGeranceS Or It's candidate. one ''
s the solemn covenant OF the many
thousands of men and the other is
yerchance the private upiuion Of a
single individual.
Analysis of the Republican Platform.
For that reason, | shall in the very
beginning, call your attention to a
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 suf-
frage of the people to whom it is p
given, becomes solemn contract )
sealed with the great seal of the
Commonwealth. 80 A covenant t
with the people of Kentucky" {
What covenant has Mr.. Morrow or I
his party made to protect the State
from the miners and sappers" of !
every form of free government and t
honest endeavor? Search it, and from ,
beginning to end, from Alpha to One
ga, there is not line, not a word,
not a syllable against invisible gov.
ernment," not a pledge to the people
to cleanse the Legislature Of corrup- !
ton or the corruptionist, not a SEM '
blance of an antilobby 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 damnng 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 evi
dence of ineXcusable ignorance or the
badge of cowardness and Of shame?
He calls a Democratic Legislature to
task for falling 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 law.
Invisible Government.
The Democracy Of Kentucky, pure .
and undeilled, has declared war upon
this monstrous thing invisible Gov
ernment.' Elihu Root on the same
day in the very citadel of privilege
and plunder admitted:
Both parties are alike; all par
ties are alike. The system extends
through all. *"* / assert this
perversion of democracy, this rob-
bing 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.
}
1--WE can take this one step toward
not robbing the people of their part
in government, but toward robbing
an irresponsible autocracy of its 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 we'll described as the
I! deep and sullen and long-continued
resentment at being governed by men
not of the peoples choosing"
| It was war upon invisible govern
I ment', it was the declaration of the
I new freedom, inspiring a trumpet's
i call, that made the eloquent school.
master of New Jersey first its Gov.
ernor and then the President of the
j United States. The exposure OF this
l. hidden and abominable thing by the
e courageous representatives of the peo.
l. pie has been the crowning glory Of
J. the 63rd Congress, rich as IL Is In
achievement and historic in great
I tasks nobly done. There Is but one
v State in the Union that can boast Of
n a dozen intelligent men and but ono
G party on earth, that possesses a politi.
It can organization which Is either ig.
G norant OF the existence Of invisible
J, government or too corrupt or too COW.
i ardly to say anything about it-tha'
r party is the Republican Party Of tho
l. State Of Kentucky, and the dozen men
It are the Committee on Resolutions
d which, on the 18th of last June, wrote
= the platform upon which Mr. Morrow
stands.
i During more than decade in the pub
- lie service the best years NJ my life have
, freely given 10 fighting this abominable
j thing wherever II raised It's Meduca head
ed the ground wire that connected the
7 | Senate Of the United States with III
G ! Fifth avenue, New York, between tho
. desk Of Nelson A.. Aldrlch and the home
of the trust ! have turned the light
+ upon the most intimate and secret con.
, ference between the masters Of high
u finance and the servants Of the people
!. have spread upon the records OF Con.
& gress the checks and vouchers the In.
dlsputable proof Of their scarlet sin. In
IS Kentucky ! have without regard TO rs
d effect upon my own political future or
:, upon any political party, without regard
" TO friend or foe, Democrat or Republican,
v have | declared. and now maintain. war
. TO the knife and the knife tn the hll'
IVY against the emissarcs OF invisible gov.
e eminent II Is known Of all men that
n there Is not single soul In that rocltinp
fortress OF financial croOkcdness and pn-
Y. litcal sin known "Hs the Shack that
Z Graft built from It's master mind to the
y meanest snlper within it's walls, who is
u lot politically and personally hostile and
Is eady and willing to lend aid and COM
- Tort To amy old enemy uf this ticket
{ Democratic or Republican, Progressive
In lr what not. II Is incoucoivnhle that
. he men. who wrote the Republican plat
. form and named It's nominees should
y never have heard until Mr.. Morrow fired
n his opening gun that the Third House
., Is greater than the Peoples House"
" VIII the Intelligent citizenship of Ken
10 lucky entrust "A party with power that
, knows nothing of invisible government
or knowing, Is too timid or too corrurt
e to give you it's solemn pledge TO destroy
n Il? or Is II that those more potent and
: more silent than Mr. Morrow, high IN