The Adair County news., 1915-10-06

lican national or State administrations
ton and recrimInation, Of folly, failure
perfidy and ruin In national affairs, and
of force, violence. bloodshed and in
competence in the conduct of the State
Government, the silence of this party, or
its wise refusal to mention with approval
any man or any incident in its history,
is, in effect, pathetic appeal 10 tne
people of Kentucky to let the dead past
bury it's dead" and to forget the blum
ders of those whom even their friends
dare not defend,
Republican Reputation OF Platform
Pledges.
The Democrats of Kentucky will not
soon forget that in 1903 this party in
solemn platform declaration fercely ar
raigned Democratic executive "for exer-
cising the pardOning power to subserve
political and partisan purposes with the
certain effect of encouraging crime by
virtually rendering criminals of Demo-
cratic faith immune from punishment
In 1908 this same party was not warm
in the saddle before its Republican Gov
ernor brazenly proceeded to commit the
crime it had SOlemnly denounced and 10
do the dastardly deed from which by
necessary inference he was forever bound
to abstain; liberating assassins. whose
with a pail of sorrow and believed the
eyes and crimsoned the cheeks of brave
men with tears of sorrow and bushes
of shame, acts that have appalled, the
conscience of the world, and today. in
their unpublished enormity, smell to
heaven" Taylor, Finley. Howard and
Powers were all turned loose ed-handed
| and secure, and a Republican Governor.
! with IAN eye of parchment and cheek
of stone" deliberately dared to do the
| thing his party had solemnly damned
serve political and partisan purposes
| with the certain effect of encouraging
| crime by virtually rendering criminal of
| Republican, faith immune from punish
| ment."
Morrow Would Straddle Two or More
Platforms.
| 1t may be that the nominee of the Re-
| publican party feels some part of the
| sentiment which he has so gracefully eX-
| pressed. In that event, he is totally out
| of harmony with his party and is already
''off of the reservation The organiza-
| ton whose representative he is and to
| whom, prior To June Is. he delegated the
| right to speak for him on various and
VeXed public questions, has not hesitated
10 express its contempt for the validity
of platform pledges. The platform upon
which Mr.. Morrow was nominated de-
clared:
which shall permit party nominations
without regard to the party Affiliations
of the candidates"
! I'VE favor" says this party, amend
ments to the State law permitting and
! encouraging nominations of the same
candidate by the different parties"
| nave long suspected InaI certain re
publican leaders were prone to practice
! this Janus faced diplomacy, but l hardly
thought they would compel the quick;
change 9TtiSt. to play his DIT. JeRyi
| ence of the people.
! Let us suppose that such platform
| declaration had the force and effect OF
! existing law. what would be the result?
! The various parties have made their plat
| forms which Mr.. Morrow says are a SOL
J emn covenant and when adopted by the
I nnVN1n hsxv ~
| tract sealed with the great seal of the
| commonwealth" AS the nominee of both
| factions of his party he would necessarily
| find himself committed to two platforms.
Let US imagine him speaking TO a stand
| pat audience on the platform for which
| he processes such profound reverence and
| to which he promises such implicit Obed-
| ience. He would doubtless edify his ad-
| mirerS with the statement that he pro-
| poses to preserve and enforce the County
Unit law now upon the statute books.
| Fellow citizens" says Mr.. Morrow, lis
| 1t not my covenant, my solemn contract,
signed with the great seal of the COM
monwealth,' that
1--WE now declare our continued ad-
herence to the County Unit law, and
we do hereby endorse the present Coun-
ty Unit law of Kentucky and pledge
ourselves to its strict and rigid en-
forcement"
The next day we find him upon the
| other platform surrounded by admiring
| Moosers and declaring: 'Is II not my par
with the great seal of the commonwealth.
that
"The Progressive party of Kentucky
| pledges itself to submit to a vote of
the State, an amendment to our State
Constitution forever prohibiting the
sale Of intoxicating liquors in Ken
Support me, brave Moosers, for you
have solemn contract, sealed with the
great seal of the commonwealth" that
| the County Unit shall be sent to the ding
bow-wows and Statewide prohibition en-
forced, and that without delay.
On the following day the Republican
nominee will return to the old fold, will
assure his friends in the large cities who
/ are somewhat uneasy about this Woman
Suffrage agitation. that the Republican
party positively refuses to state its po-
sition upon that question
| Expressly reserving the right of all
Republicans to vote upon the question
/ of Woman Suffrage as they see fit
And the presto! change" my handsome
and accomplished opponent back in the
Bull Moose camp, the idol of the ladies'
he assures the cheering suffragists that
I'VE Moosers, he and she alike
! ''Desire to reiterate our belief in the
| Just principles of Woman Suffrage, and
urge upon the next Legislature to SUBJ
init the question to the voters of Ken
This, they are told, is not an idle utter
ance. but a solemn covenant made to be
kept by "us Progressives," a contract
under the great seal of the common
| wealth."
But worse, and last of all. imagine my
| gifted and distinguished friend, proud OF
his stalwart Republican forbears. and
of the great standpatters who have add
ed luster to his honored name. Imagine
him quoting again the language of the
last national Republican platform to the
delectation of Bourbon Republicanism
/ I'VE invite the intelligent judgment
OF the American people upon the ad-
m1niStration of William H. Taft
that legislation is a record on which
any administration might appeal with
confidence to the favorable judgment
Of history"
And then, far removed from the very
i echoes of his last utterance, facing those
who have spewed from their mouths the