Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-23

aDle certainty what the same party
Is about to do ia them. Thus It 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 a covert I'M
Outstanding to commit the party to
no policy which may result in the
punishment OF their crimes or the pro-
lsction OF the public
The platform OF a political party has
IN 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 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 1t is
given, becomes a solemn contract
sealed with the great seal of the
Commonwealth. 49, 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
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honest endeavor? Search it, and from
beginning to end, from Alpha to One
ga, there is not a line, not word,
not syllable against invisible gov
eminent" not a 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 1t 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 indebted, 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. 'f+ | 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.
1--WE 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 filed 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"
II was war upon invisible govern
ment', IL was the declaration OF the
new freedom, inspiring a trumpet's
call. that made the eloquent school
master of New Jersey first its Gov
ernor and then the President of the
United States. The exposure OF this
hidden and abominable thing by the
courageous representatives OF the peo-
pie has been the browning glory OF
the 6Srd Congress, rich as 1t is in
and historic In great
tasks nobiy done. There is but one
State in the Union that can boast OF
a dozen intelligent men and but one
party on earth, that possesses a politi.
can organization which is either ig-
norant OF the existence of invisible
government or too corrupt or too cow
ardly TO say anything about it-that
party is the Republican Party of the
State OF Kentucky, and the dozen men
are the Committee on Resolutions
which on the 18th of last June wrote