The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-09-22

omitted, you may know with reasc1-
able certainty what the same party
is about to do to them. Thus it will
be seen there is an endless conflict
between the advocates of honest gov
ernment and these emissaries of plum
der and privilege, who come to party
leaders like Nicodemus by night, in
sisting upon silence and a covert un-
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 a political party has
an infinitely greater significance than
the utterances of it's 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 it is
| given, becomes a 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
honest endeavor? Search it, and from
70
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-
tion 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 it 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 evi
dence of inexcusable ignorance or the
badge of cowardness and of shame:
He calls Democratic Legislature tc
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 undefled, has declared war upor
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 extend.
through all. = 1 assert thi.
perversion of democracy, this rob
bing of democracy of its virility cal
be changed as truly as the system
under which Walpole governed tn,
Commons of England by bribery, a.
> truly as the atmosphere which mad,
the Credit Mobilier scandal possibl,
in the Congress of the United State
and has been blown away by tn,
force Of public opinion.
1--WE can take this one step towart
|! not robbing the people of their par
in government, but toward robbin;
an irresponsible autocracy of its in
defensible and unjust and undemc
/ cratic control of government, an,
restoring it to the people to be ez
ercised by the men of their choic
and their control"
From the north woods to the Ever
glades of Florida and from Cape Ma
/ TO the Golden Gate, from the valley
e to the mountain tops. the length an
L breadth of the land is filed with wha
Mr.. Root has well described as tn
deep and sullen and long-continue
1 resentment at being governed by me-
v not of the peoples choosing"
q 1t was war upon invisible govern
6 ment', it was the declaration of tn
Il new freedom, inspiring a trumpet
e call, that made the eloquent schoo
) master of New Jersey first its Coy
l. ernor and then the President of tn
I United States. The exposure of thi
l. hidden and abominable thing by tn
II courageous representatives of the pee
d pie has been the crowning glory @
= the 63rd Congress, rich as it is 4
achievement and historic in grea
l. tasks nobly done. There is but on
Il State in the Union that can boast G
Il a dozen intelligent men and but on
r party on earth, that possesses a polit
D can organization which is either is
C norant of the existence of invisibl
e government or too corrupt or too COW
II ardly to say anything about it-tha
n party is the Republican Party of tn
i State of Kentucky, and the dozen me
IS are the Committee on Resolution
e which, on the 18th of last June, wrot
d the platform upon which Mr.. Morrol
b stands.
lie service, the best years of my life hav
c ! freely given to fighting this abominabl
e thing wherever 1t raised its Meduca hea
In the State or in the nation / uneartt
ed the ground wire that connected til
?. Senate of the United States with II
: desk of Nelson A. Aldrich and the HON
OF the trust ! have turned the ligf
!. ference between the masters of hig
finance and the servants of the peopl
e l have spread upon the records of Cor
Ie disp1tabie proof of their scarlet sin. j
y Kentucky have without regard to Il
n effect upon my own political future {
ID TO friend or foe, Democrat or Republican
10 have l declared, and now maintain. wa
e. against the emissaries of invisible gov
.el ernment.' 1t Is known of all men thf
n there is not a single soul in that reekin
g itlcal SIN known as the Shack ths
:. Graft built from its master mind to tt
IN not politically and personally hostile an
A ready and willing to lend aid and CON
:, = fort to any old enemy Of this ticke
AZ 3r what not 1t is inconceivable ths