Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-01-25
Iaulbee Announces Platform.
10 the Democrats of the 91st
Legislative District

Legislative District
Having announced my candi-
dacy for the Democratic nemina-
tion for Representative from your
district | consider it my duty to
you in the outset to inform you
OF the most important things l
stand pledged to support and
fight for in the event of my elec-
tion. This is the plain duty of
every man who solicits your
suffrage, no matter who he may
be, and no matter the office he
may be seeking. Place your
candidates on record before elec-
tion, and then after they are
elected, measure their deeds by
their promises and you will find
what manner of men you have
supported and whether they are
worthy of a continuance of your
support. 1t is no greater sin to
obtain money under false pre-
tense than to obtain votes under
false promises. They are one
and the same thing in effect. II
there is a difference at all, it is
the less sin to obtain your neigh
boris money under cover of felo-
nious deceit for in that act you
injure but one man, while a vote
filched from an honest man
effects every one within the
jurisdiction of the office to which
you aspire.
take it for granted that most
of you know who am, notwith-
standing the fact that most of
my life has been spent in the
service of my country in foreign
lands. My grandfather, the late
VIM. H. Taulbee, was one of the
pioneer settlers of Morgan; was
once your County Clerk, once
your State Senator and a man
well known to you all. Will
Press Taulbee who commanded
the love and respect of every
Democrat In the mountains in his
day and represented you In Con-
gress was a brother to my father.
the late Samuel H. Taulbee, who
devoted his life to the ministry
of the gospel. My mother was a
daughter of Judge Amos Davis,
as loyal, big hearted, a Democrat
as Morgan County ever produced.
Tracing the two lines of parent
age back for two or three gener-
ations | find that | am related to
at least two-thirds of the people
of this county. And let me add,
| am not ashamed of the relation
ship. 1t has been a matter of
special pride to me in travelling
over the world to tell people of
my native home and of the best
people God ever made, hercitizen-
ry. In my lifetime l have been
in twenty-four foreign countries,
and | have been in every state of
the union excepting four, but
nowhere have been have l found
a people so devoid of selfishness,
hypocracy, and deception as here.
No where have | found a people
so big hearted, plain, honest
and sincere.
My friends | stand first of all
for retrenchment and reform.
By retrenchment mean economy
in our administrative affairs, and
by reform | mean the cure fol
our administrative ills. Ken.
lucky is more than four million
dollars in debt today and we are
plunging in deeper and deeper
each day. We are taxed to the
very limit and are not receiving
commensurate returns for oul
taxes. We have one of the high
est tax rates of any state in tn,
union, rate so high that mos
of you farmers find it difficult in
deed to keep your taxes paid
There is a reason for it, and tina
reason is plain Extravaganza.
We are burdened to death witt
commissions" and boards
that are utterly useless Thes,
commissions" and boards" ar,
composed of high salaried mel
who are the offsprings of politica
patronage leglslated int,
Office for political pur
poses and fed by the hand o
toll. We have a special commits
sion" or board" for almost ever,
detail of our government, VIII
populate Frankfort in all tn
splendor of social life. while voI