Show JUDGE KINGS VOTE Draper Utah March 20 Editor Salt Lake Herald Arthur Brown in his 1115 speech hero bere last Saturday night made the tho statement that after W H Kin King had made his trip ot of Investigation to Cuba and when the ques question lion tion of voting funds to carry on the war came up tn in congress that King voted against the appropriation Will you OU kind kindly kindly ly lot let us know through The Herald what the vote was on question Yours SUBSCRIBER Denials of aU all tIle the lies uttered by Ro Re Republican publican orators and organs in this campaign would fill more space than The Herald columns contain Judge KIng never voted against any appropriation appropriation of funds needed to carryon carry on the war against SpaIn The first war appropriation was made on March S 1898 1838 by the passage of an em emergency rge measure whIch placed in the tho hands of the president for war pur purposes purposes poses The Republican n party managers an unprecedented d course in placing the expenditure e or of so large a sum at the dIscretion of the president and the manner in whIch the und fund was expended gave gae rise to 00 scandal but when wIlen the bill was placed upon its pas passage sage in the house every Democratic member p patriotically recorded himself in Its Its favor and the vote was was unanimous m Us The Republican maj rity subsequent subsequently ly framed a war for tor th the purpose purpose of providing ng funds und to carry on the tar itar but me re particular particularly ly 11 to promote a deal be between tween Secretary and the bankers arid and in voting against this bill Judge King earned the gratitude of every honest citizen This measure carried a scheme of taxation that lf laid d the bur burden burden den of war ar expenditures upon the masses ant and relIeved organized wealth from the tle payment of its just share It authorized the secretary of the trees treas treasury ury to issue of bonds al although although though it was clearly shown that the taxes levied would proVide t revenue to car carry on the we Then he ns i ino no non the administration d dby by the corporations an anthee al i theSe thee interests dictated t revenue bill The i leaders sought to turn the patro m In of the country to selfish account but the bill the they presented was so athel in inequitable Inequitable equitable and unjust it Was such a palpable piece of bond jobbery that no flu Democrat could support it without stultifYing himself and betraying his constituents There were alsa aleo five Re Republican Rep publican p members who refused to be whipped into supporting such suell a bill billAnd billAnd And It may not be amiss to remind the voters that this InfamOus tax law is I sun still in force and Is takIng from the pockets of the people so much more revenue than an extravagant admin administration administration can spend that Secretary Gage is turning government funds over to tIne the Standard Oil bank at the rate of per year JUdge Kings vote was recorded in favor of every measure dictated b by patriotism or the n neds ds or of the govern government ment in carrying on a war against a foreign foe He was one of the Demo Democratic cratie cratic leaders who held aloft the banner of freedom and upheld the Of the American government when a cow cowardly cowardly ardly and truckling would have surrendered to the de demands mantIs mands of Spanish arrogance Arid his vote was recorded every mean meas measure ure inimical to the rights and liberties and Interests of the people And so It will be recorded in the future and no amount of Republican lying can cast castone castone one blot upon his record |