Show KEXTDCKY 0S FOR SILVER l i he eIiortlc state conventioii 1 Kentucky which meets at Lexington tomorrow will be for silver This is a matter of great rejoicing to all silver 1 Democrats for Kentucky has been I recognized as the strategic point so to speak of the campaign for free slIver slI-ver To carry that state for the gold standard President Cleveland sent Secretary Sec-retary Carlisle down there to campaign cam-paign for sound money His efforts were so successful that Bradley the Republican candidate for governor was elected while he made It impossible impossi-ble for the Kentucky legislature to elect a United States senator and Senator Sen-ator Blackburn barely escaped having a Republican elected to succeed him All this was the result of the strenuous and untiring work of Mr Cleveland and his officials They left no stone unturned they hesitated not to resort to any and all means they moved heaven and earth to convert the I Democracy of the Blue Grass state to I the gold standard and they signally failed Selah Jne Louisville courier Journal commenting on the victory of the silver Democrats says They the Democrats have repudiated repudi-ated the only president the Democratic party has elected and seated for forty years They have repudiated the most distinguished of Kentuckys living sons and the greatest Democratic intellect in-tellect in the United States They have spit upon the fathers of the party whose name and organization they claim have proclaimed Jefferson an ignoramus ig-noramus Jackson a conspirator Benton Ben-ton a knave and Cleveland a traitor The CourierJournal is plainly overwrought over-wrought and greatly excited its mood is hysterical its judgment warped its language heated Its calm reason has departed its Democracy has been made to bow down and worship the gold calf It simply howls its power to reason is gone Did not the only president the Democratic party has elected and seated for forty years repudiate the doctrines of the fathers on the financial question Has he not tried in every way he could to beat down all opposition to his imperious will on this money question Has it not been a constant study with him how he could heap ignominy and indignity upon the great leaders of the Democratic Demo-cratic party because they have dared to differ with him upon the money question He has sought to make himself him-self the master of his party to make his will its law his crotchets its principles prin-ciples And we are told that the Democrats Dem-ocrats of Kentucky have repudiated this Grover Cleveland this wouldbe Caesar They have done what the Democracy of the nation have done and they have done well Had he not repudiated Democratic principles the I Democracy would not have repudiated I him I himDid not the greatest Democratic intellect in-tellect in the United States do all in its power to overthrow the Democratic party in Kentucky last fall And he came dangerously near succeeding If Mr Carlisle has been repudiated by the Democrats of Kentucky it is because be-cause he invited repudiation he has but himself to blame and no one else The Democratic party always has and always will know its great men but they must deserve and continue to deserve the honor they may lead they may not dictate I |