The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-11-08
4 TeAosc Eecer Hero.
DIR, BLACKBURN A LEADING CANDIDATE
FOR GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. 2.-it is Curl
GUS and unexpected issue that has lately
confronted three out of the four candidates
for the Democratic nomination for Cover
nor in Kentucky. \ few weeks ago there
were practically but three candidates in
the field. The Hon. William Lindsay, ex-
Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals,
would NOT present himself for the re cleo
tion that was very certainly his, because he
thought that his nomination to the Cover
nor's chair was equally certain. But Lieut.
Gov John G.. Underwood and the Hon.
Thomas L. Jones, eK Congressman from The
Sixth District, each had apparently no less
we'll founded hopes that certain local issues
would give him the Democratic nomlna-
tion for Governor. But the outlook for
each of these three has suddenly become
very gloomy.
Dr. Luke p. blackburn of Louisville is
a stout, Jolly, well to-do and well preserved
old gentleman of nearly 20, and an elder
brother of the Hon. j. G.. S. Blackburn,
Congressman from the Seventh Kentucky
District. He came prominently before the
Northern public during the war as one of
the alleged conSpiratoTs 20 infect Northern
cities with contagious disease by shipping
to them cargoes of infected clothing from
the West India Islands and Cuba. He is
now the President ofa company that manu-
factures and sells the nimble salts from
the famous Crab Orchard springs of Ken
lucky.
When the yellow fever broke out in cpl
demic form in Memphis and Shreveport,
four years ago, DIR. Black burn promptly
volunteered his professional services to the
smitten cities. They were thankfully &C
cepted, and for two months or more the
aged physician laboTed increasingly in the
hospitals OF Memphis and the homes Of
Shreveport, giving to the curable aid
that proved mnss valuable, and, to the
hopelessly stricken, good cheer in sheir
dying moments. y photograph represent
ing bim sitting by a hospital cot, with a
sufferers hand in his, will be remembered
as reproduced in the illustrated journals at
the time. When the plague broke out
last summer DIR. Blackburn again made
offer of his services 10 the Howard As
sociatiOn, and was assigned to the south
western cities of Kentucky, where the
fever was terribly fatal.
y week or two ago some local newspaper
in this district suggested his name for
Governor. The idea seemed electric. The
press and the people generally throughout
the State took it mp, aud the Courier
Journal OF this town now says that if the
nominating convention should assemble
this week ''Dr. Blackburn would be nomi-
naUed by acclamatiOn.' An enthusiastic
journal in the interior says ''Buena
Vista made Gen. Taylor President
night walk to Cerro Gordo sent John ).
Williams to the Uuitcd States Senate, and
the hospitals at Hickman will make old
LIKE Blackburn Governor of the proud
Commonwealth OF Kentucky"
DR.. Black burn is fairly before the people
for the nomination. The story is told Of
him that, 1T little dance in Lincoln
county, be made it his business to be present
and footed it merriiy with the girls in spite
of his 20 years. The sweethearts and
husbands and fathers promised to a man
to give him their votes.
In the face OF such a prestige and such
a canvass it is natural that the coveted
chair a. Frankfort should seem To the three
opposing candidates a shadow that daily
grows more uusubstantial.