New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-03
DENOUNCING "OILY JAMES"
pIssENsroNs IN A SOUND MONEY" CAMP.
EX-GOVERNOR BuCKNER OF KENTUCKY. ATTACKS
NcRrARy THE ADMINISTRATION CANDi-
DATE. FOR HIS 1NcONssTENcIEs-RE-

MCREARY. THE ADMINISTRATIONS 'ANDi-
DATE. FOR HIS INCONSISTENCIES RE
PUBLICAN GAINS ~ REGISTRATION.
icy TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIrUNE1
Louisville. Ky. Oct. although the recent
withdrawal Of Ex-Governor 5. b. Buckner, radi-
cal gold standard Democrat from the race for the
Senatorship was apparently designed to work
10 the benefit Of the less pronounced and out
spoken "sound-money" candidate and representa-
tive. James b. McCreary. feeling OF anything
but personal sympathy or political friendship
seems TO have developed between these two cham
pions in the Administrations fight to prevent the
return to the Senate of j. S. c. Blackburn.
Shortly after retiring from the contest for the
Democratic Senatorial nomination. Ex-Governor
Buckner on September 49, published In Ihe
Courer-Journa" Of this city, ive-column in
terview in which. after denouncing Mr. Hardins
reputation Of the Louisville Conventions plat
form as without excuse or Justification he sud-
denly and Unexpectedly turned on his supposed
friendly rival and vehemently characterized MS
financial views and record as little less heterodoX
and pestiferous than the free-sNver coinage
doctrines Of Hardin and Blackburn. Mr NC
Creary whose peculiar political methods nave
earned him the sobriquet of "Oily James among
Kentucky politicians has. It seems, since the
entered its later phases, been posing before the
Democratic voters of Southern and western Ken
lucky as himself more or less trusted friend OF
the cause Of silver coinage. In an Interview pub
llshed last April. nearly two months before the
unexpected decisive defeat Of the free-conage
forces in the Louisville Convention. Mr.. McCreary
had pointed with satisfaction TO the fact that ne
had voted in the last Congress 10 restore the
Bland Allison act Of 1878 and has always Favored
and still favors the coinage Of a certain amount
OF silver monthly at the l6-to-l ratio. On this
platform in spite Of its evident variance with the
declarations made at the June convention, the
versatile Blue Grass Congressman, while osten-
sbly leading the Administrations antl-slver cru
sade seemed to suspicious critics to be trying 10
fortify his own personal canvass in the BACK
country district by stealing bolt or two oil MT
Backburn's campaign thunder.
These painful Inconsistencies in Mr.. NC
Creary's sound nd-money" candidacy were un-
sparingly exposed in General Buckner's inter-
view, and the bitterness of feeling displayed in
the attack carried CONSERVATION into the ranks
OF the ''sound-money' Democracy Mr. Nc
Creary attempted TO answer General Buckner
criticism in "A statement published a week or
more ago, but the reply was far from satls1ac-
tory To-day, General Buckner returns TO me
assault with another elaborate statement, which
appears in THE Courer-JournaP with signln-
that Mr. McCreary's financial views are both
confused and heterodox. and closes with the
scathng intimaton that between candidate
like Hardin. who stands defianty with both icet
on a square platform, and a candidate ike NC
Creary who stands lrresolutely with one foot on
a gold-standard plank and another on scheme
of limited silver coinage, there Is little lett 10
choose for any genuine "sound-money Demo-
crat
These open dissensions among the supposed
leaders in the Administrations warfare against
Mr. Blackburn have had a highly discouraglng
effect on the sound money Senatorial canvass
They have undoubtedly helped Mr.. Blackburn s
canvass materially and his chances for OBTAIN
ing a denomination are probably better To-Day
than they have been at any time since the LOUIS
Vile Convention.
The registration figures reported to-day from
the various cities of the state nave given gredt
encoura cement TO the managers of Mr. Bradley
canvass BY popularity OF the Kentucky elec-
ton law voters registering are allowed 10
express their political preferences and be en-
tered on the books as Republicans. Democrats,
Populists or Prohibitionsts. In most towns
probably four-fifns Of the voters register In tnls
way The returns made to-day show that IN
many towns, notably Frankfort, Lebanon, ltlch-
,nond Maysve and Paducah. the Repubhcans
made handsome gains in registration LeXins-
ton and Paris are the only cities showing Demo-
cratic gains. In both Hardin Is expected TO sur
fer a material loss through Democratic dlsanec-
tion so that the increased registration there Is
not regarded as damaging To the RepuDlcah
nrospects Three days are allowed for reglstra-
lion in this city tomorrow being the last.