The Monticellonian., 1895-11-15


 field and take in all the surround iDgs, to accept such as the true theory would be to acknowledge ourselves imbeciles of the very lowest order.
 Kentucky, it is true, was carried by the Republicans, aud not only Hardin, the free silver candidate, was defeated, but likewise, also, were the souudmoney candidates defeated in that state. And, since the Kentucky platform was what the gold-bugs are pleased to call q ''sound.money' platform and one fashioned by the administration's friends and to their own liking, it may be fair 10 presume that the platform. upon which Gen. Hardin made the race, had much more to do with his defeat and the defeat 
 of hls party, in Kentucky, than did his views upon the currency question. And, especially does this appear reasonable, if not self evident, when 1t is known that Gen. Hardin did not only not run behind his ticket but in reality ran ahead ol it. But if our object is to ascertain the cause cf the fall of Democracy in the elections just held, why single out Kentucky, alone.
 New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Mary land, all, with what the Administration A calls, soundmoney platforms, and sound.money men, as candidate, upon such platforms, went down with even greater disas- ter than did the Blue Grass State. These facts not being merely coniectual but absolutei ' and alarmingly true, then no man who would be permitted to institute a suit in any court without the aid of committee or one that 1t would be entirely safe to allow to run at large outside the walls of lunatic asylum, could, or would, think for moment that Gen. Hardin, of Kentucky, or free-sllrer, either or both of them combined, was in the leastwise responsible for the ca lamity which beiell the country on the 5th of November.
 Then since the effect is obvious, the cause must exist or at least, did exist. And, AS 1t is q matter of fact and of record that of all the states mentioned, including Ken Atu ky, not one of them had a sil- Aplank Tn their platforms, but
 bem had "soundmoney' or
 ktion blanks, instead, is
 tible of argument, to
 that tho financial
 by the administra-
 10 be endorsed in
 k'ng of bonds in
 D(eaco and the refusal of
 OGovernment to pay out the hundreds of millious of silver money at it's despossl, in liquida- ton of its debts and obligations, had anything to do with the re- suit. But that it did may be pre- stunned with much more plausibilty than that Gen. Hardin's free silver views were the cause of 1t.
 Of the fifteen states which held elections on the 5th, ssissippi, alone, had free silver platform and Mississippi is the only state to give signal Democratic victory. Virginia, it is true, went Demo cratic, but by reduced majorities
 To the unprejudiced mind and to the man wine thinks, instead oi having someone else to think for him, it begins to look like the ii, nancial management of affairs, by our Democratic administration has about undone us, and if that Is truly the cause of our undoing it is high time the Democrats were making an effort to right things. WE have Cleveland yet, and that is all, and having him, per haps, is the reason we have noth- ing else. Ii indications point to anything, or anywhere, they most