New-York tribune., 1895-10-13
TO DROP NATIONAL ISSUES.
CHANGE OF BASE BY THE KENTUCKY
DEMOCRATIC MANAGERS.
1T is SAID THAT THE BLOODY SHIRT AND
NEGRO DOMINATION" WILL HENCEFORTH
BE THEIR ATTLE-CRIES-COLONEi4
WATTERsONs LATEST THRUST
AT THE FREE-COIN-
AGE MEN
AGE MEN.
[pY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l

Louisville. Ky. oct. 12-"The Evening POST
the leading anti-Hardn Democratic newspaper IN
this city, announces to-day that the managers OF
Mr. Hardin's canvass have abandoned all nope OF
carving the State next month on legitimate party
issues and have determined as a last desperate
chance TO drOp all other questions and begin next
Tuesday four weeks bloody shirt or negro
domination campaign. Great stress Is lald py
The Post" the fact that the chairman OF
the Democratic Campaign Committee. Colonei
Charles Long in a speech last night berore the
Watterson Club. Of this city. vehemently asserted
that Republican success this year meant the es-
tablishment Of mixed schools in the state ana
the further fact that this utterly unwarrahteu
and unjustinable statement was received Win
greater interest and applause than any other por-
tion of Colonel Longs speech. Colonel Iohb
knows as well as any one else that separate
schools for white and colored children are re-
qulred TO be maintained BY the terms OF Section
1877 of the new state Constitution. He also knows
that Colonel Bradley has said on the stump that
ba ,vould veto II chosen Governor. any act passed
to create mixed schools.
ye, according to THE Post" this palpaby
misleading declaration by Colonel Long was
meant TO serve as keynote for all the Haruh
orators In the remaining weeks Of the campaign
With this first demagogic appeal to the ignoi-
ance and the prejudice of the Democratic RANK
and file once fairly launched. the campaign Is
then to be gradually turned, The POST says
on the idea and the assertion that wheh MI
Rradlev IS Governor laws will be passed in Ken
lucky giving the negro full and free access 10
the hotels the sleeping cars, churchcs' inca
tres drinking saloons gambling hells' cemeteries
and the Kingdom Of Heaven
Il ,s not believed that Chairman Longs plan
of campaign If adopted and put in force next
week. Will prove anything but foolish boomer
anc to the Hardin case, yet the fact that such
desperate and demagogic programme shoui" pc
even seriously considered by the Democra'ic
managers is itself indisputable evidence OF the
straits into which they haze been driven IN the
eight weeks since Mr.. Hardn's disastrous speak
ing tour Of the state began.
Nr Watterson apparently stung by the IN
creasing complaints In the country newspapers
that he is giving a half-hearted and treachero"s
sunport to the Democratic State ticket, says TO-
day:
Because THE CourlerJournal' has declined n,no 20
s,ul,ifI itself BY affecting enthusiasm ior leno
- csn1idate who hes repudiaed the platform
on which he nominated ana oy rsI nreHs
viting defeat the Jabberwocks OF me rula. ttI trs
and the free-siver unatics generally are
M the plant in advance OF the dsaster ~ p,prV IN 80
Write II told you so" upon the board above @ we 10
crave deliberately dug by them! II II EolieS ~
~. so he il: and woe. be their ldlocy an
malice, II told you so" Is easy 10 write; anu III
their case II will be more than vindica'ed.
The indignant Colonel adds this home thrust
at blackburn. Hardin and the free-coinage DEM
ocratic leaders,
ignorance is pure demagogy What DO the the ,vad yGwl,
ing yaVping long-h haired long-arned, piggovolceG
orators who shrek about 'the crime OF IS anu
urge a 5O-cent dollar at the ratio OF 10 TO !. KNOW
or care what happens so they get the poor h''ie
n;acce they are after? The Democratic parry =
nothing 10 them except as machine TO srlhu tncll
votes and office: and. beginning to fear ior these,
he0Inning TO realize the desperate work tfsy nave
done they already hedge the result seeking 10 Put
their boot Oh our leg II told you so! les, W.
have told them 80. and shall tell them So Ihose
laugh most who laugh last. The time VIII come
yyhen an outraged Democracy Will rise as one man
10 nut It's foot upon the fools and knaves VINO nave
tried 10 betrav IT, The great Democratic near OF
the Nation sti beats true to the credt OF the "a
tion ana the money OF the people. JaDberwockeIi
may well improve its little hour But II is doomed
bitter eXpiauon
Yet Colonel Watterson is contending daily that
Mr. Hardin should be elected Governor this fal
in spite Of his "Jabberwockery." because OF the
Saving grace" Of the local issues which Colonel
Long is charged with wishing TO rake the basis
OF a new "Ku-Klux' or bloody shirt campaign