Evening star., 1895-06-05
Difficulties That Are in the Way Of
Kentucky Democrats.
CAN THEY MDORSE ADMINISTRATION?
The Trouble is Over the Financial
Policy.
ISLE'S SITION

The latest complication to disturb the
Kentucky democracy relates to the form
the Endorsement of the rational admins
tration by the coming state convention
shall take. Some such. action will be in
order, and will, of course, he proposed.
And lot only will it be in order, but the
proposition will be reinforced by the fact
that the Kentucky democracy itself fur
nishes If the most eminent members
of the administration. Shall the Secretary
of the Treasury be without honor in a
democratic convention in his own state?
Silver is, of course, the difficulty to be
overcome The administration, on other
grounds, stands well enough with the
democrats of tie blue grass country. No
severe criticism has been hearc; there of
it's foreign policy, end the part played by
the President in the revision of the tariff
while it aroused no enthusiasm. provoked
no open hostility. But the administrators S
attitude or the money question is boldly
challenged and the feeling is very high
How will it be possible to indorse the ad-
ministration in party? And what an af-
front that would be that would eliminate
from any Endorsement the very part of the
administrators policy with which Mr.
CarliSle'S + anne is SO authoritatively and
ccEspicuously associated! Genera1ities will
be meaningless, because 1t is universally
confessed that the whole contest is over
fl coinage.
Dangers in the Path.
This is but another phase of the situa-
ton going to show how beset the present
path of the Kentucky democracy is. In
front and rear, ON one side as on the other,
danger turks and threatens. A truce of
some kind would be wise and welcome, but
nobody seems to be in position to carry
white iag. Mr.. Blackburn, for the free
coinage cause and for himself, has staked
everything on silver. If silver triumphs in
convention and at the polls his return to
the Senate. his friends assert, will be guar
anteed. If silver loses; if a compromise is
forced in convention, or legislature chosen
without a clear free, coinage majority, Mr..
Blackburn, it is conceded. will be done for.
Either the republicans will control things
outright, or the democracy, holding on by
virtue of compromise, will dictate the cleo
tion of a compromise Senator.
The sound money democrats are quite as
implacable. It is everything or nothing
threat has been made that the nomination
of straightout free coinage democrat on
a straightout free coinage platform would
cost the ticket 10000 votes. That would
give the state to the republicans by large
majority, and it might carry the legislature
with it.
How then shall this difficulty be met? 1t
Is recognized full of peril. The whole
fight. indeed. may be precipitated by. and
come to hinge on. this very proposition TO
accord to the administration the usual
courtesy Of al Endorsement. The conven-
ton will be large, the excitement intense,
fluent speakers N abundance and the party
for the first time in a quarter of century
divided some other proposition than the
distribution OF offices. Who shall say what,
in such circumstances and in such COM
pany, may take place? An extreme or ILL.,
advised word a resolution offered without
consultation, might cause a hubbub that
would develop into split and a bolt.
Carlisle VIII Return.
Mr.. Carlisle will soon return to the state
to make the speech he was obliged to post
pone account of Secretary Gresham's
death, and he may be persuaded to make
other speeches. The sound money men are
leaning heavily on him, and assure him
that much good has resulted from the
short tour he has already made. He has
been warmly assailed by the free coinage
men, and will probably continue to be the
target for the sharpest of their shafts till
the end Still, as he is so prominently
identified with this new and somewhat per-
sonal phase of the question, his friends
think that he owes it no less to himself
than to them to use his utmost influence
to encompass the proper treatment OF the
administration in the conventions formal
platform deliverance.