Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-01
BATTLE IN OLD KENTUCKY.
u 's Red Hot and Getting Hotter.
Ever. Day,
alooDsnED IMMINENT AT TIMES,
both Parties Confident az Carrying
the State. nut The rrobabiii-
ties with The Democrats.

Lexington. KY. October 27.-chanees
that the speakers at today's republican
mass meeting at jackson would finish
their addresses In smoke were extremely
promiging FOR awhile. The special train
upon which Colonel Bradley, the rcpub-
lean candidate for governor. is making
flying canvass was headed for the
mountains up the Lexington and east
ern at o'clock this morning. After ad-
dressing numerous crowds at way sta
tions tho candidate and his party reached
Jackson at l o'clock. The court house
was packed from tho judges desk to the
doors, ana many members OF tho clootor-
ate periled the party majority by pillng
| themselves into the windowS All OF
Breathitt county had come down on horse
or mule back. Colonel Dradleys speech
was finished and Augustus Il. Wilson OF
Louisville. candidate for the United states
| senatorship, was eNpc-n1ing hard money
doctrine and repuhlcanism to the vast
satisfaction OF most Of those In the room.
Bruce Little, with a budding and care
| fully cherished reputation AS u bad man,
| objected sincerely and earnestly to Mr.,
| Wilson's propositions. "Nero's oui
| frlend" he shouted, raising al9ft Hnr-
din banner. "HurrNh for good old Watt
Hardin and free silver
"rhke 1t down." "Throw e out" arose
from many voices. but Little continued
his acclaim for Hardin and free silver.
Mason Cope, a tall. typical mountain
man and an ex-member OF the legislature,
| lowered above the crowd, and reaching
behind him with his right hand pointed
powerful and gnailed lott ut the Hnrdin
adherent and roared; "Bruce Little. II ycu
all don't pun down that banner III shoot
| II down" Little's friends--there were u
| few near hlm-rcached for their guns and
the audience almost instlnetlvcly began
| to crowd to other wall. II Us considarod
| etiquette and Is also safe 10 leave clear
| space between possible fighters.
| Wilson, the speaker, neatly termed tho
| drift Of the affair, and Lntle's friends
induced him 10 carry his banner out
other peaccmRkers getting Cope IN II cor
ner.
Breathitt county is known 90 local his
tory as "Bloody Breathltt." Naturally II
would be heavily populated were II not
| for the many feuds which Keep down the
adult population. There were few men
In todays crowd who were not heavily
| armed. The term Is used advissdly, Rs the
prevailing style OF weapon is Colts a.
which weighs about three pounds, In tho
last ten years more than lon men lave
been killed in Breathitt county us an In
| cdent TO political and other town meet
| ings.
It is difficult 10 presagc tho result OF
| tho campaign this year. over in Paris, In
| the county OF Bourbon. Csssius NJ, Clay,
Jr. declares that HIS vote shall not he
cast for Hardin. Mr.. Clay is II Mfc long
democrat. Down In Brownsville Rev p,
| Roundtroc has escaped from the repub-
lean coop, wherein he abode long and
happily. and. utterly reyudlating Bradley
| Is lifting his voice In gladstone shout for
| Hardin and true democracy. Rev. Mr..
Roundtree is a clergyman OF much roputc
| and Of wide influence In Edmondson coun-
| ~. These instances are but samples OF
| tho difficulties which besrt one In tho
attempt to decide in advance whether
| Kentucky is to be moved over Into the
| doubtful column. The man with n rNpu-
! tation to preserve will withhold his viows
| until subsequent TO the returns.
To properly forecast the result Of the
coming election one should be invested
with the ability TO prophecy. The ordinary
election figures gonuB is lost In amaze
| ment at tho mlN-up. All traditions or
Kentucky politics have been set at naught
| as being idle theories OF little worth.
Party organs have erased tho democratic
| candidates name from the list. and main
| tain in their columns that loathsome
| thing, n headloss ticket. Leaders OF de-
mocrary have repudinted Hardin MS one
| in whom there Is no party hope or pride.
| Yet Hardin goes on his bhtho way claim
| ing the election, and all else political on
top OF Kentucky earth. on tho othor
hand, Bradley is charged with the serious
| crime Of having voted at various times for
| negro men for Office in preference TO vet
Grams of both Federal and Southern armies
| who were tho black mems opponents. me
| colored baby Is hurled In the faces CT tho
| auditors at every mass meetin. The harm
| less and orc time pleasing pickanlnny is
| cost into the mir before the multitude as
| the thing exocrable and foarsome. The
| cry NEGRO domination" If used by alarm
ists and demagogues for much the same
purpose and to much the same effert AZ
tho old familiar 'bloody shirt mas peeh
at Northern political meetings,
Then there arc other thinsh tending TO
show that politics resemble life In their
| uncertainty. The personal element 10 en-
tcrlng into account. mlldly and hesitaunC-
| ly, It IA true. but not tho loss surely Tor
| that, Men arc beginning 70 mako up
their minds for themselves. The day may
come when the independent voter OF Ken
lucky will cut considerable figure Time
has been In this State when voters cast
virgin ballots, sheets unsnllied ny MARI
or scratch. They did this as under
former law they rode to the polls ana
voted before their neighbora, 30 that all
men might know their preferences. They
invariably preferred tho clear party pro-
ducton, II being a matter of tho blue
grass conscience to take their politics and
their whisky straight.
This year has witnessed strange things.
but perhaps the strangest is the spectacle
OF Inbred inherent deinocrncy-Southern
democracy ut that-with Its deep-rootsd
prciudices, renudatlng rs candidate and
declaring in favor OF the opposition. Dr.
O'Non. OF Lancaster. u one example. HIS
father voted tho democratic ticket when
Jackson was a yeariing. and tho doctor
himself polnts with saddened pride TO nm
unhroken list of unstratched democratic
tickets There will be a break In tho list.
for the Doctor has announced an inten-
ton OF voting for Bradley. the republican
candidate. He defends his detection with
thirty or moro reasons. any one of which
is sufficient.
Then there fs Cassius NJ. Clay, Jr.. OF
Paris. to whom reference has been made
heretofore. He was candidate In me
convention that nominated Hardin. Mr..
Clay is son of the late Brutus and
nephew of tho grand old war eagle oil
whitehall, Cassius Marcelus Clay. There
was never a Clay born whoss opinionn
did not represent more TO him than the
views OF any other man. Such being the
ofar t1,trttrV the aftttaff0n aver