New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-07
TO TIE RESCUE or KENTUCKY

The spectaclc Of William C.. L. Breckenridge
suddenly bulcing into the Kentucky hurly-bury
is calculated to arrest the attention and engage
the thought of the American people. Accustomed
though they be TO the grotcsque. the startling
and the gaudy-educated to PETER, Injured to Bow
Ter and capable Of contemplating Assistant Secre-
tory Curtis with equanimty-they must neces-
sarilv experience a sensation at this spectacle OF
Colonel Breckenridge emerging from his retire
ment for the purpose, as he declares, OF saving
the Kentucky Democracy from destruction HOW
can they help it, when they remember that only
n few months ago Colonel Breckenridge vanished
from the public gaze on that identical prcteXt!
Undoubtedly the Democracy Of Kentucky Is in
desperate straits. There, as In Ncw-York and
Maryland. the apostles Of conservation nave
brought the tough old party to the verge of the
ABYSS There the sound money men. headed by
that distinguished convert 10y appointment, John
c. Carlisle have pressed the stalwarts hard.
There the bland McCreery. reeking with junction.
and raining large. wet smiles on all, has dogged
the steps Of bluff Joe" Blackburn with dagger
in his cloak. There. more even than in NeW-Norh
or Maryland. the Cuckoo has accomplished his
appointed work Of discorl. Instead OF being ar
rayed against the Republican party on the Old,
familiar and ever potent shotgun line. the be
mOcracy Is divided against itself. Instead OF
opening the season with a grand battue OF scala
wags" and 'niggers," the Democrats are now
cunning for each other, and the far-famed marks
manship which once could be relied upon to keep
the majority intact bids fair TO find employment
In the interest of good government and progress
i've civilization. If there ever was situation
demanding he exercise Of such force as C0oncl
Rrecknridge that situation Is 10 be found IN
Kentucky at this moment. 1t calls for just such
eloouence as his. for the peculiar style Of virtue
OF which he is the inventor and patentee, for that
sunrcmc responsiveness wherewth he has cx-
allied and embcllishcd at least two generations.
We observe that some OF the Kentucky papers
| are wncing under the prospect of recrudcscence
| If Breckinridge Either they do not want the
Democratic party to be saved at ALL or they think
the price Of salvation in this case comes too
high Then, again, nobody seems to know Just
what Colonel Breckenridge proposes TO do
whether he proposes TO save the party on the
! Cleveland Carlisle plan or on the Blackburn
Hardin plan. The only thing of which they are
certain is that their wretched chickering's and AMI
mosities have entailed upon them the resurrec
| ton Of memory they thought they had laid for'
| ever and the rehabilitation of smell from the
asphyxiating effects Of which they have scarcely
even now recovered We do not wonder that theJ
vince The outlook is enough to make a Duzzard
vince There may be for Republicans and FOL
decent people generally species of grim amlSe
mcnt in this sudden apparition of Colonel Breck
| inrdge, emerging from the garbage dump oi
Democratic politics and rushing forward to res
cue the party Of Grover Cleveland and Gene
Higgins from destruction and disgrace. But il
seems TO us that any Democrat with stomach
capable Of baking at carrion must feel himself
turning white and sick. and wish that the whole
caboodle would gallop 10 the demnition bowwoW'
! and be done with 1t.