Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-27
CARLISLE'S PROGRAM
Will he Go to the Support Of Gen.
Hardin2
BIS PLATFORM is REPUDIATED
Hardin Will Work the Rural Dis
tricts Against the Cities.
FORMER EPIS ODE

Secretary Carlisle is expected back to-
night and will probably be prepared to an
nounce his program with regard to the
Kentucky campaign. VIII he go to the
support of Gen. Hardin now? Can he do SO
in the altered circumstances of the past
ten days? In that time Gen. Hardin has
repudiated the platform dictated by Mr..
Carlisle at the Louisville convention, and
in turn has himself been repudiated by the
two leading democratic newspapers of the
state. The Louisville Courier-Journa and
the Louisville Post have withdrawn their
support from his candidacy. Both indorse
the Carlisle financial policy. Will the Sec
retary ally himself with them and let Gen.
Hardin slide?
The Situation Embarrassing.
The question is important. the situation
embarrassing all round. Mr.. Carlisle's
voice is a mighty one at home. The man
for whom he lifts it always gets votes in
return. But how can he lift 1t for Gen.
Hardin? How can he take the stump for a
candidate who refuses to accept the Carlisle
Interpretation Of the Carlisle platform
And should he fail to take the stump, what
would that action cost the democratic
ticket?
Other people may despair, but Gen. Hardin
Blackburn agrees with him in terms of
emphasis that do not often get into cold
type. Their reliance Is believed to be on
the personal popularity CT the candidate,
and the way in which il will be possible to
present the question in the rural districts
The democracy is strongest in localities re-
mote from the railroad and telegraph lines,
and there Gen. Hardin will be made to ap-
pear as the victim OF an assault by city
bankers and merchants. The country pes
pie will be told that he is being attacked
for refusing to abandon mis- convictions,
and that they should rally all the more en-
Enthusiastically to him because of the fact
that those convictions are decided by the
town people as the creations of the country.
A Former Episode.
And not unlikely, 1t is thought General
Hardin is recalling an episode in Kentucky
politics which occurred only about twelve
years ago. when the state democratic COM
mittee undertook to discipline candidate
for an important state Office and got the
worst of it. A roisterfng fellow, but per-
sonally very popular. had secured the nom
inaticn for clerk of the court of appeals
The office being one Of the most lucrative
in the state, the nominee was sin a state
of eXhilaration, and in a few days ap-
peared In Louisville to celebrate his sue
cess. He proceeded to do this In a most
unseemly way, and great scandal re-
to take the man off the ticket. 1t held
meeting with that end in view. The dis
cussion was most animated. Some of the
members of the committee went so far as
to offer the place to one of the nominees
unsuccessful competitors before the con-
vention. But in the end it was decided that
the committee could not displace the NOM
inee, and the canvass proceeded with the
mans name at the head Of the ticket. He
was elected by nearly forty thousand ma
jority over his republican opponent, who
was a man of refinement and the highest
capacity. The democratic candidate ef-
fected this simply by going among his
friends in the country-he was from one of
the back counties himself-and telling them
that the rackets had been gotten up by
dudish set in Louisville unable to appre-
ciate the solid and other comforts of
plain mans simple celebration. That set
lied ii. The country came to the polls
irresistibly strong, and Louisville and her
dudish set were roundly rebuked.
There is Difference.
There Is as much difference between the
two situations as between the two men.
General Hardin Is a man of fine personal
bearing, and he is arraigned on question
of principle. But the episode quoted shows
how successfully the country can be played
against the town in Kentucky, and If
by a free-handed fellow under a moral
cloud, why not by gentleman of dignity
and the best connections on an issue en-
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