The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-04-01
a CHALLENGE TO CARLISLE.
Ex-Governor Proctor Knott DeGes
Him to Contest kentucLN.


Several weeks ago Ex-Governor Proctor
Knott, of Kentucky, wrote a private letter
TO Senator Blackburn concerning the
currency question, then being cOnsid-
cred by the senate. The letter was
not intended FOR publication, but Senator
blackburn, being impressed with the force
of Governor Knots arguments gave il
20 the press. Among other features of
the letter was the following paragraph
written in Governor Knots characters
tic style:
Il 10 not know when my democracy has
been more completely outraged than by
the last lnso.cnt demand OF the gOlQiteS
that the government shall issue 500 0O0, 900
in gold bonds and retire the treasury note
circulation with the proceeds. They don't
seem TO want to leave US even a hereafter.
You know, as everybody else must who
has half as much sense as a sucking
guinea pig, that whenever this govern
myuI agrees 10 pay that amount, or
1.-THE OF il, i'm gold, silver is doomed SO far
as we are concerned, TO all eternity. AS
old Judge Forbish said TO Johnnie Moore il
had Jest as well say gOodby world and
howdy HE'LL Great Godi How rapidly this
long suffering people are being driven to
the dreadful alternative of slavery or in
ternecine strife-tO determine whether they
will tamely hold ont their hands and have
the shackles of a remorseless plutocracy
rivetod upon their wrists or fight. Now.
mark what / say: If the ineXorablc
law Of cause and effect has not been OK
plunged from the statute book of the Al
mighty. unless a halt is called y. q. a. you
may expect 10 see the horrors OF the french
revolution put on the American stage with
all the modern improvements. and that
within the next decade
The publication of this letter immediate
" raised "A great howl among the office
holders and tho patronage press Of Ken
lucky Secretary Carlisle also announced
that if il became necessary he proposed to
go to Kentucky 10 defend the attitude Of
the administration on the currency ques-
ton.
In a long letter to The Louisville Courier
Journal Ex-Governor Knott writing from
his home ia Danville. Ky, discusses the
currency question in a most interesting
manner and defends every line of his let
ter To Senator Blackburn.
BY way of reference TO the criticism OF
the patronage press and the cuckoos, the
governor issues the following highly inter
esting challenge to Secretary Carlisle, who
it viii be seen is not having smooth sailing
IL his own state.
Governor Knott says;
- shall be more than compensated for
al the uufriendly criticism il has brought
upon me ii il should turn out to be true,
as stated By the Washington correspondent
Of The Courier-JOurnal, That u has provoked
a determination in our distinguished sec
rotary Of the treasury TO stump the state
I'm defense of the financial policy of the
administration for IT there is anything
IN the history Of the human family since the
fan of the primeval pair which stands
more in need Of defense have never neafd
OF il.
THAT eminent financier seems, however,
10 be labOring under misapprehension
which il is perhaps, my duty TO correct
IL the correspondent to whom / have just
referred has represented him truly, he
regards my letter as a direct attack upon
himself bv those Kentucky democrats
who 10 not favor his financial views If
he insists on considering it in the light Of
an attack 1 beg TO assure him that
am in this instance the sole attacklng
marty While I am thoroughly satisfied
mat an overwhelming majority of the
democrats of kentucky, who so long de-
Ighted TO do him horror, differ from his
recent financial Yiews'-as l DO myself
ali ovo usoue ad mala-not another soul on
earth knew OF, or is in any wise response
he for a syllable L wrote. / wish TO say
moreover that if things have come TO the
mass that a private citizen can not
mess an opinion different from that of
FEDERAL official. however eminent he may
he without being held amenable tC IL
.shargts of attacking that functionGrv.
I wish to plead guilty now. / have at
hacked the honorable secretary repeat,
edIv and expect to do so again whenever
and wherever my duty may require it,
for I do dissent from his recent financial
views absolutely and unqualifiedly, and
expect to do so until am convinced that