Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-17
KENTUCKY'S FIGHT
It Promises to Be the Hottest Ever
Waged There.
TEE MONEY QUESTION THE ISSUE
CarIisIe's Friends Indignant at
BIackburn's Attack on Him.
THE SECRETARY'S SPEECHES

What promises to be one of the hottest
| political fights ever waged in Kentucky has
| now opened. The first gun has been fired
| by Senator Blackburn at Owensboro and
| the muzzle was directed toward Secretary
Carlisle, who has made himself obnoxious
| to his former friend in the political arena
| by adhering to President Clevelands pol
| icy the money question. Blackburn's
| denunciation of Carlisle in Owensboro' is
| the beginning of a warfare that will be
particularly exciting during the next ten
| days. when the Secretary will appear on
| the stump several occasions in Ken
| lucky and once in Tennessee.
| Secretary Carlisl. was with the President
during a large part of the time today, this
| being cabinet day. The Secretary is not
inclined to make reply to Blackburn's
attack at this time, but his friends believe
! that when he speaks at Covington on Mon
| day he will not forget to pay his respects
| to Mr. Blackburn and to treat him to as
| scathing a rebuke as that with which he
was accorded.
Cnrlisle's Friends Indignant.
| In connection with Mr. Blackburn's re-
| marks en- his former friend the latter's
| followers are thoroughly aroused and in
dignant. These gentlemen do not care to
| anticipate the Secretary in replying pub
| licly to the rebuke, which they regard as
| wholly urwarranted, but in private con-
versation they express their feelings free
| ly. One of these, prominent official of
| the Treasury Department and a lifelong
| friend of the Secretary, grew indignant
| when the matter was referred to today.
| Blackburn's Course In Bad Taste.
Senator Blackburn's course" he said, sis
| in very bad taste, and those of Mr.. Car
| lisl les friends who know the two men best
| believe that the Senator lost his head and
gave undcubted expression to his
| weakness by leaving the chief question of
the controversy by launching out in a per-
| so1al attack on the man whose arguments
| be feared he could not successfully answer
| before the voters of Kentucky.
Blackburn has sought to swim with the
pc pular tide in Kentucky by taking up the
Cause of free silver. He has by this time
Learn ed that the public sentiment in that
state is not all one way. by any MEANS and
! he has lest his head, and endeavored to do
| by personal abuse what he could not ac-
complish by arguments -
His First Election ns Senator,
1T would be well for Mr.. Blackburn to
remember that in 1885 his election to the
| Senate was the result of Mr.. Carlisle's
course in keeping out of the race. There
was deadlock in the legislature at Frank
fort. The fight was between John S. VIII
iams for reelection. and Blackburn who
was aspiring to senatorial honors. Black
burn entered the race with but twenty
votes, and all of Mr.. Carlisle's friends were
holding back, thinking that he would be
| induced to enter the race. Mr.. Carlisle was
then Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives and it was only when he positively
declined to allow his name to be used that
Blackburn marshaled enough votes to
come in winner. 1t was in Mr.. Carlisle's
power at any time to have relegated Black
burn to the background"
The opening of the senatorial fight in
Kentucky is far in advance of the final
battle which is to decide the question of
free silver, far as the views of the
Senator from that state are concerned
Senator Blackburn and Gov. Brown are the
only out-and-out free silver candidates
Gov. Brown has not increased his popu-
larity in the least during his term in the
gubernatorial office, and he has created
many enemies, SO that it is Lot generally be-
Eeved that he will be formidable antaso-
mist of Blackburn.
MIR. McCreary, after playing a promi-
nent part in national affairs in the House
of Representatives, especially the
champion of Pres dent Cieveland'S foreign
policy, has entered the contest as a half
way silver mana bimetallist who be-
lieves that silver can only be given the
place at which the extreme advocates of
the white metal aim through an interna-
tioral agreement.
This view, his friends assert, is entertain
ed, because, as chairman of the foreign
Creary has had the Importance of foreign
powers overestimated in his mind. But
Mr.. McCreary fails to satisfy either of the
extreme wings of the democratic party in
kentucky, and his only chance is as COM
promise candidate.
Gov. Buckner for Sound Money.
The great advocate of what is known as
Sound money or a gold-standard policy
ir Kentucky is ex-Gov. Buckner, and ten
days ago the ex-governor came out in a
card firmly indorsing the policy of Presi-
dent Cleveland on the money question, and
declaring that he only cared to go to the
Urited States Senate on a sound money
platform. The logic of the situation makes
eX-Gov. Buckner the only candidate that
can be supported by Secretary Carlisle, and
his friends believe confidently that the en-
tire strength of the administration will be
thrown to him.
Secretary Carlisle will leave Washington
tomorrow for Covington, where he viii de-
fire his views on the money question on
Monday night On Thursday he will speak
at Memphis, Tenn, on Saturday he will ad-
dress an audience at Bowling Green and on
the following Tuesday he will make his
last speech, according to his present ar
raneementS, at Louisville, Ky. While these
events in progress the opposing candi-
dates will be at work, and withal the next
ten days will be exceedingly eventful in
the blue grass state.
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