New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-01
CANNOT VOTE FOR HARDIN.
BOYD WINCHESTER WILL NOT SUPPORT
THE FREE SILVER CANDIDATE.
uE CHARGES THE DEMOCRATIC STANDARD BEAR
Err IN KENTUCKY WITH FAITHLEssNEss
AND INSTRUMENTATION -REsURREcT-
ING DRECKINRIDGE.
ING BRECKINRIDGE.


ING BRECKINRIDGE.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO TRIBuNE.)
Louisville. Sept 3O.-Boyd Winchester OF ths
city. United States Minister to Switzerland un-
der the first Cleveland Administration. Is the
latest Democrat OF prominence to Withdraw MS
support from =. Wat Hardin. the free silver coin
age candidate for Governor OF this state Mr.
Winchester Is an Representative In Congress-
as well as an ex-foreign Minister. and has long
had an important voice in the councils or the
Democratic party In Kentucky. He publishes this
afternoon in The Post" the anti-Hardn Demo
cratic newspaper here, four-column attack on
the nominee OF the Louisville convention charging
him with faithlessness to party principles and In
subordination to legitimate party authority. Mr.
Winchester declares that the State Central Com
mittee should have removed Hardin from the
ticket after his defiant speech OF August ~, ana
announces that ne will do all he can to see the
party's refractory standard-bearer disciplined at
the polls in November. The letter Is spirited ana
dashing IN style and abounds in poetica quota
tion's and classical phrases and illusions, MI.
Winchester's pen having lost apparently none Of
the charm which so picturesquely Illuminated
some Of his earlier reports as Consul-General to
the state Department.
Much dissatisfaction is being expressed by To-
cal Democrats with the action of the Louisville
civ Committee in inviting Colonel w. c. +.
Rreclinridge TO make an address here early In
October in support of Mr.. Hardin's candidacy.
Since the ill-timed and disappointing appearance
of Mr. Hardin In joint debate with Colonel Brad
lev at the Auditorium over month ago, no
Democrat Of prominence has ventured to say a
word to the voters here in the free coinage candi
dates behalf Mr. Breckenridge has been invited
f. break the ice again. presumably because OF his
wcll-kuown eagerncss 10 force himself before
the public on any and every possible pretext
He will undoubtedly accept the committees IN
vitation Like every other Kentuckian whose
public service dates back beyond the hrst CleVe-
land Administration, Colonel Breckenridge was
converted to sound money" at the extra session
of Congress in 1S93 and is probably now to be
counted as an adherent Of Mr.. Cleveland's ana
Mr. Carsles sound-money wing OF the party
He Is willing however, to devote his talents 10
Mr. Hardin's falling cause, in the nope, Incl
dentally. OF recovering something or MS lost
standing with the regular Democratic organl-
Zation in the State Whether successful or not
in his larger ambition, the Colonel Is already
making arrangements to inflict his candidacy Ior
Congress again next fall on the people or the
Ashland Distric.
Any recognition of Colonel Breckenridge by the
local Democratic managers is, OF course, depre-
Gated on the ground that his appearance mere
will iniure the State ticket. 1t Is doubtful. now
ever whether Hardin's chances in this city can
he depressed even by the Coloners enthusiastic
and vociferous Endorsement Of his candidacy.