Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-11-16
What Colonel Gains Says of the Election in
 Kentucky.
FREE SILVER THE CAUSE
He Says if They Had Omitted the Silver Issue From Their Speeches Blackburn Would
 Have Been Elected.

CmCAGc, Nov. S-The Daily News
 Washington special says Secretary Car
 lisle returned from Kentucky yeeterday
 morning. He promptly gave orders tc his acting secretary to inform newspa,
 per correspondents that he declined tc be interviewed on the result in Ken lucy. MT. Carlisle believes the result carries political moral with it.
 Colonel Sam Gains, chief of mails in the treasury department, who went home to vote and returned with the sec- retary, said:
 ''I was clerk of the court of appeals of Kentucky for many years and Colonel Bradley practiced before the court. His ability and popularity has not been over- estimated. But with these points in hls favor. he would have been 30.0OO votes short on election had Hardin and Black burn not sought to override the express ed will of the democratic party. KeD- lucky democrats were with Secretary Carlisle in his opposition to free silver and made the,r position clear In the platform and when Hardin and Black burn went out into the campaign and deliberately led the revolt against the party platform they met the defeat they deserved. Prominent democrats told me they had to get rid of Blackburn and Hardin and these two irritating features were promptly brushed aslde by democratic votes. If Hardin and Blackburn had acquiesed in the plat- form and simply omitted the silver issue from their speeches, both would have been elected"
 BLACKBURN's PROSPECTS GLOOMY.
 LoUI-vILLE, Ky, Nov S-Returns SO far in give Bradley plurality of ove. l5,O00. The result of the legislature IS doubtful and the chances are in favor of the republicans on joint ballot. The pr spects of Blackburn's return to the senate do not look very good at pres ent.
 CINCINNATI, O., Nov. S-A special to the Times Star fir n Lexington. Ky, saye: Gen. Hardin, the defeated demo cratic cBodidate for governor, left his home in Harrodsburg this morning for Louisville. where he will go into the practice of law.
 LEXINGTON, Ky, Nov. S-The Leader, the leading republican newspaper Tn Kentucky, always a stauEch supporter of Governor Mckinley for the preei- dency, declares for Mckinley for presi deht, and Governor elect Bradley for vice president. It says:
 The overwhelming victory in Ohio under the leadership of Mckinley, For aker ard Bushnell gives a new impetus to the candidacy Of Mckinley and Brad ley. Mckinley is the embodiment of the protective tariff and Bradley's election is triumph for sound money" . ALABAMA sILvERITEs.
 BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. S-A confer ence will be held here tomorrow night between Senators Morgan and Pugh and the free silverities of the Alabama congressional delegation to determine whether or not they will continue the prosecution of the free silver campaign insngurated inside of the democratic party ID this state. Leading democrats are seriously considering the sdvisabili ty ot stopping discussion inside of the party of the currency and turning thelr attention to re-unitIDiug the democratic party for the coming contest. It is feared further agitation inside of the party might bring on pronounced split and loss of the state.
 A PHILADELPHIAN FOR SENATOR.
 PHILADELPHIA, Nov. S-FrsDk Willing Leahh has declared for Philadelphian for senator to succeed Senator Cameron. Ow ng to his closeness to Senator Quay his declaration is regarded as significant. It may mean that Pennsylvania's silver senator will have to fight hard to return to Washington. Leach said:
 "I have nc personal choice, brt any one of the following will bring credit to the office, the city and the partp: John Wannamaker, George s. Graham, John Russell Young, Boies Penrose, or Chas c. Harrison.