Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-05-26

Louisville. Ky, May 2s.--The polite
ians here today. of high and low de-
gree. discussed with more interest and
varying views than even the coming
of Secretary Carlisle. the new move-
rent started enly yesterday for the
ponement OF the Democratic state
70. ution from June 25. the date
n 70 the executive committee at its
me, v IN this city in February. to
the IN. # August. The avowNl pro-
genitoi = Ae movement are such dc.
termine, y resourceful leaders of
the emba, We e1ldbug hosts as Colonel
Bill Halde a, Colonel Dick Tate.
Colonel Jim Atherton and state Sem
ator Weislnger. With unusual frank
ness and bluntness they say that the
sole object Of the movement Is 10 give
time In which to wage "a campaign of
education" on the financial question,
and their admission that such course
is necessary seems to be, tantamoGat
to the acknowledgement of the defeat
OF their wing of the party. The vigor-
Gus and unmistakable action of tho
railroad commissions convention at
Owensboro last week has dispelled all
doubt as to the overwhelming strength
of the free silver sentiment In the Ken
lucky Democracy and the opposition
realizes that the only hope II has of
avertlng crushing defeat in the state
convention lies in the possibility of de-
lay In the assembling OF that body. II
isn't thought at all probable, however,
that the movement for postponement
will result in anything but talk and
much newspaper abuse and ridicule OF
the dominant element of the party.
Chairman Carroll, of the state eX-
ecutive committee, is one of the stout
est advocates OF the free and unlimited
coinage OF silver in the state, and 1t Is
believed that a large majority OF the
committee is in hearty sympathy with
him on this issue. As that committee
Is the only authority which could re-
set the date OF the convention, it seems
pretty safe to wager that the postpope-
ment will noi be made. In this con-
nection II is commented on as a sig
nifcant coincidence that the clamor for
n postponement of the convention was
started Just on the eve OF Secretary
Carlisle's appearance in the state in
the defense OF the Cleveland financial
pollcy, and II is thought by n good
many well-posted people that the plea
for delay emanated from high sources
at Washington, In the hope OF saving
the national administration the GEN.
sure and rebuke which present condi-
lions seem to indicate that the Ken
tueky Democracy Will administer to 1t.
Frankfort. KY, May 23.-In nowhere
| in Kentucky is MIR. Carlisle's aYowed
determination TO convass the state
and stand up against the free silver
sentiment more deprecated than by his
| friends at Frankfort. The secretary
has hosts Of party and social friends
| here who declare that such action on
| his part will be political suicide.
In this connection a story IL told
| here OF how, when ne was candidate
| for the unexpired term of the lamented
| senator Beck, he found Il necessary TO
| write q letter to a young member OF
| the house reiterating the silver senu-
| ments so eloquently expressed in that
| now famous speech OF 1878 before MS
| election was assured. This letter 1t Ii
| said, is still in the hands Of the gentle
man TO whom 1t was addressed and
who used 1t then TO good purpose Tor
| MIR. Carlisle by reading 1t privately 10
| a number of members who were
| dubious or mislnformed as TO his at
| titude toward the currency. The gem
| tleman is now a candidate Tor me
/ next legislature, and 1t Is stated that
| IL Mr.. Carlisle gives utteraace 10 a
single word in any of his speeches IN
this state the least bit at variance
| with the coinage Views contained In
the letter written nearly ten years ago
| when he needed to define his position
| specifically on the monetary question
| IN order to have fitted to his shoulders
the mantle torn by ruthless death from
the big-brained Beck. the letter WIZ
be given to the press without phrase
| or SYLLABLE of 1t altered, and VIII De
used 10 annoy and embarrass the sec
rotary Of the treasury whenever nc
again seeks public favor;
tThe whole story of the letter-writ-
ing incident is that when the Lindsay
| and McCreary force had raised a cloud
OF dust which made the sky look squat
ly for Mr. Carlisle sudge 'eh te,
C'Hara, Hon. w. w. Cleary and othel
llfe-long friends and professional as
| sociates OF Carlisle rushed down here
from Coyington, and discovering the
danger that he was in because OF the
misinformation in legislative circlei
concerning his coinage views, inducee
/ him to compose this letter, whlch NJ
Ala ryil,inYly and with directnesi
and Iucldlty of expression which nave
heretofore characterized all his utter
nnces. public and private, on every
theme he has been called upon TO dis
cuss. -.
II is said by those who know. him
and his methods best that the ietts
IL SO pointed and explicit in adVocac!
~ The rights of both gold and silvel
as the money OF the constitution at IN
ratio OF l6 TO | that by the use OF IL
ambiguous phraseology or tricks
syntax can the secretary OF the treas
,lry show that he was not pusltinel!
Committed 10 this form of bimetallisn
at the time the letter was written
even though he has been able TO par
italy explain away the terrific assam
he made on gold monometallism on IN
floor OF the house at washington !
isTs when he declared in effect tina
the act OF demonstration OF lS.s wa
taught with, more harm to the huma
race than the miseries Of all the war
and famines and pestilences OF moder
times piled up together. II is predicte
that when this letter Is given TO IN
press its publication VIII create IN
greatest sensation or the oahlpaish-