The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-06-28
:. JUNE 2S. 1895
PROVO CITY.
In KENTUCKY.

All is not lost save honor In Ken
lucky. The simple fact is there is
nothing whatever lost. The gold bug
administration which packed the con-
venUion as much as it could be packed,
got away, for the nOnce, with the free
coinage men, but they have blessed
little to crow over as the whole mat
ter now stands. This thing was just
little too develish tyrannical and the
peoDle in Kentucky do not greatly relish
the interference of the federal influence
in ceir local politics, and there is to
b. speedy settlement. When set
tie leLt does come it will be found that
tb rebound will weaken the cause of
goldbugs far more than the pres
of the administration at Louisville
weakened the silver men. The men
OF Kent v are not slaves by any
means. " do not relish that even
the resident joined their "favorite
son' il the local raid against silver.
They are Amy and Wednesdays work
will be paid Tor in the next campaign
with ugUroUs interest. This bit of
governmental dragoonery will recoil
upon administration shoulders with
fearful force. 1t is by no means GER
tain that the knightly Blackburn will
not be elected to the senate over
Clay, when the Kentucky legislature
meets this winter. All this arrange
ment was by mutual consent, but that
consent carried with it the promise of
fair dealing and it did not presuppose
the presence or Mr.. Carlisle Ur the en-
tire administration in the local con-
vention of the party in the states This
is a new thing in American politics
and it will not be either relished or
tolerated. There is only one form
resentment can take and that is re-
venge in kind. Indeed We would not
be very much surprised if another
convention were called this summer
and new deal taken, which would
bar out Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Car
hsle and their forces entirely. This
should be done and if it were, the in
significance of their minority in Ken
lucky would become perfectly appar-
ent.
This Kentucky affair shows up the
aoro,n,svratiOn in a very undignltied
light, to be sure. Imagine Mr.. Jeffer-
son, Gen. Jackson, or any former
democratic president sending his sec
retary Of the TREASURY to any state to
force by personal appeals vindiction
of the national policy, especially upon
a matter of policy which is not only
not democratic, but which is dlstinc-
lively republican. Not only are the
people of Kentucky angry, but the
briefest lapse of time will show that
the democrats of all the other states,
not gold ridden, will be angry also, and
they will support any policy which will
be likely to administer fitting rebuke.
Mr.. Cleveland personally will prob
ably smile at the measure of success
his dragooning tactics met with, but
as long as he lives will Mr.. Carlisle
shed bitter teaIs Of repentance. This
policy was adopted only in the inter
ests of the gold bugs. 1t is scarce
three years since this same Carlisle
was himself most outspoken and pro-
nounced advocate of silver.
The people will want to know Lot
only why he changed completely, but
why the natural shame man should
feel upon turning traitor did not oper-
ate to keep him from coming bac K to
Kentucky to exhibit his slave livery on
his own hearthstone. There is rough
sailing ahead for Carlisle in Kentucky
and the problem now is how to shove
him outside of the party lines so that
the loss will prove the lightest possible. |
Instances Of this sort of trIckery are |
few in democratic history SO far. thank
Godl Its lesson will be driven home. |
never fear, The Kentuckians will
never forget nor forgive, and it is now
written John g. Calisle, deceased.
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