The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-24
The Secretary VIII Take Part I'm the
Kentucky Campaign and Espousc
the Cause of Sound Money.
LIVELY FIGHT PROMISED
FREE SILVER SENTIMENT IN THE
STATE GREATLY OVEREsTIMATED.
Resolutions Adopted by Woodford
County Republicans in Favor of
the Single Gold Standard.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April 23.-The political
situation in Kentucky becomes interesting.
Senator Blackburn has at last given voice
to his secret fears of Secretary Carlisles
possible opposition to his reelection to the
Senate and has forced the issue by his re-
cent interview, practically challenging the
Secretary to fight out the financial battle
before the people of Kentucky. 1t can be
definitely stated that Mr.. Carlisle will take
up the glove. He viii take no part in the
campaign for the delegates to the State
convention which meets next June to NOM
mate officers for the State ticket, but he
will enter heartily into the campaign, and
if Mr.. Blackburn insists on dragging the
natorial succession into the battle, Mr..
Carlisle will not fail to meet him. Private
advices received by Mr.. Carlisle's friends
from all over the State show that the
roseate reports of the complete mastery of
free silver over the Demoe attic party in
the home State of the Secretary of the
Treasury are overdrawn. Mr.. Carlisles
friends do not hesitate to claim that the
State convention which nominates the Of
ficers will not only fail to adopt free
silver plank in it's platform, as is confidently
asserted by Senator Blackburn, but will
actually indorse the administration and re-
affirm the financial plank of the Chicago
platform of 1892. The free-silver sentiment
of Kentucky has been greatly overesti-
mated. Every daily newspaper in Ken
lucky of importance, with one exception,
beginning with the Louisville Courier
Journal, is against free silver. The one
exception is the paper printed at Covington,
whose editor has always been an opponent
of Mr.. Carlisle, and who favors free silver
because the Secretary opposes it. The senti-
ment in all the towns is for sound money.
The State convention win be held i'll the
latter part of June, when the farmers will
be busy in the fields and when, conse-
quently, many of the rural delegates
among whom the free silver sentiment is
strongest, will be unable to attend. City
tions by private business. 1t is true that
the Democratic candidate for Governor will
be claimed by the silver element as
fact that there are only two candidates
for the office, both of whom are silver men.
Hn9 4ardin pi m them, am Mat
cate. The other, Cassius NJ Clay, jr., is
friendly to silver, but holds that the silver
local campaign. But % no mater : whether Rereeg
Mr.. Hardin is nominated Mr.. Clay. the
candidate for the governorship will have to
run on the Chicago platform plank. 1t is
in the adoption of this plank that Mr.. Car
isles friends see the only hope of electing
publican success this fall they concede to
be dangerously. great. The Republican party
is united as it never was before and
sanguine of victory, both because of the
dissensions within the Democratic party
and because of the enthusiasm engendered
out of its great victories in the last con-
gressional campaign when it increased
its proportion in the delegation from one
lonely Republican out of eleven members
to i've. The Republican candidate for Gov
ernor will be Hon William o. Bradley, the
well-known member Of the national COM
his State; so popular, indeed, that when
running against Governor Buckner eight
years ago, he cut down the normal Demo-
cratic majority from some twenty thou
llcans are unanimous for sound money and
therein Mr.. Carlisle and his friends see
the greatest danger to Democratic SUI
premacy in the fall carapaign.
Mr. Carlisle will take an active part in
the campaign. Instead of making only one
seta as may d be ee with Af ths as pemo nmy
cratic Secretary of the Treasury and the
Republican candidate for Governor making
sound money speeches. while the senior
Democratic candidate for Governor, are
making free-silver speeches; with ex-Gov-
ernor McCreary, who is a candidate for
Mr.. BlackburnS seat, making noncom-
initial Chicago platform speeches; with the
aged Ex-Governor Buckner now in his
the Senate. making speeches on his past
record and finally with ex-Representatfve
Brecl1inridge, another candidate. making
no illusions TO past records. but intent only
on defeating every friend of Senator Black
burn for purely personal reasons, the COM
ing campaign in KENTUCKY promises to be
second to none in general earnestness and
interest.