New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-10
their Assembly Convention in Hampstead Yesterday
and nominated Morton Cromwell OF Glen Cove
WILL NOT VOTE FOR HARDIN
ANOTHER LEADING KENTUCKY DEMO
Graf JOINS THE BOILERS

r.yTTLEroN COOKE. or LOUISVILLE GIVES HIS
REASONS FOR DECLINING TO HELP THE
FREE-sILvER CAUSE AND CANDIDATE.
IpY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRrBuHE.l
Louisville. Ky. Oct 9.-Lytteton Cooke. a
prominent Democratic lawyer of this city. and
leading counsel here for the Louisville and Nash
Vile Railroad Company. is the latest notable re-
crut IN the ranks Of the anti Hardin boilers. In
a terse and forcible statement published In The
Post" this afternoon Mr. Cooke. following the ex-
annie of John NJ Atherton and Boyd Winchester
announces mis- intention TO oppose the election OF
T. Wat Hardin the Blackburn flee silver coin
age candidate for Governor His reasons for re-
pudating the nominee Of the Louisville Conven-
ton are brief and 10 the point, and deserve the
careful study Of those 'sound-money Cuckoos
who. like Senator Lindsay. are now trying to
eliminate the financial question from this cam
paisn. and are stultifying themselves by openly
encouraging the rehabilitation Of free coinage as
an issue in National politics through the triumph
of Hardin and Blackburn" Mr. Cooke says IN
his interview:
The election of Mr. Hardin Governor would
craze' throughout the country especially in Ken
lucky and the States south and west o, US, TO
such an tent as TO carry that question: aCeINey
and aggressivey into the next National DenQcra'ic
Convention by the election or a large huHlDeI vi
propagandists OF that heresy as delegates 10 sid
convention, and may probably prng ABOUT tne
same result there which the slavery issue did IN
the Charleston Convention OF 1860. NOW, surely.
there can scarcely be any Democrat, or so-called
Democrat. in Kentucky or in any OF the SoutnsTn
States, silly not to prefer the election o.
Republican Governor to the election OF ke-
publican President of the United states.
Believing as do that the defeat OF Mr. Hardin
will effectually squelch the champions OF the ree
silver craze In Kentucky and the States south OF
u.s. and that his election will mean the continuanee
OF the dsin migrating strife now going on among
Democrats in respect to that question, nave no
hesitancy In declining to vote for Mr. Hardln WIN
out taking into consideration ms oad idllh III
repudiating the party platform, and the raise pre-
fences put forth In his interview or June o. py
which he secured the nomination. Having oeeh
entity voted with the Democratic party 10Y IortE
years more not now vikings to desert that
party, or to be dragged. bullied or persuaueo ny! nv
voting against it's fundamental tenets by casting
my vote for any such advocate OF false doctrine
heresy and schism' 7. Wat Hardin has Demon
strated himself to be.
No explanation has yet been given OF the nom
appearance here Of Colonel W. c. p. Breckenridge
who according to the programme arranged some
time ago by the Democratic City Committee, was
TO inject little moral enthusiasm into the mar
din canvass by addressing q local Democratic
mass-meeting some night this week. The mass
meeting has quietly been called Off" and no at
tempt will be made to renew the appointment
So much criticism was aroused by the CITY com
mittee's obvious bunder In seeking TO revive loca
memories of the Pollard scandal that the invita-
ton to speak sent to Colonel Breckenridge was ap-
parently hastily withdrawn. The Colonel mas Re,
Gently been sufusing his fragrance ora torical ana
moral in CovingtOn and other less censorious CEN
tres but il is probable that he Will be obliged to
insplre and elevate Kentucky justice for year or
two longer from the opprobrium. public and pri-
vate which still overwhems him here