Evening star., 1896-10-31
CALLS BLACKBURN A LIAR.
The COurier-JOurnal Also Says He's a
Blackguard.

The COurier-JOurnal Also Says He's a
Blackguard.
From the New York Sun, today.
LOUISVILLE, October 3O.-The Courier
Journal this morning broke it's long silence
concerning Senator Blackburn with an edi-
torial article which has caused sensation
in Kentucky as great as when it took its
stand against the Chicago ticket. 1t pub
liShed the following article under the cap
i.tiOn "A Blackguard and LIAR
I'VE must ask our readers indulgence If.
for once, we use words of more bluntness
than should be necessary in civilized So
ciety. Either such words must be en-
ployed in speaking of J. c. S. Blackburns s
performance last evening or 1t must be
ignored entirely. This man, who has done
SO much to degrade his state, this bankrupt
In politics, in decency and truth, trod the
boards of MacAuley's last night to answer
Carlisle. He answered Carlisle by pro-
claiming with the swagger of a prize fight
er that I will pledge and pawn a month S
salary for every hour Carlisle will stand
up before me-
He answered Carlisle with a TRADE in
which he pronounced only seventeen times
the word Cod including the name of
Gcd,' the living God,' and so help me
Cod though the words Wall street and
ShylockS and money changers and
thleVes were almost many; while the
times he denounced the lying Courier
Journal as bought and debauched' the
hireling press the prostituted press etc.
baff1ed enumeration
ne answered Carlisle by calling him a
liar, an apostate, an incompetent a coward
traitor and a hireling of Wall street He
answered Carlisle by saying that if Carlisle
told the truth about the silver dollar he
ought to be in the penitentiary, He an
s"ered Carlisle by constitutional argu
zen, regarding the Supreme Court, which
ne ne cilnched py declaring he knew that JUS
t1ce Shiras of that body was a dishonest
scoundrel, because, The Lord had i'm.
pLahteo upon every lineament of his face
1.-The, word thief ' i"1e
He answered Carlisle by s,,,h ,..,,
ing 3afsehocds as the statement between
the years 1902 and 1873, when we coined a
llttie over eight million dollars in silver
Nc uiu not coin a single dollar in gold.
tounolng displays of ignorance as his as
sertlon that we had free coinage of silver
from ls'S to 1880 urder the Bland-AIIison
act.
He answered Carlisle by nretend,n. -
quote from his Owensboro' speech and
mutliatlng 1t in order to convict Carlisle
OF lying. He did this by quoting this SEN
fence from that speech: 'Fifty-three times
as Euch silver has been coined since 1878
as IN eighty-nine years before that
Ihere he stopped, assuring his audi
ence that Carlisle had not said that these
were silver dollars, when the very next
words of Mr.. Carlisle, according to the
IDENTICAL report Of the speech from which
Blackburn read, were these: And that is
what has actually been DONE We have
ABOUT six hundred and twenty-five mil
mons of dollars in gold, and We have coin
ed since 1878 more than fifty-three times as
many legal tender standard silver dollars
as were coined during the previous eighty-
nine year of our history
no lied here, Carlisle or Blackburn?
VINO suppressed what Carlisle did saw.
and charged Carlisle with suppressing the
very fact which he was explicit in stat
ing? "
With this we wash our hands, for. the
remainder of the campaign, of this COM
mon slanderer and liar. We have spoken
thus plainly because such speech seems to
be all that he and his gang employ or un-
derstand."
senator Blackburn has been procIaiminp
to his friends everywhere that the Courier.
Journal dared not resent his charges and
that If 1t did it would have to fight. The
Senator was In town this morning, but he
left at & O'Clock. and up to this evening
the Courier-JourEal had heard nothing
from him. The general verdict here is
that, although the language was such as
had not appeared in the Courier-Journal
FOR many years. it was justifiable