The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-05
THE ADMINISTRATIONS AND KEN
TUCKY.

That the .esult of the Democratic
convention at Lexington, KY, will be a
great disappointment and a source of
much chagrin to the administration,
there can be no question. Anxious that
all the Democratic state conventions
should send sound money" delegations
TO the Democratic national convention
at Chicago, Mr.. Cleveland was doubly
anxious that Kentucky should His.
secretary of the treasury, Mr.. Carlisle,
an able and an upright man, was at
the time he entered the cabinet
United States senator from Kentucky,
and his state had always delighted to
honor him and he had always, in what
ever position he was, fonored his state
When Mr.. Cleveland saw the silver
sentiment sweeping over the south and
that it was taking possession of the
people. he became alarmed, and what
more natural than that he should send
into the south to stem the rising tide
that favorite son of the south, his sec
rotary OF the treasury, John G. Car
isle
At Memphis he made a memorable
speech in favor of his own and Mr..
Cieveland's financial policy and against
the free coinage of silver. The gold
men were elated and rejoiced as
though the victory had been won.
When the campaign in Kentucky came
on and Hon. P. W. Hardin, a free sill
YER man, became the Democratic NOM
in For.
burn sought reelection to the United
States senate as d free silver man, Mr..
Carlisle was sent to his own state to
combat the "heresy'' Of free silver and
advocate the principles of sound
money" 1t was assumed that his
great popularity, his eloquence, and the
prestige Of his cabinet position would
be such that he would be able to stamp
out the silver sentiment in the Demo-
cratic party. The only result of his
mission was to elect the Republican
gubernatorial candidate ard make i'm
possible Senator Blackburn's re-elec-
/ ton. Sound money and the admin
istration had won a seeming victory,
and Mr.. Cleveland was satisfied, feeling
that his policy had been indicated and
the silver heresy," at least in Ken
lucky, had been not merely scotched
but killed
The meeting of the Democratic state
convention became a matter of much
interest in Washington 1t was rea-
lized, SO far as the control of the Demo-
cratic national convention was con-
cerned, That Kentucky was the key to
the situation, and as that state went
so would go the Chicago convention.
The Kentucky convention has met:
it has declared by an overwhelming
majority for the free coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to 1, and the name of
/ Carlisle, a name once idolized through
out the state, signally failed to arouse
any enthusiasm in that convention,
while the mention of the name of Pres
ident Cleveland called forth naught but
a storm Of Kisses.
! This cannot but show MI Cleveland
how widely parted are he and the Dem
/ ocratic party. He has Systematically
/ and Dersistently pursued course to
1 ALLEVIATE the rank and file of his party.
/ In fact his alienation of his party is
! the sole success of his second admins
tratior. He has no one to blame but
| himself. What he has seen happen at
/ Lexington this week he will see happen
/ at Chicago in July. Perhaps he is al
ready beginning to realize this