Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-27
SILVER RurrIANs IN KENTUCKY.

Kansas City Star (dem): The insult
offered to Secretary Carlisle at Covington
ought to have the effect OF removing Ken
lucky from tho list OF doubtful states aud
placing II In the republican column.
Minneapolis journal (rep): Down In Ken
lucky the friends OF Bryan showed the
stun they are made OF and their ready alb
sorpton OF his teaching OF lawlessness by
grossly insulting Secretary Carlisle while
he was speaking at Covingtou.
Chicago Chronicle Cdem): 1t is not to be
interpreted as directed against Mr.. Carlisle
personally. The ruffians who were guilty of
putting this ineffaceablc stain on the Ameri.
can name would have played the coward
and the blackguard against any other man
pointed out by their nstlgators.
Globe Democrat (rep): The toughs in St
Louis and Omaha who attempted to howl
down Bourke-Cockran received their uspra-
ton from the same source as the cowardly
ruffans who assaulted Secretary Carlisle, the
second officer In the government in dignity
and influence, and were working in the
same interest. These outrages will bring
tens Of thousands of new votes to the
republican ticket
Chicago Tribune (rep): We err greatly
II that insult be not magnifcently avenged
Kentuckians are not wont TO brook meekly
such an outrage. II will give birth to thou
sands of votes for honest money, which viii
be deposited in the ballot box In reputation
of this Covington infamy. 1t should result
in burying out of sight the last remnant OF
hope popocrats might have OF carrying that
state for Bryan and silver and thuggery.
Chicago Record Qnd.): The insult to Sec
rotary Carlisle at Coyington is cause for
humiliation. II was a disgrace not only to
those who actually committed the ofTense,
but as well to the city In which such an
affair was possible without effective inter-
ference from the authorities, for the disturb
ance continued some time before 1t was
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offenders were arrested and held for prose-
cution as they should have been for so
serious a breach of the peace.
Chicago Times-Herald (rep): The Ameri-
can people have an Unborn burly love OF fair
play to an opponent, and even in this turbu-
lent campaign they have made haste on
several occasions to protest their adherence
of political rowdyism. But the COvington
outrage so far surpasses in savagery any
thing that has hitherto dsgraced the can
vass that ordinary terms of denunciation
seem inadequate to express the deep dis
gust and horror IL has created. In the per-
son of the secretary Of the treasury every
American citizen was insulted.
Louisville Courier-Journal (dem): The
time has arrived when that patience. so
long tried. has ceased to be virtue.
Kentucky is a civilized state, and her people
do not propose to further submit to the
barbarous orgies of political bandits. Their
outrages must stop. We do not speak empty
words, but we speak the will OF an aroused
and indignant people, who are able to vindi-
cate their right to self-government and to
protect society from lawlessness in high
places as well as low. Let us be understood
fully. This Covington outrage, deliberately
planned as II was, cannot be CLOSED over
and dismissed as the act OF unknown hood
mms. The prime responsibility for 1t rests
upon the very leaders of the Bryan cause
1t Is the fruit OF their intolerance and
violence. their studied appeals to the baser
passions, their stimulation to communism
their inflammatory instigation to partisan
madness and class hatred.
New York Times (dem): No decent
American can read without a thrill of
patriotic shame that Secretary Carlisle was
received with jeers and insults on his ap-
pearanCe in his own home to address his
fellow citizens on the issues of this cam
raign. There is no man who Is better
qualified by study and by experience to eX-
pound the issues OF such a campaign; per-
haps no man so well qualified by the con-
junction OF both There is no more en-
tightening public speaker in the country
upon the topics which he has made his own.
There Is none, also, who keeps the discus
sion of public questions upon a higher plane,
who lifts 1t further above personality and
partisanship and gives less excuse for per-
sonal resentment. That such a man should
have been rudely assailed upon his appear
ance, and that the assault should not have
been at once repealed and resented by the
election Of the offenders is a disgrace to
Covington. Inasmuch as 1t was symptomatic
of the whole Bryan campaign, 1t is not
merely local but national disgrace.