The herald., 1896-10-23
Misses Mobbing by a Very Small
Majority
PEOPLES POCKETS BULGED
As tiuckleberry Finn Said on Similar
Occasion
1t Was Very Wrong, Indeed, but the
Hot-Headed People of Kentucky
Hate a Traitor.
Associated Press Special Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
CONVICTION, KY, Oct. 22-Secreta-
~ Of the Treasury John G. Carlisle
made the first of a series of Kentucky
speeches here tonight in Odd Fellows
hall, which was crowded to its utmost
capacity. He was received with the
most generous and hearty applause
when he appeared on the stage. This
was followed by vociferous cheers for
Bryan from line of about a hundred
men in the standing room at the rear
of the hall. This continued for some
time after Secretary Carlisle began to
speak, completely drowning his voice,
so those nearest to him on the stage
could not hear his words. At the same
time crowd occupied the street and
rent the air with shouts for Bryan. This
continued at frequent intervals through
out the entire speaking. Now and then
a man on the outside would shout, Gar
Isle, the traitor" Once, after Mr.. Car
Isle began his speech, he stopped and
begged the turbulent crowd to leave
the hall. The disturbers did not leave.
but they interrupted him afterwards
less frequently. The mayor and several
policemen were in the hall, but no per-
ceptible effort was made to stop the
disturbance.
While Secretary Carlisle was inter-
rupted continuously during his speech
and eggs were thrown about the hall,
four being thrown upon the stage, the
most disorderly scene was at the close
of the meeting, when hoodlums gath
cred about the exit with insulting re-
marks. There were many noisy people
in the street, and in such spirit as to
threaten violence as we'll as insult to
the secretary. The authorities had not
taken radical action to prevent disturb
ance up to this time, but after the meet
ing the mayor and chief of police
promptly furnished detachment Of
twenty police, who safely and quietly
escorted Secretary Carlisle to the resi-
dence of Mr.. Frank Helm.
Secretary Carlisle was disturbed and
showed his annoyance over the yelling at
the opening of the meeting, but he did
not know any eggs had been thrown un-
til after the meeting was over, although
one of the eggs struck the center chan
delier. He was intensely in earnest in
his argument and held his audience In
close attention. He was unconscious
of the bowling element outside the hall
and was himself surprised at the calling
of a detachment Of police to escort him
to Mr. Helms residence. He will speak
at Bowling Green Saturday night and
at other points in Kentucky next week,
when it is feared he will encounter dis
turbances.
Mr.. Carlisle said he had come to speak
in behalf of the Democratic candidates
pledged to Democratic principles, with
out any modern authorizations or Populis
tic communicate appendages. He said
strange and alarming doctrines had been
promulgated under the name of Democ-
racy, and party discipline had been in
voked and party loyalty appealed to, but
the issues involved were Of such tremen-
dous Importance to the country that for
the time being ordinary party obliga-
tions had sunk into utter insignif1cance,
and every patriotic citizen was imper-
atively called upon to obey the honest
dictates of his own conscience, without
regard to the APPROVAL or disapproval of
caucuses or conventions. He appealed
for loyalty to the American Democ-
racy" as against alliance to that wild,
turbulent and destructive form of Dem
ocracy which had been imported from
abroad, which is so nearly allied to an
archy that it is almost impossible to dis
tinguish one from the other.
Then, after enumerating what he de-
clared to be the principles of the true
Democracy, as it had been interpreted
by Jefferson, Jackson and Cleveland, the
secretary declared that that was the
kind of Democracy ne believed in, and
that his support would be given to the
candidates who represented it in this
contest.
He named John M. Palmer and Simon
B. Buckner who, he said, were not stran
gers to the American people, as every
man who had read the history of this
country knew them.
"They were not discovered by the be-
wildered delegates of a political conven-
tion," he said, land they will not be for
gotten when the sound and fury of this
remarkable campaign has subsidized.
They are soldiers and statesmen, ripe
with the experience derived from long
public service at critical periods in our
history, and they stand conspicuously
in this contest for law and order, for the
inviolability of contracts, for the inde-
pendence and manhood Of all classes of
our people, for just and equal taxation,
for public purposes only, for a sound
and stable currency and for the main
tenance of national authority and ma
tional honor under all circumstances" "
Mr. Carlisle maintained that this was
the only true Democracy and that those
who refused to accept the Chicago de-
clarations could not be considered bolt
ers. He then entered into a spirited de-
nunciation of the fusion arrangements
entered into between the Democrats
and the Populists Of the national ticket,
on the state ticket in Kentucky and
other states.
The secretary concluded his address
with an elaborate argument against the
free coinage of silver, maintaining that
the sixteen to one plank of the Chicago
platform was in direct conflict with the
past declarations of the Democratic
party and that the adoption Of such q
policy would bring the greatest disas-
ter-to the whole country. He argued