The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01
KENTUCKY,s SILVER VICTORY.
They Elect go Delegates rs Against
20 for sound Money.

Lexington Ky. May 31.-The free silver
leaders are jubilant to-day over their
sweeping victory throughout the state yes
terday. Accurate figures on returns from
the state shows GO silver delegates 30 the
state convention, against 2i0 for gold. The
silver men carried every congressional
district in the state except the Fifth,
which is the Louisville district. The
western end of the state including the
First Second. Third and Fourth districts.
did not send a single sound money dele
gate, and for that reason the leaders, who
have consulted with Senator Bl4okburn,
think it viii be proper to make Western
Kentucky man chairman OF Jne coANeh-
ton. The choice Will prouaniE Ia4! pe-
tween eX-COugressman Goodnight of the
Third district, and Congressman stone OF
the First.
Senator Blackburn is disposed to be mag
nanimous. He said Tonight: "Enere is no
time for qudrrelling. The success OF the
democratic party ought now 70 be the
am OF every true democrat we nave
fought a good fight and We have won. W
ought not to say an unkiud word Of our
late opponents nor censure those who came
to us at the eleventh hour
The friends of Secretary Carlisle and
President Cleveland are not so easily pro-
pitiated, for they say they Will nor vote
for a free silver candidate for President.
They openly avOw their preference for
Mckinley or any other republican for
President, over a silver democrat. rum
ming on a free silver platform.
Senator Blackburn VIII probably be
made temporary chairman of the conven-
tiOn Wednesday. He is In splendid spir-
It's tonight over yesterdays victory, and
thousands of cOngratulatOry tClegrams
have been received from all over the
United states.
Louisville Ky. May 3l.-The Courier
Journal, in an editorial to be published to-
morrow. throws up both hands. as far as
future democratic success I'm Kentucky is
concerned. 1t says that the state is now
on in the republican column. The edito-
rial in part says: They Qhe democratO
have repudiated the only President the
democratic party has elected and seated
for fifty years. They have repudiated the
most distinguished Of kentucky's living
sons and the greatest democratic intel
lect in the United States. They have split
upon the fathers of the party, whose
names and organization they claim; have
proclaimed jefferson an ignOramus, Jack
son a COnspiratOr, Benton a knaVe and
Cleveland a traitor.
For the faith handed down through q
hundred years of glorious party history,
4 they have substituted a fad rejected by
every intelligent civilization on the globe;
and for the expOnents of that faith, they
have substituted such apostles of pOpu-
lsm as Stewart; such eXhOrters of social
ism as Tillman, and evangels of anarch-
ism as Altgeld.
Saturdays work makes Kentucky re-
publican for years. Before Saturday, Brad
leyism was dead but Saturday made it
possible for any republican to carry Ken
lucky over party which binds itself to
the corpse Of free silverism. The one
| chance now for the Kentucky democracy
is that the Chicago convention shall not
1 ratify its stupendous blunder, and that
chance seems all too remote.