The sun., 1896-10-31
CALLS BLACKBURN A LIAR.
THE co oURIER-JOURNAL ALSO SATs
HE'S a BLICKGUARD.

Kentucky Stirred Up over an Editorisl
Article-Senntor Bineksurn Misrepres
sented Carlisle and SAID tho Lord Hna
branded Justice Shiras as n ThieS
LOUISVILLE, Oct 3o.--Tho Courier Journal
this morning broke Its long silence concerning
Senator Blackburn with an editorial article
which has caused n sensation in Kentucky -
great as whom It took its stand against the Chi
cago ticket It published tho following an
ticle under the caption "A blackboard and q
liar:"
"Wo must ask our readers indulgence n.
for once, we use words Of moro bluntness than
should be necessary in civilized society. Eithoe
such words NUT be employed in speaking %
j. rs. Blackburn's performance last evening
or II must be ignored entirely. This man,
who has done 90 much 60 degrade his Stata,
this bankrupt in politics, in decency and truth,
trod the boards of MacAuley's last night -
answer. Carlisle. He answered. Carlisle by pro
claiming with the swnECer of a prize fchtsR
that I will pledge and pawn n months salary
for every hour Carlisle will stand up before
me-
HE answered Carlisle with n tirnde in which
he pronounced only seventeen times tho word
God including tho name of God,' the living
Cod and so help me God;' though tho words
Wall street and 'Shy!ocks' and 'mono1
changers and thieves were almost as manyt
while the times he denounced the lying CotIr.
fer-Journor as bought and debauched,' tho
hirelnE PRESS the prostituted ppess,' &C..
baf1ed enumeration.
He auswcred Carlisle by calling him liar.
an apostate. an incompetent. coward G
traitor. and hireline Of Wall street. He an
swered Carlisle by saying that II Carlisle told
the truth about the silver dollar he ought to
be In the penitentiary. He answered Carlisle
by constitutional argument regarding the
Suutne Court, whicn he clinched by declar-
ing he knew that Justice Shiras of that body
was n.dishonest scoundrel. because, The LORD
had implanted upon every lineameat Of his
faoe the word thief
He answered Carlisle by such astonishing
falsehoods as the statement between the years
1909 and 1878, vhen We coined little over
eight million dollars in silver we did not cola
a single dollar IN gold Ho answered Carlisle
by equally as astounding displays of Ignorance
as his assertion that we had FREQ coinage Of
silver from 1873 10 1890 under tho Dland-Al-
llson act.
He answered Carlisle by pretending to quote
from his Owensboro speech and mutilarinR 10
In order TO convict Carlisle of lying. He did
this by quoting this sentence from that speech
'Fifty-three times as much silver has been
| coined since 1875 as In the eighty-nine years
before that
Carlisle had not said that these were silver
dollars when the very next words Of Mr.. Car
Isle, according to the identical report of tho
speech from which Blackburn read were these;
And that is what has actually been done.
We have about six hundred and twenty Ave
millions of dollars in gold. and we have coined
since 1878 more than ffty-tbree times
many legal tender standard silver dollars
we're coined du:lnE the previous eghty-nino
years of our history
Who lied here, Carlisle or Blackburn? Who
supposed what Carlisle did say, and charged
Carlisle with suppTessing the very fact which
| be vas explicit IN stating?
with this we wash our hands. fer the re-
maipder of the campaign, of this common
| sianderer and liar. We have spoken thus
plainly because such speech seems to be all
that he and his Gans employ or understand"
Senator Blackburn has been proclaiminG to his
| friends everywhere that the Courter-JourndI
dared not resent bis charges and that 1t did it
would have to fight. Tho Senator was in town
| his morning. but he left at o'clock, and up to
| this evening tho Courfer-Jourrdl had heard
nothing from him. The general verdict hero
! is that. although the language was such as had
| not appeared in the CourfeT-Journdl for many
| years II was justldable.