Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-30
MOST SHAMEFUL.
The Indignities t. Winch Secretary Car
Isle was Subjected.

The Indignities t. Winch Secretary Car
ilsie was Subjected.
The despicable insult to Secretary
Carlisle, unfortunately, can not be at
tributed to the accidental attack of
few fanatics. The rioters who assailed
the distinguished citizen Of Kentucky
in the hall at Covington, and sought to
strike him down when he emerged,
were so numerous and their infamous
assault 80 patiently predetermined that
She Popocratic faction of the town must
accept the responsibility.
The plot appears to have been thor
oughly premeditated and systematic
ally carried out. There was not a
trace of provocation. The instant the
secretary arose to address his fellow
townspeople the volley of missiles and
oaths was let loose, and did not cease
while he occupied the platform. Fur
ther violence was intended, and the
mob which waited for him on the out
side when the meeting came to an end
was prepared, evidently, to go to any
extreme. Happily. this added outrage
was frustrated by police escort, which
attended Carlisle to place of safety.
1t is difficult to estimate the effect on
the people of Kentucky of this insult
to the foremost citizen Of the state. He
had come back to the county in which
he was born, to the community in
which he is the foremost resident, in
response to an invitation to deliver an
address, and has been treated to un-
speakable indignity.- The decent peo-
pie of other states have read the de-
tails with amazement and disgust. The
shock to the traditional instincts of
courtesy and loyalty among the decent
people of Kentucky is immeasurably
greater. No greater violence to the
good name of the state could have been
devised and perpetrated. No more
heinous exhibition of reckless brutality
could have been concocted to besmirch
the reputation of the commonwealth.
And what was the inspiration for the
outrage? Why was the secretary of
the treasury of the Unitd States, who
honors the name of Kentucky and
whom Kentucky has oft delighted to
honor, reviled by a mob of Popocrats
in public hall in his own city, and
forced to accept police protection in or
der to escape greater violence on the
streets? Because he advocates nation
al and individual honesty; because he
has taken sides with the patriots who
will not see the United States ingulfed
in the mire of reputation; because he
agrees with the great Republican par
ty and the entire present Democratic
administration and every other Demo-
crat of note in the country and nearly
every business man, irrespective of
party and the vast majority of farmers
and workingmen, irrespective of party,
that to force 50-cent dollar as the
standard of money in this country on
the people would be to commit ma
tional crime and to submerge the in
dustries of the country beneath an
overwhelming ocean Of panic and dis
aster. These are few of the reasons
why few hundred Popocrats in Gov
ington, KY, taking their cue from the
Altgelds and the Bryans, have pre-
sumed to insult Mr.. Carlisle.
We err greatly if that insult be not
magnificently avenged. Kentuckians
are not wont to brook meekly such an
outrage. 1t will give birth to thou
sands of votes for honest money, which
will 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.
cago Tribune.