The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-23
SEARCH LIGHT or TRuTH Secretary Carlisle Sheds It's Rays Into the Dark Abyss of Popocratic Pretence
 and Fraud.
WHAT SIX CENTURIESPROVE
AS WATER WILL SEEK ITS LEVEL.
 so WILL SHEER.

Masterful Address at Covington, Ky.-Ran
 Utterly Inadequate to Accommodate the
 Assembled Multltude-Speech in Which
 Facts and Figures and the Worlds His-
 tory for Hundreds of Years Are Used to
 Expose the Wind Filled Sophistries of
 the Montebanks and CharIatans Now
 Roaming Through the Country-Reason, Not Passion, Appealed To.
 Covington, Ky, Oct. 22.-John G. Carlisle, secretary of the treasury, spoke this evening at Odd Fellows. hall, in the interest of sound money. The hall is not large one but had it been ten times as large 1t would not have held those who came to hear tha secretary. Rumors had been circu- lated that an attempt would be mada to break up the meeting. There was al disorderly element present in the rear of the hall, who hissed loudly as MT. Carlisle appeared. The majority of the audience were in sympathy with tha
 
 The disturbers compelled the secre- tary to stop several times during the early part of his speech, but were final- ly quieted by Mayor Rhinock, and with the exception of a few isolated yells for Bryan, no further trouble occurred. Al counter demonstration was held by the l silverites in the street in front of tho building, but it in no way interfered with the meeting in the hall During l the interruption in the early part of ths | meeting, the secretary requested those | who did not care to hear him to leave. | Secretary Carlisle said in part:
 T have come here to speak in behalf of the democratic candidates pledged to the principles of a democratic plat l form, and my purpose is to discuss some of the pending political questions ] from a purely democratic standpoint. We are not republicans or populists, or fusionists; we are simply plain, old | fashioned democrats, without any modern adulterations in our doctrines. or any populistic or communistic ap- pendages to our organization"
 He referred to the fact that here in this county, when less than twenty | public speaker by opposing the doc- trines of the know-nothing party, and since that time he challenged his critics 1 to show that he had ever uttered am un- democratic sentiment or cast an un- democratic vote. Then he proceeded to an analysis of what the principles of democracy were, meaning American de- mocracy, not that wild, turbulent and destructive form of democracy, which has been imported from abroad and which is so nearly allied to anarchy that 1t is almost impossible to distin- guish one from the other.
 Of the candidates of the national democracy he said:
 l "John M Palmer and Simon Bolivar Buckner are not strangers to the Amer ican people; they were not discovered yesterday by the bewildered delegates to political convention and they will not be forgotten when the sound and fury of this remarkable campaign have subsided They are soldiers and statesmen, ripe with the experience de- rived from long public service at crit- ical periods in our history and they. stand conspicuously in this contest for law and order, for the involability of contracts, for the independence and manhood of all classes of our people. for just and equal taxation for public purposes only, for a sound and stabla currency and for the maintenance of the national authority and national honor under all circumstances"
 In regard to the regularity of their nomination, he said:
 Let us inquire for a moment how far mere considerations of regularity are influencing the actions of our crit ics in this campaign. The nominal tions made at Chicago have been par tially repudiated by the very men who made them in a majority of the states in the Union. The national and state committees appointed to carry on tho campaign and pledged to the support of both the nominees of the Chicago convention-to the support of one Just as much as to the support of the other have in twenty-six or twenty-seyen states deliberately entered into ar- engagements and combinations to de- prive one of the nominees of large number of electoral votes and give them to another candidate not nominated by that convention nor by any other con- vention, even pretending to be demo-
 
 cratic; and yet these gentlemen have the assurance to call us bolters and the presidential candidate himself, who has countenanced and encouraged the sacrifice of his associate on the ticket. whose nomination was as regular as his own. tells us that we cannot "get back into the democratic party unless we come in sackcloth and ashes." Gen. tlemen, we are not out of the demo- cratic party, and we do not intend to go out or be put out"
 Then he discussed what past demo- cratic platforms had been on the finan- cial question. contrasting them with Chicago declaration in favor of the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1. He contin- ued:
 Notwithstanding all that has been said, or may be hereafter said to the country, we have now distinct none tary system of our own, freely adopted by our own legislation, without dicta- oY7 Third "a |