The herald., 1896-10-23

that 1t was not question Of the power
Of the United States to enact such laws
but 1t was a question of prosperity and
national honor. Referring to the re-
cent heavy importations Of gold, the
secretary said there were many who
professed to believe that these importa-
tions were due to artificial causes, to ac-
complish certain political results but
he assured his audience that there was
nothing artificial in this movement of
gold, that 1t was a natural and neces-
sary result of the existing financial con-
dtttons and that 1t would cease whenever
the equilibrium was substantially re-
stored. whether that be before Or after
the election. He added that It would
certainly cease If the United States in
augurated policy of free coinage at
the ratio of sixteen to one.
OF the Democratic-Populist fusion
Mr.. Carlisle had this to say: Let US in
quire for a moment how far mere con-
siderations of regularity are influence
ing the actions Of our friends In this
campaign.
The nominations made at Chicago
have been partially repudiated by the
very men who made them in majirity
of the states Of the union. The national
committee appointed to carry on the
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-seven
states deliberately entered into arrange
ments and combinations to deprive one
of the nominees of a large number Of
electoral votes and give them to another
candidate not mentioned by that con-
vention or by any other convention even
pretending to be Democratic, and vet
these gentlemen have the assurance to
call us boilers, and the presidential can
didate himself, who has countenanced
and encouraged the sacrifice of his as
sociate on the ticket whose nomination
was as regular as his own, tells us that
We cannot get back into the Democrat
ic party unless we come in sackcloth
and ashes.'
Gentlemen. we are not out Of the DEM
ocratic party and we don't intend to go
out or to be put out. Here in Kentucky
the state committee, in defiance of the
action Of the state convention, which
nominated a full electoral ticket, has
entered into a contract by which 1t has
traded off part of the votes Of the peo-
pie; actually bargained, sold, assigned
and transferred them from some of the
electoral candidates regularly nominat-
ed by the Democratic convention at Lex
ington to your electoral candidates Sc
lected by the Populist committee, thus
making it impossible for any citizen Of
this state to so cast his vote at the ap-
preaching election as to give the NOM
inees of the Chicago convention the en-
tire benefit of his support. Have we
ceased to be Democrats because we re-
fuse to support this electoral ticket not
nominated by the state convention, but
mutilated and disf1gured by the names
Of new electoral candidates pledged to
cast their votes for wild and reckless
Populist, for vice president of the United
States, and who IL elected might be-
come president and be vested with all
the powers Of that great Office. This is
not Democratic electoral ticket. It rep
resents two political parties and two po-
litical platforms. no one Of which Is
Democratic according to any doctrinal
or historical test that car be applied to
them.