Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-23
FOR SOUND MONEY.
Secretary J. c. Carlisle Addresses q
Large Audience at Covington, Ky.
Heartily Approves Of Gold Standard and Dc.
nounces the Silver Craze.

hall, in the interest of the sound none,
Democracy The hall is not large, bu
had it been ten times as large it would
not have held those who came to hea
the secretary.
Rumors had been circulated that al
attempt would be made to break vi
the meeting. There was a disOrders
element present in the rear of the hal
who Kissed loudly as Mr.. Carlisle APP
peared on the stage. The majority o.
the audience, however, were in sym
pathy with the speaker and drowned
the Kisses in vociferous cheering.
| The disturbers compelled the secre-
| tary to stop several times during the
early part of his speech. but were
| finally quoted by Mayor Rhinock, anG
with the exception of a few isolated
yells for Bryan. no further trouble oc-
cured.
A unter-demonstration was held
by the Silverites in the street in front
otthe building, but it no way interfered
with the meeting inside the hall.
As Secretary Carlisle rose To speak
tonight, at odd Fellows hall, some one
in the crowd of tough characters which
eggs, presumably at the speaker One
of the eggs fell in the lap of lady in
the audience while neither reached the
stage. The incident vas known to only
a few persons and no attempt was made
TO locate the miscreant.
Secretary Carlisle began his address
by saying:
II have come here To speak In behalf
of Democratic candidates pledged To
the principles Of n Democratic plat
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 authorizations in our doctrines,
or any Populistic or communistic APP
pendages to our organization"
He referred to the fact that here in
this county when less than twenty
years old ne had begun his career as q
public speaker by opposing the doe
trines Of the know nothing party and
since that time he challenged his crit
ics to show that he had ever uttered an
un-Democratic sentiment or cast an
I'M Democratic vote. Then he pro-
ceeded to an analysis of what the prn-
ciples of Democracy were. meaning
American Democracy. not that wild.
turbulent and destructive form Of
Democracy. which has been imported
from abroad and which is so nearly a,-
lied to anarchy that it is almost i'm
possible to distinguish one from the
other"
OF the candidates of the national
democracy he said:
John NJ. Palmer and Simon Bolivar
Buckner are not strangers to the
American people; they We're not dis
covered yesterday by the bewldered
delegates to political convention and
'hey will not be forgotten when the
sound and fury of this remarkable
campaign have subsidized. They are
soldiers and statesmen. ripe with the
experience derived from long public
service at critical periods in our his
tory and they stand conspicuously in
this contest for law and order, for the
inviolablity of contracts. for the in
dependence and manhood of all glasses
OF our people, for just and equal taxa
ton for public purposes only, for q
sound and stable currency and for the
maintenance of the national authority
and national honor under all circum-
stances"
In regard to the question of the regu-
arity of their nomination, he said:
Let us inquire for moment how
far mere considerations of regulars. =
are influencing the actions of our crit
les in this campaign. The nominations
made at Chicago have been partially
repudiated by the very men who made
them in a majority of the states III
the Union. The national and state
committees 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 othe.
have in tWenty-siX or twenty seven
states deliberately entered into ar
rangements and combinations to de-
prive one of the nominees of a large
number of electoral votes and give
them to another candidate not nom
mated by that convention nor by any
other convention even pretending 10
be Democratic; and yet these gentle
men have the assurance to call us
boilers. and the presidential candidate
himself who has countenanced and en-
couraged 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 Gentlemen. we are not out of
the Democratic party, and we do not
intend to go out or be put out"
AS to affairs in Kentucky he chargs |
that the state committee without au-
thority from and in defiance of the
state convention had traded off a part
of the votes of the people and trans
ferred them from some of the electoral
candidates regularly nominated by the
Democratic convention at Lexington
to other electoral candidates selected
by the Populist committee, thus MAX
ing it impossible for any citizen of
this state to so cast his vote at the
approaching election as to give the
nominees of the Chicago convention the
entire benefit of his support.
Then he discussed What past Demo-
cratic platforms had been on the finan-
cial question contrasting them with the
Chicago declaration in favor Of the
free coinage of silver at l6 to l. He
continued:
Notwithstanding all that has been
said, or may be hereafter said to the
contrary, we have now a distinct ,,,op