Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-11-11
Henry Watterson Gives Up.
HE SAYS THAT HE HAS READ
THE HANDWRITING ON THE
WALI-No MISTAKE.
The Democratic Party Is United, and
Not on q Gold Standard Basis
He Will Stay With the Party
The End of the Battle.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. 3.-Henry
Watterson gives up the fight. In an
editorial In the Courier Journal to-
morrow he will say, under the cap
ton:
The End of the Battle:
The Courier Journal has little to add
to what it has already said by antici-l
patton touching the Democratic situ-
alton in Kentucky, brought into being
by the vote of Tuesday last. That
vote confirms the position of the con-
vention that nominated Mr.. Shackel-
ford for Clerk of the Court of Appeals,
and repudiates the convention which
nominated Mr.. Hindman. 1t fixes the
relation of the Democratic organiza-
tion in Kentucky In the national or
ganization of the Democratic party, at
least through the next State and ma
tional elections. 1t Is so decisive as
to leave nothing to conjecture, and
the Courier Journal has neither the
wish nor the purpose to challenge it.
The issue, as it was made and has
been fought out, was clear and ex-
plicit. No effort was wanting to main
tain it. Nobody could by any possi-
bility be mistaken about it. We may
regret the verdict against US, but we
accept it. We shall make no further
effort to direct the party course or
counsels, or to share in any of the
responsibilities of party leadership,
having done our best according to our
conscience and belief to divert our
political associates from a policy and
procedure the end of which no man
can now foresse; the results of which
We very much fear both as to the
welfare of the country and the party.
But we are Democrats, not Republi-
cans, and, mailing our flag to the
masthead of honest money, free trade
and home rule, we shall, in the char.
acter of private soldier in the ranks,
contribute whatever we are able to
the ascertainment and the vindication
of truth.
For the gentlemen who have by
their victory confirmed their leader
ship, we entertain not the least i'll will.
All the honors belonging to that lead
ership be theirs, and, let us add, all
the responsibilities. If they continue
to win victories, they will approve
their commissions. II they lose them,
they, in turn, will have to pay the
penalties of defeat. Where we can,
we shall support them. Where we
cannot support them we shall enter no
factious opposition to them. We go
to political annihilation with perfect
composure, without a single resent
ment to regret, having fought out to
the bitter end a profound conviction
in perfect fairness and good faith.
There are many suggestions which
the vote of Tuesday summons to the
minds of the thoughtful people; nota-
bly,, the results in Maryland, Greater
New York and the city of Louisville,
incident to the elimination of strife
and the union of party forces.
And as the smoke of battle clears,
wise men may, perhaps, find it salutary
to take these into consideration. But
for the present we shall leave the
moral OF the conflict now ended to i'm
press itself in its own way upon the
masses of the people. As We said In
the beginning and have said during
the progress of the battle, we repeat
now, from none of the consequences
of the fight we have made for what
we believed just policies and sound
ideas have we the least disposition to
shrink. Had we the whole thing to go
over we should not veer hairs line
from the course we have pursued, and,
reviewing the record, we recoliect no
word or act which we would recall.
What the rest can stand we can stand.
With charity for all, with malice to-
ward none, we shall continue to do
business at the old stand precisely as
if nothing whatever happened, re-
lieved to be rid of all responsibility in
party affairs, glad to 90 to the rear of
the columns, quite assured of our
ability at all times and under all cir
cumstances to hold our own with
friend and foe and certainly indiffer-
ent whether the case in point be a
fight or foot race.