Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-28
EFFECT OF RECENT ELECTIONS.
How 1t VIII Affect Issues OF Next
Presidential Contest Discussed.
Richmond, Va, November II,


Richmond, Va. November II, 1897.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
Here and there few boiling organs are
attempting to show by the recent cleo
ton decline In interest I'm constitutional
| compton money at the rate prevailing
| from 1876 to 1873. To me, after the gene
| raj character of the election, showing that
! the trend of public sentiment is toward
the. Democratic party, the result in Ken
| lucky is, perhaps, the most gratifying.
1t was the first Southern State to be car
ried by the Republicans, and it WAS in
that State that the gold boilers made the
| strongest stand
| In 1886, you remember when the contest
| 70 see whether the Democratic party could
lican party, the men most honored by the
Kentucky Democracy undertook TO carry
Kentucky into the gold ranks They had
previously caused the election OF a Re-
publican Governor by quietly defeating
the Democratic nominee for Governor,
because he spoke eloquently for silver,
and they were determined TO rule the
party or ruin II. Mr.. Carlisle, of whom
IL has been said The made the best speech
In all the long discussions for silver and
the best speech against it," Mr.. Henry
Watterson, whose denunciation of the
money power was more severe than
Altgelds or Ttllman's; Mr.. Breckenridge
(Willie 9. P), who had voted for free
silver in Congress until driven out In dis
grace; General Simon Boliver Buckner,
and other able men led the movement 70
convert the Democracy Of Kentucky to the
gold Republican standard. They failed
IN the Democratic convention, but they
were able TO give the electoral vote 70
Mckinley by running a bogus ticket, and |
as encles. This year, when a number or |
gold Democrats in all the other States |
decided to submit themselves to the will
OF the Democratic majority and thus re- !
Carlisle and Watterson an
nounced that the gold boilers would run
a separate ticket and they made a
vigorous campaign all over the State for
their gold candidate. In the mean while,
In most Of the counties Of the State they !
made a fusion with the Republicans, as
the best method OF defeating the Demo-
cratic ticket. In every instance they met
the defeat and disgrace which follows
In politics as IN every thing
Else. There Is retrbution In history. and
here were two incidents I'm the result OF
hat election that added 10 my rejoicing
20 wit, Carlisle lost his senator, Black !
burn gained his. The straight Democrats
II mean Chicago platform Democrats)
control the Legislature, and have nearly
very one Of the hold-over senators, who
will participate In the senatorial election,
.Wo years hence, thank God! The Ken
ucky state Committee reafiirmed the
chicago platform, and. under Blackburn
leadership the fight was made upon eX-
city the same lines as I'm 1886. Carlisle. |
Natterson, Lindsey, Breckenridge, Buck |
Ter, and the rest Of the boilers fought |
he regulars as vigorously as then, even |
using with black Republicans to COM |
ass the defeat OF their old party. They |
allied signally, and their ignominiOus de- |
eat will put an end TO them as political |
actors. They have got 10 go openly into |
he Republican party or into oblivion. and |
they choose the Republican party IL viii |
ring them into sure oblivion and DIS ]
race as well. Watterson came back, |
nd preached the funeral OF his boiling | {
riends. No southern man, Mr.. Editor
tho wants decent government can be a
republican. The South will be solid again.
nd again the victory I'm New York has
leered Democrats in every section, be-
luse II shows that the Republican party
still I'm minority I'm that State. IL is 7
$50 gratifying in that il shows that Dc | :
locracy has not lost its hold In the En- !
Ire State, and that Il holds out the hope | \
lat by 1850 its voters may help the South | \
nd West elect Mr.. William Jennings
ryan. But IL cannot be denied, however, N
lat the result, more largely on local is- N
les and partly by men who did not stand I N
ne last year has encouraged the "strad- \
ers" in the party 10 begin quiet cam n
lign TO secure what they call "cOnserya- 4
We action" in order 10 hold New York r
1900 Mclaughlin. the leader of the
emocrats Of Brooklyn, has already given =
Il that David Bennett TIils master nthd
as seen in the New York fight Following T
)se uDon the heels If this announcement
me Roswell =. Flower and eX-Mayor 4
ugh j. Grant who b0lted the Chicago S,
invention, and declare that the success