Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-03-25

and the Jackass, thinking him
dead, came and kicked him, when
the King of Beasts awoke. There
was not enough left of the Jackass
for history to tell exactly what
happened to him.
The Courier-Journal has yet to
get from a single one of its would
be critics any substantial argu-
ment, based on the actual facts of
the case, either IN support of the
view they suppose they take, or the
view they ascribe to it.
The free silver crusade has lost
the Democrats of Kentucky the
State Government, with all that
this implies.
1t has lost the Democrats of the
Union the National Government,
with all that implies.
1t has split the party wide open.
Now, who are responsible for
these disasters; the men who fore
saw them and pleaded against
them and tried to avert them, or
the men who were blind to them
and who rushed madly upon them,
predicting for it and for themselves
overwhelming victories?
As for the Courier-Journal, it
gave sufficient and timely warning.
The result proved the wisdom of it's
Judgment. All that it feared came
to pass. The free silver leaders,
on the other hand, needless of con-
sequences, would listen to nothing,
but hastened to their doom, carry
ing the party along with them.
Shall the Courier Journal be pun
ished, because it saw the danger
and tried to avert it, whilst the
men who invited and precipitated
it are exalted because of the havoc
wrought by their short-sighted in
competency?
The former of these two PROPOSE
tions is precisely the case made out
by our assailants. From it, the de-
cree of the beaten leaders them
selves-the verdict of a packed jury
sworn in advance to convict-we
appeal to the good sense and good
feeling, the reason and integrity of
the Democratic masses, whose inter
ests have been betrayed and whose
principles debauched by an orgy,
which has brought the party moth
ing but misadventure and misery
If that party is to have future il
must be on lines at once national
and conservative. 1t can not exist
upon those lines which were laid
down by the Chicago convention as
a basis for the pre-arranged deal
then and there planned and subse-
quently executed at st. Louis-with
the Populists and the free-silvel
Republicans.
Those lines are not Democratic
lines. They are free-silver Repub-
lican and Populistic lines. The
coalition which they effected failed
of success. If it be continued, il
will not be as the Democratic par,
ty, or as the free silver Republican
party, but as the Populist party
The Populists have the right tC
claim this, and, after their expert
ence in the last campaign, they ar,
pretty certain to claim it. The
Democratic party, as a rarity, car
only live by returning to its origi
nal moorings, formulated, as to the
two great issues of the time, thus
a currency consisting of gold anC
silver, and paper convertible int
either at the will of the holder; anC
a Tariff for Revenue only.
Incidental to these economic
questions, and in the event of emer
gency, danger or menace, above
them, the question of the public
order, the right and duty of th'
Government to preserve the interna
peace of the country and to protec
the lives and property of its citi
zens, stands guard over the altari
of civil liberty, and walks the sol
emn round of the Constitution anG
the laws.
OF course there is much in the
Chicago platform which no Demo
crat will dispute. So much may b.
described as the sugar coating
Some semblance of Democracy
some Renaissance of the ancient
fixed beliefs, was deemed essentia
to catch a convention professedly
Democratic and to lure the Demo
cratic masses away from the blessed
truths of the fathers. But, beneath
the velvet glove of Democracy, the
iron hand of anarchy was Ind; be
low the gunwales OF Old Ironsides
the pirates of Populism crouched
behind the mask which Bryan
wore, the savage eyes of Tillmar
and Altgeld cleaned with crue
hate. To what end? Professedly
to cure the ills of humanity; act.
ually, to the dissertation of a noble
political organism and to utter, dis.
graceful defeat.
To thoughtful, conscientious, dis
interested Democrats, who love
their country and want nothing OF
the public men whom they place in
office except good Government, the
Courier-Journal has simply to say
Have you not had enough of time,
serving and tom-fooling? Are you
not tired of that self-confident anG
turbulent leadership, which exc:
out in noise what it lacks of sense
and judgment, which deals only in
wild assertion and coarse abuse
and which, to prove its case, must
find a base motive in every one
saving only itself, though all the
while it has some office to guard,
or to get, and, to this extent, car
ries an obviously selfish and ever