The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-26
10 BLACKBURN TALKS.

e here's serene, confident, happy.
Never did defeated candidate meet sucl
E an ovation In Washington as has 10 sine,
c he came back from Frankfort The fac
= that republican was at last elected 4
p the seat he has held in the senate Is, O
course, not regarded as a personal Gefea
= for the gallant democratic leader Of Ken
, lucky and instead Of commiscration h.
b has been met on ali sides with oongralulu-
tons for the gallant fight he made
10 is less OF defeated candidate than
any other maa who has occupied that I'M
desirable and nnwolcome position has ever
peeh. II is true that bis enemies, masque-
iaduhs as democrats, have succeeded IN
throwing the democratic party temporarily
out OF power; but Blackburn has nov al
MS back the solid democracy OF Kentucky
ana tnere is every indication tina; the party
stronger and in better condition today
tnan II has been tn years.
The republicans Of Kentucky feel it,
lhey know that they are now ENJOYING
their only taste of power II is the kuowl-
cage OF this fact that has whetted their
respective appetites for Federal office has
brought to Washington horde OF bourbon
Vo'onels. who are more or less republican
IN 'helf party affiliations, and whose pres
ehce mas kept their Senator neboe sitting
| fall asleep In his M. -, H. ' ~
| They know n md No. ,riS"",,i,,.
| that Kentucky has gone repuhiican a.,
| me last time, PERHAPS" as one OF them
| put 1t at the Ebbit, tonight perhaps
| burn is dead ma ~ 1,,., '' '''''
/ fighting over his ,oi5.l.,i 80 80 ~
| then we may gel onnthsr ,hs-ao b. b., "ai's
| IN then DNe HP'
Governor Bradley Wa co,n, o,ar .,,, 81,
uatlon with friend few 1,vs aeo Tho
friend has eynressc4 tba t1,{s - - ~
next Legislature wo,,,a he r.r,,,, NJ. 'ne
the present ono is Il"
There are las p,or,her, "a, .,o ,..,.,.
turc. Wen do we'll n We w., r,ore 80,
eighteen of themr was ne rnn,,h, jnsl
governors smnhati. III, '"9 'Spu0l'eah
Pretty good f.stt,.1 o., .h
dtmocratlr srnron9..s,. - a. 20 '"'e VI
Ana democratjr s5,,.c,,,,, 49,, a..
triumphant election of p'acth,,rr -. ~
senate ~ fhe
AT the Normandie. where ba ,,o,.o, hi,
bo,,o -. "F ""Nss MS
asheu Seh"'oF Blackburn about
present conditions aud future prospects of
The democracy In Ktutucky and in tho |
Mario, '4 ~ '"e
- 3'rfS~s Nf''"f N44aAI ~ Lds |
, neen al any time In ITS history" was his |
nartv was 49, ~, was -, q ulae when the |
are seeking for an issna nno, Fn ',i,o VINO
unite the democratic party Of the country |
',nt!. 40 mol Knew the conditions nor IN |
They nrsd sroif -, i's we Ieopie'
upon which there is the mos, n,rfoct ,',,t ~
few of the leaders who for ysrious ron.
sons deserted the party In the last Ma
tionai campaign will continue to object 10
me democratic advocacy Of the restora
t'on of silver, for they TIRE not democrats:
nut they are leaders without followers
The men they led off in that campaigu see
through them and their pfetpuens and
have come back into the democratic party
To stay. The party is stronger today than
ii ever was. and II is adding TO thar
strength every day"
And What about Kentucky? VIII tn.
republicans carry it AGAIN."
"Nevsr in thousand years, Seriously.
the republicans know thar they have M
chance of carrying the State. We will
have approximately 100 members OF tho
next legislature out Of 18S. and every dem
ocrat win be an open ayowed. unquestion.
cd advocate Of silver We Will elect a
good silver man as governor of Tho State
anh kentuckyS position will never again
be In doubt -"
themselves dfmocrats?" asked
None OF them will ever run for office
unless they run as republicans" said he
The fact is. thcre are very few OF them
and they are the leaders without followers
class. The rank and file whom thev lod
aft in tb,, ,,,. ,.,,,,.,i,,,, H., -,
-, "''""f SUI"
Nv ~" " iN'lr aet ana thcy VIII be
,,,,, Nv ''o I'uHs voting ana working for
' en. ,a.h su't' N the future rs for
inee and ihc party is better off without
n.ni tuan WIN them. | presume they will
~ '"p ItPUoIeah tlekct IN the future, for
NJ w r''IS rehItscntS their principles.
nf fin,n,' '",E NO they are men without
H'lu'nco ana can do no harm. On Juno
we hoia a convention AZ Frankfort 20
oi'A"le democratic candidate for clerk
u the court OF appeals At that conven-
, '', i.so'uyiohs WIZ he adopted letting the
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