The news & observer., 1897-07-15

those who have it in their special keep
Eng. and who never mean to let 1t go
until forced to do SO by public opinion.
In Gods name, | ask shall the great
historic Democratic party, with all its
glorious achievements and noble possl-
bilt!es, be scuttled and sunk by such
men and in actual sight of an open sea
and a safe harbor?
ut is demonstrable proposition that,
before they could get their machinery 60
ing-before they could set up their silver
mills and perfect their rag-money plants
before they could issue dollars plantiful
enough and cheap enough to come with
in easy reach of the Undergraduates
| farmer and the insovent merchant
there would be no farm left to release,
no stock of goods to be sold off at ad-
vance prices. The big credits would
swallow up the little credits.
"In short the remedy proposed by these
visionary financiers and optimistic phil
| osophers-thcse chasers of political and
other rainbows--is of piece with the
prescription of the quack doctor, good
| TO cure in thirty days" and consequent
| ly valueless to the patient doomed to
| death except he get relief in twenty.
| Let us give thanks to God that we
are not a nation of bankrupts! Neither
are we generation of swindlers. In
kentucky at least-and just now we are
most concerned about Kentucky-we
claim to be a race of brave, upright and
solvent men, who mean to pay our honest
debts, dollar for dollar, and will do so
if permitted by those rampant leaders
who have stolen the houseboat of De
mocracy for their hare-brained eXcur-
sions, and who, lured by Siren voices
and Needless of the volcano frowning
above them, are sailing i'll fancied Sc
curity over the treacherous waters of
Vesuvian seas. From the beginning they
were doomed to shipwreck. They are
wanting in all the essential elements
of success in life on land or sea. Even
in their own trade of professional poll
tics, they are rank failures. Where
they are sincere they are deluded. Where
they are loyal, they are mistaken. Where
they are disinterested-if the word has
any place in their vocabulary-they
equally lack discernment and composure.
Intolerant and -sighted-overfiowing
with excitement and misinformation-
too often they are merely vain, selfish
and vengeful. Men of this stamp never
win in the long run. and never deserve
do with a substantial victory even if it
were possible for them to achieve one.
Across the brow of each of them is
written the motto, rule or ruin,' and
Just beneath it the curse of Reuben, I'm
stable as wafer thou shalt not excel"
Knowing them for what they are, no
prudent man would commit any private
affair of pith and moment into the Gus
tody of such attorneys; though 1t is not
easy to conceive how they could separate
~. or as a body, handle the least of
private affairs more disastrously than
they have handled the affairs of the
Democratic party. For, TO change the
figure somewhat, to fetch it home and
adapt it TO our native parts Of speech,
they have played very loose and a
very losing game: they have run very
devious and very desperate race; they
have left out Of their betting books a
dark horse and an exceeding dark horse.
but one that was never known TO be left
at the post: dark horse they have not
even mentioned, far less considered, in
their calculations. but which they viii
have To reckon with; and this dark horse
Is tie heart, the brain, the conscience,
the moral nature Of the people of ken
tucly.
"Nhen I 70 n the exile and oblivion
which may be in store for me, I shall
n9t be left quite destitute. There await
me green fields and bright eyes and low
/ ing hearts. and books ard music and
peace yea, and all that should accom-
/ pany the man who has done his duty as
/ God has given him the light TO know and
| the sight to see. But my discharge
must eminate from Headquarters and
4 anna IN yoa t,x I
der my commission to nobody as q Demo
crat except the Democrats Of Kentucky
No set Of self-congtituted leaders. in
their impotent blasphemy arrogating to
themselves the providence Of God and
consigning Democrats at least as good
as themselves not merely to death. but
to damnation can drive me. or such as
me, out of the Democratic party. 1t is
fit that men should talk about the gull
lotine who carry in their hearts the spirit
of Robespierre, Danton and Murat. II
is fit that we should hear nothing high
er. purer, wiser than the gibbet and the
stake from men who have no other CON
ceptlon of party warfare than personal
defamation, insult and menace, nor of
government, except as an alms-house for
mendicant politicians. Such men are
not my peers; they can not try me; they
can not convict me: they can not scare
me; and, above all, they can not cast me
out. / repeat nobody can do these
things except the Democrats OF Ken
/ tucky, and they only at the ballot-box-
and, speaking not alone for myself. but
| for all of us gathered here to-day-to
| the ballot-box / appeal, and each one of
us appeals, calling God to witness our
profound conviction and the sincerity
Of our plea for the honor of Kentucky
and the integrity of the Democratic
party.
CARLlSLE'S ABLE SPEECH.