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bryan COUNTY.
The Kentucky Proposition Has q Precedent.
bat No Prospect or Success.

but No Prospect or Success.
Carlisle county, Kentucky. is one OF the small
est counties Of the State. 1t Is on the Missis-
sippi River, just across from Illinois, and south
Of Cairo and is one Of the new counties Of the
Blue Grass State, having been established in
1885 as q cut from Ballard county, ono of the
largo counties Of the State. Tho area of Car.
Isle is 100 square miles only. 1t isn't so
large as Rockland county, New York. and a ma
jority of its voting population are ~silverite
Democrats, who gave a majority for Bryan In
1896. 1t Is by reason Of such partially per.
haps that in the Frankfort Legislature the other
day Representative Mount introduced a bill to
change tho name Carlisle county to William
jennings Bryan county. The name Of Car.
Isle. 1t must be added, Is not an agreeable ono
to the Kentucky silverites.
There arc 119 counties in kentucky, but
there isn't a Bryan county in any other State
of the Union with the solitary exception of Geor-
gia. which has, and has had for a number OF
years, a Bryan county, a small affair just to the
south OF savannah and fronting on the Atlantic
coast. In the Northern States 1t is not a GUS
tom to give full names to counties. That is to
say, it is not customary to give such titles as
son county" or Alexander Hamilton county"
e eonS9g is sG shoash te 70 sSfic% sou1Bs But G IN lhe son9R
and such States in the West as Southern
lu6aS prevail IN, longer DESIGNATIONS TOT counties
are not unusual. There is in Texas q JEFF Davis
county, though Davis county would probably
serve as well the r~equirements.of those who de-
sired to pcrpetuate the memory of the President
of the former Confederacy. There is also in Tex
as, very far up in the forsaken region OF the Pan.
handle. what Is known as Deaf Smith county,
but there is q good chronological reason for be-
lieving that Deaf smith was not made SO by the
oratory OF William Jennings Bryan. for tho
designation was bestowed before Bryan had
been heard of in Nebraska. There Is a Charles
Mix county in South Dakota. n Roger Mills
county In Oklahoma, a 10 Daviess county in
Illinois, and a Kit Carson county in Colorado.
The proposition, therefore, to establish in Ken
lucky. not q Bryan county. but u William Jen-
nings Bryan county. Is not altogether q novelty
In nomenclature. Nevertheless, by reason of
the form of the proposition. II for no other rea-
son. IL Is not likely to gain serious consideration.
Bryan did not carry Kentucky when n candi-
date for the Presidency in the election of 1896.
Mckinley did. and Mckinley was tho only Re-
ginning of the civil war Kentucky was what
was then called "a Constitutional Union party"
State, and 1t went for the Constitutional Union
party candidate, John Bell, in 1860, against
both the Democratic and the Republican candi-
dates. and after the beginning OF the civil war
II was uniformly, until. 1896, Democratic.
While, the voters Of Carlisle might be willing
enough in their allegiance to the cause Of free
silver and campaign oratory to substitute for
the present designation that of William Jen-
nings Bryan, this Formally. to be official, re-
quires under the Kentucky Constitution the
assent of the State Legislature, and the Ken
lucky State Legislature is not likely, to assent
county as such might perhaps he easy; to
call II Blackburn or Blue Grass county, for in
stance. might be easier than to establish a Will
liam jennings Bryan county.