Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-07

another sir ae that time. He may not have thought it necessary, and do not blame him for it, but had I known it, I should have joined with Harvey E Myers and e5Aers and made it utterly F impossible for Mr HaIdeman and the | Courier Journal 10 thus get another l hold upon 3 power sufficient to de- stroy the Democratic party and humil- late and oppress my people.
 Suppressed the Facts.
 "Hedid not disclose to the Democrats i of Kentucky in his canvass prior to the Louisville convention; he did not disclose it to me in that convention, l when under threat Of open denuncia- tion he denied having made any agree 1 ment He d3d not disclose it to me when he accepted my public indorse- ment. He did not disclose it to the people of Kentucky during the whole period after the charge was first pub licly mada He did not disclose it il his speech at Versailles in responding diractly to tue ck-rge. Until the publi-
 ton Of hss oWR letter lie rested upon 8 suppression of all facts and appealed to passion and prejudice. I repeat that the disclosures that MT. Goebel was an adherent of the gold standard did not affect me. 1 knew his views not only in 1896, but in 1897, and that lip to ths convention foa clerk of the court ot appeals there had never been an utter ance from him in favor of free silver. even in his own race for senatCr.
 ''The explanation that he now makes is a confession with humiliating att ltempt at avoidance that but adds in- fanny to the original offense. For more than a month he permitted his friends and the party to rest under the be- 1 lief that the charge that he had left the senate chamber, after the heated con- test for free silver, and gone to MT. Carlisle, who was chiefly responsible for the failure, and made an alliance with him to carry the Sixth district as against free silver, was untrue and simply sprung from the prejudice O. Carlisle and his associates, as against him. for his fight for the interest ef the common people, and attempted tc give evidence to it's untruth by the as sertion that he had incurred the hos tility of MT. Carlisle because he had cast the vote of his district against him in the Lexington convention, and contributed S700 to the Bryan campaign fund.
 Upon fhe publication of his letter he Eow aGnits that the charge waa true and only seeks to avoid it upon the claim that he yielded to the solie- itations of tue friends of Carlisle, and in grateful recognition of foCmer ben efts received al his hands. If, as he says, he yielded to the importunitles of the friends of Carlisle to combine in an effort to give him the Sixth dis trict, and attached so much impor- tance to it as 10 seek the approval of Mir. Blackburn, how weak and shady is his excuse for casting the vote of his delegates against him.
 "He says that Mir. Carlisle's friends wanted him to pat 'bolter' on his delegation, and that fact, in his judg- ment, released him from all obligation and was sufficient reason for ignoring the grateful recognition which slept in his bosom and breaking a secred prom ise. How inconsistent! He was will ling. in a race known to be close and doubtful, to give whole congress sional district to the boss traitor and encourager of bolters and thereby de- feat the caueA of free silver and make impossible the reelection of Black
 burn and deny Hardin, already de- feated by reason of the great influence of this loss traitor and his close friends. an empty indorsement; yet such was his contempt for a traitor who had refused. under the influence of Mir Carlisle. to give Hardin his sup port, as to make him forget that grst- itude now spoken in tears and violate his pledged word and honor.
 Hangs His Head Tn Shame. When I recall the circumstances at tending the attempted removal of Dr Wiley. the most efficient superintend. ent the Kentucky asylums ever had because he was gold bug, although , he had voted for Hardin, and in that , light read Mr. GoebePs explanation, my head hangs in shame and l seek ] to close my eyesl in the presence of l a man whom I had once trusted and | called my friend. In view of my knowledge of Senator Blackburn and perfect familiarity with all of his thoughts and utterances, as well ss the facts that know to be in h,s pos session, I can not accept the statement of MT Goebel that he was willing to hazard the success of our great cause.