The evening times., 1899-08-24
GOEBEL LEAPS THE RACE.
kentucky's Regular Democratic

| political situation was given out today by
prominent Blue Grass politician from
| Louisville:
Il believe" said he, "that Goebel will
be elected. He is the regular Democratic
nominee by the regular Democratic con-
vention. For that reason alone he is each
day gaining in strength. The fires of ami
mostly lighted by the convention are dying
out; dissatisfied Democrats are returning
to the support of the party's nominee. Be-
| fore the day of election the lines will be
so sharply drawn that everyone in Ken
tucky who calls himself a Democrat, ex-
| cepting, of course, certain exceedingly
small class, will be ready to vote for Sen
ator Goebel and the rest of the Democratic
| ticket.
| When the campaign opened Senator
| Goebel was somewhat unknown personally
| to the people of the State as a political
| figure. His reputation as lawyer OF
| great ability and as a citizen of strict in
| tegrity was, of course, securely establish
| ed. Wherever he has gone he has made
! friends and won over thousands of men
who two months ago were hostile to his
candidacy. He is making one of the bold
est, brayest, most courageous, and most
, ski!lful campaigns ever known even in
Kentucky. He has drawn the lines so
sharply between him and his enemies, and
has defined so clearly the issues of the
canvass, that people everywhere are arous-
ed as they have not been within the recol-
/ lection of haired men. He has dem
onstrated. and is each day demonstrat-
| ing, that the Louisville and Nashville
/ Railroad has attempted, and is attempt
ing, TO control the politics of Kentucky.
The feeling against such corporations in
the State cannot be imagined. 1t is more
intense today than ever. The people are
! thoroughly aroused.
They are determined to convince the cor
| porate influences that money alone cannot
purchase an election in Kentucky and that
! Hannaism shall not rule the government
of the state. Senator Goebel is getting every
town, city, hamlet, and crossroads afire
1 on that subject. The people recognize in
/ him a leader who can be trusted to fight
/ the corporations with courage, ability,
skill, and persistency. He is daily becom-
! ing the hero of the plain people, especially
/ of the farmers, whose interests are always
! injured when the Government passes into
the control of corporations.
THE John Young Brown Democrats will
not in my opinion, on the day OF election,
make formidable showing. Like the Pal
| mer- Buckner crowd, they have money
I
attract considerable polite attention during
the early stages of the campaign. AS the
weeks pass by and Senator Goebel and
former Senator Blackburn are heard by
! the people in different sections of the State,
/ there is a distinct and emphatic feeling
| on the part of Democratic voters to return
TO the fold and support the regular nomi-
! nee.
! Every one in Kentucky knows that John
Young Brown can never by any possibility
! be elected They admit that he is only
straw man, put out by the Louisville and
Nashville railway interest TO divert
| strength from the Democratic ticket. That
corporation expects to defeat Goebel by
enticing sufficient Democratic voters TO
/ Brown. That expectation is utterly vain
| and has no foundation in fact. Kentucky
/ is Democratic State under normal condi-
/ tions by 80 COO majority. The John Young
Brown ticket may do as well as Palmer
| and Buckner did in 1896. In that year the
! Democratic bolters headed by the Louis
| vile Courier Journal" polled about 5000
| votes.
The Republican nominee will not poll
! the full strength OF his party. He is weak
in many sections of the State-notably so
| in Louisville. He is not an attractive cam
paign speaker. Where Brown gets one
| vote from Goebel, Goebel will convert ten
from Taylor.
The people are taking no stock in this
/ Republican bowling against the Goebel
election law. That law was passed by
/ Democratic legislature in the interests of
the whole State. Its enc single definite
/ purpose is to prevent certain methods,
known to be used by Republicans, from
stealing the election from the Democratic
| party. The people of Kentucky will not
endure or submit to Hannaism in any form.
| They now have the opportunity to crush
/ it and they intend to do SO.
''All Democrats know that if Goebel is
defeated, Mr.. Bryan's chances will be i'm
periled in Kentucky next year and that
Senator Blackburn's probability for going
J to the United States Senate will also be
! lost. II would be impossible 10 carry Ken
lucky in 1900 for the Democratic party if
| the State this fall should go Republican.
AS the campaign goes on, all organization
| Democrats in the State will line up for
the Goebel ticket. We realize that there
are grave political contests ahead for US
| in Kentucky. To win there, all Democrats
must stand together. We have determined
| TO settle our differences within the party.
All Democrats who have a political future
and who desire to save the State from the
misrule of the Republican party, realize
that We should unite now and elect the
regular Democratic nominee.
1 Senator Goebel has silenced the COM
plant that he is not a bimetallist His
speeches demonstrate beyond all question
| that he is sincere in the position he now
maintains. and that he understands intel
| ligently the question which he discusses.
His convictions are fixed on the currency
question, and they are satisfactory to the
Democrats of Kentucky.
ITO sum up: Geobel will be elected gov
ernor because he is the regular Democrat
1 ic nominee; because he is the champion OF
| the people against the corporations; be-
cause he is courageous and patriotic; be-
cause he has Bryan and Blackburn and all
! their followers behind him; because of
| the canvass he is making; because of his
growing popularity with all persons who
| see him and hear him speak; because of
| his clear and firm and acceptable views
On all public questions; because of his
| magnetic personality especially with
young men; because Kentuckians have no
use for boilers, even when they are backed
| by railroad; because Kentucky is tired
of Republican misrule, and finally because
| the people of the State are determined to
elect the Democratic candidate this year,
| thereby securing Kentucky for the Dem
ocratic nominee for President in 1900''
TO MEET IN WASHINGTON.