The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-27
THE KENTUCKY DEMOCRATIC ORA
TOR.

II anyone imagines that the Kentucky or
ator has not had his half hours to exhibit
his peculiar product in the six days Dem
ocratic convention he is mistaken. The WV
i'd orator with his wildly mixed metaphors,
his torrent of whitening denunciation and
his glittering panegyric can always have a
hearing in a Kentucky convention. The
wrangling delegates on the floor will always
stop in the midst of a general melee to ap-
2laud the orator whose power TO rufie the
plumage of the American bird is recognized.
A few samples are worth quoting. Take,
for instance. the following from a speech
secondirg the nomination of Capt. Stone:
He will be elected and the unspeakable
go TO the oblivion to which decency has
long ago consigned them. / will go further.
He Is the only man you can nominate to
win with beyond all question. Let us make
no mistakes. acknowledgements. AS I hope
to answer for the deeds done in the flesh,
and before that great God who sits in judy
ment upon the deeds of men, and in the
presence of these upturned faces of the I'M
terrified Democracy. I thoroughly believe
VIM. j. Stone will settle all opposition and
roll up a huge majority in November.
The man who seeks to convince men by
picturing the terrors OF judgment day as
preached in Kentucky and invoking the fe-
rocity Of the bowling mob before the speaker
called the Democracy of Kentucky should
have been more effective than was this
orator. But the terrors and the horrors Of
that speaker had no thfiuence upon the man
who spoke for his opponent, Mr.. Goebel, who
said:
Nominate him and the shouts of victory
that shall echo from the Purchase across
the waving fields of bluegrass and on to
the towering peaks Of the mountains shall
gladden. the hearts of the people, and our
beloved Kentucky shall again take her place
among her sister States OF the South, re-
joicing In the pristine purity of her old
Democratic principles.
The foregoing is commended to the study
OF Indiana Democratic orators who are even
now picking up adjectives and sentences for
similar speeches in Indiana conventions.
only they must not make the APP
peal to make the South solid.
which Is good in Kentucky, but i'm
polite in Indiana. One might assume
that such a prophetic shout OF victory. COW
ering a whole State so deeply with sound
that 1t reached the towering peaks of the
mountains" would have suffced. but an
other Goebel orator thought differently:
Nominate Goebel for Governor and the Re-
publican overthrow in Kentucky will be so
sweeping that the only sound waited DER
their fallen ranks by the vague sighh , of
a wilma at evening will be the vulf res
hoarse cry and the gloomy birds ZONES ome
hoot-and their only audience shall be a
sepulchre OF eternal oblivion wherein lie the
decaying ofals OF Kentucky Republicanism.
In this locality such a defeat of an enemy
as would nave invited vultures TO feast upon
the fallen would have been too much of an
overthrow; but the perspiring Democracy,
so full OF wretchedness. cheered the pre-.
diction as something desirable. Congress-
man Berry, who was fighting the battle OF
Candidate Hardin. In his effort 10 influence
the convention. said:
We appeal to the Democrats of this con
y~ention. each. and all Of you. who love
honesty and fairness. and ] swear before
God "a I stand here that l would rot hold
: my seat upon this floor IL I believed for one