Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-10
STILL TRUE TO BRYAN
SOUTHERNERS OBJECT TO ABUSE
OF THE NEBRASKAN.
Henry Watterson Hauled Over the
Goals for Attacks Upon Former
Presidential Candidate.

| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
| LEXINGTON, KY, August .. 1894
All Is not harmony in the democratic ranks
in the south The old Bryan element Is not
yet reconcled to the order of things as
| handed out by the st. Louis convention The
| Bryan sentiment is still strong In the south
| ern states and, IL the electors there could
| be relied on to express the voice of the
| people, the managers of the Parker cam
| paign would be given considerable trouble.
| Bryan sentiment is stronger than Parker
| sentiment In the SOUTH but the rank and
| file can be depended on to fall In eventually
| for Parker. notwithstanding the almost uni
| versal dissatisfaction with present condi-
| lions in the party. The men who helped
to whoop II up for Bryan four and eight
years ago, and at the same time heaped
| vituperation the financial interests OF
| the east. cannot bring themselves TO en-
| brace Parker and his associates without
first having chance to think it all over.
In Kentucky Henry Watterson is In the
| saddle and is hurting javelins of hate and
| defiance at the old silver men. His meth
| DDS are resented by the Bryan following
| and a pretty mix-up Is inevitable.
| One of the rural democratic papers OF
| the Bryan faith recently read the riot act
| to the CourierJournal and Louisville Times
| as follows:
THE Courier-Journal and Times have I'M
| corked their venom and are pouring their
hateful, but harmless abuse upon the man
Bryan and the loyal crew that refused to
desert the democratic ship to the mutineers
| In 1896 and 1900. The Courier-Journal and
| Times should remember that though tho
democratic voters of Kentucky will still
remain loyal to the party nominees they
will take criticism and chastisement
| from the king of boilers.
No Harmony While Bryan is De-
nounced.
William b. Smith, one of the leading law
| yers of Kentucky. and the one eleetor on
the Bryan ticket to pull through in 1895.
has come out In interview defending
| Bryan's course at the st. LOUIS convention,
and at the same time serves notice on the
so-called reorganiZers that there can be no
harmony in the party long as the denun-
citation of Bryan and his followers Is con-
tinued Mr.. Smith in the course of his In
terview goes after Bryan's traducers in
the state and says that the attempt to be-
little and destroy the Nebraska statesman,
in the face of his open, frank, cour geouS
and bold course during the entire conven-
ton, should not be countenanced by the
democrats of the state. Mr. Smith concludes
by warning the reorganiZ alton papers that
if the abuse is continued there VIII be no
political harmony in Kentucky.
Still another paper dilutes the Parker dose
with Bryan lotion by placing the nlme or
Bryan at the head of its editorial page as
it's choice for the position OF Attorney Cen
eral in the event of Parkers election. me
paper says:
I'VE nail the ticket nominated at st.
Louis at our masthead, and on our own
motion append the name of the nltlons
idol for the second greatest office on eartn
today-W. ]. Bryan for Attorney Generai.
Further evidence that Bryan still lives IN
the hearts of many voters IN Kentucky II
the following eXtravagant lndpTS"heh''
penned by of the rural editors:
There is but one sentiment now apous
Mr. Bryan-he is the Grand Young Man OK
the Western Hemisphere. Patriot, states
man and loyal democrat w. j. Bryan tor
President in 1908.
The Kentucky Gazette edited by Edmond
S. Kinkead a relative of the United States
Senator j. c. S. Blackburn. for quarter OF
a century influential newspaper in cen
trail Kentucky. and ever since lts OH III al,
advocate of democratic principles, mas
threatened to bolt the democratic party anu
support President Roosevelt. In "A three-
column editorial in its last issue tho
Gazette, among other things. says
When we are confronted with the lauua.
tory expressions applied to the course
adopted by Judge Parker in commentator
of the absolutely unjustihable advantage
that he and his leutenants-Hlll, Sheehan'
Belmont and McCarren-saw mt to take
not only of the representatives, or the DEM
ocratic party, but also of the people OF the
United States, are amazed at the un-
bounded effrontery of the attempted I'M
position. The circumstances that surround
the entire affair are of a character so dam.
aging they are liable to be conducive OF mes
Unable injury to democracy's success that
il is imperative that Judge Parker should
remove, if II be possible for him TO do SO.
the impression that he was guilty or en-
terng into a scheme with Hill and Shee-
han with the intent of deceiving the people
and the convention and of securing the
nominat ton through the means of political
trickery and treachery."
Row in Fifth District Convention.
The convention of the fifth appellate dis
trict held at Lexington last week to NOM
mate candidate for judgeship in the court
of appeals resulted in a disgraceful wrane
gle almost equal to the famous Music Hall
convention in Louivslle that nominated
Goebel for governor Fist fights and tur.
MOL resulted in breaking up the conven-
ton, with the result that one faction pro-
ceeded to nominate Judge Cantrill. me pres
siding judge in the Caleb Powers trials,
whereas another faction with a few moro
than a ma jority of the total number of del-
egates, adjourned the convention for two
weeks when they hope to make a nomina-
ton. The matter is in such shape that tho
state central committee will have to step
in and settle it. This district is now repre-
scented on the bench by Judge Burnam, e
republican.
The republicans will make a hard fight
to carry at least four of the eleven con-
gressional districts The third. fifth, ninth
fighting ground. All four Of these districts
had republican representatives four years
ago. The eleventh Is always republican by{
an average majority of 1000. The third
and ninth are usually very close, but In
cline to the republicans in presidential
years. The fifth is the Louisville district,i
and generally has a republican represented
tive. y
The republican organization In the state
will be in better condition than for some
time past, and the outcome of the electionl
in the blue grass state this fall will be-
very much in doubt until all the votes arel
counted.
Hapnv at Last I'll