The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-18
rHE KnNTuc,kY MAcHINE.
Senator BIackburn and Governor Beck
 ham at Outs.

Senator Blackbarn and Governor Beck
 ham at Outs.
 Frankfort Special.
 Governor Beckham is preparing statement which will be given to the press tomorrow, answering the bitter attack which was made on him yester- day afternoon by Senator J. sc. $. Blackburn.
 The paper containing the attack of Senator Blackburn on the Governor was eagerly read, and the article was the chief topic of conversation last evening Senator Blackburn, in the in- terview given to the Washington cor respondent of The Louisville Times, IS quoted as follows:
 q have no hesitancy in declaring my contempt for Beckham, his methods, his machine and his conduct or party affairs. I denounce them here and VIII do so anywhere. They are odious Tney are ruinous, and unless this machine ia crushed. mark you, 1t will wreck the Democratic Party of the State. l want 1t to be understood now that l do not want that machines support, l do not want it's acquiescence in my re-eiec- tfon; I prefer its opposition; l want a seat in the Senate by the will of the people. or do not want it at all. The practice of succession in State offices and the perpetuation, of a machine Is not Democratic, and submit the question to all fair minded and honest Demo- crats Now Eeckham wants to be Sem ator, Hager Governor, McChesney something else, and so on. l say 1t is not Democratic, and, by the eternal, shall reserve to the. end the right to protest. The Kentucky machine, as all maGhines do, is growing more and more odious every day, and will continue to do so until the thing is kiiled.'
 Everybody thought the Governor would ignore the interview, but he said this afternoon:
 My reply will be published in The Louisville Times tomorrow afternoon. I thought 1t proper to let 1t be pub lished in the paper which published the original article, and 1t will be ready in the morning"
 The card of Governor Beckham was given out Monday. It is quite lengthy and deals with Senator Blackburn in caustic style, as the following extracts will show:
 let the people but refresh their memory for the last ten years as to the part he has played in the politics of the State In 1895 he was a candidate for the Senate and the recognized lead CT of his party in the State. and Ken lucky for the first time went Republi- can by about 5000 majority. and the Republicans elected their entire State ticket. and finally captured the Gem eral Assembly, which sent a Republican to the United States Senate.
 Tn 1896 he was still a candidate for the Senate and the leader of the party, and the State gave its electoral vote for the first time to the Republican candidate for the Presidency. In 1899 he was still the leader of the party, still the candidate for the Senate, and the Campaign Chairman of the State. Everyone remembers the unfortunate conditions of that campaign under his leadership.
 Tn the following winter of 1900 he was elected to the Senate and as early as possible he struck out for Washing ton.
 Since that time he has been practi- cally a voluntary exile from the State, and has had little or no part in the direction of the party affairs of the State, and mark you, too, that since that time, with the wholesome infiu- ences of his salutary absence. the Dem- ocratic majorities in Kentucky have grown, as 1t were, by leaps and bounds. Kentucky is the only State in the Union where substantial Democratic gains have been shown In the last five years. Today every department of the State government Is again in the hands of the Democratic party, and the condi- ton of the States finances was never so good as now. The people are satis- fled with the management of their pub lie affairs, and the Democratic party of the State Is In good condition, as was shown in the last election by the way Kentucky withstood the Republi- can landslide in tl.e nation.
 And yet here returns this Iong-lost lok. k.. ate, hurling defiance at the machine" bugaboo, saying things have not been run right" since he left, and that he is willing to save the people from the impending danger by running for the Senate once more. He is willing to demonstrate to them that there Is but one way they can throw off the galling yoke of this tyrannical machine" and that is to send him to the Senate just another time.
 "The Senator is mistaken If he thinks he can promote his candidacy by these vicious assaults upon me and my asso- ciates in the States administration. We are fully acquainted with the motive that actuates him, and 1t is not the first time we have encountered his blatant boasts and his inane threats. I shall not recount any service or sac rifce I may have made for it ever since his implacable enmity. and during the last i've years he has tried in every way to destroy me.
 But 1t is unnecessary to enumerate the reasons for his attitude toward me. l regret the necessity of noticing at all his foolish attacks upon me, and have ignored similar attacks from him in the past, but as he seems to be pitch ing his fight upon that line, propose that he shall have 1t, and, while under no circumstances whatever will be a candidate for the Senate against him, as l positively stated a year ago, I in- tend to urge the people that they send a man to the United States Senate the next time who would worthily and cred itably represent this great State and not send a professional claim agent or lobbyist"