Long Range Talk

Lexington, Ky., June J7. - Seoretary Carlisle was intervlewed on the subject of meeting W. J. Bryan, of Nebraska, here in debate at the Chatauqua. "Will you meet Mr. Bryan here in debate?" was askod "Whatf Dignify him by debating wlth himf" asked the secretary almost angrily, in return. "No sir, he is a Populist. He Is not a Democrat. Didn't he say in Louisianna that if a silver plank was not puc in the Democratie platform he would be against the party's success No. I wlll not meet him under any circumetances." Carlisle wlll make no mure speeches this summer Ilryuii Beard from on the Subject. A dispatch from St Louis say3 that Bryan passed through Chat city yesterday, en routo to Boonviüe, Mo., and had this to say of Carlisle' s remarks: "I am to discuss the silver question at the Lexington Chautauqua on July 5, but I knew nothing of the proposed debate untll I 6aw Secretary Carlisle s interview in this morning's paper. I would be willing to debato with him if the Chautauqua so desired, but not with any idea of aoquirng dignity, for I do not think an American who has so little faith in hls countrymen as to employ a Rothschild-Morgan syndlcate to protect the treasury of the United States has any dignity to impart to others. But a debate might afford Mr. Carlisle an opportunity to explain some [hing3 coneeruing which he ha3 been studiously silent. Repudiates the Seoretary'a Charge "As to the charge that I am a Populist, I would say that I am now a Demoorat and have always been a Demoorat. I am not now a Populist and have never been a Populist. I said in Nebraska in 1893 that I would not follow the Democratie party to the gold Standard if it ever adopted a gold standard platform. I repeated this at Jackson, Miss., in reply to a question; but I have always said that I did not - and I now say that I do not - believe that the Democratie party will ever declare for a gold standard. Say Carlisle Will Bolt. "The struggle in the Democratie party is to determine whether the gold buga can use the organization as a vehicle for the advancement of plutocracy, or whether the party will stand upon Democratie principies. The silver Democrats expect to control the next national convention, and I have no doubt that Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle will either bolt or vote the Kspublican ticket."