The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-24
A COMPROMISE.
THE KENTUCKY DEMOCRACY,
HOW THEY YET AND wHAT. THEY Did.

HOW THEY MET AND WHAT. THEY DID.
A letter to the Cincinnati Commercial
from Frankfort, KY, on Wednesday, gives
the proceedings of the state democratic con-
vention assembled at hat place. The cor
respondent writes We nave witnessed a
good many conventions OF the Kentucky
democracy in the past six or eight years, and
the delegates here assembled t o nomi
but g single candidate for state office-the
clerkship of the court of appeals-is, in per-
sonnet, more respectable inc representative
than we have heretofore seen. The "rsg-tag
and bob-tail" element, that has hitherto
constituted so large an element in former
~assemblages of the unterriled, is con-
spicuously absent. There are, perhaps,
not so many of the leaders, or
headlights of the democratic party
visible in the thick groups that dot the
street corners or make a buzz in the hotel Of
fees, but there is no installing the substan-
tial appearances of the mass of delegates,
indicating, in aspect at least, a good chance
to rise above the heretofore wild and ire
pressible elements OF a ku-klux democracy.
At 11:30 O'Clock, the Major Hall having
been pretty well filled with delegates, the
chairman of the democratic state central
committe, Mr.. q. w. Craddock, called the
convention to order, and nominations for
temporary president being in order, Colonel
J. B. McCreary, speaker of the house of rep
r0SeQIaLlVSS, anu 6X-OONcIuOr
were put in nomination Speaker McCrearv
of Madison, having taken the stand, ex-
planned the objects of the convention TO be
to nominate a candidate for the clerkship
OF the court of appeals, and added some OF
the usual commonplace remarks about the
progress and success of the democratic par
ty tor the past eight years. A motion was
made to appoint a COMMITTEES of one from
each district as a committee on organ
~ization, and a motion was offered as an
amendment to dispense with the usual APP
pOintment of committees, and have a ballot
for clerk of the court OF appeals without fur
ther delay. This raised a storm, and, after
discussion, a substitute was adopted 10 bave
a call of the counties to ascertain what coun-
ties were represented. This tedious process
was agreed 10 as a necessary measure TO as
certain the constitution of the conventions
and occupied some time. The conclusion OF
the call exhibited that of the 1l6 counties in
the state, la were represented in person OF
by proxy in the convention.
ORGANIZATIONS.
A motion 10 appoint a committee on per
msnent organization, of one from each dis
trict in the state, said committee to be also 9
committee on credentials, and a similar com
mittee on resolutions, was made.
A motion to appoint a committee on reso.
buttons was made by some delegate, anC
Colonel Breckenridge moved that thai
motion be laid on the table, which was car
ried by q large majority. A motion tc
reconsider that vote was then projected be.
fore the convention, followed by a motion
to lay on the table. At this point the con-
vention showed an eager hunger for q
speech by calling on "Breckenridge,''
blackburn" "McManema, f" "Winchester, y