Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-05-24
THE KENTUCKY DEMOCRACY.

Ihe kentucky DeIllOcFdtlC olsle SoHNeu'
ton, in session at Lexington last week, nom
mated full State ticket, with j. Proctor
Knott at it's head as nominee for Governor
The nominee for Lieutenant Governor is
Capt. James R. Hindman, late of the Fed
eral army, who was nominated over Capt
Allen late Confederate soldier.
The platform adopted declares as follows
The Kentucky Democracy are unanimously
opposed to subsidies of every description
They believe that all taxation should be for
the support of the Government. They de-
nounce the Tariff Act of the last Republican
Congress as a monster piece of inequality
injustice and wrong, and they demand OF
the next Democratic House of Representa-
tives a measure of relief and reform based
upon the organic law of the Democratic par
ty declared at st. Louis in 1876, and reaffirm-
ed at Cincinnati in 1880, which requires that
all customhouse taxation shall be for reve-
nue. only.
J. Proctor Knott, who was nominated tor
Governor, was born near Lebanon, KY,
August, %, 1880; studied law, removed to
Missouri in May, 1850, and was admitted to
the bar in 1851 was elected to the State
House of Representatives of Missouri in
1857 and resigned in August, 1859; was ap-
pointed Attorney General of Missouri in the
same month was unanimously nominated
for the same position by the Democratic
Convention and elected in August, 1852; re-
turned to Kentucky and commenced the
practice of law in Lebanon in 1868 was a
member of the Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty
fourth and Forty-ffth Congresses, and was
reelected to the Forty-siXth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 1868 votes against H.
GIG votes for Beldin, Republican, and 2O4
votes for Lewis, National.
THE TROUBLES IN IRELAND.
Daniel Curley, the second man convicted
of participation in the murder of Lord
Frederick Cavendish and Mr.. Burke on the
9Th of last May, was hanged in kilmainham
jail at 8 o'clock last Friday morning. The
Jail was guarded by force of military SINH
lar to that which was present at the hanging
of Joe Brady on Monday. Canon Ken
nedy and Father O'Reilly arrived at the
prison at an early hour to attend Curley.
After the priests had prayed privately with
the condemned man in his cell mass was
performed in the prison chapel in the pres
ence Of the governor and warden, when Cur
lev received the sacrament. Meanwhile a
group of women, who had gathered outside
the prison, were on their knees saying the
Litany for the dying.
When the black flag announcing that the
execution had taken place was hoisted over
the prison every man in the crowd outside
which numbered barely one thousand, un-
covered his head and murmurs of sympathy
with Curley were uttered. A rush was then
made by the crowd for the garden nearby
where Curley's relatives had assembled, and
where his father was kneeling and praying
for the repose of the soul of his son. The
people soon dispersed quietly.
Curley walked to the scaffold with but
little assistance. He seemed to be resigned
to his fate, but was hardly firm. He de-
clined to make any statement touching his
connection with the crime for which he was
executed. Death was instantaneous. In a
letter which Curley wrote to his wife he
said: 81 will take my secrets to the grave
with me and leave those who are at freedom
to enjoy it. L will die in peace, forgiving
my enemies"
The trials of the other prisoners implica-
ted in the same offence ended in Dublin on