The Hartford herald., 1885-07-29


JohnstOn's voice in the matter
amounted to just one-twelfth of one
vote" he being "A member of the Gem
tral Committee, which voted n "a
single member of the Executive Conn
mittee. Again the Inquirer has re
peatedly charged that the nomination
Of Mr.. Tate was the work of Frankfort
politicians. The same charge has been
made by other papers. The YeoD,dR
replies a. follows in its issue of July
18th:
! The following <, ntlemen compose
the State Central and Executive Com.
mittees, over the late action of which
the Louisville Commercial and several
papers Of Western Kentucky are trying
tn create disafiection ia the Democratic
party:
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
J stoddard Johnston, DuyalI
/ W owens, FP Helm,
/ q V Triplett, A W Hamilton,
Thomas II Corbett, William Lindsay.
/ l. TObin, w u Hoke,
sam VI Gaines, Tx StockdaIe,
Sam f. Hill, VI Williams.
| STATE p.
Henry Burnett NJ Thomas
| Thomas II Sherley, X A Spur,
n 4 Young, Hunter Wood,
| Jas y Wortham, &C Wallace.
Rankin Mason, Il q Stuart,
CT Dun.
In determining the matter of calling
"A convention or announcing candi-
date, the State Central Committee has
only one vote as a whole, while each
/
has one vote. IL will he seen that no
member of the Executive Committee
resides at Frankfort, but they are taken
one from each Congressional district.
Col. j. StOddard Johnston, Judge Alvin
Duvall, Judge William Lindsay, and
Mr.. l.. TObin, are members of the State
Central Committee resident at Frank
fort, and We suppose they are the per
sons referred to as constituting the
Frankfort Ring" although the four
combined represent less than One-third
of one vote. There are fourteen mem
bers of the Central Committee, and
! Daviess, McCracken and Ohio counties,
from which there are complaints of the
action OF the committees, are each rep
resented
We publish these lists just to show
how senseless and unjust is the charge
that either the Frankfort Ring or
the "Blue-Grass" had any control of
this matter, or was i'm IA condition to
''boss" the party. IL the disturbed
newspapers desire to do the clean thing,
let them print the names Of the mem-
bers of the committees, state where
they are from, and then call them
'bOsses," ringsters, and tricksters il
they like.
This disturbed newspaper Is will
ing to do the clean thing. and prints
the names of the members of the Com
mittees as the YeODidn has them.
Indeed, it Will go still further in Its zeal
for cleanliness in the party and print
something more than the ieODldn re-
quests, in order to show that it has been
right in charging that the spurious
nomination was the work of Frank
fort ring and of Col. j. Stoddard John
stOn more than of any other single
individual. Now for the real facts in
the case.
AT the meeting of the committees i'm
Frankfort, the following members oI
the Central Committee We're present: J
Stoddard Johnson, Frankfort Geo. v
Triplett, OwensbOro; Thos. ii. Corbett
residing in Frankfort; l.. TObin, Frank
fort Alvin Duvall, Frankfort +. p
Helm, proxy Newport; w. B. Hoke
Louisville.
Seven members were present out O
the fourteen named by the Yeoman
Four OF these-a majority-resided in
Frankfort. Mr.. Corbett was formerly
of Paducah, but now resides at Frank
fort. The vote of the Central Com
mittee, then, was, as charged, controlled
by Frankfort.
OF the members of the Executive
Committee, there were present i'm per
sou and by proxy the following: J
StOddard Johnston. of Frankfort
Henry Burnett, proxy held by j. Stod
dard Johnston, of Frankfort H. A
Spur, proxy held by j. Stoddard John
ston of Frankfort G.. NJ. Thomas
proxy held by II. +. Duncan, Of Frank
fort; j. :. Wortham, proxy held b.,
Virgil Hewitt, of Frankfort; q. II
Duff. proxy held by q. w. Craddock, o
Frankfort +; G.. w. Craddcck, of Frank
fort II. ii. Sherley, Of Louisville T
q. Stuart, of Winchester G.. G. Wal
lace, of Covington.
That is, eleven members were pres
eut, making, with the vote of the Cen
trail Committee, twelve votes. OF thes'
twelve votes. eight were cast by Frank
fort men, and four of them by Col j
Stoddard Johnston himself FrankfOr
had twelve out of the eighteen votes in
the two committees and Col. j. StOd
dard Johnston, for himself and through
his proxies, cast five votes. Furthe
than this, Frankfort, not satisfied will
her rightful power in the committee
was represented by q. w. Craddock
of Frankfort, who is not IA member o
the committe, who not only voted fo
Tate's nomination but made Ions
speech in favor of it OF the five mem
bers present who claimed residence
outside of Frankfort, four of them, viz
Messrs- Sherley, Triplett, Stuart ant
HOke, voted for a convention and op
posed the nomination of Mr.. Tate b,
the committee.
This is the plain truth in the matter
We trust it is "clean" enough for thu
Yeomaa. Let Western Kentuck,
Democrats consider these facts and SCI
how they have allowed the control o
the party to be lodged at Frankfort, th'
breeding place of rings and eliques. Il
this safe party management Is it SAT-
State government
Time is always represented as carrying