The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-05-22

And your committee hSk luIJIlcI Iimc
to report to the convention as to State
and district organization
GEORGE PERKINS, Chairman.
The recommendation for dropping can
didates struck the convention favOrably,
as it promised, if adopted, to prevent the
protracted and tedious balloting.
Nominating speeches were then declar-
ed in order, and work was begun atonce.
Reuben A. Miller, of Owensboro, took
the platform and made an eloquent APP
peal to the Democracy of Kentucky in
presenting the claims of Hon. John
Young Brown to the convention. Space
alone forbids us giving the speeches in
detail. Hon. A. S. Berry presented the
name of Cassius NJ. Clay. Theodore Hal
lam, of Covington, nominated p. Wat.
Hardin, of Mercer county. In the absence
of Hon. Jas. A. Mckenzie, DIR. Clardy's
name was not offered, and the convention
adjourned until 10 A. NJ, Thursday.
Immediately after the convention was
called to order, Mr.. Mckenzie put the
name of DR.. John ID. Clardy in nomina-
ton in stirring and pathetic appeal, and
the forenoon was taken up with nomi-
mating speeches. At the opening of the
afternoon session the delegates were en-
tertained with an eloquent address by
Hon Livingston, the Democrat Alliance
Congressman from Georgia. The report
of the committee on Credentials was read
and adopted. The Committee on Reso.
lutions then offered the following:
First-The Democracy of Kentucky
declare their unfaltering devotion to the
principles of public policy which make
the party maintaining them as national
in purpose and as popular in spirit as it
was when founded by Jefferson.
Second-We congratulate the country
that the elections of the past year give
abundant promise of the overthrow of the
Republican party and the final and COM
plete restoration to the people of the con-
troll of the Federal Government.
Third-We insist that tariff reform is
the paramount issue before the American |
people and denounce the Mckinley bill
as the most outrageous measure of taxa
ton ever proposed in the American Con-
gress. 1t has increased the burdens, al
ready too great, upon the necessaries of
life and reduced taxes on luxuries that
are most able to bear them. 1t has made
existence harder for every farmer and
wage-earner in the land, i'm order that
the profits of the monopOies and trusts
may be increased. 1t robs the many TO
enrich the few and does not open mar
ket for single bushel of wheat or sim
gle barrel of pork In contrast with it
the policy of Grover Cleveland and John
G.. Carlisle would discourage unnecessary
provide all needed revenue,
cheaper what we buy and open the mar
kets of the world to the products of our
farms and factories.
Fourth-Recognizing the fact that the
United States is the greatest silver-pro-
Quoting country in the world, and that
both gold and silver were equally the
money of the Constitution from the be-
ginning of the republic until the hostile
and fraudulent legislation of the Repub-
lican party against silver, which unduly
TIE circulating medium of the
and feeling that the great inter
ests of the people demand more money
for use in the channels of trade aad COM
merce, we tender our gratitude to the
Democrats in the last Congress for their
almost unanimous votes in both houses
in favor of the free coinage of silver, and
demand its restoration to the position of
equality before the law given to it by our
fathers.
Fifth-We present for the considera-
ton of the people of the land the course
of Republican Congress which, by its
profigate and ruinous expendi-
ture of public money, has in two years
the surplus of more than
hundred million dollars left in the Fed
eral Treasury by Democratic admins
tratiOn, whilst it has increased in the
most extraordinary and unprecedented |
manner taxation that will add to the dis
tress of the people and at the same time
be inadequate to meet the demands of |
serve their selfish purposes.
Sixth-We return thanks to the patri. |
otto members of the last Senate of the
United States who defeated the unjust,
iniquitous aud partisan measure known
as the Force bill, which would have been
a fearful blow at home-rule and local
and was intended to
place in the hands of the Republican par
ty the machinery whereby il might by
force, fraud and intimidation have per-
petuated its iniquitous rule and destroyed
the freedom and integrity OF the ballot.
Seventh-We commend to the people |
of the State the manly, patriotic and up