The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-07-19
HARDIN WINS.
NAMED FOR GOVERNOR OF KIM.
lucky by THE CONVENTION.
Tie Is for Free snvor-Oniy ono
Ballot Taken.

day was the biggest, most excited and
turbulent that the history Of the party
has ever known. In attendance II sur
passed any other held for generation.
Interest 10 tho currency question il
% great that every delegate present
had his nerves strained 20 tho last de-
gree Of tension. Yet with ell the de-
sire for harmony was evident from the
start Never before were there 30
many complications, for the food Of
candidates crossed aud recronsed each
other, and the ghost Of the banquet,
the dreadful financial problem, kept
waving its ghostly form before the af-
iItghted eyes Of the convention.
Promptly at noon John d. Carroll,
chairman OF the state central commit
tee, called the body 10 order.
The organization Of tho committee
on resolutions, which is composed Of
one man from each Of the eleven dis
lricts and two at large TO be appointed
by the chair, shows a maiority Of gold
men in tho committee. OF the eleven
already chosen, seven are gold advo-
Gates and four for free silver
Nominations being next in order,
Judge William Beckner and Exon
gressman w. J. Stone, of Lyons coun-
ty, we're nominated for chairman.
The voting was watched with much in
teresk as the vote was a test one,
Beckner being the Hardin man and
Stone the choice of the Clay men.
Judge Beckner received 44sI votes on
the fret ballot against 419i received
by Stone. Chnirmain Deckner made
very good speech, urging harmony
and submission to the will of the ma
| iority. When he referred to silver
the hall was rent with yells and when
he praised Cleveland's honesty and
courage another demonstration took
place.
When he had concluded the organ
ization was completed and then the
chairman gave the silyerites q shook by
dividing the committeeman from the
state at large among the two factions.
On the platform committee no named
Senator Lindsay and Congressman
Claridy, representatively gold and sill
yer men, but not extremists. The
sound money men then had an over
whelming preponderance on the COM
mittee.
The convention adopted the MAORI
ty report of the committee ON resolu-
lions, which was as follows:
'To the Democratic Convention in
Session at Louisville-The undersign-
ed, a majority of your committee, beg
leave to submit as their report the ac-
companying resolutions:
81. The democracy of Kentucky in
convention assembled congratulates
the country upon the repeal of the
Mckinley tariff law and upon the evil
dences we have on every hand of re-
turning prosperity, under operation OF
reduced and eaualized tariff taxation.
ana we denounce as fraught with
danger and disaster the threat of our
republican adversaries to re-establish
protective tariff and reinaugurate the
policy of unequal taxation which, in
connection with general misgovern-
ment by the republican party, culmi-
mated in the business panic of 1898.
SO. The democratic party, which
has always stood for the separation Of
church and state, for the sake alike oil
civil and religious freedom, does not
hesitate to condemn all efforts to ere,
ate distinction among citizens, because
of differences in faith, as repugnant tc
an enlightened age and abhorrent tC
: the instincts of American freemen.
SO. We reafirm without qualifica
ton the principles and policies de
clared by the national democratic plat
form of 1892 and declare that oul
present national democratic admins
tration is entitled to the thanks of tn,
party for its honest, courageous anC
statesmanlike management of public
affairs; and we express our undimin
ished confidence in the democracy anC
: patriotism of President Grover Cleye
, land and his distinguished co-advise
, and secretary, John G. Carlisle, 0
Kentucky"
: The fourth and fifth resolutions ar
devoted to state matters.
r The report of the minority, whic'
a declared for o single gold standard
was as follows:
"We, the undersigned members @
the committee on resolutions, dissen
g from the views expressed by the ms
# iority of the committee in resolutio
a No. 3, which is proposed as an il
dorsement of the present nationr
J democratic administration, becaus
g said resolution is ambiguous, obscur
y and uncertain in its meaning, and il
It in our opinion, an attempt to straddl
the most vital question now attractin
the attention Of the American peopll