The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-27
HARDIN IS THE NOMINEE
WHEN THE RESULT WAS ANNOUNC- ED THERE WAS 4 WILD SCENE.

Louisville, June 26-The convention
 met at 9:SO this morning. The session
 was taken up chiefly with wrangling
 about the minority and majority reports
 involving the titles to seats of two dele
 gations. The Clay men favored the
 minority report and 1t was finally adopt
 ed by vote of 445 to 438. Then Senator
 Lindsay, chairman of the committee on
 resolutions, presented the majority re-
 port of that committee.
 The report congratulates the country
 upon the repeal of the Mckinley tariff
 law and upon the evidences on every
 hand of returning prosperity under the
 operations of reduced and capitalized tar
 tiff taxation; denounces the threat of re-
 publicans to re-establish a protective
 tariff and to reinaugurate policy of
 unequal taxation; condemns all efforts
 to create a distinction among citizens
 because of differences in faith as repug-
 nant to an enlightened age and obhor-
 rent to the instincts of American free
 men,
 It affirms without qualification the
 principles and policies declared by the
 national democratic platform of 92 and
 declares that the present national dem
 ocratic administration is entitled to the
 thanks of the party for its honest, cour-
 ageous and statesna nike management
 of public affairs; expresses undiminish-
 ed confidence in the democracy and pa-
 triotism of President Grover Cleveland
 and his distinguished secretary, John
 G. Carlisle.
 The rest of the majority report is de-
 voted to state affairs.
 Great enthusiasm followed the read ing of the report.
 The names of Cleveland and Carlisle were received with loud shouts of ap- probation.
 The report of the minority, which was read by John s. Rhea and which de- clares for a single gold standard dis sents from the views expressed by the majority of the committee in the resolu- tion which was proposed as an indorse- nnent of the present national democratic administration, because it is ambiguous, obscure and uncertain in its meaning, and the report says: "An attempt to straddle the most vital question now attracting the attention of the Ameri- can people. And while the undersigned do not concur in the views expressed in said resolution, nor in the views ex- pressed in the amendment which they 11ere submit, they nevertheless believe that it is the duty of the democratic party to express itself in clear and un- ambiguous terms on this subject. The financial policy of the present democrat dc administration deserves an unquali- fled endorsement at he hands of the democratic party of Kentucky, or it does not deserve such indorsement; and with view of taking the opinion of sthe representatives of the democrats of Kentucky, in convention assembled, we submit the following as an amendment l to said resolutions:
 Resolved, by the democrats of Ken | lucky in convention that the present l democrat tic administra ton is entitled l to the thanks of the whole country for | its statemanlike management of public | affairs. and we further declare that 1 both President Cleveland and Secretary | Carlisle are entitled to the unqualified | of the American people for | the gold standard and thus the credit of the govern ment, and their issuance of $150,OOO,O 900 of interest bearing bonds is hereby ex- pressly indorsed. The undersigned | members of the committee on resolu- tions believing the democratic party of Kentucky plainly declare in favor of 1 true bimetallism, or the gold standard, offer the following as a. separate resol- ution and ask for It's adoption:
 Resolved, that we believe in the coin- age of both gold and silver as the prim- ary money of the country into legal ten der dollars receivable in payment of all it's debts, public and private, upon terms of exact equality
 The convention adopted the majority report of the committee on credentials as amended by the minority report by a vote of AS to 425.
 This was a victory for the Clay men and turned the tide of the convention.
 MT. Rhea also offered a resolution pro- viding that all that part of the major ty after the words 1882" be stricken put so as to make the platform simply h endorse the democratic platform of 1892 It This constituted the third report of the I committee on resolutions. J. T. Ellis made a speech In support of the princi-l lal minority report. Ex-Governor J. E. ! z McCreary, who Is a candidate for sen- ltor, spoke in favor of the majority re- port and made a vigorous appeal to l he democracy to cooperate with Cleve- | and, Carlisle and the national democ- 'acy as its principles had been declared r Il 1892. fl MT. McCreary said that he was in fav- a IT of an international agreement for he rehabilitation of silver One of he silver delegates claimed that the eport of the credential committees had ,een incorrectly counted. scene of t he widest disorder ensued When a h convention had cooled down some Il what Honorable J. R. Rhea spoke He q vas opposed to endorsing Cleveland and c Carlisle. He made an attack on the t administration and declared he came earing the olive branch and willing to ave harmony. All he asked was that he convention refuse to endorse the v resident and his secretary and that it :, eaffirm the platform of 1892 o. When the democrats elected Grover W Cleveland they rushed from the slaugh- ~ CT house into an open grave. If the \, emocrats endorse Cleveland and Car u sle it should endorse J. Pierpont Nor an, who was responsible for the sus- ess of the bond loan. Let us go to lombard street el