Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27

We ShDAllb luG 4DI2OWl.lP us dLi1IlGuU-
ment to said resolution:
Resolved, By the Democrats of Ken
lucky, in convention assembled, that
the present Democratic administration
is entitled TO the thanks OF the whole
country for its stltesmanlike manage
ment Of pubic affairs; and we further
declare that botn President Cleveland
aud Secretary Carlisle are entitled to
the unqualified endorsement OF the
American people for maintaining the
gold standard and thus maintaining the
credit Of the government, and their Is,
uance Of $160, 000, 900 of interest bonds
is hereby expressly endorsed.
The undersigned members Of the
committee on resolutions, believing
that the Democratic party of Kentucky
should plainly declare in favor of true
bimetallism OF the gold standard, offer
the following as a separate resolution,
and ask It's adoption:
Resolved, That we believe in the
coinage of both gold and silver as the
primary money of the country into
legal tender dollars, receivable in pay
ment of of all its debts. public and pri-
vate, upon terms of exact equality.
Mr.. Rhea made a most vigorous ar
gument and offered a second OF sup
Elemental minority report which SIM
ply reafirmed the national platform of
the party of 1892, and urged its adop-
ton as a measur of expediency, owing
to the divergent views i'll the party in
Kentucky ON the financial question.
Congressman Ellis opened the debate
for the minority report.
McCreary Endorsed the Majority.
Ex-Governor James B. McCreary,
who is a candidate for the senate, made
a vigorous appeal for the Kentucky
Democracy, cooperating with Cleve-
land, Carlisle and the Democracy as its
principles had been declared in 1892.
McCreary opposed the minority report
and IT. supplement most vigorously and
held the floor Notwithstanding the calls
for Blackburn and other disturbances.
After McCreary concluded, the Har-
din men insisted on u recount of the
vote by which the minority report was
substituted for the majority report
WI credentials; and the convention hail
for some time resembled a riot.
John 5. Rnea's Philippe.
The secretaries discovered errors and
Chairman A. S. Berry announced that
the correction would be made later, if
the delegates would allow the consid-
GRAFTON of the resolutions to proceed.
Mr.. John S. Rhea was accorded the
floor, and made such a vigorous speech
against the majority report on resolu-
lions as to stop all disturbance and
command the closest attention. Mr.
Rhea denounced President Cleveland
and Secretary Carlisle in as bitter and
eloquent words as the queens English
could furnish. When he quoted Henry
Watterson as saying i'll 1892: "Nomi-
nate Grover Cleveland and you rush
from a slaughterhouse into an open
grave" with the sentiment of
the convention against him, Mr.. Rhea
not only brought to order, but also
commanded it's closest attention for a
long time in his philippe on Cleveland
and Carlisle as the associates Of Roths-
child and Morgan and not of the
people.
After a good deal more skirmishing
and votes on various amendments to
the resolutions a vote on the adoption
of the majority report was obtained.
The vote as announced was 647 1910
ayes, 233 3l-70 nays. The convention
then took a c until 1870 p. m.