Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27
BOURBON SENTIMENT
Majority and Minority Reports
Presented 10 the Kentucky
Convention.
ADMINISTRATION IS ENDORSED
BY the Majority Report-Minor-
ity Says 1t StraddleS the
Question.

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LOUISVILLE, June 27.-The Demo-
cratic state convention reassembled at
$50 promptly, after having adjourned
at ? a. m. i'll the midst of unusual dis
order.
Meantime the fight between Hardin
and Clay for governor intensified in
ag~gressiveness and bitterness. Every
body knew what the platform was to
be, although they could not antici-
pate the struggle in ~disposing of
the minority report on resolutions.
The interest, htwerer, conferred in the
nomination for governor and the old
silver question was involved in that
fight, s the views of Clay and Hardin
were as divergent as those of Carlisle
and Blackburn.
When the convention adjourned in
the early hours of the morning the
pending question was on the minority
report of the committee on credentials,
and the discussion thereon was re-
sumed.
A Point for the Clay Men.
After discussing for an hour and a half
the motion to substitute the minority
repority report on credentials for the
majority report, the call of 1l9 coun-
ties began.
The Clay men favored the substitute,
and the Hardin men opposed it. AS
the vote was considered a test of
strength, it was watched with great
interest and resulted i'll 448 ayes, 425
nays. The result was greeted with
loud cheers by the Clay men,
The Hardin men rushed to the plat
form, charging false counting and
fraud and created a most tumultous
scene, which was finally checked by
crOwding Senator Lindsay through the
fighters to the front of the platform
when he opened another hot contest by
presenting the majority report.
The Majority Report.
The undersigned, a majority of
your committee, submit as their report,
the accompanying revolutions:
First-The Democracy of Kentucky
in convention assembled. congratulate
the country upon the repeal of the Nc
Kinley law, and upon the evidences on
every hand of returning prosperity I'M
der the operations of reduced and
equalized tariff legislation, and WE de-
nounce as franght with ranger and dis
aster the threat of our Republican
adversaries to re-establish a protective
tariff, and to reiuaugurate a policy of
unequal taxation, which in connection
with general misgovernment by the
Republican party eliminated in the
business panic of 1898.
Second - The Democratic party,
which has always stood for the separa-
ton of chur CHI and state, for the sake
alike of civil and religious freedom,
does not hesitate TO condemn all eff
forts to create a distinction among citi-
gems because of difference in faith, as
repugnant to I'M enlightened age and
abhorrent to the instincts Of American
freemen.
Third-We reatfirm without qualif-
cation the principles and policies de-
clared by the national Democratic
platform of 1892, and declare that our
present Democratic administration is
entitled to the thanks Of the party for
its honest, courageous and statesman
like management of public affairs; and
we express our undiminished confidence
in the Democracy and patriotism of
President Grover Cleveland and his
distinguished co-advisers and Secretary
John G. Carlisle of Kentucky.
The names o. President Cleveland
and Secretary Carlisle were received
with prolonged applause. Exon
gresham Ellis presented the minority
report, when John S. Rhea took the
floor to read them himself and not
trust to the secretary.
The Minority Report.