The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1895-06-27
BOURBON SENTIMENT
Majority and Minority Reports
Presented to the Kentucky
Convention.
ADMINISTRATION is ENDORSED
BY the Majority Report-Min0r-
ity Says 1t Straddles the
Question.


Question.
LOUISVILLE, June 27.-The Demo
cratic state convention reassembled at
$50 promptly, after having adjourned
at 3 q. m. in the midst OF unusual dis
order.
Meantime the tight between Hardin
and Clay for governor intensified In
aggressiveness and bitterness. Every.
body knew what the platform was to
be, although they could not antiei-
pate the struggle In dispoaing OF
the minority report on resolutions.
The interest, howexes. conferred. in NE
nomination for governor and the old
silver question was involved IN that
light, as the views Of Clay and Hardin
were as divergent - those q 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 10
sumed.
4 Point for the Clay Mon
After discussing for an hour and . 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 q test OF
strength, it was watched with great
interest and resulted in 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 most tumultous
scene, which was finally checked by
providing 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, majority Of
your committee, submit as their report,
the accompanying resolutions:
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 un-
der the operations Of reduced and
equalized tariff legislation, and we de-
nounce as franght with danger and dis
aster the threat Of our Republican
adversaries to re-establish protective
tariff, and to reinaugurate 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 Oh and state. for the sake
alike Of civil and religious freedom,
does not hesitate to condemn all Of.
forts to create distinction among citi-
zens because Of difference in faith, -
repugnant to un enlightened age and
abhorrent to the instincts Of American
freemen.
Third-We reafnrm without quAli1-
cation the principles and policies do
clared by the national Democratic
platform of 1892. and declare that our
present Democratic administration II
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 8. Rhea took the
floor to read them himself and not
trust to the secretary.
The Majority Report
The following Is the minority report
in which the silver men sought to load
down the majority rather than advo-
cate their own views:
The undersigned members Of the
committee on resolutions dissent from
views expressed by the majority of the
committee on resolutions. which is pro-
posed as an Endorsement of the present
national Democratic administration,
because the said resolution is amblgu-
Gus, obscure and uncertain in its mean
Ing, and is, in our opinion, an attempt
to str..ddle the most vital question now
atsr.sc ting the attention Of the American
people. And, while the undersigned do
not concur III the views expressed in said
resolution, nor in the views expressed
in the amendment which they here
submit, they nevertheless believe that
it is the duty of the Democratic party
to express itself in clear and imam.
biguous terms on this subject. The
financial policy Of the present Demo
cratic administration deserves an IN.
qualified endorsements It the hands of
the Democratic party ct Kentucky or it
does not deserve such endorsement,
and with vlew4of taking tbs opinion
of the representatives Of the Democracy
of Kentucky in convention assembled,
we submit the following ~ anainend
ment to said resolution:
Resolved. By the Democrats Of Ken.
tucky, in convention assembled, that
the present Democratic administration
is entitled to the 3nanks OF the whole
country for its -t--esmaniike ma1a..-.