The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-06-27
BOURBON SENTIMENT
Majority and Minority Reports
Presented to the Kentucky
Convention.
ADMINISTRATION Is ENDORSED
BY the Majority Report-Minor.
ity Says 1t Straddies the
Question.

LOUISVILLE, June 27.-The Demo-
cratic state convention reassembled at
$50 promptly, after having adjourned
at 2 a. m. in the midst of unusual dis
order
Meantime the fight between Hardin
and Clay for governor intensified in
aggressiveness and bitterness. Every
fody knew what the platform was to
oe, although they could not antici-
pate the struggle in disposing of
the minority report on resolutions.
The interest, howerer, conferred in the
nomination for governor and the old
silver question was involved in that
fight, as tire 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
pen ling question was on the minority
rep,.rt Of the committee on credentials,
and the discussion thereon was re-
sun.td.
A Point for tho Clay Men.
the motion to substitute the minority
repcrity report on credentials for the
majority report, the call of l19 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 in 44S ayes. 425
nays. The result was greeted with
loud cheers by the Clay men,
The Hardin men rushed to the plat
folm, 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, 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 policv OF
unequal taxation, which in connection
with general misgovernment by the
Republican party eliminated in the
business panic of 1893.
Second - The Democratic party,
which has always stood for the separa-
ton of chur ch and state, for the sake
alike of civil and religious freedom,
does not hesitate to condemn all eff.
forts to create distinction among citi.
zens because Of difference in faith. as
repugnant to un enlightened age and
abhorrent to the instincts Of American
freemen.
Third-We reaffirm without qualif.
cation the principles and policies de.
clared by the national Democratic
platform of 1892, and declare that oul
present Democratic administration il
entitled to the thanks of the party fol
its honest, courageous and statesman.
like management of public affairs; and
we express our undiminished confidence
in the Democracy and patriotism oi
President Grover Cleveland and his
distinguished co-advisers and Secretary
John G. Carlisle Of Kentucky.
The names OF President Cleveland
and Secretary Carlisle were received
with prolonged applause. Ex-Con
gressman Eihs presented the minority
report. when John s. Rhea took the
floor to read them himself and moi
trust to the secretary.
The Minority 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 thi
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 attemp
to str ,ddle the most vital question nov
attlat ting the attention Of the American
people. And, while the undersigned d.
not concur in the views expressed in sait
resolution, nor in the views expressed
in the amendment which they her,
submit, they nevertheless believe tina
it is the duty of the Democratic party
to express itself in clear and unam
biguous terms on this subject. Th
financial policy Of the present Demo
cratic administration deserves an un
qualified endorsement at the hands o
the Democratic party of Kentucky or
does not deserve such endorsement
and with view of taking the opinion
Of the Representatives Of the Democrac
of Kentucky in convention assembled
we submit the following as anamend
ment to said resolution:
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