Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-06-28
BOURBON SENTIMENT
Majority and Minority Reports
Presented to the Kentucky
Convention.
ADMINISTRATION is ENDORSED
BY the Majority Report-Minor-
ity Says 1t Straddles the
Question:.

LOUISVILLE, June 27.-The Demo.
cratic state convention reassembled at
$3.50 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
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, however,, centered in the
nomination for governor and the old
silver question was involved in that
fight, as the views Of Clay and Hardin
We're 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 OH credentials,
and the discussion thereon was re-
sumed.
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 119 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, 1926
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
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 resolutions:
First-The Democracy of Kentucky
in convention assembled. congratulate
the country upon the repeal OF the Nc
Kinley law, and upon the evidences OF:
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 1898.
Second = The Democratic party,
which has always stood for the separa-
tion Of chur CHI and state, for the sake
alike of civil and religious freedom,
does not hesitate to condemn all ef-
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 reatfirm without qualif-
cation the principles and policies de-
clared by the national Democratic
platform of 1899, and declare that our
present Democratic administration is
entitled to the thanks of the party for
it's 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 Of President Cleveland
and Secretary Carlisle were received
with prolonged applause. Exc
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.
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 OH 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 it's mean
ing, and is, in our opinion, an attempt
to str,lddle the most vital question now
attrac ting the attention Of the American
people... And. while the undersigned ~