Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-27
UNEQUNOCALLY INDORSED Kentucky Democrats True to the Standard Bearers. SOUND MONEY ENDORSED By an Overwhelming Majority, the Vote Being
 644 to. 233. HARDIN NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR On the First Ballot Carlisle's Trip to His Native Heather Proves Fruit
 ful-A Little Circular
 Denounced.
SOUND MONEY ENDORSED
HARDIN NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR

Bulletin, Convention Hall Louisville, Ky. June 26.-The first ballot for gov ernor resulted in the nomination of Hardin.
 Convention Hall. Louisville. Ky, June 6aNotwithstanding the fact that the delegates sat up until 1:30 o'clock this morning trying to transact some busi- ness of the convention with practically no success at all they were up and at it again bright and early this morning. The convention was in running order by 9:30 o'clock. The sixth civil district del egation of Louisville was the bone of contention.
 The committee on credentials differed in that one unseated the regular deie- gation and the other recommended that it be seated The fight over this appa- rently small matter was as hot as if there had been millions at stake. It plainly showed the temper of the body and prom ised a bitter fight when the gubernato- rial nominations come up for eonsdera- tion.
 The Clay men claim that last nights adjournment without taking ballot helped them, and it is certain that the Hardin men held out obstinately against adjournment. Every roll call on ad- jounment last night showed majority of the Hardin men against it. Each was nearly strictly factional vote. The convention was ended by the chairman, who peremptorily adjourned it without roll call, while the Muhlenberg deega- tion was still squabbling.
 The convention adopted the majority report of the committee on credentials, as amended by the minority report, by a vote of AS to 425 This was a victory a 6a if the convention. A scene of the widest confusion followed. Hats were tossed in the air and waved on the end of canes, and it was several minutes before order could be restored.
 The committee on resolutions, through its chairman, Senator William Lindsay, reported the majority report as follows; 1. The democracy of Kentucky, in con Vention assembled congratulate the country upon the repeal of the Mckinley tariff law, and upon the evidences we have on every hand of returning pros perity under the operation of reduced and capitalized tariff taxation, and we denounce, as fraught with danger and disaster, the threat of our republican ad- versaries to re-eStablish a protective tariff, and to reinaugurate a policy of unequal taxation, which in connection with general misgovernment by the re- publican party, eliminated in the btsi- ness panic of 1893.
 9 The democratic party, which has al- ways stood for the separation of church and state, for the sake alike of civil and religious freedom, does not hesitate 10 condemn all efforts to create distinctions among citizens because of differences in faith as repugnant to an enlightened age and abhorrent to the instincts of American freedom.
 g. We reaffirm, without qualification, the principles and policies declared by the national democratic platform of 1892, and declare that our present national democratic administration is entitled to the thanks of the party for it's honest. courageous and statesmanlike manage ment of public affairs, and all express our undiminished confidence in the de- hnpcracy and patriotism lof President Grover Cleveland and his distinguished co-ad ziser, Secretary John G. Carlisle or Kentucky.
 The fourth and fifth resolutions are devoted to state matters
 Another scene of unbounded enthusi- asm followed the reading or the ma5or, ity report The names of Cleveland and Carlisle were received with loud shouts of appreciation.
 The report of the minority. which de clares for the single gold standard. and which is an effort to split the sound money men, is as follows
 E The undersigned members of the com mittee on resolutions dissent Grom the views expressed by majority of the committee in resolution No 3, which Is
 
 ent national democratic administration, because said resolution is ambiguous, ob- scure and uncertain in its meaning, and is in our opinion an attempt to ssraddle the most vital question now attracting the attention of the American people, and while the undersigned do not concur In the views expressed in said rasolut on, nor in the views expressed in the amend ment which they here submit, they nsv- ertheless believe that it is the duty or the democratic party to express ltseil Tn clear and unambguous terms on this subject.
 The financial policy of the present democratic administration deserved an unqualified indorsement at the hands of the democratic party of Kentucky, or it does not deserve such an indorse- ment, and. with the view to taking the opinion of the. representatives or the democrats of Kentucky, in convention assembled we submit the following as an amendment to the resolution:
 Resolved by the democrats of Ken lucky, in convention assembled, That the present democratic administration IS en- titled to the thanks of the whole country / for it's statesmanlilxe management of public affairs, and we further declare that both President Cleveland and Sec retary Carlisle are entitled to the un- qualified indorsement of the American people for maintaining the gold stand ard, and thus maintaining the credit of the government and their issuance of GOO of interest bearing bonds is hereby expressly indorsed.
 The undersigned members of the com mittee on resolutions, believing that the democratic party of Kentucky should plainly declare in favor of true bimetal- lism, of for the gold standard, offer the following as a separate resolution and ask it's adoption
 Resolved, That we believe in the coin age of both gold and silver as the pri- mary money of the country into legal tender dollars, receivable in payment of all debts. public and private, upon terms of exact equality.
 The minority report was signed by