Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-21

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the nominee Rhea was up demanding
to be heard upon his resolutions, but
Henry Burnett, of McCracken, moved
an immediate adjournment.
Then pandemonium broke loose.
Every delegate was on his feet, yell
ing at the top of his voice. Rhea
mounted the secretary's table imme-
diately in front of the chairman, still
demanding to be heard, and Capt.
Ellis, who was the author of the reso-
lutions, joined him vigorously pro-
testing.
The chair recognized Burnett in
spite of the wild disorder and order
ed the call of counties. The dele
gates could not make themselves
heard, but went to the clerks desk
and voted.
The ballot resulted, for adjourn
ment 96, against 1S1.
This restored order and Rhea then
spoke to his resolutions. He made a
red-hot silver speech which was
loudly cheered.
Then Charley Wheeler, of Nc
Cracker, announcing that he was a
free silver man, offered in spirit OF
harmony, he said, the following:
RESOLVED, That the failure of this
convention to take action upon the fl
nancial question is not to be consid-
cred as antagonistic to the free and
unlimited coinage of silver, but be-
lieved the state convention alone
should settle such questions, the mat
ter is respectfully referred to that
body"
This resolution was the result of
conference held by the conservative
silver men the night before. 1t was
supported by Mr.. Wheeler in an elo-
quent speech and the gold bugs at
once turned to this as the best show
ing for them to defeat the obnoxious
resolutions.
Before the vote was taken there
were other speeches. Ollie James,
of Crittenden, made an impassive and
eloquent appeal to the friends of sill
yer to stand by their principles and
was Justify applauded.
Judge Lige Walker, of Hartford,
claiming to be "almost for 16 to l."
protested against the resolution, and
urged that it was out of place in a
district convention, and without pre-
cedent. He made long argument,
in which he incidentally remarked
that he saw his son-in law Jake
Rowe) was nearly Dustin to make
speech on the other side of the case.
Jake Rowe followed Judge Walk
er and addressed much of his speech
to "my dear father-in-law," amid up
roarious laughter and applause. He
wanted to know what my dear faith
er-in-law with all his gold is for"
and in expressing his surprise said he
had learned most all he knew in ia
vor of silver from his beloved parent
by marriage. Rowe appealed for an
expression on silver and deprecated
any cowardice on the subject. He
said the gold men were here pleading
for postponement until the state
but at the state conven-
ton would be pleading for post
ponement until the national conven-
ton.
The previous question was then or
dered and vote taken. The substi
tute was lost by a close vote of
l43 1-6 to 125 SO, Todd county not
voting.
Judge Walker then moved to sepa-
rate the resolutions and vote upon
them by sections. This of course
meant an attempt to strike out the
silver resolution. Upon this occurred
the only real test vote, as the Wheeler
was introduced by an
honest money man, without the
knowledge of the sound ~ money
crowd that it was coming.
The vote was as follows, by coun-