The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-27
CARLISLE IS VICTORIOUS
Louisville Convention Endorses Clcvc.
land and His Adviser.
SILVER MEN OUT or SIGHT
They Are buried beneath the Avalanche
of Yellow Dust st-undiminishcd Con.
fidcncc Expressed in the Ad.
ministratiOn of Blundcrs.

| Louisville Ky, June 26.-Notwith-
| standing the fact that the delegates
sat up until 1.S0 this morning trying to
transact some of the business of the
| Democratic state convention with prac-
| tically no success at all, they Were up
and at it again bright and early this
morning. The convention was in run
ming order by $50 o'clock.
A majority and minority repout was
presented from the committee on reso-
lutions. The majority report was an
| unequivocal endorsement of the ma
tional administration and sound money
while the minority report declared for
| n single gold standard and was an effort
| to split the sound money men. After
| a long debate the majority report was
adopted by vote of 6i4 to 233. The
report as adopted was in part as fol-
| lows:
| The Democracy of Kentucky, in conven-
tion assembled. congratulates the country
| upon the repeal of the Mckinley tariff law,
and upon the evidence we have on every
hand of returning prosperity. under the
operation of reduced and equalized tariff
taxation: and we denounce as fraught
with danger and disaster the threat CT
a protective tariff and to reinaugurate a
policy of equal taxation which. in connec-
ton with general misgovernment by the
Republican party, eliminated in the busi-
ness panic of 1893
| The Democratic party. which has always
stood for the separation of church and
state for the sake alike of civil and re-
ligious freedom. does not hesitate to con-
denim all efforts to create "a distinction
| ON nfti I.aa Of Il tf.,ra IN,
! faith as repugnant to an enlightened age
and abhorrent to the instincts of Amer-
can freedom.
We affirm without qualifications the
principles and policies declared by the ma
tional Democrtc platform of 1892. and de-
clare that our present national Democratic
administration is entitled to the thanks Of
the party for is honest, coura geous and
statesmanlike management of public af-
fairs and We express our undiminlshed
| confidence in the Democracy and patriot
ism of President Grover Cleveland and his
| distinguished co-adviser and Secretary
John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky.
A scene of unbounded enthusiasm fol-
lowed the reading of the ma tority re-
port. The names of Cleveland and Car
isle We're received with loud shouts of
appreciation.
Hardin Nominated.
When the convention met tonight, P
Watt Hardin, of Mercer county, was
nominated by the Democrats of Ken
tuchy to make the race for governor
against w. o. Bradley. Only one bal
lot was necessary and the representa-
| tives of the free silver element seemed
to have plenty of votes to spare, after
receiving the necessary number. There
were sixty-nine complimentary votes
cast on the ballot, most of which be-
lJnged to Hardin, and would undoubt-
efly been his If it had been necessary to
take another.
When IL became known that the 44O
votes necessary to a choice had been
cast for the successful candidate the
delegates broke out of all bounds. They
leaped out Of their chairs, waved their
hats and handkerchiefs in the air and
burst into lusty chorus of approba-
.on. Umbrellas were raised. coats
tied to the ends of canes and waved
fra ntcally in the air and banners with
queer devices on them elevated by the
various delegations. Some of those
bore the words Hardin and harmony"
others Harmony or He'll"
The victory can be assigned to no
other reason than Mr.. Hardin's per-
sonal popularity. The convention had
early in the day adopted gold stand
ard platform which rejected all COM
promise with the advocates of free
coinage, of whom Mr.. Hardin was one
of the foremost in Kentucky. The Clay
men, much encouraged thereby, and be-
leving that the convention would re-
fuse to place upon it's roll of honor
man who stood Numerically opposed
to it's principles, were looking for vic
tory, and the result was a bitter sur
prise to them.
One of the most noteworthy features
of the convention has been it's devotion
to the cause of what 1t has termed
Sound money" The friends of Mr.
Carlisle consider it great victory for
him. While he was going through the
state preaching the doctrine of the yell
low metal, it is worthy of note that P.
Watt Hardin was also stumping the
same territory in the interests of free
silver and urging the advantages of
16 to 1 ratio.
All dissensions in the party on the
currency question Is not ended, as the
division in the committee on resolu-
tions proves.
X. p. Tyler, of Fulton county, was
nominated by viva voce vote for lieu
tenant governor.