The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
EVEN KENTUCKY.
Eycn Daniel BOOne's State Is Torn
to Pieces Over the Silver Ques.
ton.
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CON
VENTION A WILD SCENE OF
CONTINUAL RIOTS.
= Governor and the Gold Bugs Get
An Endorsement Of Cleve-
land and Carlyle.

tFrom the Chicago Times Herald, Rep).
; Convention Hall, Louisville, June
26.-P. w. Hardin, who stumped Ken
tucky for free silver, has been nomin
ated by the Democrats for governor.
He won the contest over Cassius M.
Clay, Jr., on the first ballot and goes
before the people as 16 to l man On
a gold platform. 1t was evident as
soon as the roll call started that Gen.
Hardin was clearly the winner.
Louisville, with more than 100 votes,
went for Clay, but this did not stop
the tide. Delegation after delegation
went to Hardin, and when the call
was two-thirds over he had the neces-
sary $50 votes. This caused tumult,
and in the rush the nomination was
made unanimous.
Fearing a bolt of conservatives if
they adopted free silver platform,
the leaders split the party by abso-
lutely ignoring the demands of more
than one-third of the convention for
such resolution. The danger from
the desertion Of the sound money peo-
pie was problematical. but it present
ed such threatening front that the
leaders conceded it meant the elec-
tion Of Republican governor in the
center Of bourbonism. The danger
from the rebuff to the silver wing is a
certainty and the average Kentuck-
ian, who knows good bet on sight. is
ready to give odds in favor OF w. 0.
Bradley, the Republican nominee.
It has all along been evident that
the silver men who came up from the
pennyroyal counties and out of the
regions of perpendicular farms have
no purpose in life at this time save
the establishment of 16 to govern
ment. They numbered at the begin
ming of the fight within fifty of the
, majority. They talked the proposi-
tion until they are as firm in their
conviction as they were in the one
they had thirty years ago. They do
not forget, for Kentuckians never for
get, and when they go home they will
get more angry each time they realize
how their cause was beaten by the
use Of the administration lash.
REBELLION IS OPEN.
The rebellion is SO open and vigor-
Gus that the entire morning session
was devoted to orations on harmony.
These orations were all on one side
the side-the side of the victors, and
the only men won to the repudiated
policy OF Cleveland and Carlisle were
those who wanted to get into the
band wagon or to win favor for some
candidate for office on the state
ticket. This wing only declared a
temporary truce and thus it is fact
that the final vote on the Chicago
platform as the doctrine Of Kentucky
/ Democracy, 644 to 233, does not show
| the fair division of the party, but a
| large balance Of votes with the ma
| joriJy under protest and driven by the
whip Of the leaders.
Bolting free silver men worked all
night to sunrise in the most turbu-
lent convention In the state to secure
what they deemed their rights. Sena-
tor Blackburn was on the floor with
the Seventh district delegation, happy
in the prospect at midnight that the
l n1OA SVlCOUCu w COOm lCoiOCAu
! Cleveland would be Kissed and hooted
from the platform. His henchman,
massed in front Of the chairman,
blocked all efforts at decent order or
| transaction Of busineSs,a and defied the
police deiail called to compel mem
bers to act in rational manner. Riot
followed riot, without violence, in a
desperate attempt to force at once
the passage OF the silver doctrine and
an absolute rejection Of the men at
| Washington. Free silver was mas ter
OF the situation, until Chairman Berry
was startled at the exhibition OF
| fanaticism and declared the mob ad-
journed without motion.
HOWLED ALL THE NIGHT.
There was no sleep for the Demo.
cratic champions in Louisville las.
night. the hotel lobbies being crowded
The one cry was harmony to save de
feat and at the morning session tho
use CT the whip was evident in many
delegations. Counties instructed last
and all the time for free silver. were
on the gold side, but the chairman
who reported the vote did St with
smiles Of ridicule. Many explained
their votes, alleging the impossl5 5ility
OF compelling their constituents tt
abide by the delegations decision
Colonel Watterscn, who has never be
fore doubted the ability Of Democracy
to win in Kentucky, said this morning
that it Is useless to deny that Ken
.tucky Democracy stands to-day on the
brink Of a precjpice.
Bad feeling was apparent in al
quarters when Chairman Berry raped
for order, and a Missouri clergyman
implorcd the divine blessing upon tht
howliug mob, pleading also for har
mony and wisdom. The chairman
took the cue from the minister, in
structing the sergeant-at-arms tx
keep order and to clear the aisles O
| dissatisfied contcsting delegations
Hardin and Clay men then locked
horns over the adoption Of minorit.
reEort on credentials.
A Western newspaper with ninety
nine advertisements Of sheriff's sales
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