The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-06-25
fHE KENTUCKY CONTEST
It Narrows Down to a Fight Be-
II tween Gold and Silver.
BOTH SIDES CLAIM A MAJORITY.
Senator Blackburn Making Vigorous
Fight Against tho Adherents Of Score
tary Carlisle. and National Politics Enter
Largely Into the Fight for Supremacy.

oenhtof Dihckpnfn MhNtnb NtboEo"s
Fight Against the Adherents of Score
tnry Carlisle. and National Politics Enter
Largely Into the Fight for Supremacy.
LOUISVILLE, June 25.-The Democratic
state convention here will be among the
ths hottest contests in the history Of the
The polling of oil the
louisville papers show the gold delegates
10 be In the majority. The silver men dis
pute their estimate, md charge that The
Louisville papers claim. most OF the unin-
structed delegates when those delegate
on the Endorsement of the administration
with Carllsle's friends leading for the ad
ministration and Blackburn's friend
against Its financial policy.
General Cassius NJ. Clay Is the admins
tration candidate for governor, and Gen
eral p. W. Hardin Is the anti administra'
tion candidate. Ex-Governor Buckner
publishes card that he would not accept
the nomination for governor, and insists
that the sound money Democrats must Sc
lect some other man II they cannot nomi-
nate General Clay. General Buokner says
he is a candidate for senator on sound
money platform, and will have nothing
else,
The fighting Is for the temporary or
ganization, with view to securing the
chairman, two members at large OF the
committee on resolutions and controlling
the rules and order OF business so that
nominations shall be made before the plat
form 10 adopted. As General Hardin
claims enough votes to nominate him, the
''honest money" delegates want the plat
form adopted first. There are some dele-
d. toH fAr Hur In, hO ra NJ n
posed to free coinage. General Hardin is
reported to have said he would insist on q
free silver platform, and whom seen he de-
clined to deny 1t. His friends claim that
he GOULD not run on Carlisle or admin
tstrative platform, and the canvass has
been made with Blackburn and others on
the free coinage issue.
There Ia conservative element want
Ing the convention to reafiirm the national
platform of 1892, and go no further on the
SHANGHAI question, but the silverltes say
that would imply Endorsement Of the nd
ministration. Senator Blackburn favors
the reafflrmipg of the platform Of 1892,
With an additional affirmation that the
pledges of 1899 have not been fulfilled by
President Cleveland and Secretary Car
Isle.
The conservatives argue that II General
Hardin Is nominated, and so controls the
convention as to prevent the reaffirmine
Of the national declaration Of 1892, that
the state ticket and platform would be
outside the party, and that there might be
some Justification in the threatened bolt
Of the ultra gold men. The conservatives
propose to have the balance Of power in
the convention, but they evidently have
very little influence in the fighting that II
going on for the Craftsmanship and con
troll of the committees.
The state committee does not name tn,
temporary chairman for this convention
in advance. Chairman Carroll, Of tn,
state committee holds the gavel till tht
convention selects its temporary chair
man, and the first thing in order Is tn,
election Of temporary officers, on which a
this time depends the fate Of the soma
torial gubernatorial and other candidate
and the metallic complexion Of the plat
form.
The Sound money" delegates an
nounoed ex-Congressman ". ]. Stone a
their candidate for temporary chairman
They say Blackburn's man is Judg
Becker, who at the Winchester conven
tion last week opposed the Endorsement o
Cleveland and Carlisle. They will max
o test case on the vote between Becke
end Stone, the latter being popular witt
some silverites and Hardin men. Mean
time the conservatives want both Becke
and Stone to promise to appoint one sill
yer and one gold man as members a
large Of the committee on resolutions
and, in fact, to divide equally the mem
bers at large Of all committees.
Senator Blackburn, who has moro q
stake at this convention than any of tn
other candidates, and more even thal
Carlisle, was disposed to concede to tn
conservative plan of an equal division q
the members at large on each of the com
mittees.