The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-26
NOISE AND CONFUSION.
For Hours the Chairman Is
Unable to Maintain Any
Kind of Order.
GOLD MEN ARE IN CONTROL.
Great Struggle Ahead in the Blue
Grass State for the Guberna-
torial Nomination.

LOUISVILLE, KY, June 25.-The Dem
ocratic State Convention met here to-day
for the purpose of nominating a fnll State
ticket for the November election. The ac-
ton of the gathering oil the financial
question is being awaited with interest by
politicians of both parties throughout the
country, and will have a marked influence
upon the selection Of successor to United
States Senator Joseph Blackburn, who re-
Gently allied himself with the radical free
silverites.
AT late hour to-nightit looks as though
all business had come to an end for the
Democratic Convention, For hours there
has been nothing but noise and confusion
on the part of the ssemblage, which COM
pletely fills Music Hall. Every effort of
the chairman to restore order has been in
effectual. Hundreds of motions have been
made, and none put to vote, and the ses-
sion is one continuous hubbub.
At the day session the gold advocates
claim they achieved a decided victory in
the election of Judge William NJ. Breck-
ner, an admirer of yellow currency,
to the temporary Craftsmanship. The
vote was 44S% for Breckner to 32011
for w. J. Stone. Had Stone been elected
the victory could have been claimed with
equal confidence, for he also was an oppo
nent of free silver. The vote, it is claimed,
was test of the respective strength of the
Clay and Hardin factions. The Hardin
men believe that their candidate holds
enough strength TO win, but the Cay men
say there will be some changes when bal
lot for Governor is taken.
The pnm mittAa on resolutions will q %
three reports. One of them, signed by
John S. Rhea and W. T. Ellis, declares in
favor of free coinage. The second, signed
by ]. S. Clardy and E. D. Walker, reaf-
firms the Chicago platform of 1892, which
is a conservative Endorsement of gold
standard, and third, to which is affixed
the names of the other members, indorses
the administration and mentions especially
the names of Cleveland and Carlisle. The
report signed by Clardy and Walker also
indorses the administration, but mentions
no names. The committee SO far has not
been harmonious. With two factions of
nearly equal strength to contest every pos
sible point has been raised.
The city is full of Republicans, who are
waiting to see who is nominated. Among
these is w. o. Bradley, the Republican
Jr., who recently beat w. c. Owen in the
race for Congress in the Ashland district.
Almost to a man the Republicans would
like to see Hardin nominated, because he
will present the somewhat singular spec
tacle of a free-silver man running on a
platform which declares for gold and in
dorses the administration. Hardin, it is
claimed. asked the committee on resolu-
tions to give him silver plank to stand
on, but the gold-standard men would not
agree to sacrifice their principles and the
minority report was the result.
Senator Joe Blackburn is being criticized
for trying to get in on the committee on
resolutions after he had been beaten for
the place in his own district-the Seventh.
When the clerk called the Second District
the chairman announced that Blackburn
had received the proxy of w. T. Ellis, who
was regularly chosen by the delegation.
The Second is free silver district, and
readily consented to the arrangement that
the Senator might have chance to use his
oratory in championing the cause of the
white metal. Chairman Brecker did not
see it in that way, however, and sent word
that he could not entertain such a PROPOSE
ton, as Blackburn was not a resident of
the Second District.
At noon John D. Carroll, chairman of
the State Central Committee, called to
order what will probably prove the most
interesting Democratic convention ever
held in Kentucky. Mr.. Carroll said:
1--WE are here, according to the rules of
the party, to nominate delegates for sew
eral important offices. Scarcely has there
ever been a convention of so much i'm
portance in this State, and on the result
of this convention depends largely our
success or defeat in 1885, We know that in
union there is strength and in harmony
there is victory. Some of US are gold men,
some of us are silver men, but all of us are
Democrats. Therefore in the interests of
the party let US stand together, silver and
gold. shoulder to shoulder, in order to
defeat the common enemy OF u.s."
Nominations for temporary chairman
being next in order, Judge William M.
Breckner and ex-Congressman W. j. Stone
OF Lyons County were placed In nomlna-
ton. The roIl-call was watched with much
interest as the vote was test vote, Breck-
ner being the Hardin man and Stone the
Clay man. An estimate shows that Breck-
ner received AGO votes; necessary to a
choice, 44O. The test vote resulted as fol-
lows: Breckner (Hardin) 44S11, Stone
(Clay) 3201z; necessary to choice, 440
Judge Breckner, in taking his place as
ch-irman of the convention, said:
'I do not take the result of this ballot as
a compliment to myself The gentleman
have seen fit to represent in this conyen-
tion has won the fight. We have met here
at time when the return of prosperity is
vindicating the Democratic party. Every
thing is happening just as the Democrats
said it would. Let US have harmony. I
heard man once say: WHY can't the
Democrats act in harmony as the Repub-
licans did?' We are not built that way
The Republican convention was dictated
by boss. We have no collars about our
necks. We are not afraid to face our
record"
J. K. Schrader, William Cromwell and