Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-06-28

| LOUISVILLE, June Zb.-Ihe DEM
ocratic convention met Tuesday at
noon and was called to order by
Chairman Carroll. Music Hall was
packed to the doors and as the mer-
curry was nearly 100 degrees it was
vertible sweat-box.
The Hardin men put forwardW. M.
Beckner, of Clark, and the Clay men.
| W. j. Stone, Of Lyon, for temporary
chairman and the first test of strength
resulted in victory for Hardin.
Beckner was elected by a vote of 44S
to APO. .|.. '.|#
Jas. E. Stone and VIM. Cromwell
were elected temporary secretaries
with a number of assistants. The
convention then announced the COM
mittees and adjourned till night.
At the Tuesday night session
nothing was accomplished, except to.
permanently organize.
The Committee on Organization re-
ported A. S. Berry, of Campbell, for
chairman, unanimously and he was
elected without opposition. The tenn
porary secretaries were made the per
manent officers. .g..
After bowling themselves hoarse.
over the motions that amounted to
nothing, the delegates adjourned at
l 80 a. M, the hardin men having
tried in vain to force ballot without
waiting for the platform.
On Wednesday morning the
Committee on Resolutions reported
the following PLATFORM:
First-The Democracy of Kentuck "
in convention assembled congratu-
late the country upon the repeal of the
Mckinley tariff law, and upon the
evidences we have on every hand of
returning prosperity, under the oper-
atoms of reduced and equalized tariff:
taxation; and we denounce as fraughts
with danger and disaster the threat Of
our Republican adversaries to re-es-
tablished protective tariff and to re-
inaugurate policy of unequal taxa
ton, which in connection with general
misgovernment by the Republican,
party eliminated in the business pan
ic of 1898.
Second = The Democratic party,
which has always stood for the Sep
aration of church and State, for the
sake alike of civil and religious fra,
dom, does not hesitate to condemn.
all efforts to create a Distinction
among citizens because of difference
in faith as repugnant to an enligh-
tened age and abhorrent to the in
stincts of American freemen.
Third-We reaffirm without qualif--
cation the principles and policies de-
clared by the National Democratic
platform of 1892 and declare that our
present National Democratic Admin
istration is entitled to the thanks of
the party for it's honest, courageous,
and statesmanlike management of
public affairs; and we express ouE
undiminished confidence in the De
mocracy and patriotism of President
Grover Cleveland and his distin-
guished co-adviser and Secretary
John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky.
w lCu IllC bCluOSldtlC
ty came into power 1867 the bonded
Indebtedness of Kentucky was over
$4 100000. The nominal value of the
assets of the Sinking Fund was about
Sc, OOO, 900, made up in part of inter
nal Improvements that cost over and
were carried at valuation OF $780,
300, but which yielded at that time
no net revenue, and were worth in CASH
only about $50O,0O0 thus showing an
actual deficit in the sinking Fund as
with our Indebtedness of
about 100000. Since 1867 the
bonded indebtedness has been re-
1uced to $650,000 and the available
assets of the Sinking Fund more than
equal that sum.
We have increased the annual ap--
for support of our chart
table institution from $3.50, 900 in 1867
10 100000 in 1895, and whilst i'm
proving our judicial system by in
,reasing the number of courts and
the frequency of their terms we have
been compelled to increase our ex-
penditures, one of the greatest items.
Of which is the cost of criminal pros
ecutions and a noticeable fact iu
connection with which is that
he increase is greatest in districts
controlled by the Republican officials.
We have nevertheless been able to
decrease the current rate of taxation,
or general revenue purposes from,
wenty cents on the one hundred dol
ars of taxable property in 1867 to fif-
cen cents in 1895. the Democratic
majority have voluntarily increased
he annual expenditures for the sup-
,ort of the common schools from
;256, 900 in 1857 to about 100000
n 1895, and by wisely providing