Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-25
KENTUCKY DEMOCRATS.
Their State Convention Begins
 at Louisville Today.
THE PLANS OF THE SILVER MEN
They VIII Consent to a Partial Indorse. ment of the Administration if Free Sil. yer Paragraph Is Put In the Resolutions Gold Men Have the Most Strength.

LOUIsvILLE, June 25.-Thc Democratic state convention is today forcing the Qucs- ton of indorsing or not indorsing the ad- ministration. This is tho riddle which free silvcritcs and gold men are struggling with now, and will struggle with until the platform is adopted.
 Tho free coinage advocates are talking harmony and compromise, but they dc clare Cleveland and Carlisle will get nc certificate of character from Kentucky this time. If a resolution complimCnting the president and secretary of the treasury is offered, they will throw their whole strength against it and defeat it by 150 votes They say they are positive of this. but admit that n free coinage plank would go under by tho same vote. Hence their willingness to compromise.
 Here is their ultimntum: The financial plank must declare in favor of the coinage of both gold and silver on parity of val. uc. There need be no mention of n ratio. The administration may be indorscd for the progress it has made in tariff reform, but there the line must be drawn.
 So bitter has the fight over the currency become that the free silver men have actu- ally declared a boycott against the Louis villc daily papers, and neither Blackburn nor Hardin will submit to an interview from any reporter of their party organs. In fact, Mir. Blackburn has grown so an gry that he informed a local newspaper man that if he were boss of hell, and any one connected with any Louisville paper should be down there, he would libcrat6 every one else thcrc for fear they would he contaminated Tho silver leaders all fol- low his example except with their person al friends.
 The sound money" delegates announce cx-CougrcSsman W. J. Stone as their can didntc for temporary chairman. They say .Iudgr BCcknCr is Blackburn'S man. whO at the Winchester convention last week Oppu~rd the indOTSCmcnt of Cleveland and Carlisle. They will make a test case on the vote between lScCknCr and Stunr, the lat ter being popular with some SilvvritCS and Hardin men. Meantime the conservatives want both BCCknrr and Stone tu promise to appoint one silver man and one gold man aS members at large of the committee on resolutions
 The situation This Morning.
 Senator Blackburn, who has moro at stake at this convention than any of the state candidates and more even than Sec rVtary Carlisle, was disposed to conCC<lC to tho conservative plan of an equal division of the members at largo on each of the committees. but the radical silver men Op- posed it.
 Tho contest between the administration and antiadministration generals has been more bitter than over. Tho fighting iS for tn" temporary organization, with q view to securing the chairman. two mCmhCrS at large of the COmmittCc on resolutions and controlling the rules and order of business so that nominations shall be made before the plat form is adopted.
 As General Hardin claims enough votes to nominate him, the honest money delegates want the platform adopted first. | There arc some delegates instructed for Hardin who arc opposed to free coinage. General Hardin Is reported to have said ! he would insist on free silver platform, and when seen he declined to deny it. His 1 friends claim that he could not run on a | Carlisle or administration platform after the canvass he has made with Blackburn | and others on tho free coinage issue. There is a conservative element wanting | the convention to rcaflirm the national l platform of 1892 and go no farther on the financial question, but the silvCritcs say | that would imply indorSCmCnt of the ad l miniStratiOn.
 | Senator Blackburn favorS the rCaflirm | ing of the platform of 1899, with an addi 1 tiOnal affirmation that tho pledges of lS9& | have not been fulfilled by President Glove land and SrcrCtary Carlisle. The conScrv ativcS argue, if General Hardin is nomi mated and so controls the convention as tt prevent rcaflirlning the national dec | laratinnS of 1899, tho state ticket ant platform would be outside of the party and that thrro might be Somo justification in the thrratCnCd bolt of the ultra gol(
 men.