The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-05
SILVER zen BEATEN.
DEMOCRATS REFUSE TO IG-
MORE CLEVELAND.

Resolutions Without Indorsemet of The
Administration showed Under After q
Most Bitter Contest-Wildest Kind OF
Scenes of Confusion.
LOUISVILLE, KY, June 27.-NosS. 1th-
standing the fact that the delegates to
the Democratic state convention sat
up until 1870 this morning trying
to transact some of the business
of the convention, with p%ractic-
ally no success at all, they
were up and at it again bright
and early this morning. The conven-
ton was in running order by $3.50
o'clock. The Sixth delegation of Louis
vile was the bone of contention. The
majority and minority reports of the
committee on credentials differed in
that the one unseated the regular del
egation and the other read hat it be
seated.
After discussing for an hour and a
half the motion to substitute the mi
nority report for the majority report,
the call of 11a counties began. The
Clay mel favored the substitute and
the Hardin men opposed it. AS
the vote was considered a test
of strength it was watched with
great interest and resulted AS ayes,
4a5 nays. The result was greeted with
loud cheering by the Clay men. The
Hardin men rushed to the platform,
charged false counting and fraud. and
created a tumultuous scene.
Finally Senator Lindsay was crowded
through the fighters to the front of
the platform, when he opened another
hot contest by presenting the majority
report of the committee on resolutions
rs follows:
THE ADMINISTRATION APPLAUDED.
To the Democratic convention in
session at Louisville: The under
signed, a majority of your committee.
beg leave TO submit as their report the
accompanying resolutions:
First. the Democracy Of Kentucky,
in convention assembled. congratulate
the country upon the repeal of the
Mckinley tariff law and Upon the
evidences we have on every hand
Of returning prosperity under the
operations of reduced and equalized
tariff legislation, and we denounce as
fraught with danger and disaster the
threat of our Republican a~dversaries
to establish a protective tariff and to
reinaugurate a policy of unequal taxa
ton, which, in connection with rem
eral misgovernment by the Republican
party. eliminated in the business pan
ic of 1893.
Second, the Democratic party, which
has always stood for the separation of
church and state, for the sake alike of
civil and religious freedom. does not
hesitate to condemn all efforts to
create a dis finction among citizens be-
cause of differences in faith as repug-
nant to an enlightened age and abhor-
rent to the instincts of American free
men.
Third, we reafirm without oualifca-
ton the principles and policies declared
by the Democratic platform of 1892,
and declare that our present Demo-
cratic administration is entitled to the
thanks of the party for its honest.
courageous and statesman : like
management of public affairs: and we
express our undiminished confidence in
the Democracy and patriotism of Pres
ident Grover Cleveland and his dis
tinguished co-advisors and Secretary
John G. Carlisle of Kentucky.
The James of President Cleveland
and Secretary Carlisle were received
with prolonged applause.
H QUITE SARCASTIC.
Ex-Congressman w. T. Ellis pre-
sented the minority report, when John
& Phno fnnly fhn Annr ~ ,.ao1 - Ls-E
self as follows:
The undersigned members of the
committee on resolutions, dissent
from the views expressed by the ma
jority of the committee on resolutions,
which is proposed rs an indorse-
ment of the present national
Democratic administration, because
the said resolution is ambiguous, OBJ
scure and uncertain in it's meaning and
is, in our opinion, an attempt to strad-
die the most vital question now at
tracing the attention of the American
people. And, while the undersigned
do not concur in the views expressed
n aaid resolution, nor in the views ex-
pressed in the amendment which thew
here submit, they nevertheless believe
chat it is the duty Of the Democratic
party to express itself in clear and an
ambiguous terms on this subject. The
financial policy of the present Demo-
cratic administration deserves an un-
qualified Endorsement at the hands
of the Democratic party Of Ken
lucky, or it does not deserve such
Endorsement: and, with a view of
taking the opinion Of the representa-
tives of the Democracy of Kentucky il
convention assembled, we submit the
following as an amendment to said