St. Paul daily globe., 1895-06-25
CLAY AND HARDIN FACTIONS
STRUGGLING FOR THE DEMO-
CRATIC CONTROL.
A SOUND MONEY CHAIRMAN
Ex-CONGRESSMAN STONE TO EN-
TER THE CONTEST AGAINST
JUDGE BECKNER.
HARDIN CLAIMING THE LEAD.
Hopes of Senatorial and Guberna-
tOriaI Candidates to Be Raised
Or Blasted.

LOUISVILLE, KY, June 24.-To-
night the sound money delegates to
the Democratic state convention an
nounced ex-Congressman Stone as
their candidate for temporary chair
man. They say Judge Beckner is
a Blackburn man, who, at the VIM
chester convention last week, op-
posed the Endorsement of Cleveland
and Carlisle. They will make a
test on the vote between Beckner
and Stone, the latter being popular
with some silverites and Hardin
men. Meantime the conservatives
want both Beckner and Stone to
promise to appoint one silver man
and one gold man as members-at-
large of the committee on resolu-
tionS, and in fact to divide equally
the members-at-large of all COM
mittees. Senator Blackburn, who
has more at stake at this convention
than any of the state candidates,
was disposed to concede to the con-
servative plan of an equal division
of the memberS-at-large on each OF
the committees, but as the radical
silver men opposed it, a meeting
of the silver men was accordingly
called for II o'clock tonight. To-
night the contest between the ad-
ministration and anti-administratio
generals has been more bitter than
ever. The fighting for the tempo
rary organization, with a view to
securing the chairman, two members
at large of the committee on resolu-
tions, and controlling the rules and
order of business so that nomlna-
tions shall be made before the plat
form is adopted. AS Gen. Hardin
claims enough votes to nominate
him, the honest money delegates
want the platform adopted first.
NOT ALL FOR SILVER.
There are some delegates instructed
for Hardin who are opposed to free
coinage. Gen. Hardin is reported to
have said he would insist on free
silver platform, and when seen he de-
declined to deny it. His friends claim
that he could not run a Carlisle or
administration platform after the can
vas he has made with Blackburn and
others on the free coinage issue. There
is a conservative element watching
the convention to reaffirm the national
platform of 1892 and to go no further
on the financial question, but the con-
servatives say. that would imply the
sentiments of the administration.
Senator Blackburn favors the reatflm-
ing of the platform of 1892, and de-
claring it has not been fulfilled by
President Cleveland and Secretary
Carlisle and the conservatives argue
that if Gen. Hardin is nominated and
so controls the convention as to pre-
vent the affirmation of the national
declarations of 92, the state ticket
and platform will be outside of the
party, and there might be some justi-
fication in the threatened bolt of the
ultragold men. The conservatives
hope to have the balance Of power in
the convention, but they evidently
have very little influence in the fight
ing that is going on tonight for the
craftsmanship and control of the COM
mittees. 1t will be fighting to a finish
when the district delegations meet at
10 a. m. tomorrow to select vice presi-
dents and members of the committees,
and when the convention assemblies
in the afternoon there will be gen.
eral engagement at the start. The
state committee does not name the
temporary chairman for this conven-
ton in advance. Chairman Carroll, of
the state committee, holds the gavel
until the convention selects it's tenn
porary chairman, and the first thing
in order is the election of temporary
officers, on which this time depends
the fate of senatorial, gubernatorial
and other candidates, and the metal
lie complexion of the platform.
FIVE SHORT.
The Post, which strongly supports
the administration financial policy,
today has poll of the delegates,
showing 435 for Hardin, 37S for Clay
and Go doubtful. The Post says:
''There are S7S delegates, 44O necessary
to choice, and the polling indicates
that Hardin lacks only five votes The
Hardin men say that they have the five
votes. This is not by any means GER
tain. Gen. G. Gordo Williams was de-
feated sixteen years ago by James B.
McCreary when within five votes of