The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-06-05
FREE COINAGE In
OLD KENTUCKY
Blackburn Will Rule the Blue Grass
Chicago Delegation.
BRECKENRIDGE A LONE GOLD BUG
The Colonel Says That the Tide Will
Recede Later..Feebic Dissent TO
the Platform. ..RcsOIutiOns Offered.
blackburn IndOrsed for President.

Lexington, KY, June 4.-The Demo-
cratic state convention reassembled at
$50. 1t was after 1890 before the COM
mittee cous,. report, that on credentials
having been in session continuously all
night. Senator Blackburn was accord
ed Il rousing ovation on entering the
hall.
Colonel W. G. r. Breckenridge, after
being repeatedly called for, had the dis
tiurtion OF being the only gold-standard
man to address the convention except
Chairman Long in what was called yes
terday his farewell address.
Colonel breckenridge was given close
attention. although he told the conven-
ton the recent silver victory was due
to distress and discomfort and its re-
suits would be temporary.
The committee on credentials reported
for an equal division of the vote be-
tween the contestants in KentCn county,
the home of Carlisle and for seating
the silver delegates in place of the
Music hall or Haldeman delegation
from Louisville. The report gave the
silver men forty more votes than they
cast yesterday for Bronston for tempor-
airy chairman. Long discussion ensued
on the part of the majority report un-
seating the gold delegates" from Lou
isville. Colonel II. NJ. Stone leading for
gold and q. II. Finn for silver. Inter-
ruptions and disorder protracted the
consideration of the report. The last
effort of the Louisville delegates was to
a "A - los
the adoption of the majority report.
The majority report on credentials
was adopted-yeas 67S, nays PA. Some
counties did not vote. whereupon the
delegates from the Forty-eighth district
at Louisville retired.
c. X. Wheeler of Paducah. was then
introduced as the permanent chairman
and addressed the convention.
The drift of the convention yesterday
was to make Senator Blackburn presi-
dent and General p. Wat Hardin, the
successor in the senate. The convention
was ten to one for the 16 to ratio.
The features of yesterday were not
so much the speeches of Blackburn and
Hardin as the ovations that We're ten
dered them in the hotel, convention hall
or wherever they appeared.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The committee on resolutions COM
pleted it's work last night. but the re-
port was postponed until today. The
majority reaffirms Democratic princi-
piles in the first section, other sections
being as follows:
Second-We are in favor of an honest
dollar, dollar worth neither more nor
less than one hundred cents. We favor BIZ
metalism, and to that end we demand the
free and unlimited coinage OF both gold
and silver at the ratio of III to as stand
ard money, with equal legal tender power
independent of the action or advice Of any
other nation.
Thrd--We hold that the secretary Of
the treasury should exercise his legal
right to redeem all coin obligations in gold
and silver as may be more convenient. md
we are opposed to the issuance of bonds
in time of peace for the maintenance of
the gold reserve or for any other purpose.
FOurth-We are opposed to the national
banking system and to any enlargement of
its powers, and opposed to any contrac-
tion of the currency by the retirement OF
greenbacks or otherwise.
Fifth-We are for tariff for revenue
only.
Sixth-The Democratic party has ever
been the party of personal liberty and re-
l!gious freedom, and is now and has al
ways been opposed to any union of church
and state. 1t Is opposed to the enactment
of all laws the purpose or design of which
is to sustain or enforce any religious tenet
or sect and to any law, organization or So
ciety, religious or political secret or other
wise, that tends to prescribe any citizens
for or on account Of his religious belief
| or to apply any such test as qualifica.
! ton for public office.
Standardization condemns Cover
nor Bradley.
Eighth-Declares for party loyalty.
| Ninth-Instructs delegates to Chicago to
| cast the vote of Kentucky as a unit :or
Joseph C. s. Blackburn for president.
A minority report will be presented
by A. ]. Carroll, member of the COM
mittee from Louisville. r. omits in
dorsing Blackburn. Its financial plank
reads:
I'VE insist upon firm maintenance of
the present legal standard of value with
such use of legal tender, silver coih nd
| paper convertible into coin on demand,
as can be maintained without impair
ment or endangering the credit of the
government, or diminishing the pur-
chasing or debt paying power of the
money in the hands Of the people, and
in the absence of an international
agreement. we protest against the free
| coinage of silver or the compulsory pur-
chase of silver bullion by the United
States as injurious to the industrial and
commercial interests of the country and
especially disastrous to the interests
of the farmer and the laboring man."
The majority report of the committee
on resolutions was passed with whoop
after the minority substitute had been
aired sufficiently by the silver humor-
lists.
The electors for the state at large
are:
Hon. William B. Smith, of Madison
and James P. Tarvin, of Kenton. The
convention adjourned at 157.
p. w. Hardin, John s. Rhea, Senator
Blackburn and ex-Congressman w. r
Ellis were elected delegates at large tc
the Chicago convention by acclama.
tion.
WHITELAW REID TALKS.