Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-11
SILVER TO THE CORE.
Complete Reorganization in Kentucky
The Gold Bugs Must Go.

LEXINGTON, KY.,June 4.-The DEM
ocratic State Convention completed
its business here this afternoon and
adjourned sine die at 40 minutes past
/ O'Clock. 1t proved a remarkable
victory for Senator Blackburn and the
free silver cause. He was Endorsed
for President, the delegates being in
structed to vote for him. He was unan-
imously elected delegate from the
State at large to the Chicago conven-
ton, as were General p. Wat Hardin,
who was defeated for Governor last
fall by the Republican candidate,
Bradley; John s. Rhea, the noted
Kentucky free silver orator, and ex-
Congressman w. 7. Ellis, OF Paducah.
More than that, the silver men, in
their loyalty to Blackburn, elected
Senator Goebel a member of the State
Central Committee for the State at
large, although he was a pronounced
gold standard advocate. The secret
of his election is that he worked for
Blackburn's reelection to the Senate
last winter, and Blackburn's friends
took this method of showing their dis
approval of Secretary Carlisle's action
in allowing his friends to hold out
against Blackburn.
THE PLATFORM.
The Democracy of Kentucky, in
convention assembled, do reaffirm
their allegiance to the principles of
the party as e%nunciated by Jefferson.
We are in favor of an honest dollar-a|
dollar worth neither more nor less
than 100 cents. We favor bimetallism,
and to that end we demand the free
and unlimited coinage of both gold
and silver at the ratio of 16 to l as
standard money, with equal legal ten
der power, independent of the action
of any other nation. We hold that the
Secretary of the Treasury should ex-
ercise his legal right to redeem all the
coin obligations in gold or silver, as
may be more convenient, and are OPP
posed to the issue of bonds in time of
peace for the maintenance of the gold
reserve or for any other purpose.
We are opposed to the national
banking system and to any enlarge
ment of ita powers, and opposed to
any contraction of the currency by
the retirement of greenbacks or other
wise.
We declare it to be a fundamental
principle of Democracy that the Fed
erai Government has no constitution
al power to impose and collect tariff
duties, except FOL the purposes of
revenue only, and the collection of
such taxes should be limited to the |
necessities of the Government hon
estly and economically administered.
The Democratic party has ever been
the party of personal liberty and re-
ligious freedom and Ia now and has
always 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 en-
force any religious tenet or sect, and
to any law, organization or society,
religious or political, secret or other
wise, that tends to prescribe any citi-
zen for or on account of his religious
belief or to apply any such test as a
qualification for public office.
We condemn the action of Govern
or Bradley in calling out the State
militia as unwarranted, without sane
ton of law and a menace to the civil
liberties and rights of the people of
Kentucky. We declare the support of
the party nominee to be the true test
of party fealty and that every nominee
Is entitled to the undivided support of
the party.
Resolved, That the delegates chosen
by this convention to the National
Democratic Convention to be held at
Chicago July Z, 1896, be and they are
instructed to cast the vote of the
State of Kentucky in said convention
as a unit for Hon. J. @. 8. Blackburn
for President of the United States and
to use all honorable means to secure
his nomination.
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