Birmingham state herald., 1896-05-31
JUST 9 TO l
Is the Majority, According to the Constitu-
 tion's Lexington Special.

IS UIlo ACcOrQlnB to Ine COnSblbu-
 tion's Lexington Special.
 Atlanta, May 30.-The Constitutions special from Lexington, Ky, on the Ken lucky primaries says:
 Kentucky declared for free silver in her county conventions today by ma- jority of to l over the goldites.
 As a result of the struggle the Seventh, famous the world over as the Ashland district of Kentucky, which had been represented in congress by Henry Clay John c. Breckinridge, James E. Breck- inridge, Thomas F. Marshall and Senator Blackburn, sends siXty-two free coinage delegates to the state convention, while she sends only twnty-five goldbugs.
 At Il o'clock tonight seventy-one coun- ties have been heard from. Forty-nine of them send 363 free coinage delegates, thirteen send 195 gold delegates, while seven counties, with eighty delegates, are contested.
 Campbell county, the seventy-first to hear from, with twenty-two delegates, is uninstructed.
 As the remaining counties are nearly all conceded to the silver men, their ma jority will be on conservative estimates at least to l.
 Silver won in counties which had been conceded to the goldbugs.
 The silver men expected to carry seven districts in the state, while the sound money men conceded them five.
 The sound money" faction bolted in almost every county where the silver people controlled the convention and held rival conventions, electing delegates and passing sound money resolutions.
 In Fayette this course was pursued, while in Franklin the sound money" men refused to go into the regular con- vention, but after it. had adjourned held a convention of their own.
 Louisville was carried by the goldbugs on the face of the returns, but the silver men will contest the Tenth and Twelfth wards and their delegates will be seated.
 The Louisville goldbug press gives up the fight and estimates that the state has gone for silver. So far sixty-nine coun- ties have been heard from. The Louis vile Times says that Kentucky, at the state convention at Lexington June 3, win declare for the free coinage of sil- yer a the ratio of 16 to 1. It says sound money men awakened too late to the danger that beset them, and the senti- ment of Kentucky democracy as ex- pressed at the last state convention has been reversed.
 The cSeFfly conventions as a rule in- structed for Blackburn for president and denounced the members of the legisla- ture who refused to support him in the late senatorial contest.
 Blackburn was also indorsed for his stand TOT Tree S1lVef, ana CdfllSle ana Cleveland were denounced.
 The resolutions all declare for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the atio of 16 to l.
 Senator Blackburn is much enthused at the result of the days campaign in Kentucky, and says that the Chicago convention will certainly elect a silver man as the presidential nominee.
 The sound money democrats an- nounce that they will refuse to stand by the action of the state convention. It is now certain that the goldbugs will leave the democracy of the state and train with the republicans. In Carlisle's home county two delegations were elect ed. The sound money" convention elected delegates. but did not instruct them, but the silver faction instructed their delegates for silver.
 Madison county, the home of Congress- man McCreary, went for gold, while Scott county, Congressman Owens home declared for silver McCreary was the only one of Clevelands Kentucky henchmen who succeeded in preventing his home county from instructing for free coinage
 II was a great day for the friends of silver and means that the south and west will follow suit with Kentucky.