The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
KENTUCKY
GOLDITES
Hold Their Little State
Convention
HENRY W. WHO LOVES MONEY!
breaches SILVER'S FUNERAL
SERMON
HENRY W. WHO LOVES MONEY!
Weary Willie of Unsavory Memory
Rises to Say How Naughty Sill
yer People Are
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press special w Ire.
LOUISVILLE, July 1.-THE Nationa
Democratic Convention met here today
with about seven hundred delegates il
attendance. 1t was called to order by
A. j. Carroll of Louisville, who chal'
lenged the Frankfort convention, a
which ]. S. Blackburn was 30 great {
factor, having run up a piratical nag
and followed with the assertions: I'VE
will continue the fight with all the vigol
of our minds and hearts until the las
vestige of heresy is eradicated.' Hon
j. c. Simms of Bowling Green was in
troduced as temporary Chairman.
AN APPEAL TO DEMOCRATS
The Hon. James C. Simms, temporary
chairman, said. in part: IN Kentucky
there are today $4,000 true and tried
Democrats who have never wandered
away from the true faith, and never have
in the past and never will in the future
bow the knee 20 agrarianisln. Populism
Socialism. mohilism or Organism.
I'VE are not Democrats simply for
were Democrats. but because we be-
lieved that the principles advocated by
the genuine Democracy are best cal
culated TO give us good government,
Federal, State, county and municipal,
and thereby result in the greatest sood
to the greatest number.
"Our free silver friends seem to have
lost entirely their powers of discrlmln-
alton, for they cannot discriminate be-
tween wealth honestly obtained ana
wealth dishonesty obtained. The high
est recommendation that man can
possess for complete utilization with this
Populist- democratic party is that he
is a rolling stone, has gathered no moss,
run down at the heel, has nothing, does
not want anything, and does not want
anybody else to believe anything.
This is the day and the hour for
brave and patriotic manhood. the ad-
vocates of free silver in an unlucky hour
surprised and captured the party or
ganization and brought ruin and dis
aster upon our party.
by threats and clamor and false pre-
lenses they have deranged all values
frightened all business enterprises, par
alyzed all industries, and almost brought
ruin and bankruptcy upon our people
And they have added insult to injury
by charging that they are innocent VIC
tins of the authors of their mischief.
How long is this thing to continue
How far is it to reach? Are we all crav-
en- towards to be intimidated and bull
dozed, or shall we put on our armor and
acouit ourselves like men? This DEUS
ion cannot last. A brave, determined
stand is all that is necessary to prevent
fallacies and thus confound Them
CARLISLES REMARKS
The Hon. John G. Carlisle, permanent
chairman, said in part: Il congratulate
the National Democrats of Kentucky
upon the magnificent response they have
made to the call for this convention ant
| congratulate the friends of sount
money. tariff reform and good govern
ment in every part of the country upor
this suspicious opening of campaign
which l am sure will be memorable IL
the annals of our party. The proceeding
of this great assemblage of intelligen
and patriotic Democrats who have re
fused to abandon their lifelong convic
tions and transfer their allegiance to
new political combination formed with
out their consent and composed Target!
Of their old opponents, will be watched
with intense interest by conservative
and law-abiding citizens in every Stat'
in the Union and will inspire our friends
everywhere with new zeal and courage
for the conflict in which We have enlist
ed. This is no ordinary political conven
ton composed of subservient partisan!
carefully selected and drilled by loca
managers to go first on one side and theI
on the other in obedience to a nod o.
wink from some self-constituted leader
who has bartered away their votes il
advance.
"A sound and stable currency; jus
and equal taxation for public purposes
only; a strict adherence to the letter am
spirit of the Constitution by all depart
ments of the government and rigit
economy in the expenditure of the peo
pies money have been vital parts of tn
Democratic faith from the beginnn,
and there has never been a time in GU
history when the condition of the coun
try more imperatively demanded tn
practical application of those doctrine
than it does now. Many of our indus
tries are depressed for want of marke
for their products, many of our mos
worthy people are deprived of employ
ment and many of our most valuabl
commercial enterprises are languishin,
fer the want of a profitable trade. A
such a time every material interest o
the people demands, that the currenc,
used in the transaction of their bushes
shall be absolutely free from even
suspicion of unsoundness; that the nee
essaries of life and the materials used il
our Industries shall be exempt from tn
burdens of taxation in order that tn
poor may live comfortably and labo
may find employment; and that a fai
government shall be honestly and eco
nomically administered and it's expendi
lures be strictly confined to the grea
public purpose for which it was estab
lished. But in defiance of the obviou
requirements Of the public interest, tn
integrity of our currency is still threat
ened.
THE tariff taxes upon nearly every
thing the people eat, drink, wear or us,
in production are about to be largely in
creased. and the public expenditures, in
stead of being diminished to meet tn,
exigencies of the situation, are being ex
tended to new and unworthy objects
many of which are purely local or pri
vate in their character. The paralysi.
of trade and industry resulting from