The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-25
CANNOT GET TOGETHER
HARDIN HAS WITHDRAWN
FROM THE CONTEST.
His Action Brings More Friends and
Supporters to Him and Nearly
Causes Stampede In the Conven-
tion-No Prospects of Break In
Deadlock.

ueaoIock. An adjournment was hat
tonight until 8 o'clock Monday morn
ing, not making any nominations.
BUSINESS moved rapidly for a few
hours TINS morning The report of tn,
credentials committee deciding favor
ably to the Stone-Goebel delegates. wa.
I ADOPTED, the temporary organization
was mace permanent and a platform
was ADOPTED which he affirms the Chi
cago platform; declares for BRYAN anc
Tree silver in 1900; denounces trusts
arralShs the Republican national anC
state administrations, and urges the
erection or j. c. S. Blackburn to fill the
vacancy in the United States senate.
Ihehcame the battle royal over nom
nations, but befor it began General P
wat Hardin, the eX-leader of the party
IN TINS state under the silver banner
Withdrew his name as a candidate fol-
the nomination for governor. His
speech, which was delivered under AFT
fecting circumstances, did more Ia
strengthen his following in the conven-
tion than all his political workers have
peen able to accomplish since the dele
gates assembled. This was shown On
the first ballot, when William ,ioebeI
mad to his credit within less than a
score OF votes to give him a nomina-
ton. there was a spontaneous outburst
Oh Hardin enthusiasm, which lasted fer
half an hour, and came very nearly
! developing into stampede. AS it
! was, Hardin, who had received only n
little more than 100 votes on the FIRST
roll call. had upwards of 300 when, af-
ter recapitulation, the vote was an
nounced. This strength he retained
during the early evening, increasing It
on the sixth ballot to 81, or within
eleven votes of Stone
Workings of Combination.
Il
Goebel early in the voting. but il was
checked by the Stone people throwing
enough strength to Hardin to even
7 matters up. This. was significant in
showing the inner workings of the
Stone-Goebel combination and the evil
dent purpose of the Stone men to pre-
vent Goebel getting the long end Of TIE
bargain, at least, until Stone had had
fair test of his strength.
Succeeding ballots up to the eleventh
showed scarcely any change. It is
anybody's race and at present there is
no sign of break from the deadlock.
After the second ballot the strength
of the candidates fiuctuated, first one
being in the lead and then another.
put when the convention adjourned
the highest vote that had been re-
corded after the second ballot was 1874,
cast for Stone on the eighth ballot.
Earller In the evening several at
tempts by the Goebel forces to force
an adjournment until Monday were
voted down. After the eleventh ballot
had been taken, a resolution was Of
fered by the Goebel people. providing
that after the next ballot the name of
the candidate having the lowest num-
Der of votes. be dropped. This was op-
posed by the combined strength of
Hardin and Stone. The resolution was
defeated by vote of 81 to is. The
convention then adjourned until Mon
day morning.
The Platform Adopted.
The platform was written by Judge
James p. Tarvin Covington, and con-
tains the following:
The Democrats of Kentucky in
convention assemble reaffirm without
the slightest qualification the princi-
pies and policies declared in the Demo-
cratic national platform adopted at
Chicago in 1896.
Our faith in bimetallism is vindi-
Gated by events. The necessity for
the restoration of the double standard
was acknowledged by the president
and congress in 1897 when a commits
sion was sent to Europe to entreat
other nations to aid in establishing be-
metallism. and the failure of the COM
mission to secure European co-opera-
ton confirms the friends of free coin
age in their belief that relief can only
come by the Independent action of the
United States. The present legal ratio
of 16 to / is the only ratio at which
can be restored and op-
position 10 it is confined to those who
oppose bimetallism at any ratio and
those who misapprehend or ignore the
reasons which led three national con-
ventions to adopt it.
1--WE denounce the present Republi- |
o. not aI f,,sr-
reckless and extravaganza in the con- |
duct of the public affairs: for its cruel |
and inhuman neglect in its treatment /
OF our soldiers and sailors during the |
late Spanish war; for it's complete SUBJ |
ordination to the interests of organized |
wealth. for its protection and en- |
of trusts and combina- |
tons; and especially for its appoint |
ment and retention in office of an at
torney general devoted to the interests |
Of trusts and combinations.
Trusts Are Responsible.
I'VE believe the trust is the result
in large measure Of the policies adopted !
and pursued by the Republican party.
cation of silver. by which the volume
Of currency has been kept below the
of business and the enact |
nent and enforcement of vicious I'M
wise and unpatriotic legislation such
as the protective tariff laws known as
the Mckinley and Dingley bills.
whereby there is a discrimination in
'avor Of corporate wealth and against
Individual enterprise. We favor the
destruction of the result as well as the
of the causes. The re-estab-
ishment Of independent bimetallism at
IS to l and the repeal of all protective
ariff laws would do more to cripple
and destroy the organization and the
operation of the trusts than any other
avs
I'VE hereby express our continued
confidence in William J. Bryan and
avor his nomination for the presi-
iency of the United States by the
Democratic national convention of
900
I'VE recommend to the Democracy
# Kentucky. ]. c. S. Blackburn as
he successor of William Lindsay in
he United States senate. We endorse
he war carried to success for the
reedom of the enslaved Cubans. and
We appreciate and honor the courage
nd heroism of our soldiers and sailors
herein engaged. But we declare the
onduct of the present national adj
as to the Philippines 70 be
epugnant to every line of the bill of ,
lights, the constitution and the decla-
alton of independence"
In the matter of state affairs, the
latform endorses the election law
assed by the last legislature known
s the "Goebel law" and the law "to
revent extortion. unfair and dis /
freight rates by the trans 5
ortation companies" Both of these 1
'ere passed over Governor Bradley's
eto. The law to insure competition 8
, the sale of school books is also en- {