Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-06-27


tions demanding fair treatment by u
" chairman aud roll call OF the coul
!. ties whenever IL is demanded wer
n adopted and the Buck" gang stun
away.
Judge ID. b. Redwine, who was mad
permanent as well as temporary chair
. man, lie the kind OF a man to presid
over convention Of as wild horses a
the team he handles and he make
. even his enemies admire his decision
and backbone, even though they dull
him a second Gar Reed.
( Goebel had seven votes more thar
enough to nominate at one time on tn,
original ballot, before the recapitulatet
vote, but rapid changes cut the vot,
down.
At the night session all hands had
cooled of and balloting with all three
OF the candidates proceeded for five
hours and until 1l:20 saturday night,
when the last, which was the 18th bal
lot, showed Goebel 346i, Hardin 1854
and Stone 376f. The convention then
adjourned till 10 o'clock Monday.
Notwithstanding he was the hind
most candidate, Mr.. Goebel had mo-
tion put to drop the hindmost man after
q certain ballot Saturday night, but IL
was lost by vote Of 7l5 to 377, the
other candidates being confident that
he had a card up his sleeve.
The constant threat OF certain Har-
din men to bolt, hurt their man very
much. Fortunately John b. Thomp-
son, his manager, never took any stock
in the proposition, as he knows none
but whipped men resort to such action.
The resolution presented by Black
burn, Bronston, Owsley and others
proposing constitutional amendment
to return to viva voce voting was re-
ferred to the committee on resolutions
but was not reported, the more's the
pity. The secret ballot has resulted
ia endless woes to the party aud has
made fraud possible and practicable.
A midnight conference between the
leaders Of Stone aud Hardin was held
Sunday, when it was agreed that the
man they had to beat was Goebel and
that it stood them IN hand to fight the
battle together, but they couldn't agree
upon which should be dropped.
1.-The party love dearer than life
itself is in the hands of cut-tbroats and /
assassins," said Red Fox B~onston, who ,
is given as much to fighting wind mills
as the late Don Quixote.
This wild-eyed dispatch was sent TO
Sam Nj. Owens last night: The con
vention unable to endure the conditions /
it, demanded the election
Of the police. Stone and Hardin dele
gates united in demanding 1t. Chair
man Redwine refused to entertain the
motion. His arbitrary ruling stops all
business. The people should know the
situation. Signed, John S. Rhea, ID. p.
Murray, w. c. Owens, John B. Thomp-
son, w. Il. Sweeney, ]. W. Mitchell,
John Garnett and Emmett Orr.
The Madison county delegation to
The convention is one of the finest
looking in that body, and has the re-
,or1 for weight in comparison with
INV similar number. The delegation
s made up of IA members, headed by
,x-Gov. James B. McCreary, OF Rich
nond, and its combined weight is
1896 pounds, an average OF about PSI
The committee on organization rec
Allie W. Young, of Mont
yomery county, and Samuel E. Jones,
If Barren county, as members for the
State at large for the Democratic State
Central and Executive Committees
With Young as chairman thereof. Col.
lack Chinn remains the member of the
State Central Committee for this dis
,rict and Simon Cook, OF Shelby, was
made executive committeeman.
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