The age-herald., 1899-06-27
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 APPEA'= 5 FROM CHAIR Presiding {. Ser Would Not
 Consider Motion. THEN BEGAN THE FILlBUSTERlNG Prominent Party Leaders Will Ask That the Convention Be Ad-
 journed to Lexington for
 Some Future Day
THEN BEGAN THE FILIBUSTERING

Louisville, Ky, June 26.-A continuous performance of bowling farce lasting eight hours; a rare vocal entertainment, with sooists and a chorus of several hundred voices; declamations and tin-horn tests of lung power made up the programme of the sixth days session of the democratic state convention and it narrowly escaped wind Ing up in an exhibition of pugilism and marksmanship.
 From 10 o'clock until today Central Music hall contained without doubt the most uproarously disorderly body of men ever gathered together for the purpose of transaction of political or other business. fingered by what they considered an arbt- trary ruling of the chair in refusing to al- low an appeal from his decision declaring out of order motion to romove policemen from the hall, over half the delegates set about with all the energy they could com- mand to prevent by sheer force of lung power the transaction of any further busi- ness until they secured vote on this ap- peal.
 Adjourned from Exhaustion
 This plan was successfully carried out until nearly 6 o'clock this evening, when, principally because of physical exhaustion, the flibusters allowed themselves to be out witted, and the ballot on nomination for governor, which the chair had ordered early in the morning, and had tried repeatedly to proceed with, was concluded by having the county charmen, or as many as would, come to the stage and yell their votes to the clerk, who at the distance or Few inches was able to catch the figures.
 The teeth of the recalcitrants having been
 ,lz fAlr1 asN down and before they fairly realized they were beaten a second ballot was recorded this time with less tribulation-
 These two ballots, both fruitless, rep- resent the days work of the convention. After they were completed all were glad enough to adjourn until 10 o'clock tomor- row morning.
 Goebel controls the organization of the convention and through 1t the state central committee, and they will probably attach him here too, if they can together. To- days event will tend to bring them closer, but at present the fight Is as open and as fierce as it has been at any time.
 Presence of Policemen
 The convention got together shortly after 10 o'clock this morning. Hon. Jno. s. Rhea got the floor at once and called att tention to the presence in the hall of police men, the inference being they were there not simply to keep order. He moved that the chairman order them removed The chairman recalled attempt of Friday night by outsiders to interfere with the proceed ings with the convention, said the police had been called at his request and declared the motion out of order. Rhea and other Stone and Hardin leaders appealed from this decision and demanded a call of the counties.
 The chairman declined to recognize the appeal and ordered the roll call for ballot for a governor. Instantly the convention was in turmoil equalling any of the excit- ing incidents of last week. The Stone and Hardin leaders made frantic appeals foy justice and fairness dozen of them gathered in the space in front of the chair man and with the vociferous support of hundreds of delegates declared that the convention should not proceed until their appeal of the chair was put to the house. The discomfort over what was believed to be arbitrary decisions of the chair bade fair to put a stop to further business. Here occurred an incident well illustrating the state of feeling A note was handed Chair man Redwine and he sat down to read 1t. Again the delegates become wildly excited.
 what Does the Boss Say?
 What doe your boss say? Read 1t out they yelled at the top of their voices.
 The note was handed to the clerk and read. It proved to be a note from the printer in regard to shortage of the tally Ns Js oOHiSloi, d IlldHdSGI, got the floor and urged his followers to re- strain themselves, asserting that the mo- tion to remove the police was not made with the purpose to interfere with the work of the convention; that he would sup port the nominee, matter how he was nominated. out that those in control of the convention should be put on record before the people.
 Congressman c. K Wheeler followed. "If this spectacle continued" he said, "it had been better that no convention wera held and no nomination made" He at tackled the ruling of the chairman, censur- ing him for failing to recognize a law so manfestly fair that the most tyrannica1 republican that ever held the gavel in the