The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-14
NEGROES ARE DISSATISFIED
Will Place q Ticket in the Field
to Defeat Taylor.
HELD A MASS MEETING
Kentucky Republicans Have Hard Row
to Hoe-It Took 800 Speeches to
Nominate Their Men-Stormy
and Dramatic Scenes.

LeklnHlOU, ny. ouly l0.-1ne reDuDll-
can state convention adjourned tonight
after being in continuous session since
8 o'clock. What was called the Deboe-
Taylor slate for the most part was rati-
fled. Before the convention assembled
most of the delegates were for Taylor
for governor and when the nomination
for governor was reached, about all of
them were for Taylor.
The candidates for minor places on
the state ticket Were not of the same
accord, so that there were contests be-
tween the Taylor men for the same
places In these contests there was
brilliant exhibition of Kentucky ora
tory. In the contest for attorney gen.
eral there were AZ speeches by actual
count, and during the day there were
over 300 speeches.
After the presentation speech for
each candidate for the different places
there was such a series of seconding
speeches that it seemed as if a ballot
would never be reached The ballots
were not counted completely Counties
would change their votes to the lead
ing ones or to the winners and then
followed another series of speeches in
withdrawing the names of those who
ran behind.
The presentation of Taylor's name by
his leading opponent Col S. H. Stone,
with the seconding of the same by
Judge Pratt, his other opponent was a
dramatic scene, but the most exciting
time of the convention was during the
contest for attorney general The Tay
lor men who had been making the race
for the nomination objected to being
sidetracked by one who had failed Of
another nomination and they made an
aggressive fight. Senator Deboe, Cen
eral Taylor and their close friends We're
active workers in the hall during the
balloting for attorney general. They
wanted Judge Pratt on the ticket and
they finally nominated him by an over
whelming majority. Judge Pratt was
| the favorite of the colored delegates fer
| governor.
w. S. Taylor is46 years old. He was
q poor farmer boy and taught school
before he became county clerk in 1882.
| While in that office he studied law and
! afterward was elected judge.
| Standing room was in demand when
| the republican state convention reas-
sembled shortly after o'clock this
| morning. The platform, which was
unanimously adopted, was in part as
| follows:
I'VE pledge the republican party of
| Kentucky to the enactment of all such
| laws as may be necessary to prevent
trusts, pools, combinations or other or
ganizations for the combining to depre-
| ciate below its real value, or to en-
! hance the cost of any article, or to re-
duce the proper emoluments of labor.
I'VE congratulate the republican
party that existing federal legislation
| for the suppression of harmful trusts,
| pools and combinations is the work of a
| republican congress, performed during
the administration of republican pres
| ident, and we congratulate the country
| that in the suppression of injurious
commissions republican legislation has
had in the past, as it will have in the
| future, due regard for the interests of
legitimate business, the purposes or
| such legislation being the remedy for
wrong and not embarrassment to in
dustry, enterprise or thrift.
| 1--WE indorse without reserve the adj
! ministration Of President Mckinley and
congratulate the American people upon
| the condition of prosperity and happi-
| ness resulting from the wisdom and pa
| triotism which he has brought to the
| discharge of his public duties.
| 1--WE declare our confidence in the pol
| ices adopted and the measures taken
| by the president to restore order and to
establish progressive governments in
| Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines,
and we pledge him our continuous sup
port until the objects are fully attained.
I'VE re-afirm our adherence to prin-
| ciples and to policies proclaimed by the
| last national republican convention, eN-
| cept as to the civil service. We regard
| it as settled beyond dispute that the
| maintenance of a sound currency
| through republican administration and
| n
rests the most remarkable period of in
| dustrial progress, commercial activity
and general prosperity within the eX-
| perience of the people of the United
| States, We commend the present
amendment Of the civil service rules by
| the president and declare our belief tina I
| further notifications of existing civil
service legislation may be made with
| advantage to the public service
| A large part of the platform is devot-
| ed to denuncatiOns of the Goebel cleo
| ton law. the McCord railway law and
| other democratic measures passed over
| the governors veto. The administration
of Governor Bradley is warmly COM
| mended.
Before the call of districts for the
| nomina ton for governor, Captain Stone
took the platform and created a most
| exciting scene by Withdrawing his name
and presenting the name of Taylor.
| Then Judge PRATT IOilOWeu stone Ill d
| stirring speech of withdrawal and sec
onded the nomination of Taylor, which
was made unanimous amidst the wild
est scenes. Taylor addressed the con-
vention, accepting the nomination John
| Marshall of Louisville was nominated
for lieutenant governor without the for
mality of a ballot. Caleb Powers of
| Knox county was nominated for secre-
| tary of state.
| John Burke of Campbell county was
| nominated for superintendent of pub
| lie instruction and John w. Throck-
| morton of Fayette for commissioner of
| agriculture.
| The closing hours of the convention
were stormy and for more than an hour
intense excitement prevailed because of
an arbitrary ruling by Chairman
| Breathitt in the race for commissioner
of agriculture.
| Some of the negroes of Lexington are
| still dissatisfied with the nomination of
| General Taylor for governor, and an
effort will be made by them to defeat
him. A number of prominent negroes