The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-18
YERKES CHOSEN.
Kentucky Republicans Nominate q
Candidate For Governor.

Louisville, Ky, July 1S-The Republi-
can state convention nominated for gov
ernor John w Yerkes. of Danville. adopt
ed a platform declaring the issue of the
election to be the Goebel election law, and
adjourned, within three hours.
There was no nomination to be made
by the convention except for governor,
this years election in Kentucky being an
the governorship made by the death of
William Goebel- The present governcr
Beckham. will hold this office only until
his successor Is elected. when he will
". Yerkes. the nominee for governor. is
publicans in Kentucky. He is at present
a collector of internal revenue
Judge T. T. Morrow was elected per-
manent chairman, and he reused the con-
vention to a high pitch of enthusiasm by a
vigorous speech in which he declared that
the Democrats at Frankfort held their
office by the same title by which a wolf
holds sheep that it has just taken from
The platform adopted contained three
Planks, second and third respectively en-
its nominees and urging the government
to protect Americans in China and the
This is a bitter denunciation of the pres
ent Democratic administration and Dem
oeratic legislature and contains the fol-
The first duty of Kentucky citizenship
Is to repeal the Goebel election law, which
IS the source and continuing strength of
the wrongs done in this state. vote of
commence next November In who
are all usurpers of office and who have
for a year past been acting together to
thwart the declared will of the people
will be accepted as vote of confidence in
the election that is blot On our statute
book The GOebel law must be abolished
or republican institutions must be sur
After the adoption of the platform for
mer Governor Bradley nominated for gov
ernor John w Yerkes- Governor Brad
ley said the Democrats killed Goebel by
passing the Goebel election law and he
discussed election n
The nomination of Mr.. Yerkes was made
by reclamation. He was escorted to the
hall and when the cheering had subsidized
addressed the convention
Mr.. TerkeS said in part:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Convention: For the honor conferred by
this nomination am profoundly grateful.
Your commission of temporary leadership
is accompanied with Astounding faith in
and in civic patriotism. love of freedom.
integrity and tndOmitable Anglo-SaxOn
s0dn s6 5 n t of await Wait
marching orders in this contest for civil
liberty: It is accepted with full reaiiza-
To-day we are citizens of a state flying
the black flag of political tyranny and
feated at the polls; a state where by
Democratic alchemy q minority is trans
muted into a. majority, where by most
vicious Iegerdemain A., outrage and politi-
cal dishonesty, the will of the people as
expressed at the polls is nullified and
I'VE have In Kentucky, under our cleo
ton law the only imperialism of this era
an Imperialism that, with Oriental de-
NAL of right, justice and law. robs more
than one-half the electors of this state
of the constitutional privilege Of having
a voice in the election of those who bear
rule over them
but men will soon learn that village
tyrants cannot expand into state tyrants; ;
that all of the people will not endure
This Democratic Imperialism began by I'M
constitutional Democratic state 1egisla-
ton affecting municipal and district cleo
Observation-Disclosures Republicans by sub
divisions
las necessity grew, as from being Re
publican only In certain sections, the
state as an entirety became such, Dem