The age-herald., 1900-07-21
The Mob and Assassin Will Not
 Rule in Kentucky.
Ex-GOv. BRADLEY IS DENOUNCED
The Nominee Is Only 80 Years Old and Is Unmarried, and Looks Even Youger-Once @ Member
 of the Legislature.

Louisville, Ky, July 2O-The Hon. J. c. w. Beckham was nominated for governor by exclamation by the Democratic State Convention shortly before 4 o'clock this morning, after an all-night session. | The only object of the convention was | the nomination of a candidate for governor to fill the unexpired term of William Goe- bel, who was assassinated last January, and for that reason 1t was thought the convention would complete Its work in one day.
 recess had been taken at 4:30 yester- day afternoon until S:3O D. m., but when the convention reassembled the commit tees were not ready to report, and the time was spent until after midnight in calling out favorites for speeches. Finally the reports began to come in after mid- night, and there were fights over all Of them.
 The Platform
 It was a. m. when Senator Blackburn presented the following report on resolu- tions, which was adopted;
 We, the Democrats of Kentucky, in convention assembled, do make the fol. lowing declaration of principles:
 "First-We heartily endorse the magnif- cent platform adopted by the National Democratic Convention. at Kansas City on July 4, and also the splendid ticket named | by said convention, and pledge the Democ- racy of Kentucky to an earnest, cordial and active support of said ticket. "Second-The entire history of the Demo- cratic party has demonstrated that 1t has always been the champion and defender of the rights of the great common people; that 1t has ever insisted that the will of the majority shall control, and that the minority must cheerfully and willingly &C., uuiesce therein. It has alweays advocated and still does that all elections shall be fairly conducted and the result honestly ascertained., We recommend that the cleo, tion law of 1898 (known as the Goegel law), which was enacted to prevent the repeti- tion of the we'll known Republican frauds in certain districts of this State, and which was a marked improvement upon the ex- isting law, but which has not proved suf- ficient for that purpose, be amended so as to secure this end so thoroughly that the most hypercrtical can find no excuse for charging fraud unfairness to our party in the conduct of the election Until such dhhShdAhche Cdii DC ciidCbcu Dy tnt deueTal Assembly we declare that the Republican party shall have representation upon both the State and all the county boards of elec- tion commissioners.
 Law and Order Advocated
 We declare to the world that the mob and assassin shall not be the arbitrators of the rights of citizens of Kentucky, nor shall the penalty of an appeal to the law and regular constituted authorities be death at the hands of assassins. Law and order must and shall prevail in Kentucky
 'Third-We present to the people of Ken- lucky the picture of army of intimida- ton, unlawfully quartered in the public buildings of the state; State Senator, in the discharge of his duty to the state stricken down by an assassin's bullet fired from ambush in the executive building then occupied by his political adversary who hoped to profit by his death; that ad. versary arming, filling and surrounding the building with men, instructed to defy the civil authorities and prevent search for the assassin; the same political adver- sary and Republican pretender, by force, dissolving the Legislature in violation of the Constitution attempting by military power to force the Legislature to meet in a vertitable slaughter pen for the Demo- cratic members driving it's members through the streets of Frankfort at the point of the bayonet forcibly preventing the Legislature from meeting ip it's lawful and proper place; keeping armed riotous and disorderly men under the very window of the room where lay dying the assassn's victim; driving the Court of Appeals from the capitol, aiding with the soldiery and spurious pardons those lawfully accused of capital crimes to flee from justice and by military force defying the writ of habeas corpus, the same Republican pretender fleeing from the state after indictment and remaining a fugitive from justice, protect ed by an open violation of the constitution of the United States after having declared to the people of the state: I a citizen of this state and amenable to its laws. am not criminal neither shall I ever be a fugitive from justice. Whenever indicted I shall appear for trial
 And we confidently declare our belief that majority of the people of Kentucky favor the preservation of law and order; of both civil and personal liberty, and the maintenance of the constitutional rights of the people, Democratic doctrine, which is the hope and inspiration of every true Democrat.
 Bradley Denounced
 Fourth = We denounce the action of Governor Bradley in using and personally commanding the military force of thu State to control the election and intimidate electors at the election Of November. 1e09. of the commonwealth.
 "Fifth-The Democratic party expresses