Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-18
CHOSEN
rs CHOICE OF KENTUCKY REPUn
LICANS FOR GOVERNOR.
REPEAL OF THE GOEBEL LAW.
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mean state convention today nominated
for governor John w. Yerkes Of Dam
vile. adopted a platform declaring the
issue OF the election to be the repeal OF
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 extraordinary one to fill the vacancy
in the ~governorship made by the death
OF William Goebel. The present gov
ernor, Beckham, will hold office only un-
It'll his successor is elected when he will
again become lieutenant governor. Hon,
John w. Yerkes, the nominee for gov
er1sor, is a lawyer and one of the most
prominent republicans in Kentucky. He
is at present a collector of Internal rev.
enue.
Chairman of the state central commit
tee, Barnett, called the convention to or
der and presented ex-Lieutenant Gov
ernor Marshall of Louisville for tempo
rary chairman. Mr.. Marshall's speech
dealt largely with Kentucky political af-
fairs.
Judge #. 2. Morrow was elected per-
manent chairman and he aroused the
convention to a high pitch of enthusiasm
by a vigorous speech in which he de-
clared that 1.-The democratic officials at
Frankfort held their Office by the same
title by which a wolf old a sheep that
it has just taken from the fold"
The platform adopted contained three
planks, the second and third respectively
Endorsing the Philadelphia convention
and it's nominee INK urging h govern
ment to protect Americans in China and
the first dealing with the state cam
paign. This is a bitter Remuneration OF
the present democratic majority in the
legislature and contains the following:
THE first duty of Kentucky citizenship
is to repeal the Goebel election law
which is the source and continuing
strength Of the wrong done in this state
A vote of confidence next November IN
men who are all usurpers Of office and
who have fora rear past been acting to
gesther to thwart the declared will Of the
people will be accepted as a vote Of con-
tidence in the election law that Is a bio
on our statute books. The Goebel law
must be abolished or republican institu-
tions must be surrendered"
After the adoption Of THE platform
former Governor Bradley nominated fol-
governor Hon. John w. Yerkes. Gov
ernor Bradley said the democrats killed
Goebel by passing the Goebel election
law and he discussed at great length the
last election in Kentucky.
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.
Yerkes said in part:
To-day we are citizens of a state flying
the black flag of political tyranny and
usurpation, a state Differed by men de-
feated at the polls; a state where, by DEM
ocratic alchemy, a minority Is transmitted
into a majority where. by most vicious
legerdemain, outrage and political dishon-
esty, the will of the people as expressed at
the polls is nullified and overthrow.
W have In Kentucky, under our elec-
ton law, the only imperialism of this era
an imperialism that, with oriental denial
of right, justice and law, robs more than
constitutional privilege of having a voice
in the selection of those who rule over
them. But men will soon learn that village
tyrants cannot expand into state tyrants.
That all of the people will not endure what
a part of the people may bear. This demo-
cratic Imperialism began by unconstitu-
tional democratic state legislation affecting
municipal and district elections, disfran-
chisement of republicans by subdivisions
GAS necessity grew, as from being re-
publican only in certain sections, the state
as an entirety became such, democratic
Imperialism grew and found it's culmina-
ton In the Goebel election law. This law
is fatal to fairness and honesty in elections,
to a free ballot and a fair count. to popu-
lar sovereignty, to untrammeled suffrage,
to local self-government.
The republican party and thousands Of
peaceful citizens who are not republicans,
but are Joined with us in this conflict for
our common liberties, ave dedicated
themselves without reservation, without
counting of cost, to the restoration of civil
liberty by repeal Of the Goebel election
law"