Arizona republican., 1903-07-17
WENT TO BELkNAP
Expected Kentucky Stam-
 pede Did Not Occur
The Hearty Endorsement of Presi- dent ROosevelt-Assassination De- nOunced Whether in Seryia or Kentucky.

Louisville, Ky, July 1G-A second day of picturesque political maneuvers in the state convention of Kentucky Republicans failed to culminate in the final grand surprise of a winning dark horse. whose coming had been hinted at and whose followers during yester- days session set the political manag- CTS to guessing.
 Colonel Morris P. Belknap of Louis vile, a wholesale merchant, widely known throughout the country. re ceived the nomination for governor on the first ballot. His delegates, con trary to predictions, stuck to him. though how much of their tenacity can be charged to the announcement by former Governor William C. Bradley that he was not candidate, can only be conjectured.
 Belknap was nominated after an 'en- thusiastic supporter of Bradley had placed the former governor in nomin- atioR and the followers of Augustus E. Wilson had tacitly withdrawn the man supposed to,be Belknap's nearest com peitor by failing to present his name. The threatened stampede to Bradley was met by q quiet but emphatic dec laration that he would not be a candi- date, but for some unknown reason the convention officers called his narne/du ing the ballot and he received a great CT number of votes than Clifton J. Pratt, who had made an active cane Vass.
 The resolutions. after congratulating the people of the United States upon the unparalleled prosperity achieved under national republican policies. !" says: We stand for the continuance of the existing republican financial and tariff policies.
 We express our highest appreciation of the record that President Roose- welt has made in continuing the great work begun by President Mckinley, and he himself dealing with the new problems that he has had to solve in his handling of the Philippine ques- tion; in his firm management of the Venezuelan crisis; in his wise and courageous course with reference to the anthracite coal strike; in his honest efforts to secure justice to Cuba; in his zeal for the Panama canal; in his vigorous demand Tor O1flClal purity and honesty and the punishment of the corrupt and dishonest; in his resolute stand against the closing of the Chi nese ports to our trade; in the success achieved by his practical efforts to en- force the law against unlawful com binations, and in the encouragement he has given to the laying of the cable across the Pacific, which brings us into closer touch with the Philippines than we were with the Louisiana territory or with California when acquired He has shown himself a strong executive, as he is an ideal citizen, and We hearti- ly and enthusiastically are for his nomination for the presidency in 1904.
 We denounce assassination and law lessness, whether i'm Servia or Ken lucky as destructive of civilization, and enjoin upon the enlightened intel ligence Of the state, through it's legis- lative, executive and judicial agencies, 10 employ remedies to re-esta blish or der and punish crime within our bor- ders.
 We especially arraign the present state chief executive for so exercising the pardoning power as to subserve po- litical and partisan purposes, with the certain effect of encouraging crime by virtually rendering criminals of the