Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-02-28
MADISON lNSTRUCTS
FOR W. G. HARDING
Surprise Sprung At County Con.
= vention-Burnam and Mays
> Win With Old Committee

is fhoO1i COoilCy IGpuDllCdnS 1nSCfuC
ted their delegates to the district AM
state conventions next week tovote fo,
instructions for Warren G. Harding
OF Ohio for the presidential nomina
tlon. The convention also reelected
the Old county committee, after an eff
tort had been made in the Resolution:
committee to make few changes
The report of the Resolutions commit
tee IN this regard was changed on the
hoor of the convention by a vote Of
~ to IL. By motion of Robert r
Burnam, Jr., seconded by w. o. Mays
the friends of the old committee wor
out by that vote The resolution en-
dorslng the candidacy of Senator
Harding and instructing for him was
offered by Capt. w. T. Short, and was
adopted without opposition.
The, instruction for Senator Hard
ing will come as quite surprise to
many for it has been heralded
broadcast by many republi-
can newspapers that the republican
leaders desire an uninstructed dele
cation to the Chicago convention.
The republican county convention
was held in the county court room at
/. o'clock with about so present The
meeting was called to order by Coun-
ty Chairman W. o. Mays, who thank
ed the republicans Of Madison county
for the loyal manner in which they
have stood behind him during the past
four years. He said that he believed
that they would soon be able to win
Madinson over as solidly republi-
can county.
County Judge w. K. Price was
nominated for temporary chairman of
the convention by Attorney C. c. Wal
lace and elected without opposition,
and Editor E. 8. Smith was chosen
secretary the same way. Judge Price
made vigorous republican speech in
taking. the chair in which he predict
ed an overwhelming victory for his
party in the coming presidential cleo
ltion.
= A ripple in the proceedings came
when Mr.. Mays moved that the chair
appoint two committees, one on
resolutions and the other to select the
county precinct chairmen. c. c..
Wallace objected to the naming of two
committees to do the work and sug-
gested that the resolutions committee
could easily do so. He offered a
motion, and when it came to a shown
down vote, beat the Mays motion by a
vote of % to %, Capt. w. T. Short
acting as teller.
Chairman Price then appointed the
following Resolutions Committee:
Waller Bennett, chairman, Burton
Roberts, C. c. Wallace, W. T. Short
and Speed Taylor. While the COM
mittee was consulting, William Wal
lace, Madison county's candidate for
delegate, was called for and spoke to
the convention, along republican
lines.
The resolutions offered and adopted
were as follows: .rg
BE it resolved by the republicans of
Madison county. Ky, a mass conven
tion assembled.
That we approve of the time and
place for holding the National, State,
District and County Conventions of the
Republican party as fixed by its duly
constituted committees.
we congratulate the nation in the
election of a republican Congress, in
both branches, and other evidences of
the nations return to the time hOnored
principles of liberty, freedom. protec-
ton, prog ress, economical and con-
-structive legislation, efficient adminis-
tration of governmental functions and
sanity of foreign affairs. Especially
do we congratulate old kentucky on
her achievement in the election of
Governor Morrow, and the entire re-
publican state ticket by an unprece-
dented ma jority and we hereby endorse
the course being pursued and the cour-
age exhibited by the present state ad-
ministration to eNtricate the state from
debt and enact constructive Legislation
and uphold and enforce the law.
81 We condemn the national democratic
administration for its extravaganza in
the expenditure of the peoples money,
its inefficiency in the conduct of the
governmental administrations, and for
its Capitalization of the powers and
functions of government inethe hands
= of one man, and, thereby, usurpine
the powers of Congress and other
branches of the government
We favor Americanism and National
ism, contradistinguishe from Social
ism and Internationalism, and, there
fore, approve the action of the United
states Senate in refusing to accept the
treaty of peace intertwined as it is
with the League of Nations without
amendments sufficiently broad and def
mite to safeguard this republic from
future foreign entanglements. We ap,
prove of the Lodge amendments to tha
instrument, and the course of the pa
triotic Senator'S who have stood ou
ffrmIy for the adoption of said amend
{ ments.
- Since our last convention the nation
and the republican party have sustain
- a; GREAT and irreDara hle loSs in fh