People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — SPLITS ON SILVER. [ARTICLE]

SPLITS ON SILVER.

KENTUCKY DEMOCRATS CAN NOT AGREE Majority aad Minority Report of the Rezolutlouz Committee Presented to the Convention—Bitter Fight Precipitated by the Action. Louisville. Ky„ June 26.—The democratic state convention reassembled this morning at 9:30 promptly. When the convention adjourned in the early hours of the morning the pending question was on the minority report from the committee on credentials, and the discussion thereon was resumed. After discussing an hour and a half the motion to substitute the minority report on credentials for the majority report, the call of 119 counties began. The Clay men favored the substitute and the Hardin men opposed it. As the vote was considered a test of strength it was watched with great interest, and resulted, 448 yeas, 425 nays. The result was greeted with loud cheering by the Clay men. The Hardin men rushed to the platform, charged false counting and fraud, and created a most tumultuous scene, which was finally checked by crowding Senator Lindsay through the fighters to the front of the platform, when he opened another hot contest by presenting the majority report on resolutions. The resolutions indorse the repeal of the McKinley tariff law, denounce the American Protective association, and expresses “undlmtnished confidence in the democracy and patriotism of President Grover Cleveland and his distinguished co-advisors and Secretary John G. Carlisle of Kentucky.” The minority report is as follows: “Resolved, fey the democrats of Kentucky in convention assembled, That ■the present democratic administration Is entitled to the thanks of the whole country for its statesmanlike management of public affairs, and we further declare that both President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle are entitled to the unqualified indorsements of the American people for maintaining the gold standard and thus maintaining the credit of the government, and their issuance of $160,000,000 of interest-bear-ing bonds is hereby expresly indorsed. ■ “The undersigned members of the committee oh resolutions, believing that the democratic party of Kentucky should plainly declare in favor of true bimetallism or the gold standard, offer the following as a separate resolution and ask its adoption: “Resolved, That we believe in the coinage of both gold and sliver as the primary money of the country into legal tender dollars receivable in payment of all its debts, public and private, upon terms of exact equality.” Mr. Rhea made a most vigorous argument and offered a second, or supplemental, minority report, which simply reaffirmed the national platform of the party of 1893, and urged its adoption as a measure of expediency, owing to the divergent views in the party in Kentucky on the financial question. Congressman Ellis opened the debate for the minority report. Ex-Gov. James B. McCreary, who is a candidate for the senate, made a vigorous appeal to the Kentucky democracy to co-operate with Cleveland, Carlisle, and the democracy as its principles had been declared in 1893. After McCreary concluded the Hardin men insisted on a recount of the votes by which the minority report was substituted for the majority report on credentials, and the convention hall for some time resembled the scene of a riot.