Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — TO VOTE FOR SILVER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TO VOTE FOR SILVER.

KENTUCKY DEMOCRATS ADOPT THE UNIT At the State Convention in Lexington White Metal Delegatee Rigidly Bind Representatives Sent to Chicago and Instrnctfor Blackburn for President » r Kentucky for Silver. Kentucky’s twenty-six votes at the Democratic national convention will be solidly cast for free silver and for Senator Blackburn as "the party’s presidential nominee, with “Silver Dick” Bland of Missouri as the probabl.e second choice. These two facts were decided upon in the State convention at Lexington when the white metal delegates thus bound the delegation to Chicago with a unit rule. The silver men were so thoroughly seated in the saddle of favor that they rode rough shod over the administration men. The only concession to the latter was abandonment of the plan to reject the two sound money national delegates chosen from the Fifth or Louisville district. This concession is only upoij the surface, however, for the unit rule necessarily disfranchises them of the right to vote according to their convictions. The action taken had been long foreseen by political prophets. Radical silver men wanted the

committee on credentials to unseat enough delegates from the Louisville district to give the white metal faction control there, but thi* adoption of the unit rule rendered this unnecessary. Senator Blackburn, the present idol of Kentucky silver Democrats; P. Wat Hardin, who last November as the party gubernatorial nominee on a white meta) platform, led Kentucky Democrats to their first defeat; John S. Rhea, an abls stump speaker, and W. T. Ellis, also known as an efficient campaigner, wer« elected as delegates-at-large, with Robert W. Nelson, J. Morton Rothwell, Theodore F. Hallam and John D. Carroll at alternates. J. P, Tarvin and W. B. Smith were nominated for presidential electors-at-large. They are all earnest advocatei of free coinage. Joseph Clay Stiles piacknum, candidate of the Kentucky Democracy for the presidency of the United States, is a native son of Kentucky. His father was a breeder of thoroughbreds, but Joseph took to the law. He spent two years in Chicago and returned to the South in 1860. He was an elector on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket, the army, went to Arkansas and planted cotton, returned to his home and became a legislator, went to Congress and became a Senator.

SENATOR BLACKBURN.