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KENTUCKY. 



Land Office, G. B. Swango: for Clerk of the 

 Court of Appeals, Abram Addaras. 



The platform contains the following declara- 

 tions : 



We insist that tariff reform is the paramount ques- 

 tion before the American people, and denounce the 

 McKinley bill as the most outrageous measure of tax- 

 ation ever proposed in the American Congress. 



Recognizing the fact that the United States is the 

 greatest silver-producing country in the world, and 

 that both gold and silver were equally the money of 

 the Constitution from the beginning of the Republic 

 until the hostile and fraudulent legislation of the Re- 

 publican party against silver, which unduly con- 

 tracted the circulating medium of the country, and 

 feeling that the great interests of the people demand 

 more money for use in channels of trade and com- 

 merce, we tender our gratitude to the Democrats in the 

 last Congress for their almost unanimous votes in both 

 Houses in favor of free coinage of silver and demand 

 its restoration to the position of equality before the 

 law, given to it by our fathers. 



No reference was made to the question of 

 adopting the proposed new State Constitution. 

 The convention also refused to take action on a 

 resolution approving Grover Cleveland as the 

 next Democratic presidential candidate. 



On May 29, a Prohibition State convention 

 met at Louisville and selected the following 

 party candidates : For Governor, Josiah Harris ; 

 for Lieutenant-Governor H. M. Winslow : for 

 Treasurer, J. M. Holmes ; for Auditor, W. W. 

 Goddard ; for Attorney-General, E. J. Polk ; for 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, A. B. 

 Jones; for Register of the Land Office, Brad- 

 ford McGregor ; for Clerk of the Court of Ap- 

 peals, R. S. Friend. The platform contained 

 the following : 



Resolved : That the necessity of the times requires 

 a party whose dominant issue in American politics is 

 the principle of legal prohibition of the traffic in in- 

 toxicating liquors as a beverage, and all other public 

 wrongs that rest upon the people as the result of par- 

 tisan, class, and corrupt legislation ; such we believe 

 the Prohibition party to be, whose utterances at In- 

 dianapolis in convention assembled we approve. 



We favor a larger circulating medium in our nation- 

 al currency. 



The Republican nominating convention was 

 was held a Lexington on May 20. Its nominees 

 were Andrew T. Wood for Governor, Henry E. 

 Huston for Lieutenant-Governor, Eli Farmer for 

 Treasurer, Charles Blanford for Auditor, L. J, 

 Crawford for Attorney-General, L. V. Dodge for 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, W. J. A. 

 Hardin for Register of the Land Office, and E. 

 R. Blaine for Clerk of the Court of Appeals. 

 The platform contains the following : 



The Republicans of Kentucky in convention as- 

 sembled declare their adherence to the principles of 

 the Republican party as enunciated in the platform of 

 the National Convention of 1888. 



They heartily indorse the administration of Presi- 

 dent Harrison, as pure, wise, and patriotic. They ap- 

 prove the actions of the Fifty-first Congress/ and 

 especially what are known as ' the silver, tariff, and 

 pension bills, and are opposed to the free and unregu- 

 lated coinage of silver. 



We declare that we recommend the adoption of 



the new Constitution because it blots from our laws 

 all provisions that authorize human slavery, secures a 

 secret ballot, and provides against fraud and corrup- 

 tion in elections; subjects to regulation by law all 

 public corporations ; prohibits the abuse of special 

 legislation, abolishes lotteries, enlarges and protects 

 the Common-school fund, increases the opportunities 

 of popular education, makes more equal the burdens 

 of taxation, better protects the agricultural and labor- 

 ing interests, and makes provision for its own ready 

 amendment by the people. 



We believe the national election laws should be so 

 amended that every American citizen should be al- 

 lowed to cast a free ballot and have it fairly counted. 



A resolution recommending President Harrison 

 for renomination aroused opposition, and was 

 not pressed to a vote. 



On the same time, May 20, a fourth ticket was 

 placed in the field by the People's party, a new 

 State organization in sympathy with the Farm- 

 ers' Alliance. On this ticket were the following 

 names : For Governor, Erwin ; for Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, S. F. Smith ; for Treasurer, I. 

 G. Sallee; for Auditor, W. G. Fulkerson; for 

 Attorney-General, B. L. D. Guffy ; for Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, J. B. Secrest ; for 

 Register of the Land Office, T. B. Harrelcl ; for 

 Clerk of the Court of Appeals, W. B. Ogden. 

 The platform of the new party demands 



the free and unlimited coinage of silver ; declares 

 that no more banks of issue should be organized, 

 and those already chartered discontinued as soon as 

 possible, under the law ; opposes alien ownership of 

 lands ; favors laws to prevent dealing in futures ; op- 

 poses all taxation that has for its object the building 

 up of one class or interest at the expense of another 

 class ; demands a Bureau of Labor Statistics ; that the 

 Government should pay the Union soldier the differ- 

 ence between currency and specie at the time he was 

 paid paper money, with interest added, and that to 

 meet such payment Congress should issue enough 

 Treasury notes, making them full legal tender for all 

 debts, public or private. 



On State questions the party demands that 

 the State tax of fifty cents be taken off mortgages ; that 

 fees and salaries of all national, State, and county 

 officers be reduced, allowing only reasonable compen- 

 sation for services rendered : that the time of assess- 

 ing property be changed to Jan. 1 ; that convicts shall 

 be worked inside the walls ; that the employment of 

 children under fourteen years of age in factories be 

 prohibited ; that all bonds, notes, mortgages, and evi- 

 dences of debt of $200 or more shall be presented to 

 the assessor or county court clerk, and be stamped 

 by him at the time that assessments of other prop- 

 erty are made, and the failure of such evidences of 

 debt bearing such stamp shall render them void of 

 collection; that the mechanic's lien law be made the 

 same as that of Ohio. 



At the August election the entire Democratic 

 ticket was successful. For Governor Brown re- 

 ceived 144,168 votes; Wood 116,087; Erwin, 25,- 

 6.31 ; and Harris, 3,293. The vote for the other 

 candidates did not vary materially from these fig- 

 ures. Members of the State Legislature were 

 ejected as follow : Senate, Republicans 10, Dem- 

 ocrats 29, People's party 1 ; House, Republicans 

 17, Democrats 70, People's party 12. 



The new Constitution was adopted by a vote 

 of 213,950 yeas, to 74,446 nays. 





