188 





$3,000; Inspector of Mines, $1.800 and tnn 



>;...<- - 

 fling expenses. 



Other acU were: Declaring combinations, con- 

 federacies, and conspiracies to Intimidate crimes. 



Allowing the Louisville to bin j.r. 



sold for Uues, and hold it for one year, to allow 

 owners to reden 



foatag a penalty for interrupting public 



i that all cam bringing into the 

 coal mined I ist be so label, d. 



trusl companies 



H with lew than 100.000 population and 

 rn to do both a banking and trust 

 1 



I itlral. Elections were held HOT. *J. The 

 State officer to be chosen was clerk of the 

 Court of Appeals. 



le's iiarty held a convention 

 \pnl7. The platform favored the init 



and rvfervndum : an income and an inheritance 

 tax: the furnishing of school books at cost; the 

 opeiir >11 turnpike and other transfer sys- 



of public utility " by the public ; reduction of 

 salaries of public officials; a law to prevent dis- 

 crimination ajgainst any legal-tender money of the 

 country: legislation against trusts and combina- 

 f unpaid warrants upon 

 Mate treasury for taxes and other dues to the 

 Joseph A. Parker was nominated for clerk 

 of the Court of App< 



The Democrats met in convention at Frankfort, 

 'in resolutions, which were adopted with 

 Assenting vote, declared in favor of the 

 Chicago platform and urged all true Democrats to 

 Stand by it. It condemned the " dishonesty, cor- 

 ruption.' and bWOmpetonej " of the State adininis- 

 trati 



1 .1. Shackelford was the nominee. 



;nal Democrats held a convention, July 

 14, at Ixuiisville. The resolutions reatlirmed the 

 principles of the party as declared by the Indian- 

 apolis platform, pledged the party when in power 

 ict tax laws for revenue only, to pay all debts 

 it Ix.unties, and to reform the currency laws 

 so as t< maintain the standard of the world; they 

 denounced the movement for free coinage of sil- 

 ver and all attempts to fix the ratio between the 

 metals arbitrarily by law ; condemned lawlessness ; 

 and pledged themselves to use every effort to restore 



of law and to punis'h lawbreakers. 

 James R. Ilindman was made the nom 

 On Aug. 10 the Republican State Convention was 

 held at Ix.uisville. The resolutions, after declaring 

 allegiance to thf principles of the party ami 

 ending the national and State administrations. 



''.. are opposed to a system of civil service that 

 build* up an official class, practically a life tenure. 

 in almoM all branches of the public services and we 

 demand that the civil service be so amended as to 

 - of service to four years, with the 

 c-ge of reappointment or promotion subject to 

 such restrictions M wiD secure competent officials 

 and to every section of the country its proper por- 

 tion -f them. 



A favor t he passage of a law that will protect 

 the wboren f Kentucky from the competition of 

 convict labor, and. if necessary to accomplish such 

 results, an amendment to the Constitution permit- 

 ting such legislation;* 

 James O. Bailey was nominated. 



i*ts nominated O. T. Wallace. 

 The campaign was vorv spirited and in some 

 places violent The question of free coinage was 

 the chief topic of discussion in the State at Urge, 



KlNKToSrOPIC PiriT i; IX 



In some of the local contests the Kepublieai 



- united. 



(lection day a bloody encounter took place ii 

 .hfort. resulting in the death of ii men and tht 

 wounding M al-o a disturbance 



at Mount \ :id a shooting all"i.i 



the rioters and the sherilT and his deputi* 



.illed. 



The vote stood : Sha.-kelford. 

 Bailey, Republican, 14 I'opuiisi. ; 



llmdman. National I) . \\ .. .. 



hibitionis' -ratic plurality. 17.804. 



Legi.slatuP n ]"int ballot : 



Democrats, 99 ; Republicans, 88 ; Populists, 1 

 tional 



KIM lns< OI'K I'M II Ill's. In 1S!M 

 Thomas A lirought out i. 



and kinetoscope, and a Mar later he ga\> 



some description of his* Idneto-phonograpfa and 



phono-kin- The two first-named in- 



ni-in- have to do with the reproduction of ii; 

 scenes, and the two last-named \\ith t 1 

 neons production of moving scenes and m 

 ing sounds. The kinetograph and kinetoscope had 

 been introduced to the public but a short lime, 

 when other inventors brought out the In. .graph, 

 cinematograph, eidoscope, eidoloscopc, muto- 

 vitascope, and numerous other meclmni-ms simi- 

 larly named, cadi adapted for the display of kim- 



toscopic pictures to t through a peephole, 



or to be thrown on a screen in enlarged form b v a 

 magic lantern, so as to be visible by a large in. 

 of people, as in a public hall. These productions 

 have been termed biographic picture.-, cinemato- 

 graphs, etc., until in many cases the fa< : 

 lost sight of that they are all kinet<>-i ,>[.!. pi, 

 presented by slightly" different mechanism. 



The kinematic idea, as devi-.d by Mr. Kdi-on 

 and perfected with the assistance and under the 

 immediate direction of \V. K. L. iMck-.m. wa- 

 rowed from two old toys, the phenal<i-t 

 t he /eotrope. In each of these a series of coarse 

 pictures representing continuous phases of motion 

 was presented in rapid routine, in the . tTort 

 produce to the eye the effects of contim. 

 meiit. When instantaneous photography became 

 known through the discoveries of Maddox. 

 .Mnybridge, Man-y. and others gave to the \\..Hd 

 continuous pictures of tho motion of the hor- 

 dog, etc., it occurred to Mr. Edison that it would be 

 interesting to produce a better apparatus for prop- 

 erly exhibiting these modern phot After 



six years of patient labor the mechanism was per- 

 fected and the manufacture of kinctoscopic films 

 was placed on a ial basis. In order 



ceive the human eve into an impression of 

 unity, it was found necessary to present to view 



. distinct, and perfect pi- 



ond. and to keep each of these stationary for nine 

 tenths of that forty-sixth of a second, while the en- 

 tire set of pictures was advanced in positi< 

 degree during the remaining four hundred and 

 h part of a second : and this intensely rapid 

 alternation of stops and starts had to be can , 

 with almost perfect absence of vibration. Nor was 

 this all. In order to reproduce the pictures at t his 

 speed and in this manner, it was essential that 

 they should be photographed in the same manner, 

 in order that the motions reproduced should be, 

 given in the projx-r time. None of the. met h- 

 photography then in use were available. Previous 

 takers of instantaneous photographs had n-ed bat- 

 teries of at least 24 cameras, but nere the conditions 

 permitted the use of but a single camera. lin.mide- 

 of-silver haloids were tried, but produced c 

 effects at every effort to enlarge the views. Suc- 

 cess was at last attained with sensiti/ed celluloid 



