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Show DEMOCRATS OF KENTUCKY. T'aey Adopt Free Cilnaa-e aat Tariff Reform Re-form Resulatteiik. Louisville, May 15. The democratic demo-cratic stale convention is still in session. The platform adopted la?t night insists that tariff reform is the paramount question before tbe American people and denounces tho McKinley bill as the "most outrageous measure ever passed in an Anvtriraa congress." Tha .platform .plat-form contrasts' wttli it. the policy ot' G rover Cleveland and John G, Carlisle, which would discourage unnecessary expenditures, provide all needed revenue, rev-enue, cheapen wbat we buy ami open tbc markets of the world to the products prod-ucts of our farms and factories. On silver the platform says: "Recognizing "Recog-nizing the fact that tbe I'm ted 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 fraudu-lent legislation of tbe republican party against silver, which unduly contracted the circulating medium of the country, and fueling that tbe great interests of the people demand more money for use in the channels of trade and commerce, com-merce, we tender our gratitude to the democrats of tbe last congress for their almost unanimous vote in both houses in favor of the free coinage of silver, and demand its restoration to the position po-sition of equality before tha law giveu it by our fathers." |