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Show KENTUCKY ISO. K. Her Democrats Strike Oat For Free Coinage. ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLE Of the Democratic Faith Elkins Hedges Four Thousand Men Have Their WagreB Kalued Ten iPer Cont. Other NewsItems of General Interest OvvKNSBOao, Ky.,May 16. The democratic demo-cratic convention to nominate for railroad rail-road commission -r for the first district, dis-trict, comprising thirty-nine of the one hundred and nineteen counties of the state, today unanitmusly adopted the following; "We declare it to ba an elementary principle of demosratic faith that both gold and silver coin shall constitute the primary money of the country; that both metaia shall be received for mintage without discriminating against either, and at the legal rat;,o that existed prior to 1S73; and we demand de-mand the unrestricted coinage of both gold and 'silver at thia legal ratio, and that both metal9 be declared lull legal :tnder in payment of ail debts, public and private." This being the strong demociatic section sec-tion of Kentucky, the action possesses significance as alfectiEg the probable action of the state convention next month. Senator Biackburn was here, taking an active part, and va3 ep.rn-eetiy ep.rn-eetiy interested in adopting the reio-lution. reio-lution. Much interest is taken in Secretary Carlisle's campaign here next week against Irea coinage. ELKINS FLAYS FOlt SAFETY. New Youk, May 16 Senator Elk-ns of West Virginia says ha was frequently fre-quently misquoted on hie western trip as being in lavor of tree silver. "I believe be-lieve in binje'aliisin and in the use of a liver in the furthtai posoiple way consistent con-sistent with sound luoiiej," he added. "1 am not lor siiytr to &u extent hurtful hurt-ful lo the e.ountiy. Tue government tjas the power to limit the use of metals. met-als. The republicans of the east and west .must ttt together on the silver question, 1 believe the silver question will settle itself, ani when we come to meet ntxi year at tne nat'onal convention conven-tion tnere will not be any antagonism between the east and the west." MAY liE TKOUBLE. Pittsburg, May 16. A resoiutisn ordering a general suspension of work in all the mines in tiie Pittsburg district dis-trict was adopted at the miner's convention con-vention here today. It was also decided de-cided to establish camps at all the pits working nelow tne rate. Tne convention conven-tion was one of th largest ever held here, and the jentinieit was for calling jut all miners working for the 59-cent rate or for the 60 eent rate, and it was finally decided to demand the old wages. The delegated went noine to night to ascertain the sentiment among the miner, and will report to the convention con-vention tomorrow. The operators, it is said, will now bring new men into their mines. If they do there will likely be serious trouble. IKON WOltK-S RAISE "WAGES. Pittsbuiig, May 16, Jones & Laugh-lin, Laugh-lin, proprietors of the American Iron works, have granted their employes a 10 per cent, increase in wages. The lirm employ about 4,000 men, and are the greatest rivals oi the Carnegie steel company in the manufacture of structural iron. The advance will ap ply to all smuea men, aim to an otueii except common laborers, who are now receiving $1 2j per day, the recognized rate for such work. Ho reason ia assigned as-signed for the action oi the lirm, but it is thought that the example will be followed by many other large firms. The Republic Iron works will resume work Monday, paying the amalgaa ated association rate of if-1.00 for paddling. This will give employment to 400 men, who have been idle lor several months. The works are a branch of the National Nation-al Tube works, and manfacture material ma-terial for pipe. GERMANY AND BIMETALLISM. Berlin, May 16. In spite of the fact thu Chancellor llohenlohe deprecated tne matter, the upper house of the Prussian diet, bv a vote of 73 to 3S. adopted Count Von Mirbsch's resolution resolu-tion in favor of steps beir.g taken for the prompt settlement of the currencv qulion by an agreement as to international interna-tional bimetallism. During the debates, the governor of the ivichstag warmly opposed the motion mo-tion and iniormed the federal govern-ratnt govern-ratnt that they would thereby create disaster and il s. urbance. Prince llohenlohe adhered to his atati meut in the reichstag that the government would submit the silver question to further examination in consonance con-sonance with the federal government and was also willing, ultimately, to meet the other powers and discues commercial com-mercial measures to be taken. But first of all, the basis of diEcussiou, he insisted, in-sisted, must definitely te settled upon. f?o soon as the answer to the government were received, renewed attempts would be made to continue an international exchange of viewB upon the subject. sub-ject. Therefore, he advised the bouse, if it did not wish to sapnort the affair, to adopt llerr Beckers amendment, which struck out that part of Count Mirbach's motion wh-ch demandea that Germany take the initative. Prince Hohenlohe'o advice, however, was ignored and the amendment was rejected by a vote of 72 to 39 and later Count Von Mirbach's motion in favor of Bteps being taken upon the part of the government for the prompt settlement settle-ment of the currency question by an agreement as to international bimetallism bimet-allism was adopted by the same fig ures. |