Daily Public Ledger

NEWS IN KENTUCKY

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
Everything Will Be Done Unanimously at the Coming Meeting in Louisville.

Louisville, Ky., July 16.—According to what the leaders say, everything will be done unanimously at the republican state convention, which will meet here at the Auditorium at 2 p. m. Tuesday to nominate a candidate for governor. Ex-Lieut. Gov. John Marshall will be temporary chairman and will deliver a speech in which he will set forth at some length the republican side of the events in Kentucky politics following the last state election. Mr. Marshall was elected lieutenant governor on the ticket with W. S. Taylor and was unseated in favor of the present governor, J. W. C. Beckham, who had second place on the ticket with William Goebel.

Either T. Z. Morrow, of Somerset, or Judge John W. Barr, of Louisville, will be permanent chairman. Ex-Gov. W. O. Bradley will place in nomination for governor John W. Yerkes, of Danville, who will be unanimously nominated. Gov. Bradley is expected to speak at considerable length.

The republicans propose to make this convention a republican ratification meeting. It is expected to attract large crowds of republicans in addition to the delegates, and anti-Goebel democrats will be admitted without credentials. It is the present plan that the platform shall indorse the Philadelphia convention and its nominees, and then contain only one plank, and this the republicans describe as "anti-Goebelism."