Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1895 — MEETING IN MEMPHIS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MEETING IN MEMPHIS.

Opponents of tbe Free Coinage of Silver Hold a Convention. An audience of 3,000 persons was in attendance at the big Auditorium in Memphis, Tenn., when W. J. Crawford, chairman of the committee of arrangements, called the “sound money and better banking facilities” convention to order. Delegates from all the Southern States were present to the number of about 600 and represented all ranks, from the politician

to the farmer. In a short speech, which was unmistakable in its indorsement of the gold standard, Mr. Crawford welcomed the delegates to Memphis, and declared the convention ready for business. Ex-Congressman R. H. Clark, of Alabama, in a speech indorsing the policy of the administration in maintaining the credit of the country, nominated for permanent chairman Congressman Thomas C. Catchings, of Mississippi, who was unanimously elected. Mr. Catchings, in accepting, indorsed President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle, and also took occasion to prophesy that the present silver

craze would soon be stored away in the warehouses at Ocala, Fla., along with the plans that were formulated there a few years ago for a government loan on the products of the country. After the appointment of a committee on resolutions, one from each of the States represented, Secretary Carlisle was escorted to the stage by Congressman Josiah Patterson. Mr. Carlisle spoke for an hour and twenty-five minutes, and at the conclusion of his address an adjournment was taken until 8 o’clock at night. The night session proved of equal interest to that of the afternoon. The report of the committee on resolutions was read by Judge U. M. Rose, of Little Rock, Ark., and was unanimously adopted. Congressman Josiah Patterson, in respone to repented calls, made a speech, in which he appealed to the people of the South not to break away from every tie that had hitherto bound them in the matter of commerce. Ho spoke of the commercial relations that had always existed between the Eastern States and the South and between tho latter section and the States of Illinois, Indiana, Micliignn and lowa, and asked what was to bo gained by breaking with these and joining their fortunes with those of Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming and Nebraska. Resolutions were adopted to have Congressman Patterson’s speech published in pamphlet form, together with that of Secretary Carlisle, and to be distributed throughout the South by a committee of one from each of the Southern States that sent delegation/ to the convention.

THE MEMPHIS AUDITORIUM.