Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-09
CALIFORNIA.
Citizens Meeting Last NiRht-An Inn
mense GatherfDg-ResOlutfOns of
Censure Adopted.

mense neutrality-suspicious. of
Censure Adopted.
SAN Francisco, September 9.-The
meeting last night at Union Hall was
largely attended, the hall being filed
and q crowd filing the street to hear the
open.air speaking. The address deliv-
cred was devoted mainly to an attack on
the Bulletin and Call for their course
during the recent campaign and since
the failure Of the Bank of California and
the death Of Ralston. A resolution was
adopted condemning these papers for
their attack upon Ralston, and calling
upon the people to withdraw their sup
port from them. The resolutions also
censured the Associated Press for tele-
graphing so-called false reports, the
reading of which was greeted with many
cries" mol mol" as was the case with
another resolution read outside. The
resolutions also referred briefly to the
character of Ralston, embracing the
usual expressions Of respect and regret.
The meeting was quiet and orderly,
though some of the speeches were of
rather an inaammatory character. No
expressions of dissent were heard other
than those above mentioned. 1t was ev-
ident that many of the audience were
present merely as observers and that the
vote by which the resolutions were
adopted did not represent, by any means,
the sentiments of the whole ~assemblage.
There was no perceptible run on the
United States Treasury yesterday for the
resumption Of gold notes on the Ma
tional Gold Bank and Trust Company.
The State University has elected D. o.
Mills treasurer, vice Ralston. The
financial committee Of the board reported
that the university will lose nothing by
the failure of the Bank of California,
being protected by the late treasurer's
bond for $l5O,OOO.
The Press this morning comments ON
the meeting last night, combining them
selves mainly TO full reports of the pro-
ceedings, speeches and resolutions.
Some comments we're made privately Oh
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the fact that the directors Of the Bank
of California took no prominent part in
the affair; also that the meeting called
ostensibly for the purpose of passing
resolutions of respect and regret for the
deceased banker should have been, by
action Of those manipulating it, convert
ed into an Indignation meeting, many of
those present considering it a palpable
departure from the purposes Of the meet.
ing as announced.
The affairs Of the National Gold Bank
and Trust Company are proceeding fa-
vorahly. Since the panic the bank has
liquidated claims to the amount of over
one million dollars, and o statement of
its condition shows a surplus as regards
depositors Of over one million four hun
dred thousand dollars.
New YoRK, September 9.-The Her
AIDS special from San Francisco states
that the meeting of the friends of Rails.
ton at Union Hall last night was all that
had been hoped for. In point Of num-
bers it was one of the largest held in
the city for years; in feeling, the most
emphatic. Colonel Vim. H. Barnes,
attorney for the new Bank of California
syndicate and q warm friend of Ralston's,
pronounced an eulogy which was fnll of
~eloquence, and heartily applauded. The
resolutions adopted are severe in denun-
citation Of the evening Bulletin and
morning Call Of San Francisco for what
is characterized their brutal and u%pjusti-
fable attacks on the personal char
acter of Ralston, which did not
cease even while his remains were
being followed to the grave by his
griei-stricken family and friends, and
recommended the withdrawal of all pat
Fonage from the journals named, and by
all lawful means to convince the world
that the people Of San Francisco and
the State are possessed of the instincts
Of honor and the exterior ~d5cencies of
civilized life.