Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-08-05
ALLIANCE SILVER MEETING
DIsCUSSION IN TIKI: COURT
HOUSE TODAY.
RESOLUTIONS Adopted Endorsing
Senator Vamce's VleVvs-Capt.
AtEklmsOn's Respects to Editor
Caldwell.


AtIkinsOns Respects to Editor
Caldwell.
The silver meeting called by promi-
ncnt Alliancemen of the county held its
session in the court house today, with
bet 60 and 20 persons resent.
The gavel was raped at IL O'Clock by
N. PIam ondon, esq, who said the meet
ing had been called by the friends of sill
vcr i'll the interest of silver, and that
big meeting had been expected; but
that the notice of the meeting had
been given through the columns of
THE CITIZEN, paper that had but a
small circulation Thanks. thanks! Mr..
Plamondon.-ED. CITIZEN. i'll the
county, and that circulation was usually
delayed three or four days after the day
of publication, so that sufficient notice
had not been given and the small attend
ance was +bc result.
Mai. W k5 Malone was called to the
chair and the representatives of the city
press were made secretaries.
Major Malone said that the present
crisis in the financial affairs of the coun-
try needed the spirit of compromise in
the days of Clay and Calhoun to bring
about satisfactory solution. The
South and West should not be held
to be disloyal if they do not
| accept the ideas of New England.
| The cry from Denver is for bread and the
cry from Wall street is for gold. States
| m 1nship and patriotism must come to
the front and the politician must be sunk
out of sight. The present assemblage
| can do no better thing than pass rcsolu-
| tionS endorsing Senator Vance for his
| firm stand in his country's need and for
| his reputation of the shutilng politicians
who would sell their souls for mess of
pottagc.
| !. X. Dubosc was called for and in re-
sponsc said the time had como for every
body to put their shoulders to the wheel
| to get the country out of the present
dilemma. He stood squarely on the
Democratic platform and believed that if
its principles were carried out the relief
needed would come. 4Efhc people of the
South and West do not desire an advan-
tage over their brethren of the East, but
they do want relief that will be equita-
bic to ALL Congress should place gold
and silver on an equality.
Judge IL. MeIrimon answered the
call of the house by saying fair prop
osition would be that not man on
American soil understands the great
lquestion under discussion, not even the
President, nor yet Senator Vance, for
whose opinions he had the greatest re-
spect. Judge 1"rrimon read extracts
from the platforms of all the parties
wing that the people have spoken
for silver and that Grover Cleveland
is in line with the people if the
utterances read are sincere. The
straw that broke the cameIs back
Il and compelled the call for an extra ses-
sion, said Mr.. Mcrrimon, was the act o
the English government in destroying
free coinage in India: that act dropped
the price of silver. closed the mines in the
west and sent up the wall for bread from
| I1o h,
are leaving that country by whatever
means they can secure. Wall street says
the hard times are the result of a loss o
confidence in the silver dollar; the state
ment is false, as the daily transactions o
every citizen will prove. Wall street and
the destruction of the country if the
free coinage of the silver product con
tinues, but the tale is utterly tallacious
1t is the croaking of a horde that is fat
teniug upon the calamities of the people
In conclusion Judge Mcrrimon tsaiC
with great earnestness: 81 may be wrong
but l am going with silver. l stand by
the silver dollar. l stand by Senator
Vance and pray that he will be giver
strength to stand up in Congress on the
issue is settled. l may be wrong, bu
I'm in mighty big crowd under tn,
leadership OF many able men,
Captain Matt Atkinson said that In
had read the letter of Senator Vance ant
that he had listened to the remarks o
Judge Merrimon and was convinced tha
there was honesty in the country yet
Mint mine hundredths of the people O
the Old North State are solid friends O
the silver dollar, and here comes one
hoss, flea-bitten, wormy, spawned, littl
fellow, one Joe Caldwell, who tries t.
teach craftsmanship to Zebulon L
Vance.
Judge I. A. Jones said the financia
problem, If too great for the minds {
the statesmen OF the country was mos
certainly beyond him. The interests
Wall street and the interests of the toi
crs in whatever calling were opposed t
each other. A damnable conspiracy ha
been plotted for the ruin of the countr,
1t compels the gold standard and il
grab of the poor mans all, and there al
- men in this community who are partit
to the crime.
Col. T. B. Long said he had come OIL
to hear Judge Merrimon and to listen t
the subject. remark of Judge Jon,
had called him to his feet; he wished I
be distinctly heard on the great question
All the parties profess to agree in Il
demand for free coinage. The patriot
men OF the parties mast show the
hands, and the good element of the pa
ties are going to combine to whip Wa
street out of it's boots. The way f
! patriots to do was to rally to Zcb Van
4 and his ideas as cnunciated in his lettC
} stand with Messrs. Mcrrimon al
\ Jones, who had come out aud sa
! they were with Senator Vance. Tv
\ things had brought the country to t
condition she is now in-the demonetiz
\ tion of silver and the national bankil
system. "Maryann Butler" Col Loi
said, 1.-The man who has been ridicul
so much, and the conservative eeme
In the Democrat, Republican and Prol
bition parties and the Peoples Part
ties will stand shoulder to shoulder a
show Wall street that the people she C
iInpoverish no longer
Mr.. Plamondon introduced q set
resolutions of some length, and spo
to them briefly. His resolutions
dorsed the views of Senator Vance,
so1yed for "the amendment of the va
Y GUS coinage acts so that gold and sill
y may be converted into bullion and
Os posted in the treasury OF the Unit
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