The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-27
COULD MAE NO SPEECHES.
CAPT. ELLIS SAYS THAT Il THE
ONLY CAUSE FOR ANY DISSAT-
ISFACTION.


cation on the Money Question Il
Needed-Most of the Southern
States Believed TO BE On the Right
Line-The Georgia Delegation
Wanted the Tax Taken on state
Banks.
Capt. Charles s. Ellis. one OF savannah's
three delegates TO the Memphis sound
money convention. returned TO the city
yesterday. Col W. W. Gordon. another Of
the delegates. is expected back this morn
ing. and Mr.. J. ;. Collins. the other dele
gate. has gone to New York on a business
trip.
Capt Ellis. who was seen by repre-
sentative Of the Morning News. was much
impressed with the business manner in
which the convention was conducted and
the short order. but thorough manner
In which the objects in view were arrived
At.
1T was a big meeting Capt Ellis
said, land its personnel was one Of BUSH
ness men; there is no doubt about that.
great many went there al "A personal
sacrifice to themselves TO learn some
thing about the question, and how it. is
being viewed throughout the country.
The meeting was held in large audi
torium hall that had been arranged orig
inally for Sam Jones meetings. There
were at least 100 business men in at
tendance, and most Of them were dele
gates.
THE speeches of Carlisle and Patterson
were OF course the chief features. The
work Of the convention is already pretty
well known through the press reports.
1t did not meet until about ? O'Clock, and
il was about o'clock when Secretary
Carlisle made his speech. The commit
tee on resolutions was appointed. and the
convention met again at O'Clock in the
evening, when the report was made. When
The resolutions were read Chairman
Catchings did not even say that the re-
port was before the convention for con-
sideration. He simply said. Gentlemen,
you have heard the report Of the com
mittee all in favor of its adoption say
aye"
There was a unanimous aye, but some
two or three delegates called for recog-
milton, desiring, It seems, TO make some
sort OF a speech on the subject. NO doubt
many of them came with speeches already
prepared, and expected to tell what their
sections thought of sound money. Ihey
were shut of, however, with "All OPP
posed say no." from the chairman, ana
when they announced they had something
to say, he stated that the question before
the house had been disposed Of. There
was general satisfaction with the resolu-
lions as they were drawn. The only
trouble was there were "a few who had
prepared spelchdt ana war1tcd to let
them out, but they didn't get the oppor-
tunity.
AT the conclusion of this work the con-
vention would have undoubtedly adj
iourned but there were loud calls for
Patterson. Col. Josiah Patterson, as is
well known, was more largely instrument
tai in shaping the course OF the conNen-
tion and arranging for il, perhaps, than
any other man, and there secmed 10 be
a general desire TO hear from him. He
responded ably, and as an exposition of
The question / considered his speech the
better of the two. He held the attention
of the 1000 or more business men present
for more than an hour and his state
ment of the question was so clear and
convincing that it was universally com
mented on after the adjournment OF the
convention"
Capt. Ellis was asked whether there
were any agricultural people at the con-
ventiOn.
There was quite a number" he said,
"but the majority of the delegates were
business men, bankers and lawyers. The
local people made the arrangements for
the convention largely, but the work was
we'll done Ii was business from start
to finish and everything was done in short
order. There was a proposition made to
elect one vice president from each of the
states represented but this seemd to be
useless for the purposes of the meetins,
and the motion was overruled- Had the
question been carried Col Gordon would
have been made the vice president from
ATr az
Journal was on the committee on reso-
lutionS When the resolutions were re-
ported there were not ten minutes of dis
cussion before they were adopted
Capt. Ellis was asked as to the outlook
in the southern states as gathered from
his conversation with delegates at the
convention.
''North Carolina" he said was the
only state not represented. All the other
southern states had delegates present,
and from what I could gather Arkansas
and Tennessee seem to be the only states
that are very far wrong on the money
question. Those states, it Is said, are bad
off, unless some change can he made The
delegates seemed TO think there is a great
deal more hope for Georgia, and many of
the states are looking hopefully toward
this state to encourage others. They want
TO see Georgia lead off on the right side
of the question
There is no doubt about the fact that
there has got to be good deal of edu-
cation yet" he said. MANY men have
not formulated opinions at all. and they
want TO be educated on the subject Why
there were many men present at the con-
vention who had sound money ideas, bur
they didn't know enough about the ques-
ton to state an intelligent opinion Pat
terson's speech was the best thing that
was heard, so far as they were concerned
as it appealed to their reason in a clear
and simple way which was easily under
stood. All the delegates realize the fact
that they have got 10 work hard but they
are determined not to yield their opin-
ions one iota to the silver people. There
was hardly a delegate, so far as l could
determine. but who was satisfied with the
results of the convention. The two
speeches made were entirely convincing;
the arguments are unanswerable 1t is
being made to appear that Carlisle is In
consistent in the stand he is taking now,
as some years ago il is claimed he was
for silver coinage. This, however, as he
has stated, has no bearing whatever on
the question, and is by no means reply
to his arguments. A man cannot always
be of the same opinion, especially under