The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-22
Ex-Gov. JARVIS WILL CONE.

! He Writes Mr.. Ed. Chambers Smith
Asking Him to Secure Him a Room
| at the YarborO--A Letter from Mr.
| MILAN. Also, of Red Springs.-SOme
Aspects of the Coming Silver Con-
ventiOn,
The non partisan silver convention will
meet IN Raleigh next Wednesday.
What will 1t do? is the question on
every tongue.
There are four distinct propositions,
which, it is rumored, will be pressed at
the session of the convention, or confer
ence.
/. Mr.. Ed. Chan bers Smiths plan is
that it will declare the unalterable con-
yiction that the free coinage of silver is
the only proper solution of the financial
question. and resolutions will be pre-
scented somewhat along the line Of those
passed by the Democratic silver couven-
ton lately held at Washington. There
is no intention, " says Mr. Smith, $50 far
as can learn, to commit anyone against
| his will to any resolution for new
party" Mr. Smith has also said that it
was a mere conference and could not
bind anybody.
2 1t is stated, By those to whom he
has read the resolutions, that eA-JQdge
Spier Whitaker, the Ieputed author of
the original petition for tde convention
or conference, has drafted a set of reSo-
lutions 10 be submitted which contain
little besides an arraignment of the Dem
ocratic party" What he proposes to the
narties viii probably not develop until
Wednesday, if then.
8. Senator Marion Butler is said to
have resolution that declares free coin
age the leading and only question before
the people, and commits all delegates
not to vote for any candidate for office
on any ticket who is not openly in favor
of the free coinage of silver at the ratio
of is to /.
4. Loge Harris will make the most
eloquent speech of his life, so his friends
say, in advocacy of his proposition to es-
tablish brand new party with no plank
except ode favoring the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver. He says he is
ready to leave the Republican party tor
free silver, and nnless all free silver men
are willing to leave their parties and
make a new silver party, the election OF
a Republican gold bug President In 1895
is inevitable.
There will doubtless be others present
with other resolutions and propositions.
Mr.. Pritchard may introduce a resolu
ton declaring that ''the Sherman act
Was a good law"
Mr.. Ed. Chambers Smith was seen
yesterday afternoon, and was reading a
letter he had received from ExGov Jar
Wis in which that gentlemen said he
thought he could say with certainty that
he would be at the Convention, and Mr..
Smith was asked to secure room for
him at the Marlboro.
Moreover, Mr.. Smith read letter
from Mr.. Hamilton NJ MILAN, of Red
Springs, as follows:
"The sentiment here in favor Of the
-monetization of silver is simply in
tense and the people are watching with
interest the approaching convention in
Raleigh The friends of the white metal
must get together and ! anticipate good
results from the meeting.
"The impression is sought to be made
that the people in this section are in
different but this is a great mistake.
The great mass of the people are with
you. Perhaps two or three gold bugs
can be found in Robson county among
the whites. The people are poor and in
many cases unable to attend the con
vention but you can depend on the peo-
pies endorsement Of the movement
II am a Democrat from away back
and am heartily in favor of the conyen-
ton. | will be unable to attend owing
to business engagements but | write you
God speed.
Respectfully,
HAMILTON NJ MILAN"
refer to Capt. Ashe.
a group of gentlemen were standing
together on Fayetteville street yesterday
afternoon, among them Mr.. Ed Cham
bers Smith and Mr. Boz Beckwith also
another gentleman who said that he had
travelled all over the State and believed
from what he had heard that there would
be at least twenty odd thousand people
here 1t was suggested that Metropoli
tan Hall could not hold so many
Bledsoe's Grove was suggested, when
Col Fred. Olds risked the fear that that
wouldn't reach. So the gentleman sim
ply suggested that Wake coun-
ty be named as the meeting place.
that would hold them. Speaking
of the meeting in Metropolitan Hall the
same gentleman suggested that if Lrge
Harris and his cohorts attempted any
Shines, they would be hustled into the
mayors Office to hold their meeting
there with Mayor Russ as chairman.
Blythe by, Mr. Beckwith replied last
night, when asked who put the silver
convention idea int the head of Mr.. Ed
Chambers Smith, that he and Mr..
Armistead Jones were the prime orisi
majors Mr.. Beckwith said that Mr..
Spier Whitaker, it is true, drew the first
call, bnt that otherwise he had nothing
to do with it. Such was some Of the
driftwood talk yesterday about the COM