Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-25
ALL THE LEADERS ON HAND
Colonel Troy Present by Invitation, and His
 Speech Is Heartily Applauded.
SOME OF HIS REMARKABLE DIFFERENCES
The Resolutions Adopted Decline to For mally Commit the Party to Fusion, but the Bars Are Left Down-In-
 dividual Expressions.

The lobby of the Opera House hotel was filled to overfowing yesterday with populst politicians. Hon. ]. w. White head, editor of the Grcenville Living Truth j. J. Brooks, editor of the Cher olxee Sentinel; Frank Baltzell of the Ali ance Herald, Tyler Goodwin of the We tumpka Advocate, Warren Reese of Montgomery who is contestng Senator John T. Morgan's seat in the United States senate; Evangel J. C. Manning, A. T. Goodwin, state senator from El- more; Captain Kolb, Rev. Samuel Adams and many more bright and shining lights of the populists were on hand.
 The executive committee of the popu- lists began it's session at Il a. m., in Frs wells hall and was in executive ses- sion until nearly l o'clock. when the doors were opened and a few select out siders were admitted. Chairman Adams called the meeting to order and the fol- lowing responded to roll call:
 l. l.. Brock, Cherokee county.
 J. c. Manning, Clay county.
 A P Longshore, Shelby county.
 First distrlct--D. B. Anderson, Charles Spivey.
 Second district-E. ]. Harris. J. NJ. Whitehead, E. c. Townsend.
 Third district-A. M Higgins, E. C. Jackson. J. B. Searcy.
 Fourth dstrict-H. c. Woodruff
 Fifth district--A. T. Goodwin, J. F. Oliver.
 sixth district-J. R. Maxwell, J. B. Sandford.
 Seventh districe-N B. Spears.
 Eighth district-R. M. Mcclellan.
 Ninth district-W. A. Fountain, P. G. Bowman, H. P. Stringfellow.
 There were present in all about 150
 
 man M. w. Howard. Joseph Parsons. George P. Zimmerman, Judge Horne. Dr. G. B. Grove, w. F. Aldrich, Reuben F. Kolb Col. D. s. Troy, Col. J. J. Altman. Ben Mayer, Reuben F. Kolb. Jr., and others.
 Several short speeches were made dur ing the time committee reports were be- ing prepared, but the speech of the day was delivered by Col. D. s. Troy of Mont gomery. Colonel Troy was present as an Invited guest. He said:
 'I have been invited here to q confer ence for the purpose of devising some plan by which the people who favored the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 and who are in favor of restoring to the people of Alabama the right to be governed only by majority of the votes actually boiled, could get together. In my opin- ion the right of self-government in Ala bama can only be restored through the populiSt party (cheers) and the populistS should call together all the people who concur in this grand purpose. suggest that a conference be called by this com nittee to be held in the fall, and all persons in Alabama, without regard to party affiliation be invited to send dele gates to this conference. It should not be called a convention, because con venton implies some power to control the members or some obligations to abide by it's actions It should not be mass meeting, because mass meeting is not representative body. What is wanted is meeting representative in it's character, but in which no member should feel bound by the action of the meeting, except in so far as it met his approval. I suggest that every precinct in the state be invited to send one dele gate, and that each county in which convention or mass meeting is held be instructed to send delegates equal to four or five times it's representation in the lower house of the generally assem- bly,; that it be distinctly stated that every delegate shall be free to express his opinon but that neither the delegates nor those who send them shall be bound by any action of this conference, except such as meets their approval
 Colonel Troy then branched into an elaborate discussion on what he con ceived to be the necessity for this call, including a discussion of the necessity for honest elections" and the money question, in which he criticised Presi- dent Cleveland and the ofticeholders Tor seeking to use the powers of the govern ment to enhance the value of the dollar and thereby benefiting themselves at the expense of the tax payer
 Speaking on the subject of honest elec- tions he said: There is no way to re- store to the people of Alabama the right to be governed only by majority Of thy votes actually boiled except by persuad- ing the organized democrats to abandon voluntarily their approval Of the false ] certification of votes not boiled or by re- sort to force.
 "A resort to force is to be deprecated, and while it will be the result if no other! means can be devised to secure to the people of Alabama the right to be gov erned by the votes of the majority only, every device ought to be used to avoid the necessity of resort to force.
 Fully three-forths of the democrats of the black belt have no personal interest in the result of an election. They are as honest and true men as can be found in the democratic party or elsewhere, and if is can be made plain to them that there is no longer danger of a return of the domination of the carpet-bagger or ne- gro they will concur in the views have here expressed in regard to the domina- ton of white men by falsely certified ; returns. We all approve such returns as " a means of overturning the government of the negro and carpet-bagger set up under the reconstruction act of congress, and many of these democrats in the black belt who have no personal inter- i est in the result of the election still hon. Eestly fear return of that infamous domination. Let us get together in con ference. The truth is that the govern ment of the negro and the carpet -bagger is result of the war, and there Is no more danger of it's return than there is of the war itself
 "When these black belt democrats are persuaded of this truth they will be no more willing to tolerate a government based on anything but a majority of the votes actually boiled than you are.''
 While Colonel Troy was snAak.ng MT.