Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-14

save them. by request Of the
 oos who sold their birthrights for
 the mess of pottage-three congress-
 men only. And I saw in the paper that
 there was not solitary farmer in that
 party in this southland, where the pro portion between the agricultural inter ests and the rest Is SeVenty-hVe farmers
 to twenty-five of all other occupations,
 What Is sound money? It is that money which requires two pounds of cotton, two bushels of wheat to get the same quan- tity that it did few years back. claim that such a dollar as that is robi
 Der dollar of 200 cents. They tell you
 about the 50-cent dollar. Let us fling into their teeth the 200 cent dollar. There
 was some talk in congres last winter by Mr. Carlisle, who presented bill of
 financial scheme looking to the giving of some measure of relief dhat poor con
 gress. that pitiful democratic congress
 didh ave the saving grace to reject it. but the scheme is still on foo), as promul- gated by the bankers convention in Baltimore. that they shall thaVe Hhe greenback retired; that the silver certif- catcs shall be retired; that the govern ment shall retire from banking, and that | they shall have the issuing of all the pa- | per money of this country and on gold standard at that"
 E. W. Carmack, editor of the Memphis | Commercial-Appeal.s said he believed the | prosperity of the country depended on | free silver. "I speak" he continued. "as
 democrat, and I believe it will be the | destiny of the democratic party to | achieve this triumph I stand here to | protest against anything that has b en | done in the past or will be done in the | future to prostitute the democratic party l to the money power of England, and to | protest against any effort to diSorg ze | the party. I am here. however, to work | in harmony with all parties who have | the interests of the people at heart and l. wish to further the cause of free silver | As far as the south is concerned, all that | is best in it Is concentrated in the demo- l cratic party"
 Governor Adams of Colorado next ad- | dressed the convention and then followed 1 Marion Butler, the populist senator of | North Carolina.
 This gathering here" said he. 'is | more significant than the one at Phila-
 delphla at which American independ- ence was formulated.
 "Never before has such a gathering | came together from all parts of the
 country to declare a peaceful revolution. | Will we seize the opportunity and use it | to the full measure of opportunity? l But I need not ask this, and we could | not stop this revolution if we tried. This | is not a politicians movement, and if
 there are any politicians trying to get
 anything out of it, they will wish they l had not.
 "The populists have in their platform | a plank advocating the free coinage of | silver, and they went before the country
 last year and gained POO per cent in votes, l and the next time we will gain 400 per | cent. I believe in the government owner
 ship of railroad. but l do not believe in it | so long as the Rothsehilds own the gov | ernment."
 Afternoon Session.
 At the beginning of the afternoon ses- l.. T.@N l ters indorsng the work of the conVen- l tion had bee received from Senator John | T. Morgan of Alabama and E. C. Wal
 thall of Mississippi. The letters were | Voluminous and were not read to the con- | vention.
 There was uproarous applause when | Senator Jones of Arkansas began to | read the report of the committee on | resolutions. It was received with the | widest enthusiasm and adopted without
 a dissenting voice. resolution pro- | viding for the appointment of a delegate | from each state to a national monetary | convention was then introduced by Sen
 ator Jones and unanimously adopted. | Senator Jones was called on for a | speech. He said: "I have made my speech | already. The resolutions embody all | that could say about silver. ] do not | think it necessary for me to trespaSs on
 your time. I have unbounded confidence
 in the people of the United States, and | believe they will settle this question and | settle it in the right way. I think they | will make no mistake. The prosperity | and happiness of this country are insep- | arably connected with the cause of silver | and I believe there is no help for this | menace to the liberties of the people and
 life of the republic. The issue is en- | franchisement or hopeless servitude.
 Whatever the power of money can do by ] debauchery and corruption to maintain it's grasp on the law making power will | be done We therefore appeal to the | plain people of the land, with all conti-
 dence in their patriotism and intelli- | gence to arouse themselves to full | sense of the peril that confronts them
 and defend the citadel of their liberties | with a vigilance that shall neither slum-
 Der nor sleep"
 The fight over the principles laid down l'by Sibley in his speech last night began | early in the day with no less man | than Senator Isham G. Harris at the
 head of the faction, advocating | simon pure democracy. With him
 were M c. Galloway of Memphis, formerly editor of the Appeal. and Gov
 ernor Clark of Arkansas. besides many | others of political prominence in their 1 parts of the country. These men said that they would secede from the conven-
 tion if it indorsed Sibley's radical senti-
 ments. Sibley said in his speech last | night that they had come to abolish the
 party in favor of the people and 1t was
 to this idea the democrats took eXcep- tion. They declared the democratic par l ty was strong enough of itself to cham | pion the cause of silver, and they did | not propose to turn over the convention
 to the populists and republicans. al- l though the latter were welcome to the | ranks of free silver. The fight spread to the room where the committee on~resolu- | tions was holding its deliberations. but | fortunately 1t got no further. The plat | form as was oroginally intended (the call | being strictly -partisan), contains no | mention of any party
 The convention adjourned tonight after | speeches by w. J. Bryan. A. J. Warner