Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-14
THE SILVER CONFERENCE.
THE ARRIVAL OF PROMINENT DELEGATES
Senator Harris Will Probably Preside and Ca sey Young Will Cut Wide Swath-Ex-
 pressions of Sympathy.

Washington, Aug 13.-Representatiyes from almost every state will be present at the free coinage conference to be held in this city tomorrow. This conference is the outcome of the Memphis conven- ton, at which time democratic represen- tatives from all states were instructed to send delegates to a general conference at Washington. The delegates come as representatives of the 16 to 1 movement, and are confident of success and will ad- init of no compromise.
 The following delegates had arrived at late hour tonight: Senators Harris of Tennessee. Jones of Arkansas and Turpie of Indiana who issued the call for the conference; Hon. N. N. Cox of Tennessee, Hon. James A. Lockhart of Wadesboro, N. C.; w. M. Rubey of Macon, Ga; Hon.. Robert Neill, Batesville, Ark; w. Hill, w. c. Humphrey and George w. Allen, St. Louis, Mo-; Joseph F. Johnston, sam uel Will John, John w. Tomlinson. H. w. Wilson, Birmingham, Ala; Joseph Hodg- son, Mobile, Ala; Senator John w. Dan iel and Peter J. Oley, Lynchburg, Va. Also the following from Illinois: w. Il. Henreichsen, Springfield; John A. Barnes and R. M. Rose, Louisville; George M. Lecrone. Bingham; George E. Grammar, Joliet; William D. Wilson, Decatur, and J. w. Nantes and M. McNeely, Shelby vile.
 It is probable that Senator Harris will preside over the meeting ,and Casey Young, who is chairman of the execu- tive committee, will have much to say in the proceedings. The object of the conference is to form an organization within the democratic party favorable to free silver, and every effort will be made to secure harmony in the ranks.
 Senator Harris is authority for the statement that new national commit tee will be formed of democrats of promi- hence, one from each state, the oD1ect De- ing to secure control of the next national democratic convention.
 w. N. Henreichsen arrived tonight from Illinois at the head of large dele gation, of which Congressman Fithian is a member. MT. Henreichsen has the honor of having called the first free sil- yer convention ever held. He dominated the action of the convention held at Springfield in June last, and is confident that the west, as we'll as Illinois. is taking more kindly every day to the free silver movement.
 MT. Henreichsen said tonight "The free silver men will nominate and elect the next president Naturally we in the west turn to w. R. Morrison as the one available candidate who represents sterling democracy as opposed to the gold bug mugwumpery of the white house. While MT. Morrison has thus far remained non-committal on the silver question. yet we are assured by him that he has the interests of his party at heart. His party will point to him in unmistak- able terms the necessity for free silver and urge upon him his leadership. As the silver movement originated in the West, so also must the party leader come from the west.
 'It should be understood that this dem ocratic movement is entirely within the line of the party. Every effort possible will be made to prevent financial differ ences. This conference will present resolution that I believe will be adopted in a majority of the conventions in va rious states, so when the next democratic convention is held the delegates will vote almost unanimously for free silver Senator Daniel was one of the late arrivals tonight. He said he was not aware what the dimensions or personnel of the conference would be, but he eX- pected about 200 delegates to be present. Such number, he thought, would work with more consonance than larger rep resentation, and the work on hand would be expedited sooner. He saw no reason why the meeting should last longer than one day. He had not come here to offer resolutions and did not know the na- ture of the ones that would be offered by leaders of the movement. It was his opinion, however, that good would come out of the affair, and tlIat the country at large would applaud the action of the convention