The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-25
HIS AMENDMENT, MODIFIED
ADOPTED BY THE COMMIT
TFEOF NINE LAST NIGHT.
CAPT. ASHE ALONE DISSEATS
THE SILVER SKIRMiSH OPENE ,
WITH A MEETING IN Mr.. SPIER
WRITAKER'S OFFICE.
Then There Was a Meetin J
of The Thirty.

Ter to Bind Voters to Candidates
with Clear Records on SiIver--This
Amendment Adopted at Night. =" !! ~
commencing" Instead of "Bindias"
1.-The Committee of Nine, Three
from Each Party, Adopted the Reso-
Iutions, With MI. Spier Whitaker in
the Populist Committee--Tt Meets
This Morning at Nine--Ed Chambers
Smith for Cnairman-sJudge MacRae
tor Temporary Chairman--Interest-
ing Chit-Chat, Fl0tsam and Jetsam
About Men and Things.
The resolutions submitted in Metro
politan Fall yesterday to the Committee
of Nine were reported late last night TO
have been passed, and recommend to all
silver men to vote and work only for
United States Senator'S and Congress
men who favor free silver, and for cleo
tors who will vote only for men for
President and Vice President who are
known to favor the free and unlimited
coinage of silver.
Capt Ashe said to newspaper man
last night that he voted against the re
solutions as adopted, objecting, evident
ly, to Buffers amendment to the origin
al. He is understood to have been the
only man who voted against these reso-
buttons, the other eight agreeing to them
entirely.
Mr.. Ed. Chambers Smith said last
night that compromise had been ami
cably effected and the conven
ton to-day would be harmonious
What little breeze there was stirring
last night vas laden with silver, and
about the Yarborough House you could
almost take walking stick and beat the
atmosphere into 16 to / silver dollars,
but they we're various kinds Of dollars
There were some good old Democratic
silver dollars, there were others with
more eagle and-less-E pluribus unum
Pcpulist dollars, and there were small
amount Of subsidiary coin that had the
Republican stamp on it. The SEN
ator from Sampson had shaken
the Populist bushes and his Pop
ulist friends had come in punches.
DIR. Mott was here and doubtless eX
pected to meet Senator Pritchard,
State Senator Moody, candidates for
Governor, Russell and Dockery, Virgil
Lusk and others, but they were not
upon the ground. 1t was said that some
Of Pritchard's Republican friends had
written to him and told him that he
better have important business else
where. It was also said that But
Ter was noting Prltchards absence
with some qualification as any
failure on Pritchard's part to be on hand
on all silver occasions would relieve both
him and other Popullsts of certain writ
ten or unwritten obligations. Nor was
Mott weeping at Pntchard's absence.
Nor were Guthrie and many others who
viewed from afar and with some long
ings the senatorial toga nov worn by
the gentlemen from Madison. Senator
Jarvis and other Democrats came IN dur
ing the day and by nightfali there
was pretty good sprinkling OF silver
men of all parties from various sections.
They had coucuss and caucus's resolu-
ton after resolution was proposed and
discussed. The resolution receiving
most favor wat one declaring for the
free unlimited and independent coinage
Of silver at 16 to / and pledging all
present to do all in their power
to elect or select men for pc
sitions whoes views were in accord
with this sentiment. There was some
hair splitting on phraseology; some
wanted to 'select," Others wanted 10
'electe," and it was said that the little
IS" came near getting the whole ma
| chine into "mess.
Yesterday afternoon, pursuant to the
renoon meeting in Mir. Spler Whlta
| ker's office, there was meeting III
Metropolitan Hall at O'Clock, wherein
! ten men had been selected from each
party as the working force. Speeches
were made by Ex Gov. Jarvis, Mr..
| Whitaker, Mr.. Ashe, Mr.. Butler and
others, the last three offering resolutions,
The resolutions of the first two, so Mr..
Kitchin said last night, outlined The ills
of gold bugism but, insisted Mr.. Kitch-
in, gave no remedy. Mr.. Kitchin said
that Mr.. Buffers resolution was on the
nature of an amendment, and possessed
the remedy, in which he said that al
men who thought alike on silver should
git together, Mr.. Butler advised
every man not TO vote fol
any candidate for Congress, the
senate or as elector whose RECORD
was not clear for silver. A committed
of nine three from each parity was
selected to repart this morning, as fol
lows: Populists, Butler, Whitaker anc
Guthrie; Republicans, Mott, Loge Harri:
and Westmoreland; Democrats, Ed
Chambers Smith Ashe and Judge Mac
Rae. Each one of the committees me
for conference last night, and will come
together this morning in the library a
nine O'Clock.
There was caucus yesterday morning
in Mr.. Spier Wnitaker's office, whici
lasted for several hours, as was re
ported by a gentleman seemingly con
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