The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-22
SOLID SOUTH A MISTAKE
EVERY INTELLIG NTDEMOCRATIN
 THE SOUTH IS FOR PROTECTION.

THE SOUTH IS FOR PROTECTION.
 Mr, Evans Says That the State of Tennessee
 stauds o-day Where She Has Always
 Stood and the Speaker Trusts that She
 Will Always Remain So,
 F Boston, Nov. 1.-The annual dinner { of the Home Market club was held in < Music hall this evening. A reception < was held in Bumstead hall and several
 hundred people shook hands with the
 president and speakers Dinner was
 served in Music hall at g o'clock. The
 huge auditorium was elaborately dec
 orated and plates were laid for about
 five hundred. The officers, speakers
 and guests were seated at tables which
 filled the platform.
 At the center of the head table sat
 the newly elected president of the club,
 Charles A. Stott of Lowell. On his W right sat Hon. Warner Miller of New x York, Charles Emory Smith of Phila-
 delphia, General W. F. Draper, George # U. A. Woodbury of Vermont, Hon. Eli
 jah A. Morse, ex-Governor J. B. Smith x of New Hampshire, Hon. A. w. Beard, x Hon. W. H. Halle, Hon. E. P Shaw, N Hon. George Won L. Meyer and J, F.
 Hutchinson
 At the left of the table were Hon. H.
 Clay Evans of Tennessee, Hon. J. H.
 VII TT
 A. Russell, John HopeweIl, jr., F. w.
 Breed Hon. John Sinlpkins and Hon.
 John Shaw.
 The balconies were we'll sprinkled X with ladies before the speaking began ~ It was nearly 8 o'clock when President # Stott opened the speaking with brief
 address.
 < President Stott then read a letter K from Governor Greenhalge stating that N he had been called to Lowell by illness \ in his family and would be unable to # attend the banquet. In his absence z Hon. J. H. Walker of Worcester was presented and responded on behalf of < the commonwealth. Congressman 8 Walkers remarks were entirely in the z nature of a welcome to the distinguish X ed guests
 MT. Evans in his address said: MT Evans was greeted royalty and
 expressed his deep appreciation of his # kind reception. No nation has ever % prospered as did this aton for a term < of thirty years, ending with August, 4 1894 under the very doctrines advocat-
 ed by this Home Market club, and yet during that time it met and sustained < one of the most gigantic and destruc- ' tive wars of modern times. Of the < south he said: Manufacturers are seek ' ing the fields that produce raw mate rials. So we expect under your gener- x ous help to produce more cotton and iron in the future. We expect to manu- facutre more in the future. We will not be only an agricultural country { but expect ito add manufacturing indus E tries. You cannot find an intelligent S democrat in the south who is not a protectionist I believe that the people # are convinced that the solid south is a Y mistake, that it is the barrier to good A government (applause). The solid south, as 1t has been fosters wrongs, encourages extravaganza and corrup- X tion, and I look forward to a better
 udy III tie SCuuH. l WdHt lO say un1S with reference to my own state. The campaigns in the state from \ republican standpoint have been made 4 aIong the lines of national republicans ism, honestly, fairly, squarely. We < never have made any concessions or any comprises. The state of Tennessee is an old wfig state and that sentiment ofprotection still prevails and Tennessee
 stands to-day where she has stood in
 the past, in favor of the old flag, the
 and cheers.)
 When the question of secession was
 submitted to the people of Tennessee
 in 1861 the peopleNolled up a majority
 of 67, ,000 against it and it was not until
 the governor resubmitted the question
 brought in people from other states
 that the state voted for secession.
 Tennessee stands to-day in the heart
 of the solid south, parting the clouds of
 prejudice and hate and I trust that in
 the near future prosperity and sun-
 shine will spread over her and alike
 over every other state in the union.
 Tennessee in 1894 led in the march of progress and the republican principles
 prevailed. Kentucky and Maryland
 promptly have joined in this march
 of progress, and gentlemen I believe
 that I can say that we can promise to
 you in Tennessee next year republi-
 can majority.