Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-26
"THE TICKETS TIE 1HINGG''' Sound Money" Democrats
 AvOwaIs of Loyalty. THEIR WORDS ARE WEIGHTY Party Wheel Horses Who Will Not Kick Over the Traces, but Pull Their Full
 Share.

Montgomery, July 25.-(Special )-The
 "sound money" club here is making very
 little progress in the way of membership.
 it appears On Saturday night 166 names
 had been enrolled, and up to last night only
 forty-fve more had been added. It is nota-
 ble that the politicians have studiously
 avoided algning themselves with the club,
 and it appears now that the organization
 has attained almost as large a membership
 as it will. The membership is entirely
 respectable and numbers some of the most
 substantial men in the community. but the
 party leaders and the men who get the votes
 are not on the rolls.
 MT. Ross c. Smith of the railroad com
 mission was in the city Thursday In reply
 to query he promptly said: "Of course
 I'm for Bryan and Sewall. I do not agree
 with the financial policy of the platform,
 but the supreme authority of the demo-
 imperative with me. I will do-all can for
 the ticket and believe it is the duty of all
 democrats to do so. The party has honored
 me and my friends and l would consider
 that it would be gross ingratitude to desert,
 even should be disposed to do so, which Is
 not the case. think the controlling ele,,
 nent inside the party should exercise all
 tolerance toward the conquered, and am
 very sure all will be we'll.
 Hon. R. b. Steiner. a prominent sound
 money" democrat here, says:
 q am a sound money democrat. but am
 for the organization first, and have never
 ton. assembled, and do not now intend to do so. The Chicago convention was the demo- cratic convention, regularly called, and It's nominees are mine. If it was not demo- cratic, as some of my sound money frienqs | in it and cast the vote of Pennsylvania for Pattison? If 1t was not denlocrattc, why | did MT. Whitney try to make MT. Hill 4 tenn can be no question that this convention was l the regularly organized convention or the
 party, and l am heartily for Bryan and | Hon Thomas II. Watts, formerly a lead- | ing member of the Alabama legislature, a | lifelong working democrat and chairman of | the Dick Clarke club of Montgomery coun- | ty in the recent democratic campaign, 5ald: l q am just as much opposed in conviction l to the free coinage of silver at 16 to as l ever was, but I am an organized democrat | and shall do as have always done in the | past heartily support the regular nominees
 'Tn April last this financial question, so far as Alabama democracy IS concerneas
 silver, in the regular party primarltes mere ei, | licked was one of them, and, as I have 1 always believed that the majority, inside
 the party, should rule l %ill be nd e9nssistent sae | the regular nominees Of the democratic par | ty." ., l legislature as a gold advocate, said; Il | shall support Bryan and Sewall The diner- | ences in the party were submitted to tne l people for settlement and the question mas | been decided against us, and l see no req l son why we should not submit, and do our l full duty as democrats to the Chicago noini- | nees."
 Mr James Gallagher: While am a | sound money democrat I believe in stand | ing by the party's action in selecting our presidential nominees. 1 Judge John C.. Winter, an enthuslastlc | "sound money" believer, and a sterlihS denl, | ocratic leader, says: .I have never voted | anything but democratic ticket, ana | 1 propose never to do so. 1 am Tor Johnston' l Bryan and Sewall."
 | Capt Charles Pollard, a democrat Of the | same stripe, said about the same thing. . l MT P c. Massie, who is a sound money . | man. and a lawyer of ability, regards that l inc failure of a democrat who participated | in the recent primaries to support the state l and national ticket is guilty of breach or l contract. When the sound money demo- l Crats participated in the natopal conven- | ton they tacitly admitted its regularity | and confessed to it's being the supreme au> | thority of the party No democrat can, | therefore. according to MT. Massie's reason | ing justify his declining to vote Tor the | nominees with the charge that the national | convention was controlled by populists. lie | considers that a sound money democrat l cannot bolt now without breaking falth | with the silver men of the party. | Fully nine out of ten of the sound | money" democrats of the city are Tn me, | and the others will gradually fall in, It IS l believed In the meantime some recorus, q | few only, however, are being made, wmen l will hang like loadstones around the hecKs l of the makers for many years to come.