Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-31
TENNESSEE DEMOCRATS
POpulists Will Onset Gold Democratic
Boilers.

opuhAStS w III unset Told Dem 1~
Boilers.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening S,,r
MEMPHIS, August % 1896
Inc convention held by free silver demo-
Gratis or this. the tenth, congressional dis
.rict which this week nominated E. w.
Carmack for Congress by reclamation. was
unique convention In many respects
One Of the speakers sang a song and an
otner delivered a carefully prepared paro-
dy on Antonys Grafton over the dead bodv
vi caesar, In which silver was Caesar, and
Josiah Patterson. John G. Carlisle and
uroVer Cleveland were villains of the Deep
est dye. This speaker also provoked a
"hiriwind of applause by fighting the bat
tie of Waterloo clean through Relshazzer.s
ieast' and representing the Babylonian
monarch as having "a sound of reyelry bv
night, and all that sort of thing.
AT the regular democratic primaries
Josiah Patterson Will be nominated The
popuists have nominated B. j. West The
ceiored republicans announce that they will
put out a candidate, and the white renuh,i-
cans will certainly have candidate
Ihls will make five aspirants for the
congressional honor, with a red-hot cam
paiSn ahead
In the ninth congressional district tho hit.
ter contest between ]. C. McDearmon and
Rice Pierce has been ended for the nresent
Dy the decision of the congressional COM
mlttee to call a delegated convention to
meet at Dyersburg on October l.
so far the republicans have done very lit
Tie In the way of open work, but they have
waited to see what action the democrats
would take. They will soon put out their
candidates for Congress, and it is not I'M.
likely that In some districts they will make
an alliance with the populists. The COM
plete returns from the election of judges OF
the court OF chancery appeals are now in
ana they indicate what lies before each
party to win. The highest vote for dem
ocratic candidate was 141,:i23. and the high.
est for a republican was 1l3U5j a differ.
ence of about 5000. This vote shows con.
siderable revival Of interest among both
parties since the gubernatorial contest OF
two years ago, when each party cast about
1U.OD votes.
Since the election, however, the calling OF
the legislature in extra session to provide
from 100000 TO $500, Gal has improved re-
publican chances of carrying the state
There Is another factor, too which was
absent from the judicial election, but will
be very much in evidence in November, and
that is the sound money democracy
Meetings have been held pretty generally
throughout the state, and Tennessee will
be well represented at indianapolis. OF
course, there are great many sound
money democrats in Memphis who propose
to vote for Bryan and Sewall, as well a:
Josiah Patterson, but there is probably as
large contingent who will vote for Nc.
kinley or the Indianapolis nominees. II
Is safe to say that the sound money dem.
ocratic vote which will not go to Bryan
will be not less than 5000, nor more thar
$1,000 throughout the state; but Bryan is
personally popular with the populists anG
great many Of them. who have fiirted
around the border line between democracy
ard populism. will undoubtedly vote fol
him. 1t is fair to say that he will receive
2O,UoO votes from the populists, or about
two-thirds of their strength.
In the course of a week or two the nom.
nations will all have been made, the lines
Grawn and fair estimate of the PROBABLE
the saddle In Tennessee but it remains te
be seen whether this enthusiasm will last.