Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-07
THAT SOUND MONEY CROWD
Is Beginning to Form in In
dianapolis.
SOME OF THE DELEGATES
Talk in Favor of a Third Ticket, While
Others Oppose It-They
Meet Today

The six who are opposed include Texas,
Georgia, Alabama and three western
states The northern states of the west,
of middle west, where the fighting
ground is supposed to be, are in favor
of new ticket. This will be decided
upon at tomorrow's meeting and sub
committee will be appointed to draw up
an address to the sound money" demo-
Gratis Of the country giving the reasons
why third ticket is necessary. This
will be adopted at Saturdays meeting of
the committee and the time and place of
holding the convention will then be fixed
Much comment is excited by the atti-
tude of the eastern leaders. While all
the eastern states except New Jersey and
Delaware will be represented at tomor-
rows meeting, they will not be repre-
scented by party leaders nor by men who
have the party organizations behind
them. Neither Mr.. Cleveland nor any
of the men close to him have spoken
word of encouragement for the move
ment as yet.
Along with the Texas delegates are M.
l.. Crawford of Dallas and j. H. Smith of
Fort Worth.
"Down in our state" said Mr.. Smith,
1.-The gold men have allied themselves
with this or that party and the sound
money faction has been almost obliterat-
ed. There has been too much delay and
do not think that action at this time will
bring out the full strength of the move
ment."
1t iseapparent that there will be not
little opposition to a third ticket coming
from the southern and eastern states,
where the sound money" democrats pre-
fer to take their medicine straight, as
they express 1t, and vote for Mckinley
Il myself think third ticket is a good
thing, said Mr.. Ballard of Atlanta, "but
most OF our people in Georgia do not be-
lieve In 1t. They want to see Bryan de-
feated and believe that the surest way of
doing 1t is by voting for Mckinley. The
eastern people, so far as 1 can learn,
feel very much the same way. Another
point that holds them back is that by de-
claring for third ticket they might lose
their hold upon the organization, and
once they should lose that they would be
practically out of politics. 1 want to
make sound money speeches in the
campaign but l would rather do it in be-
half of straight Sound money demo-
cratic ticket than for republican candi-
date. | want to be able to look any dem-
ocrat in the eye and tell him I'm as good
a democrat as he is.'
"Our people," said Col. H G. Simms of
West Virginia, "are unanimous in their
demand for a straight democratic ticket
and platform meeting their honest money
views. We want something for which we
can make a straight, aggressive fight.
While most of the machine politicians in
OuT SldLe nave lalleu lIllO line you CaH
go along every line of railroad in West
Virginia and you will hardly find dem
ocrat In business who is not willing to
vote for Sound money ticket. They
cannot bring themselves to vote for Nc
Kinley but If there is not another demo-
cratic ticket in the field most of them
will stay at home, while considerable
number will be brought into line for Bry-
an"
The indications point to a large repre-
cot aP 5ictf,, i.I,a
aside from the members of the commit
tee. 1t Is known that a least thirty-flve,
and possibly thirty-nine, states will be
represented by committeeman selected
as follows:
Alabama. M. Falkner of Montgom-
cry.
Californa-E. B. Pond of San Francis
CO.
Connecticut-D. A. Wells of Norwich
Florda-B. l.. GaslSins of Jacksonville.
Georgia-T. B. Neal of Atlanta.
Illinois-John M. Palmer of Springfield.
Indiana-John r. Wilson of Indianapo-
lis.
Iowa.. NJ Martin of Marshalltown.
Kansas-Eugene Hagan of Topeka.
Kentucky-R. Tyler of Hickman.
Maryland-John e. Semmes of Balti-
more.
Observation-Disclosures Matthews, Jr.,
of Boston.
Michigan-Thomas A. Wilson of Jack
sonville.
Minnesota-F. w. McCutcheon of st.
Pau.
Mississippi-Edgar S. Wilson of Missis-
sippi City.
Missouri. C. Krauthoff of Kansas
City.
Mon;ana-Charles Conrad of Kalispet.
Nebraska-Euclid Martin of Omaha.
New Hampshire-Gordon Woodbury. of
Manchester.
North Carolina-Louis De La Croix of
Rockingham.
New Jersey-w. ]. Curtis of Paterson.
New York-Charles Tracey of Albany.
Ohio-J. H. Cultivate of Columbus.
Oregon-C. e. Wood of Portland.
Pennsylvania-John c. Bullitt of Phil
adelpha.
Rhode Island-C. C. Munsford of Prov
idence.
South carolina-T. F. Foley of Ander-
son.
South Dakota-J. H. Hanlon of Wa
tertown
nooga.
/ Texas-George Clark OF Dallas.
Vermont-W. H. Dreamer of Montpe-
lier.
Virginia-E. C. Venable of Petersburg.
Neutrality-suspicious. Burke of Seat
tie.
West virginia-H. C. Sims of Hunt
ington.
North Dakota are expected to send rep
resentatives. Colorado selected Louis
Enrich, but he Is detained at home by ill
ness The meeting Of the committee will
be held at the Commercial club, begin
ming at o'clock tomorrow afternoon,
and it is not likely that the committee
will at this session determine anything
further than the questio<pf whether or
not to call a convention. The situation
in each state will be carefully canvassed
before a conclusion on this subject is
reached. While the sessions of the COM
mittee will not be opened to the public,
not only the committeeman, but all of
the sound money" democrats who have
come to the city will be invited In and
their views consulted.
Snariing Going on in Texas.
Galveston Tex, Aug. 6.-The delegates
to the populist state convention were up .
early this morning, and although 1t was
IL o'clock before the convention adj
journed last night this mornings session
was called to order at 8 o'clock Perma-
nent Chairman Bentley occupied the
chair After the adoption of the report