Birmingham state herald., 1896-08-05
STRUGGLING AGAINST HOPE A Few Montgomery Democrats
 Declare for Gold. THEY MAKE SOME SPEECHES lndorse the Repudiated President and Send Colonel Faulkner to Represent Them
 at the Indianapolis Gathering.

MOHlBOmery, Aug. 4.-(Opeclal.)-Ine
 state election being over with, the sound
 money democrats appear to be squar-
 ing themselves for a hard fight against
 the national ticket. A democratic sound
 money state conference was held here to-
 day. The following list of delegates was
 handed in:
 Montgomery county-Capt J. M. Falk- ner, J. L. Cobbs, W. W. Screws, W. D.
 Westcott, J. Beale, A. M. Baldwin, G. w.
 Ely, George F. Moore, J. L. Hall, F. G.
 Caffey, Fred Crosby, T. H. Carr, J. w. Durr, w. r. Burkes, A. s. Sayre, Lorlys Rogers, Thomas Howe, T. Scott Sayre, Robert Goldthwaite, Thomas E. Hannon, John F. Kohn, T. l.. Jones, F. M Bill ing, A. Uhlfelder, T. G. Foster F. F.
 Glass, T. J. Rutledge, F. c. Shepard, Will liam Berney and George w. Jones. Calhoun county-T. A. Davis and w. H. Williams.
 Lowndes county-B. w. Young.
 Jefferson-H. H. Sinnige, Walker Per
 cy, T. L. Weatherly, M. Well, J. P. Till
 man, James Weatherly, Alex T. London
 and R. F. Beasly.
 Barbour county-J. l.. Pitts, 5. H. Dent, J. G. Guice and F. B. Field. Cullman county-George H. Parker. John R. McMinn and P. A. Allison. Pike county-W. l.. Handrick, c. B. Douglass, T. A. Stevens, B. Dixon Arm strong and J. B. Knox.
 Capt. J. M. Falkner called the meeting to order and nominated Captain Dent of Eufaula as chairman, who was unani- mously elected. The chairman congrat- ulated those present on having done their duty by the state ticket.
 The following committee on perma-
 nent organization was appointed: Messrs. Percy, Parker, Knox, Clark, Guice and Williams.
 While the committee was out short speeches were made by T. Scott Sayre of Montgomery, A. T. London of Birming- ham and B. D. Armstrong of Pike. MT. Armstrong said that if 1t was necessary would do so, even if we had to cast it for 1 a republican. This Qtterance was re- ceived with considerable applause. MT. James Weatherly of Birmingham ad- dressed the meeting, and proclaimed himself a JefferSon!an democrat. He | claimed that the Chicago convention vio- lated all the old rinciples of democracy. MT. B. W. Young of LowndeS made few remarks as to his soundness on the gold l dollar question. MT. John F. Tillman of Birmingham spoke with more or less re- grets and announced that he could not vote for populist on a populist plat form. He made good promises for Jeffer- son county MT G. F. Moore of Mont gomery joined in MT. Tillman's regrets, and while he had always been a demo- crat, he could not be Chicago platform democrat, but was still democrat. He thought that the strictures on the su- preme court were awful. Mr. Horace Stringfellow proclaimed himself demo- crat, but not a revolutionist. Mn James Weatherly of Birmingham entertained l the meeting with three cheers TOT GroVeI ] Cleveland MT. Lorlys Rogers induiged l in dissertation on finances and democ- racy, which was amusing, if not enter l tainlng MT. T. l.. Jones related to the conference his great interest In the sound money movement. MT. Jones was earn est and prayerful in his address, ana his remarks were greeted with more or less I enthusiasm.
 The committee on permanent organiZa- tion reported that the temporary organl- zation be made epermanent; that the con ference name a member of the provision al national executive committee to as semble in Indianapolis on August z; that the president appoint committee of i've to report provisional state executive committee to look after all matters and arrange for the calling of state demo- cratic sound money convention. The report was unanimously adopted and Capt J. M. Faulkner was appointed as the Alabama member of the national provisional committee. On his election Captain Falkner delivered strong speech in support of the sound money idea and promised that this movement
 
 MT. Guice said he did not believe that it would be good policy to name an cleo
 toral. ticket, because he thought that a
 sound money electoral ticket might help
 Bryan. He did not propose for McKin-
 ley, but if he was tied by halter and pulled up to the ballot box~and forced to vote one or the other, he would vote for Mckinley.
 The following committee to name the provisional state executive committee was named: Messrs. Dent, Tillman, Moore, Parker and Davis. MT. Tillman reported that it would require some time to name the provisional state committee and that the preliminary committee se- feet the committee and report the selec- ton to the chairman of the conference, and that this provisional state commit tee prepare an address to the people of Alabama The report of the committee was adopted.
 The conference then adjourned. Dur ing the proceedings Mr. Walker of Jeff ferson offered resolutions indorsing Cleveland and Carlisle, which were adopted by rising vote. Hon. Thomas H. Clark, secretary of the democratic state executive committee, was active in the conference proceedings. It is stat ed he has forwarded his resignation as