Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-17
PALMER AND BUCKNER AT
Received With Due Courtesy and Heard by
Large Audience.


Mobile Oct 16.-Generals Palmer and
Buckner and their party arrived in the
city from Montgomery at 40 o'clock this
afternoon, and were met at the depot by
committee Of representative citizens,
headed by Col. D. Il. Huger, president of
the local Palmer and Buckner club and
elector on the national democratic ticket.
They were escorted in carriages to the
Battle house, where they were turned
over to Manager Porter of the hotel
After dinner the ladies of the party
We're taken down the bay shell road and
about the city in carriages while the dis
tinguished candidates held a reception
in the ladies' parlor of the Battle house.
A number of influential citizens called
on them during the afternoon.
On the way down from Montgomery
they made short addresses at Evergreen,
Brewton and Greenville, Ala, where
there were large crowds gathered to greet
them.
They will leave this city at Z o'clock
tomorrow morning, and will make short
speeches at Scranton, Ocean Springs, BIZ
loxi, Mississippi City and Bay st. Louis
reaching New Orleans at 1920 p M,
where, it is stated, great preparations
have been made for their reception.
Generals Palmer and Buckner were re-
ceived in the Princess theater tonight,
which is the largest in the city, by an i'm
mense audience, which i'm point of enthu-
siasm surpassed anything of the kind
that has been held here during this cam
paign. The stage was decorated with an
American flag, in the center OF which
was picture of President Cleveland, and
as the distinguished speakers entered and
took their seats ON the stage the band
played my Old Kentucky Home" which
was the signal for perfect ovation from
the audience.
General Palmer was introduced by Col.
D. E. Huger, president of the local sound
money" club and was received with tre-
mendous applause. He devoted the great
er part of his address to defining the po
sition he took at the time of the Chicago
fire with reference to the sending of fed
eral troops to Chicago by General Grant,
he having been criticised last night on
that point by one of the speakers at the
democratic mass meeting at the same
place.
He said that he had never been.in favor
of federal interference in affairs of
states, and that the occasion of 1894 and
the great fire in Chicago on October 8,
1871, presented entirely different phases
of the question. He also touched upon
the financial question, but there was
nothing new in the discussion of it.
He was frequently interrupted by
number of boys and young men in the
galleries, who shouted and yelled at
every mention of the name of Bryan, and
he was particularly caustic in his re-
marks to these interrupters, telling them
that they were disgracing the fair name
of Mobile.
General BucRner, upon his introduc-
ton, was enthusiastically received by the
audience.
He prefaced his address with a severe
excoriation of the men in the gallery for
having. without provocation and in an
unjust and discourteous manner, inter-
rupted General Palmer, saying that 1t
was a reflection upon the hospitality of
Mobile.
The generals forcible words silenced
the interrupters completely, and not one
sound of discord was heard during his
speech.
The bulk of Genaral Buckner's speech
was devoted to a discussion of the finan-
cial question and in explaining what is
the meaning of the proposed free coin
age of silver at ratio of 16 to l.