| Show FREE SILVER Nashville Tenn Term May 7 The The largest larges Democratic slate state convent convention ion on ever held hek in Tennessee has hns met and adjourned It IL was a fre free silver sil convention from rom start star to finish Fully delegates tes and am visitors were in attendance Nothing o of importance was done until about i 8 o'clock tonight when a report on contest contes delegates showed that the free silver men proposed to grant no quarter to the nil handful of sound money delegates AB AB A A. B B- Woodward of Fayetteville C. C M. M Banks Chattanooga were chosen I electors for the state at large Senators Isham G Harris and V. V. V B. B Bate E. E W VV Cormack of Memphis and T. T s M. M McConnell McConnell Mc Mc- Connell of Chattanooga were chosen delegat The delegates district delegates chosen today were accepted by the convention The platform contains a strong free ree silver plank as follows We demand a resonation of the money of the ti m n by Y a law providing for tor forthe the free coinage of both gold and silver as free legal tender money at the ratio rali of 16 to r I I. I regardless re ar of t the he action o of any iny other nation The platform also demands laws slate a and Jd national making gold and silver le legal legal legal le- le gal tender for for all debts and prohibiting contracts discriminating against either the repeal of oC 10 to per cent tax on state banks tariff ariff for lor reve revenue ue only and an income tax The administration of Clevland is not mention and only referred to by Governer Ex-Governer Robert Taylor was nominate nom nom- for Cor governor by acclamation |
