Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-25
MIR. TILMAN,S VIEWS.

a correspondent OF the RlcnmOnd OtS-
patch recently interviewed Representative
Tillman, of South Carolina, who in speak
ing of the silver question said:
II am in favor of the unlimited coinage
of silver dollars of their present weight
and fineness. | am satisfied the agitation
of the silver question will never stop until
the holder of silver bullion can take his
metal to the mint and secure its value in
coin in return. The policy Of the President
towards silver has already deprecated the
price of wheat twenty cents per bushel in
the West, and cotton in the South has de-
clined two cents per pound from the same
cause. Our only remedy lies in unlimited
coinage. Ibelieve that a bill could be pass
ed by this Congress even over the Presi-
coinage in the near future, and our next
President will be elected on that issue"
"What do you think Of the Sherman bill
as compromise meaSure"
1.-THE Sherman bill is a Trojon horse.
John Sherman's policy of treachery to the
people and friendship toward the hondhold-
ers and national banks is in Il great meas
ure the cause of the present unsatisfactory
state Of financial affairs. No friend of hon
est money should support that bill. This
is the first time in the history of our gov
ernment that we have had an opportunity
to secure honest money. Shall we reject
the good things the gods have given us?'"
"Do you believe that international BIZ
metalism can be brought about through the
medium of unlimited coinage?"
1--WE care nothing about international bi
metallic agreements. We never heard of
the idea until Sherman and Bayard SNUG
gled through Congress the bill for the de-
monitiZation of the silver dollar, and no
one has ever heard of an international coin.
France with her population has held the
ratio between gold and silver at 15l to for
upwards of one hundred years, and the
United States should do it with popula-
tion of sixty Millions"
THE FERGUSON CASE AGAIN.-The Alb
beville correspondent of the Columbia Reg
ister, writes under date of Saturday last {:
John G.. Ferguson was brought before His
Honor, Judge 1. ID. Witherspoon, this
morning, on a writ of haJeds corpus, for the
purpose ofsecuring bail. Solicitor Orr came
down from Greenvile last night in order
to attend to this matter. The fact that
there had been three trials Of this case was
relied on strongly as a ground for bail.
The weak condition of Ferguson was also
pleaded. Besides this the defence claimed
that he had had an opportunity to escape
The State claimed that if counsel for the
accused relied upon the facts in the case
they could not claim bail, as the facts show
ed murder pure and simple, and that if he
was crazy, it would be wrong for his Hon
or to turn him loose on the community, as
there was no telling when he might kill
another man; and that, in that case, he
should be kept in Jail or sent to the Asy-
lum. The State denies that he had had an
opportunity to escape. Judge Witherspoon
promptly refused bail.
THE WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS.-The annual
convention of the National Women's Suf-
frage Association was in session in Wash
ington last week. Resolutions were adopt
ed reaffirming confidence in the national
method of securing the ballot to women
through an amendment to the Federal Con-
stitution, calling on Congress 10 submit at
once the question of the right of women to
vote, protesting against the admission to
the Union of any Territory where the elect
i've franchise is denied to women, declaring
the National Woman's Suffrage Association
to be non partisan in politics and protest
ing against the passage, in its present shape,
of the bill now pending in Congress to sup
press polygamy as discriminating unjustly
against Gentle and -polygamous wo-
men for crimes never committed by them.