The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-06-27

rect and pointed and WAS vigorously de-
livcrcd. 1t male a lasting impression on
all thinking people.
GAIT. TiLLMAN,
Capt. Is. X. Tillman, tho next speaker,
was greeted with applause as he arose to
speak. In opening his remarks, no said:
If didn't tell you 1t was Tilman, l am
sure tnat many Of you, judging from what
you have read, would say | wasn't the man.
| This campaign is the most important in this
State since 1876, and, in some respects,
| more important than that. l want to talk
to you calmly, and without passion. want
to appeal to your judgment aud sense. /
! want you to judge my cause not by its bear
lings on me, but by its bearings OH tho State.
! congratulate you that this is tho first
time you ever saw the candidates for office
/ before nOminations. Heretofore you have
swallowed the nominees in November, but
| now you have the pleasure of choosing. II
you ask why you left your fields now over.
run with grass, il you want 10 know what
il is that stirs your heart, | will say you
want ssli-gUvcrnmcnt. You want to choose
your OWE rulers, instead of being tied down
10y those Democratic ethols about which
yOu have heard so nIlcn.
Capt. Tilman here made an assertion
TINT we hal never had II Republican form
of government and went on to show the
grounds for his charge oc aristocracy.
In tlpsc good old days the Legislature
elected all the officers. You up-country
farmers were not considered good enough to
choose your rulers. That same state of
things is continued now. Your $500 white
Democrats are boiled down to eight and
| they are twice removed from you. Yet they
call it Democracy. ! call it arstocrncy.-
Politicians now are not as honorable as they
were then. :or they wore wealthy and wanted
offices for honor. Now, they say you must
not critisSc these lordly men.
-; %;T ., a" 3"IY cry out in "aTm; "dipsh b51;;h,
that man should differ ~ to how the Govern
mcnt should be run. II is the result Of
freedom. We have some litt'e freedom, and
that is sweet We want more. We have
an organized party with all its machinery
When the majority in that has spoken, let
all >ub>idc and vote for the nominee, whoever
Ii" may he. BY this party machinery you
have been throtted and held rs slaves Be-
cause | have met brains with brains or
g,nzntion with organization, they are cry
ing out we arc ruined by That March Con-
venti"n. We have done nothing that it was
not "ur right rs free white men to do. 1t
met and adopted a platform. | wrote it,,
and that is another crime committed.
nLAsrmEMY AND rAIsEnoop.
have always said | didn't want office,
and ] can say it now, and | could look God
in the eye, if He did not kill me with His
glance, aud say il. ] am peculiar man.-
spcnk truth, and care not who it hurts -
\cruatcl ~ am move on in spite of abuse
and vlliiicntion greater than was ever hcapcd
"n Dan Chamberlain. | am sorry to SEQ all
this feeling on both sides, but ! say the
other side is responsible for it. Who has
gone back for three years and scrapcd up
everything ever wrote, AMI twisted my
meaning and garblcd my sentences until
they are scarcely recognizable. 1t was that
sweet scented N,wS ,ud C"uricr.
Why does it hate ne so? Because il is
the mouthpicCc of the ring and has boon the
boss. Itis the organ Of the money power
and corporations. 1t feels that if am
Eovornor all may not 90 well with its pets.
CAN 7 GIVE THE PROOF.
There nrc things in politics Il man can as
-cit and believe tn be true, yet cant give
the proof. (ou are the jury Of the last re-
sort. and to You appeal. The Legislature
one session passed AZ Act giving powers to
the railr"ad commission, ani The next session
\rrcalcd il. Now, if it was not bamboozcd
"r 'lchauchGl, what was il? Over in Georgia
they have II railroad commission that