The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-20
WILL NOT SUPPORT IT.
CONGRESSMAN TlLLMAN OPPOSE
TO THE SUB-TREASURY.

He Enters Into no Discussion OF the
Questionable is an Alliance Man and 4.
Farmer. but He VIII Not Support the
Measure.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1l.-Congress-
man George D. Tillman Of South Caro-
lima. the brother Of Farmer Ben Till
man, who is to be the next Governor
of the Palmetto State, has written an
alliance letter, which will create u
sensation. He is brief and pointed,
and in answer to tine sub-treas#rY
question firmly replies mo" The let
ter is written to an alliance committee
Of Barnwell, composed of MesSrs. W.
B. Rice, w. G. Simms and J. r. Smith.
He says:
have received your official letter, as
the organ of the Barnwell County
Farmers Alliance, requesting my views
as a candidate for Congress in the
Second South Corolina District on Ger
tain measures of proposed legislation
indicated in five interrogatorleS.
Understanding from your communi-
cation transmitting the interrogatorles
that you do not want a long letter. but
only categorical replies, | shall be as
brief as possible to define my position
without equivocating, by merely quot
ing each interrogatory separately and
making absolute answers thereto.
Will you, unintluenced by party
caucus or otherwise, support the fol
lowing propositions in the National
Congress.
First-The abolition of the national
banks. and the substitution of legal ten
der treasury notes in lieu of national
bank notes issued in sufficient volume
to do the business of the country On a
cash basis?
Yes.
Second-A freer, unlimited coinage
of silver?
Yes.
Third--That Congress issue fractional
paper currency in sufficient quantity
to facilitate exchange through the
mails?
Yes.
Fourth-Do you approve, and will
you support the financial system known
as the "sub-Treasury plan" adopted by
the National Alliance and Industrial
Union at s.: Louis. December Z, 1899?
No.
Fifth-The enactment of such laws
as will prohibit the ownership of lands
by aliens?
Yes, but this has already been done
by an Act of March 3, 1887.
Permit me to add that for thirty
years have had no industrial occupa-
tion but cotton planting, which ought
to identify me ZealouSly with the wei.
! fare of cotton planters, who not only
constitute the bulk of my constituents
but have repeatedly honored me with
high commissions, and that if reelected
to Congress I shall continue in the
future as | have done in the past tc
support whatever l believe to be the
best for the interest of my class anC
section. / myself am Il member of the
Farmers Alliance, and deeply sympa.
thiZe with the purposes and efforts OF
the organization to relieve the wide
spread and long continued agricultural
depression, but the South alone cannot
correct the fiscal and financial abuses
of the Federal government, which i
now and has been dominated by tht
Eastern States ever since the war
The West must cooperate with the
South before success can be achieved
let me take the liberty of advising the
Southern wing of the Alliance to move
q little more cautiously till shall haYe
been demonstrated that the Western
wing are in earnest about taking ths
proposed new departure of abandoning
sectionalism and uniting with the
South for redress of mutual griey.
ances. Very respectfully,
e. D. TILLMAN.
In speaking of his letter tonight
Colonel Tillman said: My letter tells
it all. No one that reads it can fail tc
understand my position, ,'-Augusts
| Chronicle.