The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-21
UNCLE GEORGE SAYS NO.
Congressman TilIman Opposed to the Sub
Treasury Bill.
From the Augusta Chronicle. |

NASIINGT0N, Aug. 1l.-Congress-
man George D. Tillman ofSouth Caro-
lima. the brother of Farmer Ben Tillman
who is to be the next Governor Of the
Palmetto State, has written an alliance
letter, which will create 6 sensation.
He is brief and pointed, and in answer
to the sub-treasury question firmly
replies mo"
The letter is written to an alliance
committee Of Barnwell, composed of
Messrs. w. B. Rice, w. G. Simms and
J. r. Smith. Hesays:
I received your official letter, as the
organ of the Barnwell County Farm
ers' Alliance, requesting my views as a
candidate for Congress in the Second
South Carolina District on certain mea-
sures of proposed legislation indicated
in five interrogatories.
Understanding from your communi-
cation transmitting the interrogatories
that you do not want long letter, but
only categorical replies, I 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, uninfiuenced by party
caucus or otherwise, support the follow
ing propositions in the National Con-
gress:
First-Thc 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 fractio-
nal paper currency in sufficient quanti-
ty to facilitate exchange through the
mails?
Yes.
Fourth-Do you approve, and will
support the financial system known
as the "sub-Treasury plan" adopted by
the National Alliance and Industrial
Union at st. Louis, December I, 1880?
No.
Fifth-The enactment of such laws
:: will prohibit the ownership of lands
by aliens?
Yes, but this has already been done
by an Act of March 3, 1887.
AN ALLIANCEMAN AND FARMER.
Permit me to add that for thirty
years I have had DO Industrial accupa-
ton but cotton planting, which ought
to identify me zealously with the vel
fare of cotton planters, who not only
constitute the bulk of my constituents,
but have repeatedly honored me with
high commissions, and that ifre-elected
to Congress l shall continue in the
future as | have done in the past 70
support whatever l believe to be the
best for the interest of my class and
section. / myself am a 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 is
now and has been dominated by the
| Eastern States ever since the war. The
West must cooperate with the South
before success can be achieved; and in
conclusion, let ME take the liberty Of
advising the Southern wing of the Alli-
ance to move a little more cautiously
till it shall have been demonstrated
that the Western wing are in earnest
about taking the proposed new depar-
ture Of abandoning sectionalism and
uniting with the South for redress of
mutual grievances. Very respectfully,
G.. w. D. TILLMAS.
In speaking Of his letter tonight
Colonel Tillman said: My letter tells
it ALL No one that rea0s it can fail to
understand my position"
MR.. TILLMAN IS RIGHT.
Congressman Tillman did not mince
matters. He is undoubtedly opposed
to what is called "the sub-treasury"
bill. He calls upon the Southern wing
of the Alliance to go slow until it be
apparent that the Western farmer shall
abandon sectionalism and throw off
the shell in which he has been living
for forty years.
Mr.. Tiilman's head is level just here.
Since the adoption Of the Alliance for
mula the principles of that body have
been making most progress in the
South. 1t does not seem to have phased
the great West. While old lines have
been reversed and old principles aban-
doned in the South, for the Alliance
platform; while strong men have been
unseated in Congress and the whole
political system threatened, the Re-
publican party in the West has gone
along unshaken. The farmers still vote
as they shot. They are loyal to their
party in its tariff and currency leglsla-
ton: they sustain the force bill; they
countenance the unseating Of Southern
Democrats; they encourage the usurpa-
tions Of Speaker Reed; they are as bitter
as ever against the Solid South. They
DO not care for the sub-treasury bill or
any ether bill. And yet the men in the
South whose very existence depends
upon the integrity of the Democratic
party are swift to take up the side