The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-08-06
THE GREAT DEBATE.
TERRELL AND TlLLMAN HAVE IT HOT
AND HEAVY.

The Rules of tho Alliance AZ Construed
by President Stokes Give the Sub-Treas-
ury Advocate the Advantage Of Opening
and Closing the Argument.
SPARTANBURG, S. g., July 24.-Today
the debate between Governor Tillman
and Col. Terrell was the great point of
| interest, and repOrtorial inquiry for the
debate was strictly in secret. The Al
lance people had put forth extra force
to preserve that secrecy. Reporters
gathered on the balconies, in windows
of the hotels. and in the shadows of the
walls of the Opera House. 1t was all
in vain. All that could be gathered
was word here and there from the
speakers. 1t was, Of course, especially
desired to hear what Governor Tillman
had to say. Alliance men got into the
hall. but there were Non Alliance men,
In a crowd three feet thick and deep,
who did not get into the hall. If there
were any reporters in the hall they were
very few IN number and were not
known in that official capacity. Can
vassers. who were Alliance men for the
revenue OF this meeting only, were pro-
Jected into space. They knew nothing,
| NouAo SCC hOIllllR, anu nave uOInlUR
| that Is either news or true.
GOVERNOR TILLMAN APPEARS.
About a. M. Governor Tillman was
driven down to the hotel from the resi-
dence Of Adjt Gen Farley. At that
time the Merchants Hotel LOBBY was
crowded with business men and adven-
turers and politicians. Among the lat
ter were Gen Stackhouse, Capt Smell,
| Senator Evans. Capt Waddell, Col j. S.
Browning, Senator Donaldson, the Rev
j. "A. Sligh and host of others. Gov
ernor Tillman stepped into the lobby,
and was met there by Col Terrell and
President Stokes. There was a hearty
greeting, and in few minutes all the
initiated were on the way in the rain to
the Opera House.
In front Of the academy there was
A GREAT JAM
or people, who, in turn, were halted at
the gates. and asked to give the pass.
word, Just as it was at Edgefeld some
| weeks ago. The capacity of the beau
tlful Opera House is about six hundred,
but II there was one there were one
Thousand people in the building when
the fireworks began.
Governor Tillman, President Stokes
and Col Terrell went on the stage
through the crowd in the left side pas.
sage and were cheered every step Of the
way and were cheered again when they
stepped on the stage.
THE ORDER OF DEBATE
was as given this morning in The News
and Courier. Col Terrell, it being "a
civil case" had the opening and reply
An arrangement was promptly made
by giving Col Terrell half an hour tt
open, then Governor Tillman an houl
and half, Col Terrell to close in ar
hour.
| Governor Tillman was also accorded
the privilege of interrupting his oppo-
nent and getting categorical answers to
his interrogatorles.
| COL TERRELL
was warmly received, and coming for
ward he said that he deemed it a moral
| obligation to be here, but one that,
| aside from that consideration, gave him
Infinite pleasure. He had learned to
know and appreciate the South Carroll
| ma Alliance men and those who were
| not only allied with him organically
| but in thought and principle. Zap
| plause. He had come not only to teach
rs best he could, but to be taught, for
| mutual enlightenment was the spirit of
the age. Applause.l He was glad to
meet so skilful and able an opponent,
| but the audience should remember that
the meeting was for a single purpose to
| discuss before the Order Che would en-
phasize this eXpression) the sub-treas-
| ury bill in its essential features and its
| principles, and he knew that the discus
sion on the other side would take no
wider latitude. Going into the argument
no said that the sub-treasury was one
of the demands OF the Alliance and as
| such 1t should I've respected. He felt
| and knew that neither the Alliance nor
any other popular organization could
exist If it did not ask something that
would benefit the whole people. He
held that the men OF the st Louis Con-
VentiOn were equal in brain and infu-
ence to any delegates that ever attend
cd a convention. That convention was
composed of men who in the end repre-
sented the sub-Alliance and therefore
the people.
| GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF TRANSPOR-
TATION
the third demand Of the Alliance. He
held that the constitutional right Of the
| Government could not be controverted,
and the Alliance was only asking the
| Government to carry out the law He
held that the expenses of the railroads
III lobbying, etc, must be paid out of the
peoples pockets. lie then alluded to
the demand for financial reform, or, as
expressed ny the Ocala platform, the
abolition Of national banks and the ts-
tablishment of sub-treasuries.
The position Of Col Terrell Is here
| given in his language as follows:
"We demand the abolition of national
banks. BY this the Alliance means
banks of issue. We believe the Gov;
ernme2t alone has tho right to make
money and in the national banking sys-
tom the Government has delegated that
power to the banks. without restriction
as to the amount they should keep in
| circulation. With the latitude great
abuses have grown up in connection
with them, and the circulation has been
expanded to suit the money poWe er to
the great hurt Of the farmers aud labor
ers of the country. The property of
any country is at the mercy of those
who can control its money, and believ.
Ing this to be so the Alliance rightly de-
mandS the abolition of the national
banks as banks of issue.
COMING TO THE POINT.
Second, We demand that the Govern
ment shall establish sub treasures or
| deposit OrieS in the several Statas which