The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-06

made inside ard outside that I have
been fighting the Alliance. l need not
tell you that such charges are not true.
[Applause.l
II am aware that the Alliance has
been criticised and that l have been
applauded and patted on the back on
tie assumption that there was a per-
sonal fight between the Alliance and
myself, but I tell you my friends that
that endorsement has been of no avail.
Applause. 1t was TOO transparent.
[Applause. Ifthey have been urging
me forward on the supposition that
there was wer between me and my
friends in the Alliance, they have been
mistaken"
GOING FOR POLK AND STOKES.
Governor Tillman said that at the
outset he was obliged to complain of
the injustice of President Polk coming
here and taking a vote in the Alliance
Oh the subject matter of the debate Of
to-day. He desired also to know why
President Polk had the right to elimi-
nate five planks of the Ocala platform
and that such a furor was raised be-
cause he differed with his brethren on
one single plank. [Applause.] I CLAIM,
said Governor Tillman, that the action
of President Polk and of President
Stokes was nothing more or less than q
usurpation of authority not granted by
the constitution Of the Alliance.
TESTING THE oCALA PLATFORM.
Governor TilIman then took up the
Ocala platform and discussed it from
the opening to the closing section. He
laid great stress on the value and i'm
portance of the free coinage of silver
and explained the robbery committed
by its characterization He then argued
in favor of an income tax and the abso-
lutte necessity of having Senators elec-
ted directly by the people so as to get
rid of the power exercised by million
aires who bought and sold the people
like cattle anG hogs.
He claimed that the sub-treasury bill
had come to the people downward from
the st. Louis meeting in perfunctory
way, and that it had gone back to Oca-
la and had been endorsed in the same
way, with the result and effects not
understood by the people, the source
of authority. [Applause. "But will
not deny" he said, "that the agitation
has dooe great good in this broad coun-
try Of ours, for it has called attention of
the world to the fact that the producing
classes are sorely oppressed, and are
demanding, crying for relief" Zap
plause.
Governor Tillman then touched upon
the currency question. am, be said,
in favor of a flexible currency, Of a
greater volume of currency; but l main
tain that a flexible currency as enunci-
ated by Col. Terrell means an attempt
to fix prices by legislation, to fix the
price of commodities by statute. That,
my friends, is fallacy, because the price
must be regulated by the infeXible law
Of supply and demand.
FOLLY OF THE COTTON ( .oRAGE IDEA.
Governor Tillman said that in case
cotton got damned up in the ware
houses the consumers would know that
it would have to come out in time and
that just as soon as the quantity was
known, which could not be concealed,
the price would gravitate to its normal
level. This illustration he introduced
to show that an artificial means could
not evade or run counter to an estab-
lished law in the commercial world. 1t
was asserted, be said, that by spread
ing the supply over twelve months the
fall in price would be prevented and
that the evils of inconstant prices
would be obviated. They had, how
ever, forgotten that by the terms of the
| bill by which the whole could be only
held for twelve months, one-twelfth of
the crops must be sold each month,
and that there was absolutely nothing
to prevent the speculatcr from having
the same chance as he holds under eX-
isting laws. He would have the same
chance with the sub-treasury as he now
has with the people. The Govern or
held to the position that the sub-treas-
ury bill was class legislation, or, as he
put it to-day, "it is special privilege
ratt r than right" Iadmit, he said,
that the Government has loaned mon
ey, but the right for such action is
based on the general welfare clause Of
the Constitution, and not upon pro-
scriptive or statutory right. It will
not be denied that any scheme may
take for it's assumption of right the
elastic general welfare clause of the
Constitution, which from its very name
settles no specific right Or principle.
GOOD DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE.
hold again, said Governor Tillman
on the next branch of discussion, that
the sub-treasury bill is fairly open to
the. charge of paternalism. 1t proposes
to concentrate the business of the peo-
! pie in the hands of centralized power
at Washington, and this is in absolute
contradiction ofthe principle laid down
by Jefferson that the Government gov
erns best that governs least. Ap-
plause.l In other words, that there
should be equal rights to all and special
privileges to none. He would appeal,
he said, to the good sense and patriot
ism of the people in the majority to aid
in the obtaining of just and reasonable
laws. instead Of the partisan favoritism
shown by the Government in the
maintenance Of national bank and
nursing private manufacturing indus
tries. [Applause.]
POLK AS A SOCIALIST.
He characterized Col. Folks views
on the money question, referring to the
Government lending money with the
avowed intent of injuring other classes
of business, as Socialism. II would
amount in the end to a division of the
property oi the people and produce a
condition in which the provident and
the improvident would share alike.
Governor Tillman repeated here that
the Alliance all agreed as to grievous
wrong existing, and that the dispute
was only as to the remedy. Hepointed
out as causes of the burden on the peo-
pie Of the South the inequalities of the
burdens laid on their shoulders as COM
pared with the people Of the North and
elsewhere. He showed that the mil
lionaire and the poor farmer were the
simultaneous and necessary product OF
such laws. He thought that there was
Just as much hope at present for get
ting the sub-treasury bill through as
there was for the South being paid for
negroes or getting the Federal pensions
reduced. On the contrary, he saw a
disposition to pension every bumm n,