The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-10-18
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SEo W HEl HOIOSOS AsN PooiANS~o AS'S'
Now, gentlemen, l have told yol
that the negro is the trouble with Us
The: blacklist Republicans, the staun
chest and most outrageous, in thei
demands that the negro in the South
should have free vote and fair count
we're in the Northwest. That was theil
shibboleth and battle cry. 1t was the
Republican watchword in this quarter
of the Union. Kansas used to give
sc, 900 majority to the Republican ticket
Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa were
equally safe. Those Republican States
have been as safe and certain for the
Republican nominee as South Carolina
is for the Democratic party, in spite o
the 10000 negro majority. This whole
North-and especially the farmers
was that way and they used the spites
and hatreds of the war to induce you
to "vote as you shot"; and they have
quietly regulated the progress and
growth of the country in that little
corner over yonder East of Lake Michi'
gan and North of the Potomac River
A PERTINENT QUESTION.
"What are you going to do about il?'
"Where are we atT' | asked you d
moment ago if we could trust you; and
some of you said "yes." Iowa is not
represented here; Minnesota is not re,
presented here; neither Of the Dakotas
is represented here.
Governor Lewelling: Iowa WAS re-
presented here by General Weaver.
Governor Tillmau: Yes, and he said
he was ready to meet US half way and
all that sort Of thing, and then he
stopped. Where did we look for assist
ance and help: We found it in the
staunck Democracy of New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana. We
could not come here because Ephrainl
was welded to his idols and we had to
let you alone. Ifyou are ready to leave
those idols and set up new God-a
God of our whole country-a God
whom We can all appreciate as free
Americans-we are ready to join hands
with you. [Applause.J But we cannot,
he dare not, spurn the bridge which
has carried US safely over until We
know upon what we may depend.
To-day, gentlemen, some of your
Representatives in Congress who are
making this gallant fight in behalf OF
silver and for the emancipation of the
people from this financial thraldom are
as bitter in their feelings to the South
as they have ever been. This is com,
plex condition for US. If we would
keep from being ground to powder we
will join forces with you as soon as we
have guarantees that can be trusted
implicitly. Applause. The Democracy
of the East appear to have deserted the
Democratic standard, are ignoring our
platform or are constituting it to suit
themselves, and are in open alliance
with the Republicans in their financial
policy. AS they have left US Of the
South on the silver question, can we
trust you of the West on the negro
question?
'CAN WE TRUST YOU"
The gentleman from Kansas tells me
we are right. My friend over there
says they will turn their Senators out
if they try that, and all that sort OF
thing. Perhaps so. I tell you it is
Gods truth that as much as we realize
and understand the evils that confront
US in the single gold standard, and the
losses that it will entail upon the peo-
pie, the grinding, perpetual poverty
that confronts as if the gold standard
is adopted ia this country, it does not
begin to compare with negro domina-
ton in the South, and before we per-
NIT it we will die!
Understand me, we are ready to give
the negro all rights under the law.
We do not propose to oppress or injure
him in any way. While do not pre-
tend that there was not fraud and bull
dosing, both in rs and rs in South
Carolina, there had been none Of either
since 'S2 and if we are left to solve the
negro problem in our own way, the
better it will be for him and all con-
cerned. Unless the white men of the
South and West can remove this STUN
bling block which now separates them,
the next decade will see more white
slaves in the United States than there
were ever colored ones. The emanci-
patton of the Anglo-Saxon and the pre-
servation of our government-the pre-
vention OF plutocracy more grinding
than that of Rome, merits our atten-
ton.
I am nearly through. I think we
understand each other fully, out in
order to turn this into practical shape
let US start out right. AS told you, 1
am not politician, unless you consider
plain common sense politics. Let US
come right down to practical business.
The States South of the Potomac and
Ohio rivers and West of the Mississippi
will send to the electoral college 224
votes-two more than enough to elect
President. They have fifty-four Sen
ators-majority oftwenty. They haye
40 Representatives in the House, nine
less than a majority. Let us cross the
river and see what our prospects are
over there. We see plainly enough
that we can hold the Senate; we can
capture it and can hold it, ard We can
capture the Presidency. Applause.
There are Illinois, Indiana, Michigan
and Wisconsin, won't 60 to Ohio
because I believe they are 80 welded
or rather they have developed their
manufacturing Industries to that ex-
tent that they will stick to the Repub-
lican party, or the Eastern Democracy,
because it looks very much to me as
though party lines were absolutely OBJ
liberated in Congress-I think it is a
question now of leach man for him
self and the devil take" staunch allies
and vote solidly with US. Applause.
THE FOLKS ACROSS THE RIVER.
But what is the prospect of carrying
these? I don't know anything about
the situation, except in general way.
Chicago is a metropolis with vast
floating vote. They oughtto vote with
Us, because we are fighting here the
battle of the laborer and of the factory
operative as much as we are fighting
the battle of the farmer. Those men
who are idle over there-hundreds of
thousands of them-some Of them
starving while wheat in Kansas is
worth thirty-fve cents bushel, ought
to be our staunch allies and vote solid
ly with US. [Applause.] And, yet we
say this is a great American Union,
the best OF all free institutions, and the
grandest of governments.
If things were not wrong such con-
dition could not exist as farmers srarv-