The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-10

the adoption OF the report of the reso~
lutiors committee.
Delegate Waterbury, of Kansas,
the amendment of the report by
the addition of O proposition presented
by Taylor, OF Maine, ~favoring the In
the issue OF legal tenders TO be secured
by land values. Upon this motion
Delegate Cochrane, OF Missouri, took
the floor in opposition to say or do
anything in this convention upon the
money question other than to fully and
entirely endorse the free coinage of
silver. Taylor replied In defence of
his proposition urging that money
based upon such security was as safe
as the money based upon the honor of
our government, as are S346, DOC, 900 Of
greenbacks. Delegate Waterbury,, of
Kansas, upon a basis Of $571 per
capita public and private debt, pleaded
for an increase of the volume of ur-
rency with which to meet it by the
Q proposed in the minority report.
For the majority OF the committee
on resolutions, Governor Tillman, of
South Carolina, spoke briefly, declar-
ing that 1t was the desire of his com
mittee to concentrate the efforts of
the convention upon the central pur-
pose Of bimetalism and for hat reason
1T seemed to them unwise to ask more
now, no matter how alluring the pros
pect.
Governor Waite. of Colorado, begged
the convention not to be diverted from
the n great issue.
/ Until the success Of bimetallism
showed Wall street to have lost its
grip upon legislation it was impossible
to secure any other form of financial
legislation. AS to the West and South
they, could control the policies of the
country If 1t became necessary. He
millions OF money now in Washington
with which to buy Congress, and with
such a condition the South and West
must unite.
Delegate Manning, of Alabama, de-
clared that the traditions of the South
were for union with the West in the
battle for free coinage of silver, but
pleaded for the exclusion of extraneous
matter from the platform as a diver
sion OF the purpose OF the conventions.
Delegate kaggs, of h same State,
spoke in q similar strain, also denounc-
ing the President as an enemy and be-
trayer of the people. Delegate Tay-
lor, Waterbury and Waite withdrew
the minority report, when, with O mot
ion to adopt the majority report pend
ing, the convention adjourned until 2
p. IN.
AT the afternoon session the report
of the conclusions of the committee on
resolutions was offered providing in
to provide adequately for the use of
silver as money fur the calling of a
national convention in January, 1894,
under the auspices of the Governors of
Missouri, South Carolina, Kansas and
Colorado, including delegates from
every State and Territory and labor
and agricultural organizations, to
take action for o thorough agitation
of the question before another cleo
tion.
Pending action upon this the regu-
lar order was called for, and S. S.
King, of Kansas City, speaking to the
sixth clause of the resolution, repre-
sented the doings of the recent gulf
transportation conference at Chicago
and pleaded for q new route to the old
world, a. relief from the commercial
tyranny of New York and Chicago, as
he said.
Governor Tillman, of South Caro-
lima, then took the floor to close the
debate upon the resolutions report.
He declared the financial question pre-
sented but another form of slavery.
AS to the sections, every section had
and would vote as its interests de-
mand. AS to this he was not uneasy,
but he was as to the adhesion to party
making so many men forget that others
have rights. Touching again upon
s~ectionalism and reconstruction, he de-
clared himself q Hamburg rioter and
asked what made him so. 1t was Ne
gro domination. The end justifies the
means. He had no apologies to make
for attempts to secure honest govern-
ment by honest men unawed by the
~bayonets of Grants soldiers. Coming
once more to the present, he took up
the statistics to show hat the West
and South could control the presidency
and said the West was within nine of q
majority of the college and these men
could be picked up east of the Miss
issippi. Would the West help the
South. ?
Governor Lewellyn answered. What
would the Governor of South Carolina
ask? Had not Kansas sent ex-Con-
~federates to the Congress? Was not
this an olive branch of peace? Was it
not sufficient pledge that the old issues
were dead, that the bloody chasm was
crossed and that the West was pre-
pared to do her part? AS Governor
Lewellyn concluded, Governor Till
man rose and the two Governors grasp
ed hands on q common platform amid
cheers which subsidized only when the
convention exhausted itself. AT the
cessation Of the cheers, the question
was put on the majority report OF the
committee resolutions and it was
adopted unanimously in form as report
ed. The resolution providing for the call
OF another convention in January was
withdrawn, and after the transaction
OF some minor business, the convention
adjourned sine die.