The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-02
A SENSATIONAL INTERVIEW
Gov. Tillmal Red bot on the Money
Crisis.

! Re Denounces tho Vicious Financial
Policy Of the Republicans, Which,
He Says, is Being Followed by the
DemocratB-Fevors Hanging Some
Of the Men Who, as BE Afhrms, Are
Causing the Trouble-Predicts That
the Farmers Will Rise and "sweep
the Conspirators From tho Face Of
the Earth"
Columbia, SC, Sept. Governor Till
man tonight gave to State reporter a
most sensational interview concerning
the tendency of the financial legislation
in Congress. After threatening, if the
money panic gets worse, that he viii call
the legislature in extra session to enact a
statelaw he says;
THE GOVERNORS VIEWS.
''My Judgment is that the repeal of the
Sherman law, if done at the command of
Wall street, c&nnot and is not going to
restore confidence and produce anything
like prosperity So far the south has
suffered but little. In the northwest
where I have been they are in the
throes Of financial dissolution almost.
have not thought much about the proper
method Of restoring confidence. Our peo-
pie are all satisfied with the currency as
it is with gold, silver and paper curren-
cies as they now are, and they wish to
keep the three together.
VICIOUS REPUBLICAN POLICY.
THE condition of things only shows the
viciOusness of the financial policy
adopted BY the republicans and now be-
ing perpetuated by the democrats. The
currency of the country will have to be
decentrslzed and put out Of the control
of few hundred capitalists and
bankers in New York, Boston and
Philadelphia, with power to contract
and expand the currency at will The
only way l see to accomplish it is by is
suing fiat money" so-called. They are
now fighting to reduce the metal cur
rency by one-half, by making gold
standard.
WANTS SOMEBODY HANGED.
'It's the most gigantic scheme Of rob-
berry ever attempted and the people ought
to rise in their might and put a stop to
it-hanging some of the men who are
causing it all if it is necessary. The cry
is that we are entitled to as good cur
rency as anybody else. Well,
no currency is good at all
coin. They destroy the debt-paying
power Of one-half the coin for the benefit
of the debt-holders, bondholders and
capitalists, and then tell the bankrupted
people who contrac ted these obligations
under the bimetallic standard that this
country lis entitled to as good money as
my other country The panic crisis is
Ill
In conclusion, the governor, after a
brief reflection. made use of the follow
ing language, which would seem to corro-
borate what the State said sometime ago
about the formation of new national
farmers party.
He IS FOR SILVER.
"They object to greenbacks as
fat money; they object to silver as a dis
honest dollar they demand gold to be-
come the standard of the country, al
though it means so cents for wheat and 6
cents for cotton and the loss of the titles
to their homes by millions Of American
farmers. | told the ring in this state in
1888 it was damning up the water when
the demand for reform was refused in the
state conven ton.
WHAT GOV. TILLMAN PREDICTS.
~ now make the prediction that a sim
liar crisis is approaching in national af-
fairs, and that the food gates of the peo-
pies wrath will be raised and
the present conspirators against the
peoples liberties will be swept from the
face of the earth in the next presidential
election. The American farmers win not
be pauperized to satisfy the greed of the
Wall street shylocks without exercising
the ballot to redress their wrongs There
is lots of drIftwood in congress, and the
men who have betrayed the people in
the fight against silver will yet learn
that the people are not such fools as they
think they are.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DAwAaE