Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-11-03
\ Good Speech TO Read.
GOV. TiIInan Of South Carolina Made II
at the ~. Louis silver Convention.

Gov. TillnRn of South Carolina Made IL
ut the 81. Louis silver Convention.
Gov. Tillman of South Carolina is COM
monty considered a crank-probubly be-
cause he is the father OF a law settin
South Carolina up in the liquor business.
He carries the politics of his state in his
vest pocket, however, and was the leading
figure at the silver convention lately held
at ST. Louis. He made a speech there of
which little has been known in New Eng
land but in order that the drift OF his arg
uments advanced for a union of the West
and South may be understood We give a
liberal extract from the verbatim report:
Those OF you in this western coun-
try who are our allies in everything,
who have been following the banner OF
New England and those eastern manufact-
uring states in your efforts to crush and
enslave the southern people by your adj
herence to the Republican party-those Of
you who have been told to vote as you shot
and have done it, | simply want TO say to
you that ! am glad that daylight is al last
dawning and that you realize, after -
years, that we have a community of inter
ests between the South and the West, and
you are turning TO Us with longing eyes to
come and help You battle for your own in
terests and undo the wrong you have done
to us.
The interest the farmers down there
have paid since % has amounted to from
10 to 100 per cent for what we have bought
on credit, and vet We have stood ii, and We
are not so deeply in debt now as you are.
Laughter l tell you that we have been
skinned by the financial system and tariff
so long that we have got no skin left and
have learned to live without it. Laugh
ter and applause. 1t does my soul good
TO know that your withers are wrung, that
your backs are being barred until you have
risen up and intend to help us grow some
skin ourselves in order that you may save
your own. Great applause.
What is the trouble with us? What has
been the bone of contention? The negro
question. Have any of you ever heard of
the Hamburg riot? ! donOt suppose there
is a man who has not, because it was her
aided all over the Union and held up as
typical southern outrage. Hamburg is
within Is miles of my home. l am a
Hamburg rioter, and desire to ask if you
would take me to be man who would
murder negroes in cold blood and without
provocation? Applause.
We had to rise in our despair and under
take to restore Anglo Saxon civilization,
or leave our homes. The rotten govern
ment fastened by Grant upon us from 1868
to 1876 became so burdensome that we pre-
ferred martial law 10 a continuance of rob
Der government. Well, that is the situa-
ton. There are in South Carolina l4O,-
600 male negroes over u years of age
there is a 10000 negro majority, and they
point to that fact as evidence that that
state ought to go Republican.
What do the men in the New England
states, where thousands upon thousands are
employed in factories, do when they want
to carry an election? They say to their
operatives; "1f you don't vote like we
want you TO vote, you can move on" That
is all right. We, down in our country, in
our endeavor to maintain good government
and good order, use our means and say:
''If you don't like ii help yourselves.
There is 1000 negro majority in my coun-