The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-10-04
HE'S NOT A "POP."
No Free Silver and Populist Ideas for DIR
Bates Who Goes to the st. Louis Con-
'vention-Tillman Alone.
THE State 2nd,1

The State, 2nd.l ,
Governor Tillman has gone to the
St. Louis bimetallic, or, as it is more
generally termed, Populist convention.
He left yesterday and will arrive IN st.
Louis this evening. The Governor
will be, from present indications, aoou5
the only man to represent South Caro-
lima in that convention, who is of the
same way of thinking with those who
issued the call for the convention.
He appointed twenty delegates, but
thew did not 20. Whether it was be-
cause they could not or would not, re-
mains to be seen. One man alone &C
companied the Governor to the con-
vention, but he is of the opposite way
of thinking from Governor Tillman.
Tie Governor appointed Dr.. W. T. G.
Bates. the State Treasurer, q delegate,
and he went. DR.. Bates before con-
senting to 90, called on the Governor
at his Office and frankly told the chief
executive that he was not following IN
bis footsteps on the financial situation.
DR.. Bates was seen before he left the
city and asked shout the matter and
he said:
"In case I attend the st. Louis con-
vention, expect to do what can to
advance the business interests of the
South, through a commercial union
with the West. I do not expect TO take
any active part in the political features
of the convention"
Then>Dr. Bates went on to talk about
the financial question, and remarked
ssI am in favor Of the immediate re-
peal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman law. believe in this emer-
gency that such course would do the
greatest amount of good to the great
est number, and on that account l
favor speedy action, and then the finan-
cial question in its entirety can come
up on its merits.
~ believe that it is incumbent on
the Democratic party to carry out its
policy as expressed in the Chicago plat
form and If it does not there will be 8
reckoning.
1.-THE free coinage of silver will not
give the relief that its friends expect,
Gor do the harm thai it's enemies.pre-
dict. The silver question is only one
factor in the financial problem. I am
in favor of fbimetallism, and hope that
the Democratic party will carry out its
pledges in regard to gold and silver"
AS will be seen from the above DR..
Bates, although he attends the conven-
ton as delegate, only goes to look
after the financial interests of the
country as he sees it, and when
that feature of the convention is dis
posed of, he will retire and decline to
follow the lead of Governor Tillman in
the matter of the formation of the pro-
posed new Populist party.
It is possible that Senator S. G. May
field, of Barnwell, who is of the Gov
ernor's way of thinking, may get to
st. Louis in time to participate in the
convention.
Governor Tillman is much imbued
with the idea that great things will
come from this convention, and the
fact that he goes alone shows that he
| intends to take prominsnt part IN its
proceedings. Many Of his ardent ad-
herents think that be has, allowed his
vaulting ambition to be the leader OF
the proposed new party, get away with
his better judgment and that he will
yet repent OF LaVlDg gone 80 Qeeply
into this matter. Others think that
be cannot be wrong and that his little
scheme will work like charm, and,
when the next national campaign
comes around, the farming classes will
hear him on the stump, and carry him
on their shoulders into the presidential
chair.
\ The fight is about to begin. Tillman
has taken the bull by the horns, and
Ben Terrell is about to appear and as
sist him in managing the animal. The
Democratic party is in the background,
occupying the band wagon and watch
ing the performance. How long it will
remain in its place of vantage, re-
mains to be 8. en-. When Matador Till
man and Picador Terrell, and their
force of assistants, who are now wear
ing the Democratic cloaks, throw off
these disguises and get down to their
real work, there is no telling what may
happen. But the people are watching
the contest with deep, yet quiet in
terest.