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


Governor Tillman has never been
at any time fool enough 10 en-
brace the Sub-treasury scheme, ex-
eept under Alliance duress which
his common sense assured him
could not last, but It is now very
plain to him that the idiotlc por-
lions Of the Ocala platform are
being set aside and that the Popu-
lists are selling with avidity a
plausible issue on which a rational
fight might be based. Aspiring to
prominence In national politics he
not unnaturally hastens to mix
himself up with the silver agitation.
He %perceives the possibility of
the launching of a silver party
from which the vagaries hereto
fore making Populism a transpa-
rent humbug have been eliminated
and hoping that 1t may find favor
In the eyes of some intelligent per-
sons who r Democrats at heart,
but daft on finance he has planted
himself In the van of the move.
ment. The construction of a silver
party to whose standard such states
as Missouri and Iowa might gather
while by no means probable is not
unthinkable. The recognition of
this by Governor Tillman accounts
for his presence and active If eau
tious participation in the bi-metal-
lists convention held in st. Louis
last week.
The failure of that convention to
draw a crowd or excite enthusiasm
was the cause Of the Governors
pursuing what must be confessed
was a skillful course in all that he
had to do with tho proceedings. 1t
appears that he carefully avoided
committing himself to the aban-
donment of democratic DISCUSSES
and is not yet resolved to fling up
the game of poisoning q party's life
while studiously exhibiting him
self in it's regalia, which he has for
so long successfully played.
On the other hand the Governor
is hard pressed for cheap material
from which to spin those yarns
with which he delights to inflame
and befuddle the farmers. He is
Watching shrewdly, closely and
with the keenest interest the pro-
cess by which the one time Ocala
party is being translated into the
free silver party of the agricultural
sections and which is doubtless to
cast away the folly of Populism
except so much as relates to the
currency questions now uppermost
In the public mind. 1t is evident
that Governor Tillman will work
his old racket and claim to be a
Democrat for the present at least.
The position which real Demo-
Gratis must impress upon them
selves is that Tillman and what he
represents is essentially undemo-
cratic. They r paternalism, reli-
anve upon the government for relief
as If 1t were some slave of the Arab
ian's lamp, and a constant crying
out for Legislative largesses. Know
ing this those who are faithful to
the doctrine that men should
take care of themselves and repel
all governmental interference that
is not actually necessary, should
force Governor Tillman to recant
his errors or go where he belongs.
This can be accomplished by the
formation of a league whose or
ganic principles should be identical
with those of the national Demo.
cratic platform. Such an organi-
zation could not but be welcomed
as a possible hope for the perpetu-
ity of democratic ideas in this
state.
Governor Tillman's ideas Elm
body every principle Inherently
opposed to the Democratic notion
of government. If their progress
Is not resisted then logically and
practically the gradual rusting out
of the democratic party in South
Carolina must sooner or later fol-
low.
If the Democratic party is,worth
a defence, the moment has arrived
when its friends should prepare to
give battle with those who are
treacherously' fighting 1t from
within.
A line head Of hair Is an indis-
penSable element O fhaantu Auar,,