Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-07-04
THE STATE CAMPAIGN.
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whine about it's being a dishonest
dollar. For his part he believed
that every dollar stamped by the
Government was all honest dollar.
Why was it, he would like to
know, that the Governments en-
dorsement is taken on bond and
will not be taken on a note. The
bond had no better security than
the greenback, yet it is worth 12o.
Paper money had been stigrnatiz-
ed as fiat money, "fat" meaning
"be it So" When the Government
says tbs a dollar it becomes one,
Everybody, he found, now agreed
that more money was wanted.
Some wanted more gold, some
wanted more silver and some more
paper. For his part he wanted
more of all three. The great and
all absorbing question was how
were we going to getit. The first
man who ever wrote a cook book
had given a receipt for cooking
rabbits. 1t began, "First catch
YOUR rabbit" The monetary ques-
tion was the rabbit. The first
thing to do was to catch the vote
on it. Victory would never smile
on their efforts until they got al
ter that rabbit. and kept after it
night and day. That was the i'm
portant question. Their force must
not be squandered upon too many
issues. Money and more of it was
the absorbing one just now. tie
said his Alliance friends and him.
self had been at loggerheads since
1891 on the sub-treasury plan.
They had wanted to know if they
did not get it that way, how were
they going to get it. What was it
that the Government should turn
plenty of money out ovsr the land?
When it had damned up it would
migrate the country. They wanted
the Government to turn loose plen.
ty of money and to- destroy the
national banks. When the money
was supplied it should be made in:
terchangeable with silver and gold
and receivable for any and all pub
lie dues. He was aware that this
| was the rankest kind OF heresy
There had been much talk about
the mistakes of the Alliance. They
all knew that few years ago the
Third Party idea was growing ano
thriving in this State. Ben Ter
rel was going from county te
county spreading these ideas. But
what many of them did not kno"
was that when he was opposing
J. the sub-treasury he was opposing 'St {
He was striking at the growth 81
the Third Party in that way. He
realized that the sup-treasury plar
was suggested merely as an edu'
cational idea. Then there was the
Spartanburg meeting. Terrell made
his speech, but he (Tillman) had
already had it agreed that the
fight over the matter was to be
made within the Democratic par
ty. That suficed. He did not
care to go around fighting the sub
treasury, for be did not want to
fight his brethren. So it went on.
In 1892 things looked very blue
in this State. There was strong
sentiment here in favor of not
sending any delegates to the Chi
cago Convention. He (Tillman)
had advocated doing so. All of
this was going on here while the
Third Party was rapidly gaining
headway in other States. The
party was established in other
Southern States. There was no
Third Party in this State in spite
of the fact that at one time he and
some of his friends had had the
nerves of Third Partyism up their
backs as big as his finger. South
Carolina was almost the only
Southern State that had stood
firm. She was now pointed to as
an example to follow. He did not
want any division of forces. The
fight should be made strictly on
the question of the Government
issuing plenty of paper money, sill
vermoney and gold money, and
declaring all of it good and re-
ceivable for all public dues.
Governor Tillman then turned
to answering Senator Butler. He
would, be said, "touch him up" on
only few points. He spoke at
sOme length of the Simonton mat