The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-08-22
SILVER RALLY
AT CONCORD.

Butler and TillmAn SPEAK to Three
thousand People Silver SEN
timent Surging.
A G0LDBUG PAPERS REPORT.
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Special TO the Charlotte Observer
CONCORD, Aug. l3.-Thers we're
between 1850 and 5000 people in
Concord to-day to hear the apostles
OF free silver, Ben Tillman. Of
South Carolina, and Marion Butler,
OF North Carolina. Tillman came
in on the vestibule from the North,
where he had been speaking in New
York State. and Butler arrived later,
about half-past IL, Oh the fast mail,
having come from Raleigh. Both
were brought up to town on . buck
board drawn by four bay horses.
Butler was accompanied to town by
an escort Of 100 or more mounted
men and driven to the St. Cloud
Hotel, where he joined Senator Till
man, who had been resting there
since his arrival. The cavalcade
then proceeded through the princi-
pal streets of the town and brought
up at the court house, in the yard OF
which the speaking was to be held.
In the carriage with the two lions
Of the day we're Sheriff John A..
Simms, Messrs, Marshall White, N.
h. h. Caldwell and J. N. Burrage.
THE CROWD.
There was not much enthusiasm
evident. There certainly was not
much smack Of triumphal procession
in the march through town. The
rebel yell" was heard only once.
When the speakers had mounted
the platform erected in front Of, and
extending from the court house
portico, three cheers were proposed
for Tillman. 1t took them Q long
time to cOme-the fuse burned q
long time before the explosion came
and then it was not terrific. But
1t was the hungriest crowd for here
sizes met up with in q long time.
Tillman and Butler fed il in the
smplest manner on the rankes,
toadstools Of Populism-and when
it seemed as il it must have beeL
satisfied, there was one long, wild,
Oliver-Twistian cry for more. Till.
man professed to serve his menu On q
Democratic salver, . piece of plate
that had been in the family . lonG
time, while Butler handed out his
mush and milk on . new Populls,
tray. But it all tasted the same. l,
was . free silver dish. Tillman fin
ished about 1:30, but the crowG
yelled for him to 90 on. Butler
tried to conclude several times, bu,
his auditors would not allow it, anc
when a thunder and rain storm
came along, they insisted that hs
should continue in the court house
so tfat it was nearly 4 o'clock wher
he wound up.
There was quite . difference in
the manner Of these two newly
elected United States Senators
pushed so prominently to the from
in recent political upheavals, ant
on whom the eyes Of the cou ntr,
will be fixed for the next four year,
-Tillman, quick, impassioned. asrv
bulldog like; Butler, slow almos
to tedious, cynical, sneering, and q
sarcas tic as Voltaire.
THE sAELL OF NEW PARTY.
There was the smell of new party
ism in the air. One could snif il i,
the red hot, Sizing words of Till
man as he hurled them, like q show
or of Goals, on all sides; the scent O
it was sulphurous As one Of Butler
slow-fuse bombs burst every nov
and then. And free silver was tn
nucleus of the new party alignmen
proposed. Tiliman said he wante,
free silver President, from tn
Democratic party if he could ge
him there; if not, even from tn
ranks of Populism, in spite of it
crazy leaders and crazy notions
Butler said patriotism must be place
above parsisanship, even above Pop
, ulism, in placing an honest (fre
silver man in the White house.
TILLMAN's SPEECH.
After an introduction by Mr.. n
81. b. Caldwell, Tillman was greete
! with loud cheering. The Sout
Carolinian said he was glad to com
from the North, reeking with slav
E cry and corruption, to be with thi
3 people in the South-poor but hor
est. I'VE down here are local.
free but nationally slaves" Th
Democratic party, 20 long held t.
gether in the South by the fear {
! negro:domination, was disinteRra
ing, because there WAS no longer q,
, prehension from that cause, but ne
j issues were coming to the front. tt
o great fight ahead il how to kee
e down poverty and that oppressio
8 which consisted in making none
e for some other man to enjoy. II
financial conditions we're such A
favor the Northeastern section {
= the country. The Democratic part
4 stood pledged to right 1.-The crime
r 49," the demonstration of silve
d but when We had q majority in DO,
o houses, there was . President's 70
t in the way, and 30 tho crime of ,
q remained unrighted. The Republ
: can party was the tool Of the mon,
= power. The Democratic party hs
b always been committed to bimets
II lism. but when it did not fulfill j
q pledgee, the Alliance came alo,
u and taught that We would no long
p stand by Democracy unless it d
q something. The speaker blam
- the free silver reform" element
~ the other southern States for n
n capturing the Democratic machine
,e IN their States, - was done in Sou
- CApnlina SsTk~