The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-04-02
.TILLMAN ON THE NEW pARgY
STILL LOOKING FOR THE LIGHT
IN THE WEST.
The Cleveland Administration Gets a
Drubbing-He Says this State Will
Go With the New Organization.

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The Cleveland Administrator Gets
Drubbing-He Says this State VIII
Go With the New Organization.
4 Ex-Governor Tillman is again talk
ing about the proposed new Nationa
party, to be composed OF the South an,
West. In fact, he has written anothe
letter on the subject. This time thu
letter is for the New York World, an,
1t reads as follows:
In my judgment the organization
OF new party Is inevitable; and 1
will present as the main issue the re
storation of bitnetallism and the con
duct of our finances in the interest o
the people. The poverty and miser,
wrought by the fall of prices, direct
ly traceable to the gold conspirac,
and the contraction of the currency
will break up both partie,- equally re
sponsible for this crime against hu
manity-and cause a new alignment il
politics.
/ 1.-The South and West will naturall,
join in overturning policy which rob,
them and tends to paupcrize the pro
pucers and laborers for the benefit of d
few thousand bankers and millionaires
here and In Europe. Party ties and
4 sentiment will not hold men whose re-
sentiment OF wrong and whose instinct
of self-preservation command them tC
seek new political alliances.
| "Populism in the West was q pro.
test against Republican misrule and
Democratic imbeciity. In the South
1t was largely revolt against Bour-
bOnism and bossism in State affairs
but the progressive, restless element
OF Southern Democracy is strongly i'm
bued with the idea of national finan-
cial reform, and nine-tenths of the
Southern people are for free silver and
opposed to national banks.
1t was necessary. however, before
the Southern voters could be weaned
from the Democratic party to have
that party once control all branches OF
| the government, and be in q position
| to do what it promised in its platform.
The test has been made, and such q
| disgraceful spectacle of betrayal OF
the people and disregard for the
| pledges made before election has
| never been witnessed in our political
history. The Senate and House, with
majorities elected as pledged to BIZ
metallism, demonetized silver at the
command Of the President, who un-
blushingly used the patronage of his
office to debauch the representatives
of the people and carry out his COM
pact with the gold conspirators. The
compromise, reeking with the stencil
OF sugar trust deals, and grants no re-
lief from monopolies.
"The cowardice and treachery Of
Congress its subserviency to White
House influences; the subserviency of
the President to Wall and Lombard
streets, with it's phases OF partnership,
and the disgraceful bond dicker, with
its nine millions OF profit stolen from
the people +; the whole scheme of plum
der involved in the issue of bonds in
time of peace, and the brazen and
scoundrelly refusal to protect the
treasury by payment of siivveeir iivei GGt SGGetrrn-
Gates in silver and greenbacks, or
"coin," as provided by laval these
things have awakened and opened the
eyes OF the people to the necessity for
new deal.
Party ties or pledges did not re-
strain or bind the so-called Democrats
of the East and North in the last Con-
gress. They voted with the Re-
publicans on the tariff and money
questions. Will the Southern Demo-
Gratis and Western Republicans follow
their example in the next election and
vote for the millions whose interests
demand more money and bimetallic
standard-higher prices, in word d?
Are we Southern and Western farmers
idiots to longer cling to the shadow
when the substance is gone Pa De-
mocracy which is not Democratic and a
Republication which is plutocratic.
" 1t seems to me a very plain case.
Five-cent cotton and fifty.cent wheat
are arguments which cannot be an
| wered. The Popoulists will readily
merge their organization in the new
party, once it gets we'll under way.
The manufacturers and merchants,
whose business has been so seriously
injured by the impoverishment Of the
farmers and the destruction OF the
home market" will, If not wholly
blind and besotted, lend their aid, and
we will see another revolution like
that OF 1928. Instead of government
by the banks, through the newspapers
and paid attorneys, masquerading as
congressman. for the milliOnaires, we
will have government for the people
and restore the standards of Jefferson,
jackson and Lincoln.
South Carolina opposed Mr.. Cleve-
lands nomination in 1892. We pre-
dicted what has followed it, but we
Loyalty supported the ticket and gave
him our electoral vote, and Weaver
got only 2,200 votes in the State. We
are Democrats of the straightest sect,
but we no longer love the name.
Clevelandism makes it stink, and this
State will lead the South in joining
the West next year for the abolition OF
| white slavery, now pressed upon US by
the plutocracy of the East and Eng
land.
1.-THE Republican party will not
grant us relief The Democratic
party is dead, though not buried, and
! will offend the nostrils OF honest men
for two more years. A union of Re.
publicans, Democrats and Populists
| who think alike on the money ques
] tion is the only sensible course left us
Such combination is inevitable and
irresistible. "B. II TILLMAN,
| Trenton, S. c."
This letter appeared in the World
on Sunday last, along with similar
ones from men most prominently iden
titled with the new movement for 1896
-Peffer, Marion Butler, Congressma
Sibley, Weaver, Howard, Thomas e
| Watson and Taubeneck.
The World also proceeds to analyze
the electoral vote of the country anC
shows that the Solid South and West
with other aid, could only secure il
the electoral college 2l5 votes at the
outside, while it takes 224 to elect
President.
CUBA'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM.
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