The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-06-12
TiIJman, Evans and Go.
THEY ARE BOUND FOR
THE SILVER CON-
VENTION.
Columbia State, June 10.

at two big gatherings of national in.
terest in the next fortnight, the one
beginning this week in Memphis
Tenn, and the other beginning the
the same day of the week following
in Cleveland, Ga meeting very
different from the first.
The first is to be the Bimetallc
convention to be held in Memphis or
Wednesday and Thursday of this
week, which is really to be gather
ing of the Silver men of the South, q
counter gathering to the recent gold
standard convention held in the same
city. This convention is to be hello
in response to call issued by the
Central Bimetallic League Of Mem
phis, which is pretty severe on See
retary Carlisle.
Yesterday afternoon Senator Till
man arrived in the city, and this
morning he and Governor Evans are
to leave for Memphis at IL O'Clock!
going via Atlanta over the Seaboard
Air Line. Governor Evans says that
Superintendent of Education Mag
field will 60 along with them. and II
Atlanta they will be joined by Con
gressmen Talbert, Latimer, Strait
and Stokes. The Governor expecte
a]so that AL the other delegates be
has appointed will join them er
route. Governor Evans says that
this convention is going to be one ol
the greatest gatherings of the kind
that the country has ever known.
BE thinks that it will start free
silver wave that will sweep over the
length and breadth of the land,
carrying everything before it. Prob
ably this is the reason he and Senator
Ti!lman are so anxious to be on
hand. Senator Irby is a delegate
but it is not known whether he will
attend Speaking Of the silver sentl-
ment in this State Governor Evans
said that at least 81 per cent. of the
people of the State were in favor ot
it. He says Columbia is about the
only "gold bug" town in the State.
The people will watch with
interest to see what these South
Carolina solons will have to say at
Memphis.
Senator Tillmau, when asked last
night for a preliminary chat about
the convention, as to what it should
do, etc., said that he did not care to
say anything; that his position on
the matters to be brought before the
convention was we'll known, and he
had no desire to forestall the action
of the convention in any way.
The address under which this gath
ering has been called states that "the
American people are face to face
with the greatest peril that ever
threatened the life of the nation.
Not even the momentous issues in
volved in our civil war exceeded in
danger the present situation The
address then quotes Secretary Car
isles speech of long ago on the
money question and terms what he
said then prophetic words" II
then proceeds to state that since
1872 onehalf of the metallic cur.
rency of the country has been de-
stroyed by evil legislation, and that
destitution aud want stalk through the
land now. The address is particular
ly severe on Secretary Carlisle,
charges him with having become the
bribed tool of Wall and Lombard
Streets aud engaging in an effort te
fasten fearful wrong on his people
forever, and deliver them bound into
servitrde more CALLING and enduring
than African slavery. The address
which many have not seen, then con.
cludes as follows:
1--WE do not charge that with full
knowledge and purpose these eml
nent leaders would in cold blood con-
sign this people to such fate. But
whether innocently or purpose'y
done, the result to the people is the
same
"A convention of gold men, de-
signed to consummate and perpetu
ate the destruction of one half oul
metallic money, was held in Mem
phis yesterday, with this plainly
avowed purpose, under the dlrec1
inspiration, as we believe, of Presi
dent Cleveland, Secretary Carlisle anc
Hon. Josiah Patterson, the mis-Rep
resentative Of this Congressional dis
trict.
"They have opened their campaig'
here. The first great gun agalns
the people is fred by John 6. Car
Isle.
"The object is to seduce anc
decoy the South into supporting
their destructive policy But the
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