The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-07-30
we hayo lost the little bone we had

!, we have lost the little bone we has
and got nothing.
At Memphis / undertook to repre-
sent the people of South Carolina ant
told the friends OF silver that IL W,
could not get man whom we coull
trust In the Democratic party on ,
platform that was unequiv0cal and ex
plicit, We would cast our electoral vote
; for the candidate of some other party
'(Did represent you ?" (One or two
Noes" and chorus of Yes were
hearj.)
"Well, Til take hand primary or
1t. don't want you to declare your.
selves Populists. / ask all Of you who
are willing TO vote for q man for Presi
dent, pledged to free silver, whether
he be q Democrat or not, to hold uI
your hands.
There was a forest of open palms in
the air in moment, only one man,
Mr.. Hull, voting in the negative amid
derisive cries.)
"Now, gentlemen, he's net to blame
hos only blind. L respect and ad-
mire men who disagree with me, but
who have the manhood to stand by
their convictions.
"We are all white mon, but for
Gods sake, for South Carolina's sake,
never let 1t be said that the white men
appealed to the negro to arbitrate
their differences. [ am no Populist.
The Democratic party in the North
st'has been practically disbanded in
ten or twelve States. What hope have
we of electing q Democratic President?
What sort of u hope have we for gen.
uino Democracy to win in the next
last election indicates that the Repub-
licans have strong hopes Of electing
the next President and there are many
men in the South who think it good
time to join that party in the hope of
| getting Office. l have been looking for
some new converts to that party in
this State, but so far none have an
nounced themselves. Car we stand
four more years of this sort of thing,
boys? Well we have stood so much
of 1t that l don't believe you can starve
us. Nothing can do that, but my God,
it Is so awfully tiresome:
"While the South is practically
solid for silver our condition of finan-
cial slavery is almogt intolerable. We
must endure our suffering until the
hand of American brotherhood is
reached out to us by the Northwestern
farmers, and they cry aloud in their
distress, Come, help u.s. The only
hope is to ally the South and West to-
gether against the North and East,
but don't let us impose the condition
go as Democrats alone Those people
despise that name. That hatred is AN
Inheritance of the war-just as we
hate the name Republican. Those
States contain larger percentage of
Union soldiers than any others, be-
cause they moved there just after the
war to get soldiers homesteads and
they have been accustomed to connect
the word Democrat and Copperhead
together just as we connect Republi-
can and negro together. Those people
tween the upper and neither mill
stones. Why not both sides give up
party names and meet half way? If
your house is burning down, will you
stay in it because it is labeled Demo-
cratic. We can't take the name of
Populists because they have too many
isms and radical ideas, and they have
pandered too much to socialism. They
call me an anarchist-a right bran new
one--but | cannot stand many things
in the Populist platform: Why, in
with the hull OF the old rotten Demo
cratic ship? A. Nc nphis [ tread on
some Democratic LOes. But on the
other hand you should have heard the
wild hurrahs of those who agreed with
me. 1t was like a Tillmanite cam
paign meeting in 1890. Now they
talk about ring. Yes, its q hand's-all-
round ring of $4,000 Reform Democrat
ic voters-and am proud to belong to
it.
IS cannot see how any man can
stand by the Democracy when it is con- '
trolled by such traitors as Cleveland |
n nd oil / ffN he,
the time comes we can deliver the |
electoral vote. | believe. know we
can do it. (Applause.) The only test !
heretofore in this State, of Democracy,
has been white supremacy. The only |
obstacle to the union of the friends Of |
silver is the loaves and fishes of the |
local offices. The desire to control |
these has more to do with the contin-
uation of the existing parties than the |
principles of those parties. The local |
machines in each State are the greatest |
barriers to the formation OF a new
national tir ancial party. The Ameri- !
can people should narrow down their
local politics and come together. For |
myself, am so disgusted that | ana
ready to throw up the name and give |
up the party. We must join the people |
of the Northwest. The friends of |
silver are in the majority-45, 900, 900 |
out OF the 7O,OOO0, 600 liz this republic
but they are held down. All they
wants the opportunity to gst together.
Shall we let this matter of name keep |
US apart ?"
Senator Tillman then referred to the |
buying up of the metropolitan news
papers and news agencies by the gold
bugs. "Their cry" said Tillman, is
that the silver craze is dying out |
There was never q more brazen false |
hood. There is no silver craze to begin |
with. Our people are not fools, and
they are only striving with the intensi-
ty OF despair to release our govern
ment from the grasp of the octopus to
prevent the tories from selling us into
bondages to the British goldbugs.
They understand the issue perfectly,
as will be proven when the time comes
to vote. think can safely say the
South is solid for financial relief.
When we meet the Northwestern peo-
pie we must be ready to go ahead and
organize the new party. Let the name
be what it will. Let us determine
here now that we will get together,
and that the goldbugs will see how
little reliance Is to be placed on the
cry that the silver craze is dying"
y Senator Tillman spoke forty minutes
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