Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-08-02
aatiseellaneuus 8mding.
TILLMAN AT TIRZAH.
What the Senator Said ut the Alliance
Camp Meeting.

Camp Meeting.
A great many people have been in
terestedly watching THE ENQUIRER
for a report of Senator Tillman's
speech at Tirzah. We have been un-
able 10 give it before for lack of space.
Following is satisfactory synopsis {:
"When I received the invitation to
speak at Tirzah, my mind travelled
back to 1886. Captain Tillman, who
had been raising some rumpus in The
News and Courier with his pen, was
invited to York" The senator then
INDUCED in little fun at his own ex-
pense and referred to the Old Tirzah,
where he made his first extemporan-
eous speech nine years ago. 81 had
been tongued-tied previous to that,
but the people of York clipped it, and
my tongue has been wagging ever
SINCE"
He was glad to be on hand today.
He thought they liked him, because
he had always tried to tell them the
truth. This was what he wanted to
do now. This was an Alliance meet
ing. The Alliance was not so strong
in numbers as heretofore, but as an
educative force its principles were
stronger than ever. He felt proud
that the Alliance was the organization
through which our principles Of reform
had been advanced. Why are you so
poor? He said that Senator Butler
told truth when be said fifty voters
in one party are cutting fifty others
votes in different party.
"Look at your condition. Although
the United States has produced unex'
ampled crops for many years, there
are millions of our people starving,
and other millions naked. We will
always be Democratic in principle,
because we sucked those principles
with our mothers milk but we cannot
continue to wear the livery of party
in which such debauchery and treach-
cry exist.
"When you look back at the repeal
of the Sherman law you find that the
Republicans and Democrats of the
Northern section voted without regard
to party lines. They buy your con-
gressmen up there at Washington like
you buy sheep. They also control the
nomination for president in both
parties"
1t did not matter whether Harrison
or Cleveland was elected. The Re-
publicans had been trying for years 10
demonetize silver and could not do it.
The change of the government from
one party to another; enabled Cleve-
land, by the use of the patronage, to
demonetize silver. The greedy Demo-
Gratis who had pledged the people to
fight for silver, sold their votes for
offices for their friends or for money, l
don't know which, and the conspiracy
was consummated. The Democratic
platform was good enough to be elected
on, but not worth carrying out. The
result has been that our yardstick
which measure values has been cut in
half, with the effect of doubling the
purchasing power of the gold dollar.
1t takes now twice as much of labor,
or the products of labor, to buy dol
lar. Everything has shrunk in value
except debts. To all intents and pur-
poses they have been doubled. l will
illustrate. If man had ten biscuits
and there were two plates of butter,
one white and one yellow, and you
throw away the white (silver) there is
only half rs much butter to the bis
cult as there was before. The shrink
age in the amount of butter represents
the shrinkage of the price of commod-
tiles, and until we make that other
plate of butter, all the producers OF
this country will have to spread it
very thin, and great many will have
neither bread nor butter.
1t is clear that both old parties are
disintegrating and new alignment is
in process of formation. Party ties
are weakened. Like drowning men
who catch at straws, the people are
casting about for means of relief. The
issue has heretofore been obscured or
sidetracked, but in the next presidential
campaign the only question will be
the financial question. A new Mason
& Dixon's line is forming on the one
side with the Northeastern section,
consisting of the creditor and manu-
featuring States. On the other side
will be a solid South allied with a
practically solid West.
An examination of the census reports
will indicate the enormous increase in
the wealth of New England and Mid
die States, as compared with the rest
of the country, and even fool must
know that it is the result of legal rob-
berry and unjust discrimination by
congress.
We had very small bone under
the Sherman act. We snapped at the
shadow of a great relief promised in
the Chicago platform and the restora-
tion of the Democracy to power, and
we have lost the little bone we had
and got nothing.
At Memphis 1 undertook to repre-
sent the people of South Carolina and
told the friends of silver that if we
could not get man whom we could
trust in the Democratic party on a
platform that was unequivocal and ex-
1,licit 1ua unuld cast onr electoral vote