Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-08-02

your hands.
1About half the people present raised
their hands. Only one man voted in
the negative, and he was greeted with
shouts of dersion.
"Now, gentlemen, he's not to blame
: he's only blind. I respect and admire
! men who disagree with me; but who
have the manhood 10 stand by their
convictions.
ave are all white men but for
Gods sake, for South Carolina's sake,
never let it be said that the white men
appealed to the Negro to arbitrate
their differences. I am no Populist.
, The Democratic party in the North
west has been practically disbanded in
10 or 12 States. What hope have we
of electing a Democratic president?
What sort Of hope have we for genu-
inc Democracy to win in the next
) general election? The result of the
:, 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. Ihave been looking for
: some new converts to that party in
this State; but so far none have an
nounced themselves. Can we stand
four more years of this sort of thing,
boys? Well, we have stood so much
of it that I 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 financial
slavery is almost intolerable. We
must endure our suffering until the
hand of American brotherhood is reach
,, ed 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
together against the North and East
but don't let US impose the condition
; on those seeking the alliance that we
20 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 a 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 Republican
and Negro together. Those people are
now being ground to powder between
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 Democratic.
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 1 cannot stand many things in the
Populist platform. Why, in Gods
name, stay here and 60 down with the
hull of the old rotten Democratic ship?
At Memphis I tread on some Demo-
cratic toes. But on the other hand
you should have heard the wild hur-
rahs of those who agreed with me. 1t
was like Tillmanite campaign meet
ing in 1890. Now they talk about
ring. Yes, its a hand's-all round ring
of 10000 Reform Democratic voters
and am proud to belong to it.
~ cannot see how any man can
stand by the Democracy when it is
controlled by such traitors as Cleve-
lop l;c1a fo
when the time comes we can deliver
the electoral vote. l believe, I know
we can do it. [Applause. The only
test heretofore in this State, of Democ-
racy, has been white supremacy. The
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 continu-
alton of the existing parties than the
principles of those parties. The local
machines in each State are the greatest
barriers to the formation Of new
national financial party. The Ameri-
can people should narrow down their
local politics and come together. For
myself, 1 am so disgusted that l am
ready to throw up the name and give
up the party. We must join the peo-
pie of the Northwest The friends Of
silver are in the majority 100000
out of the 100000 900 in this republic
but they are held down. All they
want is the opportunity to get 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 a more brazen false
hood. There is no silver craze to be-
gin with. Our people are not fools,
and they are only striving with the
intensity of despair to release our gov
ernment from the grasp of the octopus
to prevent the tories from selling us
into bondage 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 60 ahead and
organize the new party. Let the name