The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-08-29
TILLIAN
| AT CONCORD.
What He Says 10 the Thirty
Five Hundred People Who
Listened.
I'VE MUST GET TOGETHER"


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S~nator Tiliman af the Concord meet
ing. The Charlotte ee~rr.rr ssld
bas Dem says that there ~-rr fron
SO to s.oo people pr-.-nI. The
News and Observer Gsiis-r nrns.i sAys
thai there Was not msr~ than eight
hundred present. both arr -lcadins-
Dem. papers.
senator 1iliman said: Ian Iust from
New York With her million. 81 g,rupir
aud billions of wealth. Q mad. thr.-r
speeches thsvr but not ON poliiic.. q
am glad To get hack South wh.rr ~
are poor but honest. New YORK {.
reekiag with corruption aud oppr-s-
sion. We are locally free. Are ~ to
rem. in soy IL feels like hoiar h.re-
like talking Ia Tiilmanit-.. We arr
of the same blood-formsriy the same
people. The separation Is g-ographi-
ciai. The Southern people are n,c.t
homoe-aious. The North - full Of
foreiguers-nongrcls, not Anglo
Saxons. We are born aud bred here.
We love our past and our traditions
Kings Mountain, Guilford Court
House and Camden. white supremacy
has been the paramount issue; % is
what has held whites tog-tb-r against
mongrels. The solid south" is now
aaas slsf.-
South had always held to the Demo
cratic party because Northern Demo
crats alone kept Republicans from
putting US under the heel of former
slaves. The Democratic party la =. e,
means only white supremacy. The
cause leading Ia failing allegiance Ia
the Democratic party IL the recognized
fact that attempts To iorc- negro su-
premacy will
ALWAYS sE FrHIIIE;
that there are is.ues n thousand fold
more important.
Men arr realizing they do not gsi
the benefit Of their labor. Somebody
else gets IL. The Alliance has been the
means Of educating the people. IL
started In the West aud spread like n
prairie fire South and last. Men must
look to their own interests. not la those
Of party.
Money has been wrung from the south
and West for the benefit of tb. North
and East. The Democrats party Of
the Soath has always been for free
silver but has been powerless and
wronged. The outrage of '.3
HAS REMAINED rNRI.HTED.
Republicans have pretended To favor
bimetailism but have been the tool of
the money power. The Alliance
taught men they must leave the Dem
ocratic party unless IL would fight for
the interests II the people. You left
it In NC. We had been Teaching PRO-
pie in y. C., and when the Alliance
came the ground was cleared and pre-
pared we sowed and gathered nm abun-
dant crop. We swept aud rntbralled
3. G. (cheers.) Our Aliiancemen are
good Democrats but they pressed for
ward TO control the Democratic party
aud did IL. The Alliancemen sloagb-d
of I'm ~. &. In =. G., We made other
fellows slough. We were two-tbird-
Of the party and controlled IL you left
the party and got whipped. The ma
chine was too much for you: you got
beaten throughout South except in
South Carolina.
The bourbon arisfocraey left us and
set up housekeeping for Themselves: I:
We are the only original. solid. simon
pure Democrats fcheers.D Democracy
means . rule Of the people. There mas
never been any other party in south
Carolina. You had whigs and Re
gublicans and Populists. We have
split in the middle but have no Wing
gerry. said 10 the people in Issz the
nomination Of Cleveland
WOULD sE a PROSTITUTION
Of the Democratic party. I went "a
Chicago and fought him to the last
I WAS beaten; came home and found
the people indignant and eager q
; leave the party. ] persuaded them "a
stick to IL. could not turn black-les
, and leave the party after taking parI
In its convention. We stuck fo tArf ,
too: only 2sO0 men voted for Weaver
in the state. We carried the State foI
Cleveland. He turned down sosil
J Carolina Congressmen /. and lab~IIes
them Pops and poor fools. lie tried ..
. buy them with few public offices ans
. failed. You coul1 have controlled III.
Democratic party in the whole soutl
(: IL you had stayed in it, but Polk ear
l ri the Alliance out of the party 81
his breecbes pocket. You should hay,
0 stay ed in the party aud gotten bold q
( the machine, but you went out and GO
licked. Last fall you gave the dyed
4 in wool, -neyer To learn" .neyer q
|. forget" crowd . lesson. while Jaryi
4 and Ransom were qaarreling over TN
= senate ial nomination, this yogn
. coon, Butler, Skinned up the tree an
got the persimmon. Cheers an
laughtsr.D
There wss this advastage In ,eavin
the party however. IL has
II bkoKGx THE SOLID NoKTu
By breaking the solid south. whil
. the South remained solid, the press
y the North kept up the cry You snu
= keep the South down by voting ne yo
q shot, The venal, lying. corrupt p~wn
p papers are responsible for all a
n trouble. They are owned by men wf
keep up the cry: stand BY old pa
~ tiea.- I have stood BY the I'D part
but 90 help me God I will not folio
- rsscals, % I kicked them out. lCbee
- and cries of .-rixht.-) The cause dri'
ing people out Of the old parties m
- splitting parties asunder IL self int
, est. The best definition can give
n psfriosism IL enlightened self ipteres
D Sell v0UeYe9& 8tOUe oFtst~ mrn- ~
70 alright IL y0u don't Try ~ rob the 9th
4. fellow. Eascsis have control Of al
!. government and the issue b.: sha
- the people
oovEEx ZOE THEIR IxTExEsT,
>" o. 0oney for interests Of the mcn'
power. As true men, our duty is
DC folIOw where cur interests lead ~
- Pertains have been running n
gose9umeet on one dogma 60 VIII
- there are two parts:
|e, lsG The world was created
N aiutA.
and. We are the saints.
I: That % the theory ON which a
IT. cuyerooeot has been run for thir
yesss. I hsve read everything v0r
. reading On the money problem y
% gold bag side b al sopbissry and b
q ceossoing. And b ave . good opt
"A - q uysele: know I Am honest
u Is fol; aoA 0aoy Oeo are fools
n AxD uOr noHnsT ErTHEs