The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-21
A FREE SILVER MEETING,
SENATOR TllLMAN SPEAKS TO
THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE.

tthSE. HOOSSND HSOfEE'
He Thinks it is Time for the Free Silver
Men to Rally--His Speech in Full--What
the Plans and Purposes Are.
CONCORD, \. c.. Aug 14.-There
was large meeting here Yesterday of
J free silverites. the number present be-
ing over three thousand. The speak
ers were Senators Tillman of South
| Carolina, and Butler, of North Caro-
lima. and things were said by them
which show that the formation Of the
new national silver party limited at up
at Tmzah, is certainty. and that Mar
ion Butler, the new North Carolina
Populist Senator, is pushing the South
| Carolina Senator as the leader Of the
movement.
Both Tillman and Butler were met
at the depot al different hours, and
driven over into the town in a drag
pulled by four magnificent bays, being
escorted by about 100 Populists on
horseback. The speaking took place
on stand in front Of the county court
| house. Tillman was several times
loudly applauded. Butler spoke for
nearly three hours, and was cheered
to the echo. They stood on platform
covered with heavy paper, bearing the
inscription: Free silver, 1G to l. :
On the square was a lemonade stand
bearing the inscription: The Till
man Dispensary.
Senator Tillmap began by saying he
had Just returned from the great
Gotham with lis millions of people
and billions Of money, and IN three
speeches there had the opportunity to
feel OF 'em, not, however, on pol!tl-
cal questions. l am glad to get back.
| feel at home and among friends.
We are poor, but we are honest. That
country is reeking with corruption,
and wallowing in wealth. We are
locally free but nationally enslaved. l
feel like am talking to Tillmanites in
one of our northern counties. We are
the same people anyhow. the same IN
blood and in tradition-the boundary
line between the two Carolinas is only
a geographical division anyhow. lean
therefore touch your sores and point
out the places where they need a little
ointment, for l have felt the shoe
pinch myself The Southern people
are the poorest Anglo -SaNons on this
continent; they are the most homoge-
neous people in the world At the
North, the foreign element has come
in, while we are native to the manor
born. The entire South has been held
together since it was overpowered, by
the paramount issue of white suprem-
acy. This solid South is dissolving.
It is breaking up. We gave allegiance
to the Democratic party of the North,
because it was the only party that
kept the heels of our former slaves off
our necks.
The Democracy in my State has
never had any other significance than
white supremacy. Party ties have
loosened their grasp and other issues
have come before u.s. We had no 9th
er party to affiliate with but the Ma
tional Democratic party. Within the
| last few years other issues than the
race questions have become of absorb
ing interest to the Southern people.
| We have come to realize that the pro-
ducers of the country were systematic
ally robbed by vicious financial sys-
tenn and that, while we earned money,
others enjoyed the fruit Of our labors.
How have our people been educated
along these lines2 Alliance has done
it. The Alliance sprung up in the
West and spread like a prairie fire
eastward and southwark. 1t taught
doctrine of placing partisan political
| questions to one side. The Democracy
! has always been for free silver in its
platform, but it has never been able to
bring any relief to the people because
it never at any time controlled all
three branches OF the government.
The Republican always represented
the classes and stood for gold mono
metalism and their attitude on this
subject, together with their malignant
warfare on the Southern people, kept
us loyal to the National Democracy,
till our producers had almost reached
the starvation point. In my State we
had the ground cleared, broke and
ready for the seed, and when the ALI
ance came, we reaped harvest.
Voice-We did too.
Tillman-But you didn't get it as
soon as we did; nor in the way we did.
You Stuffed off. We didn't. We took
charge of the Democratic party and
ran it. You went outside and got
whipped. The machine was too strong
and YOU got beat. At least $4,000 of
the Reformers or Tillmanites in. South
Carolina were anxious to go out. |
said no; we've got the only original
seed corn of Democracy in South Car
oina. The minority claim they are
Democrats, and that Tillman and his
party were populists. The name De
mocracy means the rule of the MAORI
ty and that's what we have. We suck
ed the principles of Democracy with
our mothers milk. We are Demo
Gratis still in every fibre Of our being.
Senator Tillman then told Of how he
had fought Cleveland at the Chicago
convention. Although we were indig-
nant at his nomination | told our peo-
pie that we could not 60 out of the
party; that we had gone into the phi
mary and wehad to stay. We kept the
Democratic party to its moorings.
Weaver received only 2,4o0 votes in
the State. Cleveland then turned down |
our Alliance Congressman in regard to
the patronage, which was given to our
opponents. Cleveland thought his |
mess of pottage would buy us. Poor
old fool. Cheers We held to the |
party and you could have done it, and
so could the Populists in Georgia and |
elsewhere.
You retired and committed great |
blunder. Otherwise you would con
troll the machine now. But at the last |
election the Democratic party, while |
Ransom and Jarvis were disputing as
10 which shouId he Senator |