The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-08-01


Middle States, as compared with tn
rest of the country, and even q foe
must know that it Is the result of lega
robbery and unjust discrimination b
Congress.
Democracy is q dear name to us, bu
we no longer have the substance-w
; have only the shadow. Aesops fabl
of'the dog and the shadow will illus
trate the situation and show the condj
tion Of those of us who cling to tn
name, whilst we can't get the sub
stance.
We had 81 very small bone under
tho sherman act. We snapped at tn,
shadow of q great relief promised in
the Chicago platform and the restora
tlon OF tho Democracy to power, and
we have lost the little bone we had
and got nothing.
AT Memphis | undertook to repre-.
sent the people Of South Carolina and
told the friends OF silver that if we
could not get Il man whom we could
trust in the Democratic party on q
platform that was unequivOcal and ex-
plicit, We would cast our electoral vote
FOR the candidate of some other party.
IDld represent you - Zone or two
" Noes " and chorus of Yes were
! heard
Wen. I'll take hand primary On
| it. | don't want you to declare YOUR
selves i'opulists. [ ask all of you who
are willing to vote for man for Presi-
dent, pledged to free silver, whether
he be Democrat or not, to hold up
your hands.
'I'herc was forest Of open palms in
the air in q moment, only one man,
MIR. Hull, voting in the negative amid
derisive cries.)
"Now, gentlemen, he's not to blame
hos only blind. | respect and ad-
mire men who disagree with me, but
who have the manhood to stand by
their convictions.
1--WE are all white men, but for
Gods sake, for South Caroina's sake,
never let it be said that the white men
appealed to the negro to arbitrate
their differences. am no Populist.
The Democratic party in the North
west has been practically disbanded in
ten or twelve States. What hope have
we Of electing Democratic President?
uine 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 q good
time to join that party in the hope of
getting office. have been looking for
some now converts to that party in
this State, but so far none have au-
themselves. Car we stand
four more years Of this sort Of thing,
boys? Well wo have stood so much
Of 1t that 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 Tor silver our condition of tinan-
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 US The only
hope is to ally the South and West to-
gcther against the North and East,
but don't let us impose the condition
on those seeking the alliance that we
go as Democrats alone Those people
despisc that name. That hatred is an
of the ~ar-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 hOmcsteads and
they have been accustomed to connect
together just as We connect Republi-
can and negro together. Those people
arc now being ground to powder be-
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
pandcrcd 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
Gods name, stay here and 60 down
with the hull OF the old rotten Demo
cratic ship? At Memphis | tread on
some Democratic toes. But on tho
other hand you should have heard the
wild hurrahs Of those who agreed with
me. 1t was like Tillmanite cam
paign meeting in 1890. Now they
talk about q ring. Yes, it's a hand's-alI
round ring of 900 Reform Democrat
ic voters--and | am proud to belong to
it.
81 cannot see how any man can
stand by the Democracy when it is con-
trollcd by such traitors as Cleveland
and Carlisle. | say to you now-when
the time comes we can doliver 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 tho friends Of
silver is the loavcs and fishes Of the
local offices. The desire to control
these has moro to do with tho cOntin-
uation of the existing parties than the
principles Of those parties. The local
machines in each State arc tho greatest
barriers to the formation Of now
national financial party. The Amcri-
can people should narrow down their
local politics and come together. For
myself, am so disgustcd that | am
ready to throw up She name and give
up the party. We must join the people
of the Northwest. inc friends Of
silver are in the majority--45 600, 900
out OF the &c, 5000, 900 in this republic
but Ihcy arc held down. All they
wants the opportunity to got toge thcr.
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 tho gold
bugs. "Thcir cry" said Tillman, 50 is
that the silver craze IS dying out