The herald., 1895-11-29
THE CROWDS AT ATLANTA
Listen to Speeches by Statesmen From
South Carolina
Governor Evans and Senator 1iilman Give
Thanks After the Manner Fashion,
able In Ante-beli,m Days

| ATLANTA, Ca, Nov. 2S.-Today was
set apart at the exposition as Atlanta
and South Carolina day combined and
the sun had hardly risen before the pre-
dictiOn that il would be the greatest day
in point of attendance in the history o I
the show was certainty. Over 100. 600
visitors are in the city. more strangers
than were ever in Atlanta before. The
streets were moving masses of humanity
| throughout the early morning hour and
before o'clock the capacity of the turn
| stiles at the exposition entrances, toward
| which the multitude flowed steadily was
being taxed, while bets were laid that the
paid admissions would reach tho hun
dred thousand mark before the gates
| closed tor the dsy.
The event of the afternoon occurred at
the auditorium, where the governor and
| public men of South Carolina ind a ged in
| speechmaking. 1t remained for Senator
! Tillman and Governor Evans to provide
| the sensation of the day.
Governor Evans, in responding to Gov.
| ernor Atkinson's address of welcome,
thanked Georgia for her kindly welcome.
| This was day of thanksgiving, he saiu,
but Georgia and South Carolina were
without Pharisaism, he exclaimed, thank
! God we are MT as other states.' He be-
lieved it was time for the south in con-
! gress to rise up and speak cut on the va
rious Questions and say thnt while a part
OF the union. and always to be part of
| the union, yet by the help of God she
! would rule this country again.
| He spoke of South Carolina's 8 pre-emi-
nent position in cotton manufacturing,
but SAID t1e state was essentially an agri-
cultural one and upon that depended the
prosperity of the whole country. The
only true democracy in the union was to
be found IN the agricultural classes,
among them alone could be found pa
triotism and love OF home and country.
Senator Tillman took the exposition as
basis to talk about pensions, the
enormous amount OF which, he contin-
ned, was such drain on the south, that
1t was wonderful she was able TO hold
such an exposition as this. The south,
he said. does not receive more than Il
tithe back OF what she pays out. Since
1861. eighteen hundred and sixty million
dollars ha, been paid out in pensions.
The cotton states paid not less than one
quarter OF this. We paid S400, 900, 0JO to
our conquerors.
lie was getting up no rebellion. He
realized full we'll that the south would
never govern any more; it could only
hope to weld the balance of power be.
tween the north and the creat west. 1t
was very certain, he thought that not as
many northern millions hau reen invest
ed in the south as she had paid in pen
sions to the rth, and northern capital
invested in the south was only the PEN
sion tribute coming back. He held that
If at the close of the war the south had
had an equal chance, if the tariff had not
robbed the farmers and the finances of
the country had not been allowed to con-
centrate in the hands of few, there was
no conjecturlng what this exposition
would have been. The bankers and cap
ltalists did not realize, declared Serator
Tillman, that the man who follows the
plOw is the salvation of the country.
These fellows sit in heir offices, and
every time old Grover grunts they say
"Me toO.' 1t did MS soul good to be
told that two Dobtailed reformers like
himself and Evans mad heen received
with create" enth usiasm and by more
people than tie president of the United
States,
This completed the exercises, and Gov
ernor Evans and party repaired to the
illinois building. which had bean ten.
dered the CaroIinians. and where recep-
tion was held.
The sensation of the day was tho new
departure taken by Evans and Tilllman.
Up to this tim. all the speeches delivered
at the exposition, whether by northern
or southern men, have been pitched upon
the keynote OF fraternity and national
unity. Governor Evans and SeDator
Tillman struck out on different line,
however.