The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-10

The reading Of the minority report
was received quietly, although there
was some cheering when the endorse
ment of the Cleveland administration
was read
| Speech of Senator Tillman.
AT 1l;2S Senator Tillman mounted the
platform to deliver fifty-minute
speech in favor of the platform report
ed by the majority of the committee
AS he went up he was Kissed and
cheered in about equal proportions, His
coat was shabby and dirty and he wore
a heavy silver chain across his breast.
His frame was thickset but erect, and
his thin lips We're nervously compress
ed, His face was pale, and the abb
sence of the left eye gave a sinister ex-
preston to his features. On one lapel
of his coat he wore diminutive Cuban
flag, and on the other the Tillman
badge the representation of pitch
fork. AS he advanced upon the stage
Mr., Richardson, who was still presid-
ing, raped and shouted for order ana
presently the Kisses and cheers were
quietd, Then he spoke, his voice pitch
ed in a high, disagreeable key.
He introduced himself by saying that
he came before his hearers not as the
lying newspapers had represented him
to be-" There was burst of applause
and Kisses. and then he went on. Il
came" he said, from the state which
was the home of secession" Here again
he was interrupted by storm OF hiss
es, and he said, There are only three
things that hiss-a goose, a serpent and
man." Then, raising his head and
addressing the galleries. he shouted
that the man who Kissed South Caro-
lima forgot the history OF the Revoiu-
ton, when that state kept alive the
fires of liberty. South Carolina in
1860" he went on led the fight in the
democratic party which disrupted 1t.
Disruption brought about the war, and
the war emancipated the black slaves.
, Now we are leading the fight to eman-
cipate the white slaves" He declared
!, that with conditions reversed he was
willing again to see the democratic
party disrupted Repeatedly, as he
proceeded, the galleries Kissed, and
several times the sergeant alarms
, threatened to clear the galleries. The
, silver men shouted their approval when
he declared that they were adopting a
| new declaration Of Independence 6
! to / or bust" but the storm of Kisses
> issued forth again when he repudiated
, the denial that this was sectional
, contest. 81 say it is a sectional ISSUE"
r he cried "and it will prevail"
7 But the convention soon tired of the
South Carolina senator and then began
. to come cries of Time, time" from
4 the floor and galleries When he asked
\ if New York and Pennsylvania had
! earned their great increases of wealth
during the last decade he was answered
, by yes and mo" cries, but there was
no enthusiasm. A band came marching
D in, playing very loudly, but 1t was sup
, pressed by the chairman, while Tillman
: locked disguised. He went on to say
r that the only way to avert a revolution
would be to select a man whose record
would fit the platform Soon the hiss
y ing began again at some radical utter
6 ance and the South Carolinan took &C.
cason to say that -four years ago the
: New York's senator was Kissed 'as
am now" Where is New York now?'
he asked, Where is New Yorks lead
f err" And from the gallery came in the
a cry, "In the soup" which brought down
a wave of cheers for Hill.
Tillman stood waiting for the noise
a to subside, and then using his hand
v before his mouth for a speaking trum-
q pet he shouted: You can just as vel
! understand that am going to have my
n say if I stay here till shutdown" Chair
. man Richardson appealed for order
There were cries of Hill, HILL" ant
Tillman yelled: chill will follow me
/ have no reply. / tried to get him t.
go in front, but he would not
- At 1921 Tillman closed, offering {
e resolution denouncing the Cleveland
!, administration. The Kisses and jeer
Il drowned the applause as heI left thu
. platform.
= Denouncing the Administration.
,f The resolution was as follows:
- I'VE denounce the administration o
President Cleveland as undemocrati
;, and tyrannical, and as departur
from those principles which are cher
ished by all liberty loving Americans
"A The veto power has been used to thwar
"A the will of the people as expressed b,
e their representatives in congress. TIL
80 appointive power has been used to sub
4, sidize the press, to debauch congress
:, and to overawe and control citizens Il
the free exercise of their constitutions
"a rights as voters. A plutocrat despotisr
~ is thus sought to be established on tn
is ruins Of the republic
4 eve repudiate the construction plac
\ ed OH the financial plank of the las
90 democratic national convention b
Ia President Cleveland and Secretar
A. Carlisle as contrary to the plain mean
a. ing of English words and as being a
90 act of bad faith, deserving the severes
va censure.
= '"rhe issue of bonds in time of peac
40 with which to buy gold to redeem col
,e obligati tons payable in silver or gold a
I'd the option of the government, and tn
- use of the proceeds to defray the OF
binary expenses of tie government, ar
"a both unlawful and usurpation of au
lv thority deserving impeachment"
ic Senator Tillman was followed b
M Senator Jones of Arkansas, also i
av favor of the platform. He said that h
al loved the south, but above section h
he loved the whole of this great countr,
of He was loudly cheered by both silve
w and gold men. He denied that the 81
ms yer cause was sectional He wa
We cheered again as he closed.
all Senator Hills Speech.
es Amid the greatest demonstration {