The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-09

and went on with his figures
These figures. he said, proved the truth
of what he had said, that the people OF
the South ana West were nothing but
hewers of wood and drawers Of water
for the East and that their substance had
been going to the East by reason of the
financial system and Republican legisla-
tion.
Up to this time Senator Tillman had
failed to stir UP any sympathy or enthu-
siasm in his audience, and the latter be-
gan to give evidence Of impatience and
disappointment by shouts of Time Z
Time" although he had only occupied
twenty out Of his fifty minutes.
This demonstration plainly irritated
him, but his anger was still more aroused
when band in the vestibu1e began te
play a popular air. The Sergeant-at-Arms
Shouted out to some of his subordinates
Stop that band, Z but the music went on
in spite of these orders.
Where" Mr.. Tillman asked as soon
as he could be heard once more. t'where
is New York now2 (Cheers.) Where is it's
leader? CA silver delegate, I'm the soup.
Laughter.)
When Tillman succeeded In getting an
newspaper denunciation of himself and
his silver friends as a lot Of bowling
Dervishes and silver lunatics," and the
audience shouted its approval of that
opirion.
The men who opposed him four years
ago when he was candidate for nomi-
nation for the Presidency, as he said,
"are now at his back"
''Oh, boil it down." came as an inter
ruption from one Of the audience, and
the whole audience took up the idea, and
shouted so that Mr.. Tillman was forced
to be silent for some minutes The Ser
/ geant-at-Arms threatened to clear the
galleries unless order was preserved,
but the threat was not of the
| slightest avail, the fact being that
much Of the uproar ana opposition
came from the sections where delegates
sat. Proceeding, Mr.. Tillrnan said he
knew what was coming from the Senator
from New York, and simply met it in ad-
/ vance in order to explain why he Shall
offer substitute to the resolution of Mr..
Hill. This speech he was aware had no
connection with the platform, but as
| Grover Cleveland stood for gold mono
metallism and this convention had de-
nounced that, for them to be now asked
to endorse Grover Cleveland was to ask
them to write themselves down asses and
liars. daughter and cheers.) They were
asked to endorse his honesty. To this he
opposed the fact of Cleveland signing a
Secret contract, with his own partner as
a witness, which gave ten million dollars
to syndicate ClevelanRs courage had
consisted in overriding the Constitution,
! which made both gold and silver the mon
1 ey of the country His didelity was SIM
ilarly ridiculed Mr.. Hill he said. now
appears here as Mr. Cleveland,s sponsor
and apoIogist. In This connection he read
| these lines of Byron and applied them to
| the New York Senator:
s.Tf fallen in. eyil davs ON evs, tonrues
Milton sppealed 70 the. avefaser Time.
II r Inne, Ihs aFenger, execrates his
And makes the word sMfltonis, mean
sublime
He deigned not to lay his soul in songs;
He dS mi III sts ta sir ~ Z caii,ls ne
| But closed the tyrant-.ater he begun.
/ The point of the quotation failed to
| reach the audience and ii fell fat Tho
people of the South and West. Mr. Till
| man continued are being imnoverisbad
by the financial system ana can,t b,,v
| the products of the Northerr, factordes
and the consequence is that these fac-
tories are idle and the home markets
which the Republican party has ALWAYS
| clamored for, are partly or wholly de-
stroyed The farmers of the North and
East are just as IMPOVERISHED as we
are and readysto join the army of eman-
] cipation. (Sorne applause).
! AS to the sclaim of the Republican
party that the Democratic party should
be turned out because of It's incompe-
| tency I want to read to you an extract
from the speech of a Republican Sem
ator (Mr. Sherman) three months ago in
the Senate in commendation of the
| Cleveland administration: He read an
extract from Mr.. Sherman's speech and
said that is a certificate of Cleveland's s
Republ1canism, so far as that is con-
cerned" Shouts of 'good.")
Sherman went over with his Republi-
can gold bugs to join Cleveland and TO
| decry silver, and now 1t is pronosed 10
ask the American people to reward tbe
President for his treachery.
"Will the American people turn down
| the Democratic party whiet bas s.,,,rr-
ed ana repudiated this mans na,ior2
| Yes If Won adopt an an5o,4a,,,e,,+ - ~,
| or his adnoin;stration W, 49, -i--a.
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