Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-21

but II he desires It he can be delegate with.
out any trouble
Representative Catchings IL q strong gold
standard man, the only one in the delega-
ton.
South Carolina.
There 10 q strong possibility of two dele.
cations to Chicago from South Carolina.
In fact. the little palmetto state is in q ter
1 rible plight, politically. Nobody knows the
| outcome, and even the astute Senator Till
man, the man whose word has been law I'm
the state, may be somewhat apprehensivs
how South Carolina will end up. The Sena-
tor, however, says he does not believe there
VIII be two delegations from the state az
! contested delegation will have no
grounds to stand on.
| Inc threat or a contesting delegation
comes about over a recent letter Senator
| Illiman wrote to a constituent The letter
was published in The Star. 1t stated that
south Carolina would send a delegation to
decide for silver, the delegates would bolt
ana JOIN the silver people of the west. The
| Greenville News, one of the leading gold
daily papers Of the state calls upon Sta. e
chairman lrby to know whether he will
| Sanction any such talk as Senator Tfllman
! Is guilty Of The News says: IF the state
convention takes any such action Sena-
Tor Tilirnan suggests, We will. advocate the
calling OF another democratic convention,
the independent reorganization of the party
ARD the election of a set of delegates in
l
| the action of the national convention
| Whatever it may be-" Senator Tillman and
| Eis followers. however. will probably be loo
| sharp TO allow such threats as this to be
| carried out The state convention, which
| meets. under the constitution of the party
| In May, Will not take any such action as
| senator 11llman suggests''-that is, 1t will
| not take the action on the surface. The
convention, 1t is expected, will not instruct
| the delegates to bolt but delegates will be
elected who may bolt if the action of the
national convention does not suit them
| liese men, too, will represent the feelings
| ana sentiments of a large majority of The
| white men of the state. Since Senator TILL
| man became prominent in the state, about
| ''I,tU or the 5000 white men of South Car
| DINA have supported him. and still 40 so.
While the remaining 10000 have bitterly OBJ
| posed MN. Up to this time the minorit "
! Gas not polted any of the nominal tons
| mace, and has sanctioned. in a soft-he art
! Ventions, controlled by Tillman and his
| Exporters. The minority now sees that
| human and his people are preparing to
| DOH, and II is liking to take advantage
| o. it.
The political history of the time s,ncs
human made his triumphant appearances
| Is deeply interesting. As stated Senator
| iiiiman has had the large majority of the
| White people at his back. There have been
many tEreats that the minority would
UNITE with the republicans and beat the
| retormers, or TIllma antics The reform-
| ers held constitutional convention last
| year and adopted a new constitution which
| diSiranchised over 5000 iliterate negroes
sun. should the minority democrats and
| republicans unite they would have a ma
! Joiity over the Tillman faction. could full
1 vote be Polled. They would hardly win
| because the managers of the election and
| the party machinery will be controlled bv
| Inc llllmapites, but the minority democrats