The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-29
WILD OVER TLLLMAN.
COLORADO PEOPLE GIVE HiMA GRAND
OVATION.

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ward t" Grasp His Hand.
All the world loves hero. In these
days OF rapid mutations when the va
rious sections Of lae country are torn
bv division of sentiment on one of the
most vital problems of the republic
it requires q man OF strong force Of
character, with lndonitable will. iron
nerve and uDninching honesty, to
break away from the time honored as
sociations and traditions Of party and
step boldly to the front as champion
OF the masses. 1t requires man who
has the courage of his convictions to
throw party affiliations to the winds
aud 6ght the battle of the people
against the odds of political forces
long intrenched in power and pres
tigA. Such a man is made Of the stuff
of which heroes are made. He stands
out in bold relle: against the back
ground of demagogues, political trim
mers and fawning subservients.
\ man VINO has displayed these
qualities of nero arrived in the city
Yesterday, and is au honored guest OF
the people OF Denver. He has been
received with open hands and gener-
Gus praise. Although hailing from a
distaut State on the Atlantic coast, he
has proved that he has the true ring
of the true metal, aud it has 16 to l
melody that runs through sentiments
of silvery eloquence. This man of
honest heart aud noble bearing is the
great apostle OF genuine bime,allism-
Senator Benjamin r. Tillman, of
South Carolina.
While the people of the West need
no introduction to this man in order
to become acquainted with his intel
lectual and political honesty, yet they
do enjoy the opportunity to meet him
face to face, grasp his hand and give
him brotheriy greeting. The people
of Denver demonstrated this fact last
evening. The coming of Senator Till
man had been heralded by the press
for days, and the public was intense
" eager to do him honor. So, when
a public reception was arranged for
last evening at the Brown Palace
Hotel. all loyalists IN the silver cause
turned out in force. They wanted
to see this hero from the Palmetto
State-a State whose people are noted
for their courage, for they are fight
ers from way back.
The opening hour was S o'clock for
the reception, but as early as 7 o'clock
the people began trampilg across the
tiled floors Of the Brown. They came
BY the hundreds upon hundreds, and
soon filed every square foot Of the
great rotunda. In front OF the grand
stairway a small platform, draped in
red, white and blue bunting, had been
erected for the guest of honor and the
reception committee. Suspended above
it was a massive silken flag of the
Union. 4 small Gordon of police, in
charge of graceful Drill Captain Helm.
ig, was on hand to keep the crowd
back in comfortable distance from the
platform. Still the hundreds Of peo-
PIE beseiged the doors for admittance,
aud the police made an opening for
them to pass up the stairs TO the gale
ries above. For one hour a stream Of
people passed up the grand stairway
beneath the folds OF the great flag,
and sought places Of sight seeing IN
the galleries above. This crowd was
conspicuous by the large number of
ladies, both from the rauks OF fashion
and from the stations of honest humil.
ity. Bankers, merchants, men who
follow the various pursuits OF COM
mercial life, elbowed each other on
that stairway, alongside the men who
toll in the mines and those who own
tbs mines. It was crowd that rep
resented every avocation In Western
life.
These component elements of the So
cial and business world came as If
drawn by some strange magnetic force.
They knew perfectly well the charac.
ter OF the man they came to see. His
fame had long since brushed against
the Rockies. They had not forgotten
that only little while ago this man
Tillman had bounded into the Sena-
torial arena at Washington and in
speech which lifted him to fame, had
sprinkled corrosive sublimate over the
floor of the upper chamber. They
knew that his tongue was as sharp as
serpent's tooth. The people well re-
men bered how every sentence OF that
great speech boiled over with scorcS.-
ing sarcasm, and how the speaker had
uncorked bottle of vitriol for every
period. They knew how he had
brought forth old skeletons to tae
glaring light of day, and had roasted
the Wall street goldbugs and their
White House chief to a brown turn.
And when he had finished that re
markable speech, it was remembered,
Senator Hoar aud other Yankee fos-
sis of his kidney crouched on their
seats and in suppressed whispering,
said: Senatorial courtesy has been
ruined"
But ali the while that Senator Till
man was shaking up the dry bones
and urcovering the ''whited sepul-
chres'' in that speech, he was talking
fearlessly for free silver. The people
last night had not forgotten that fact.
Is it auy wonder, then, that thousands
focked to the Brown Palace to do him
reverence?
1t was magnificent audience that
greeted the Senator. It was patient
in its waiting for his arrival. a brass
band stationed in the third gallery
made the hour fly swiftly by with its
harmony. By S o'clock not only was
the rotunda crowded to suGocation,
but far up to the sixth gallery the peo
pie had found their way. At $50 the
band struck up the strains OF Dixie"
and the vast audience of 1000 or 5000
people cheered SO Justify that the
heart OF every Southerner present vas
satisfied. While the melodies Of Dix,
ie' foated through the rotunda, Sena-
tor Tillman, arm iu arm with Mayor
McMurray, walked down the grand
stairway and took seats on the right