Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-06

~, MAY 6, 1896.
senator (Sherman, and his associates
Gin their contemplate work." Mr..
Sherman sat across the aisle, appa-
rently unmoved.
"Perhaps you can bamboozle the
people," he said, addressing Mr.. sher-
man. "The fools are not all dead yet,
but they are getting mighty restless"
At one point, Mr.. Tillman address
ed direct question to Mr.. Sherman
concerning the interests of the labor
ing people.
"Will the senator answer me that"
asked Mr.. Tillman, pausing in antici-
patton of a response by Mr.. Sherman.
But Sherman looked directly at the
South Carolina senator and remained
in bis seat without answer.
Mr.. Tillman next took up Mr.. Her.
bert, and said the secretary had been
making speech at Cleveland to some
bond owners and coupon-clippers, and
made running comments while he read
the secretary's speech. If the people
wanted this Cleveland -Carlisle.Sher-
man rule, all right; let them have it |;
let them fry.
"But / tell you I can see the end
coming" said Mr.. Tillman. zone thing
I know, there is a God in heaven and a
reckoning must come. We need q
publication of public life; we need q
new constitution to declare the peo-
ple's rights and to tie the hands of the
thieves who are robbing them. You
are damming up the waters. But
wait till there il full head on. You
people are going to see some fine grind
ing this year, or within the next four
years." -.
Then. turning again to Mr.. Hill, Mr..
Tillman said: "And now, for the ben
eft of the senator from New York
whom l love-the senator whose motto
lis Il am a Democrat'-I will say, 4 am
Democrat too,' a Democrat after
Jefferson and Jackson. He prates of
Sound money : cry hard money : he
is Democrat for national banks, for
the national government"
The senator added that the Demo-
cracy could not win in the coming cleo.
ton. If the farmers could be fooled
into voting that ticket any longer, let
them do it.
"And what will do?" the senator
asked of himself, and then answered:
II expect to 90 to Chicago as a dele
gate. expect to try to get my party
to throw off its rottenness. If we
have to bid goodbye to New York and
Tammany, 1 may shed few tears.
But if they succeed in buying few
more delegates-as understood they
did in Michigan the other day--so as
Ito be able to endorse Grover Cleveland
\ and sound money, then I am going to
take my hat and bid the senator from
| New York and those like him long
farewell. Where I VIII 60 I don't
know. can't 20 to Populism. Popu-
Elism is only the explosion of wrath.
The Populists tried too much and
spattered themselves on the wall"
The senator declared that the Demo-
cracy was on its final trial. If it did
| not pronounce for silver at Chicago, it
was gone forever.
"We may not beat you this year."
| he concluded dramatically; ''it would
be marvellous if disorganized mass
held together by an idea could defeat
at the polls we'll disciplined, compact
organization backed by money. But
so help me God, we will serve notice
on you that our slogan is America
for Americans; to hell with Britain
and the Tories If we don't defeat
you this year, we will serve notice
that we will interest you il 1900"
With these words, Mr.. Tillman threw
bis arms up into the air with ges-
ture as if to say: II am done," walked
over and took his seat. When the SEN
ate had regained its breath, Mr. Hill,
who had been taking notes, took the
floor. At the outset, Mr.. Hill charac-
terized Mr.. Tillman's speech as q re-
markable performance and expressed
doubt as to whether he did not err in
making any response at all to anything
that had been said. He, however, as
sured the senate that he should con-
fine himself to some of the "gratuitous,
uncalled-for and undignified remarks"
of his friend who loved him.
"The senator has denied here to-day
that he was q POpulist," Mr.. Hill
then proceeded: "Let me say to him
that what he has said leads on the
straight road to Populism, or" after
pause, "to some worse place." Laugh
ter).
Mr.. Hill congratulated Mr.. Tillman,
however, on his assurance tht he
would not join the Populist party.
AS to what the Democratic party
would do at Chicago Mr.. Hill declined
to make prediction in view of the
rapidity with which events were at
present marching. "But say to the
senator from South Carolina that if he
loves Jefferson and Jackson and still
represents his people, he will have no
reason to leave the party he has serv-
ed 80 we'll in the past"
AS to Mr.. Tillman's statement that
he (HilD no longer spoke for New
York, he admitted smilingly that that
might be true. He recalled the fact
that previous to 1898 New York had
remained in the Democratic column
for eight years. "But in 1892" said
he, Estate after State instructed for
Grover Cleveland and free silver over
the protest of the regular Democracy
of New York"