The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-10

tahVes. The gold people rose and
cneefea' out after their outbreaks on
yesterday these efforts were fsint. The
endorsement OF the Democratic admin
istration which Senator Hill had made
losing night for in the committee on
the galleries. Several New York dele
gates stood and waved their hats, but
they did not include Hill, Whitney nor
Flower. Over on the far right the stall
wart frame OF Senator Gray, of Della.
ware, stood alone, and silence peryaded
most of the delegations.
The issue was drawn when Senator
Ben. Tillman, OF Soulh Carolina,
mounted the stage to open the great de-
bale In behalf Of free coinage. A strik-
Ing inquire he WAS as he faced his audi
ence. With no pretensions in dress,
shabby coated. wearing heavy silver
chain ACROSS his breast, he instantly
drew the eyes of the COCO people
present.
They turned toward him as Il he were
an antagonist. His thick-set command
Ing form was full of defiance. His head,
thrown back, was round and compact'
Inc features strong and powerful were
csst In classical mould. The nose was
straight, the lips thin and compressed,
the jaw square and pugnacious, but the
sunken cavi which marked his IT eye
gave TO his face sinister expression.
ls was face once seen mover to be for
gotten. On one lapel of his coat ne
wore Cuban flag, on the other q pitch
Iork. One moment the 90 600 people
held their breath as they gazed. Then
they broke forth. Cheers, mingled with
misses, rent the sir.
Mr.. Richardson. who was welding
the gavel, with the aid OF the assistant
sefgeanta.at- arms, quickly suppressed
the demonstration. His first eentence
showed that he had a coed, we'll modu-
lated voice, Blu. as he proceeded he
pitched 1t in key 80 shrill that 1t
gtsteo like hle. He WAS character
1stic from the beginning. He realized
that so far ss the galleries were con-
cerned he faced an audience which he
felt was largely hostile. He introduced
himself to them by saying that he came
before them as he was, not as 1.-The lying
newspapers had represented him TO be- :"
a round OF applause from the pit
greeted this announcement, but 1t was
drowned In the storm OF Misses from the
galleries, which were increased to
perfect whirlwind of sibilans sounds as
he said: II came from State which
was the home OF secession" Senator
Tillman turned def1sntly and fiercely
surveyed the vast congregation who
were hissing him. Then with a con-
temptucus tess Of his head he looked
down at the silver delegates before
him. his eye blazing, and said with q
sneer: There are only three things
that hiss," said he with q curl of his
thin lips. "a goose, serpent and q
man."
Raising his head and addressing the
galleries he shouted that the man who
Kissed South Carolina forgot the history
or the revolution when that State kept
alive the fires of liberty. This pro-
voked wild demonstration from the
silver men. South Carolina in 1860"
he said, lied the fight In the Demo
cratic party which disrupted 1t. Dis
ruption," he continued, while the GAL
leries Kissed, brought about the war
and the war emancipated the black
slaves.
Now" he added, sweeping his arm
through the air above his head, 1--WE are
leading the fight TO emancipate the
white slaves" This time the silver men
Southern prefer eS". thew did not ap--
mad their inning, uus 49, Dad
plaud very Justify when he declar.
that with conditions reversed he was
party disrupted. Repeatedly as he pro
ceeded tho galleries Kissed and several
times the sergeant alarms threatened to
clear the galleries. The silver men had
chance TO shout their approval when
he declared that they were adopting q
new declaration OF independence "l6 to
/, or bust"
The storm of Kisses issued from the M
again when he repudiated the denial
that this was sectional contest: II
say IL Is . sectional ISSUE" he cried
land 1t will prevail"
After these pyrotechnical express
sions. so chArac seristic Of the man, he
drifted into statistics to show the bond
age OF the South and West to the East,
and these dry figures gave the hostile
galleries another opportunity to cry
him down. thine. time" they
shouted. This aroused the Senstor
again to angry resentment. He paced
the platform like an enraged lion.
~ know, l know" he cried, with
arms aloft, "you are against US. There
is 70. paper in this city that is not in
the power OF the money Influences.
They will not give us fair show. They
characterize us as bowling dervishes
and silver luna.ics." Many OF the
delegates crowded up the sisles and
stood at the foot of the stage studying
intently the features Of the remarkable
man before them.
Continuing, Senator Tillmsn declared
that the only way to avert revolution
would be to select man whose record
would fs the platform. Soon the hiss
ing began again at some radical utter
ance andlthe South CSro,iniAn took occa.
sion to say that flour gears ago the
New York Senator WAS Kissed as 1 am
now"
Where is New York now?" he asked