The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-07
TILLMAN N0MINATES BRYAN.
THE SENATOR SAYS HE WILL
AGAIN LEAD THE PARTY IN 1900.

The Boy Orators Defeat This Year
Attributable to Several Causes.
The Solid North Declared Broken
While the South Is Practically
SOIid-The West and South Sure to
BE AlIied-GO1d Standard Demo-
Gratis Not Wanted in the Party.
Atlanta, Ca, Nov. Ex-senator Ben Till
man of South Carolina, who was here to-
day on his way home from Chicago, de-
clared that Bryan would be the nominee
of the democratic party in 1900.
''The battle has been the most heated
and hardest fought political contest in
our history, and the democratic party has
never shown to better advantage" said
Senator Tillman. 1.-The issues have been
clearly defined and bravely sustained,
while our great leader, Bryan, has covered
himself with glory, and is the idol of the
democratic Masses"
ITO what causes do you attribute Nc
Kinley's triumph
There were several causes, all of them
making a combination that it was impos-
sible to overcome. In the first place, the
landism and all that it implies drove from
us hundreds of thousands of men. Hard
times, the issue of bonds in time of peace,
the so-called free trade tariff bill, the loss
of employment; all these were charged to
the democratic party and the democratic
speakers, and the few democratic news
papers which reached the masses in the
northern cities were powerless to oblit-
crate the impression. The democratic
party suffered, although it had repudiated
| both Cleveland and his policy.
Then the unblushing use of money in
unlimited quantities controlled many thou
sands of votes. The campaign of the re-
publcans was conducted by the republic
| cans with great vigor by a large corps of
| well trained speakers, many of them men
| of national repute, while the democracy,
| without means, relied upon volunteer
| speakers, and these could not cover the
/ field as thoroughly as their opponents.
"A third factor was the threat, open or
| implied, by thousands of owners of manu-
! factories and workshops that Bryans cleo
ton meant the closing down of work. The
| army of the idle were promised work if
| Mckinley should triumph. The republican
masses in the country or agricultural dis
| trictS were promised are turn of good
| prices and prosperous times under a re-
| publican tariff policy and with a restora-
| ton of confidence. The natural alliance of
| the south and west though incomplete,
has received an impetus which cannot be
stopped or prevented. The issue of finan-
cial reform and the restoration of the
money of the constitution is not dead and
will not down.
I'VE have broken the solid north, while
! the south is practically solid. The tyran-
| Of t,a fa1o roI 5tnfa and : ln la6
| of the plutocrats will drive the masses by
the million to our support in the next
| great struggle. Jefferson lost his first
battle in 1896, but won in 1900. The repub-
| lican party was Overwhelmingly defeat
ed in 1856 and Lincoln was defeated for
the Senate in 1858, but he was elected
! President in 1860. We will win in 1900.
Mckinley cannot give relief or restore
| prosperity until the law of supply and de-
| mand, as it effects money, has been re-
| pealed."
"Will the policy of the party leaders
look to conciliating the gold democrats?'
| mo. They have gone to the old party to
which they belong and they are a good
| radiance. The southern people and east
| ern democrats are separated by an i'm
| passable barrier. They are our taskmas-
| tiers and we know it. We have turned to
the west and must look and work in that
| direction. If the democrats had put up a
| gold platform, we would not have car
| reid a single state. The men who claimed
to be gold democrats voted for Mckinley
| almost soHdiy. There may be a spasmodic
rise in prices and a resumption of bust
ness activity, but it cannot last"
What do you think of David B. Hills
| future?
Hills a dead duck and will never again
| rise to the surface" was the emphatic
| declaration of Senator Tilman.
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