The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-08-24
'PITCHFORK' TILLMAN HEARD
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tory than necessary for the good of the silver

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tory than necessary for the good Of the silver
cause.
In speaking of the Bryan movement Mr..
Tillman said, Whether you are a Democrat,
Republican, or Populist makes no difference
to me. am under orders from the National
Democratic party as now organized and |
look to the turning down of the Tories who
have this government in hand Before the
Democratic convention was held in July |
called myself political orphan Caughtor)
because didn't know where | was going to
be, and ! tell you here, whether Democrats,
or Republicans, or POpulists or Paupercrats,
rs some call me, or whatever you are, you
have votes you are freemen If you exercise
your vote, you are slaves if you surrender
that Gud-given privilege. If you vote in
diligently and according to the vested rights
Of yourself and families, then you have dis
charged your duty as "a citizen. 1t is the
ignorance of the people that has brought this
country to the verge Of ruin We have at
Washington a Congress, Senate and Repre-
| sentatives who can buy and sell you like
cattle in the market. We have had two
parties since the war, and it didn't matter
which one, the people lost. daughter and
applause They have brought this country
to the condition that we have sixty-nine
million Of poor, half-starved, naked sleeves
and about thirty thousand millionaires-a
million paupers to one millionaire. How did
they get it They stole it, daughter and
applause They have legislated for these
men and are asking you To vote for men who
will continue to egslate in that direction.
We have Republicans by the thousands and
hundreds of thousands who are in favor Of
the free coinage Of silver and, possibly, few
thousand, or perhaps few hundred thousand,
who cry out for gold standard. They cry
"Rcpudiation" and Anarchy" They own
all the newspapers, except few struggling,
half-starved ones here and there"
Here Senator Tillman enumerated some Of
the newspapers he did not think were bought
up and then said he would answer any
questions anyone might wish to ask. None
being asked he proceeded What is money!
Anything is money which this government Of
the United States, by an Act of Congress
declares is q legal tender for debt and receives
for taxes. 1t does not matter whether it is
pine bark, or what. During the war you
didn't see anything but paper"
A man in the crowd interrupted with some
kind of IA remark which only Senator Till
man seemed to hear and only heard part Of
it, but he shouted back You didn't see any
gold or silver then and you didn't see any
tramps, either, OF beggars who couldn't find
work, or this new kind of charitable objects
that the state can take care of when they
commit some crime and go to the peniten-
tiary. They talk about 50-cent dollars l
want to ask you all who recollect the war
when one-third of the country was in insur-
rection, when our taxable values were
100000 and they arc now $1,000, 600, did
our paper ever sink so low that it was worth
only 80 cents" They tell us that if we try
TO assert our rights to legislate for ourselves
that our money will go down to so cents on a
dollar. Who believes that" Voice in the
crown, II do").
Senator Tillman stopped for a moment and
then said, Gentlemen, have seen n fly in a
pan of milk. Let's try it tonight" He then
called for raising of hands by those in the
crowd who intended to vote for Mckinley
and also by the free silver men and announced
amid much laughter that there were four flies
in the pan of milk. After this little by-play
Senator Tillman resumed the subject and
said, ''You hear the argument that you can't
legislate value into metal that you can't
make So cents worth of silver worth 100 cents.
Well, now, how do they, by Act of Congress,
you can run it back to 100 cents Gold silver
and paper are all fiat. They are all money
by law, and law only. Take three dollars, one
Of gold, one Of silver and one of paper and
burn them. The paper goes up in smoke
and you have lost it, The two others have
become bullion. 1t loses half its value, Why
was it worth 100 cents moment ago2 Be
cause the law says so. 1t is worth only 80
cents now because the law says it shall not be
coined. And yet they say you cannot legis-
late value into metal. They ask you how
you are going to keep down a panic, or keep
the gold from going abroad. Now l will bet
there are not 100 men in this audience who
have seen any gold in year, and nearly
every man of you handle silver every day"
Leaving the money question Senator Till
man spoke Of the farmer and evidently mis-
took the character Of his audience, as he spoke
to them as farmers and declared that their
products had been driven out of the markets
and the graneries of the west were teeming
with products while the people of the East
are starving.
Candidate Bryan was spoken of by Senator
Tillman as being at the head of the Demo.
;. cratic party because he came up from the
people and because he was poor and is poor
' and Mckinley, he said, must be poor because
Hanna had TO step forward to keep the
70 Sheriff from him. THE difference between
. the two" said the speaker ''is that McKin.
u ley is owned body and soul by Hanna and his
, syndicate and he has a poor way of showing
his patriotism. Whoever heard of Abraham
Lincoln being afraid to open his mouth and
say where he stood. Bynn is not afraid to
= talk and is not ashamed to shake hands with
you. Our present President has not seen
laboring man, except afar off, in four years
aDd has forgotten there are any. He hear
nothing except through Wall street. Pier
pont Morgan is his right hand man on finance
l forgot John Sherman (aughter) is his righ
hand man, too. Between PierpOnt Morgan
on the one side and John Sherman on the
other, haven't we had glorious Democrats
administration p
In closing an appeal for votes for Bryan tn,
Senator said, IF you vote TO put McKinle,
in you simply vote yourselves down asses
That is what Won do -