The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-02-04
TiI|nan PrOds Cleveland
HE USES THE FAMOUS PITCHFORK.

| ''S WV Sh'N
Cleveland BesoHed Tyrant" and Car
J Isle the Judas from Kentucky "--Repet
of the Sherman Law "Damnable Plot.
Senator Tillman, OF South Carolina
made his first speech in the Unite,
States Senate on the 10th ult. HI
took the floor on the pending silve
bond bill, and as it was known that h,
would speak on that day, the gallerie
were quickly filed and he was accorded
the closest attention. He went dowl
the aisle from his seat in the rear t,
one in the, front row, Immediately il
front Of the presiding officer. He wa
provided with manuscript, but spok,
extemporaneously at the beginning.
Such O torrent of invective has sci
dom been heard in the Senate as thai
in the speech of Mr.. Tillman. Vete
ran members OF the body character
lied the speech as one of the most re-
markahle in the history OF the upper
branch of Congress. 1t abounded in
statements OF q sensational character
arraigning President Cleveland, Secre:
tary Carlisle and other men in high
places. There was q directness OI
statement and dramtic manner OF
delivery which awed floor and gale
ries. The gestures of the Senator were
used frequently in acting his words.
At one point he made Il profound sa-
Lutte and clipped his hat to Sherman
as the financial victor of aquarter Of
century. The galleries were moved
alternately to applause and laughter.
J Pausing for sip of water, amid roars
of laughter, he remarked, 81 seldom
wet my whistle while speak: you can't
run windmill on water"
The next moment there was hush
through the chamber rs the Senator
applied such names as Judas" to Il
lied the President in supcrlative bit
terness. AT times the Senator's voice
sank to a whisper, as for instance
when he gave warning of the approach
of popular revolution and commun
ism and the marching on Washington
of host with rifles in their hands.
Again his voice resOurded through
the chamber and the outer corridors
as ho called Senator'S and members
towards" for not resorting to i'm
peachment.
Mr.. Tillman took the floor at 2
o'clock. The galleries filled quickly
and the Senator WAS accorded close
attention. He moved down from his
rear seat to one in the front row imme-
diately in front Of the presiding Of
fccr. Although provided with manu-
script, he began extemporaneously.
During Mr.. Tillman's bitter criti-
cisms Of the President, he laid aside
his notes and put Senators and gal
leries in roars of laughter by telling
how, as Governor OF South Carolina,
he had come to inaugurate the Presi-
the snow and slcet until he was nearly
frozen to death to do honor to this
President And" concluded the
SsnaUor, "I ask God to forgive me for
doing it,"
Senator Tillman, in his introductory
remarks, referred to the so-called Sen
atorial dignity which does not permit
applause from the floor or galleries.
He was farmer pure and simple, he
said, accustomed to speaking in the
open air, upon the hustings, where men
were free to applaud if they felt so
disposed. In the Senate it was con-
sidered undigniiied to applaud, the
galleries being reprimanded and the
Senators confronting the orator with
" a Senatorial star which turned him
into stone" Senators got up like
schoolboys and read assays in a mo-
was the purpose of tho founders of the
country when they made the Senate
the greatest deliberative body in the
world 1t was never intended that tho
speeches of Senator should be buried
in the archives, which was now the
case.
Glow much of this, Mr.. President"
exclaimed Mr.. Tillman, sis due to self
complacency, to the feeling among
you-I hardly feel prepared yet to
say among us-that you are the SEN
ate? How much of this so-called Sena-
torial dignity, of which we hear so
much and see so much, Is worthy of
preservation 1t hangs over this
chamber like a wet blanket; it smoth
ers down Independent action it oblit-
puppets, the cOgs in the wheel OF party,
to do the bidding of the manipulators
OF the party machine"
These words, uttered with much
energy, provoked the first manifesto
tion Of applause in the galleries, which
the Senator hardly seemed to notice.
He returned to the assertion that he
was the only farmer, pure and simple,
in the Senate, although out of seventy
million people, thirty-five million were
engaged in agricultural pursuits. AS
farmer he had broken the barrier
and forced his way into the Senate and
he proposed to give utterance to their
wrongs"
Before 1 get through" said he,
"you will realize the fact that | speak
plainly and bluntly and use the langu-
age of the common people. for | am
one of them, and | expect to tell you
how they feel and what they think and
what they want"
"Mr. President" the Senator began,
:" it is not saying too much and | feel
warranted in charging that the de-
| rangement in our finances and all this
cry about sound money and maintain
! ing the honor and credit Of the United
States are all part and parcel of a
damnable scheme of robbery, which
had for it's object, first, the utter
destruction OF silver as money metal
second, the increase Of tho public debt,
the issue OF bonds payable in gold,
and third, the surrender to corpora
tions of the power to issue all paper
money and give them monopoly Of
that function"
Senator Tillman referred to the
Sherman silver law OF 1890, and in this
connection said:
"The silver Republicans of the West
who had deserted the silver Democrats
of the South and accepted the com
promise offered by Senator Sherman
NAV take warning to what faith nj