The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-05-20

ono AhooiS snono SOOO ROV6ru-
ment. And now I can turn to these
men and say to them that We are ready
to meet them today with their negro
vote. If they want to draw the issue
with the Democracy, however. let
them do it under the name of Democ.
racy.
If we stand together like freemen.
we may not accomplish what we hone
in national affairs, but we will at least
exhibit that manhood of manner that
has characterized South Carolina since
the days of the Revolution. $.
This man exhibits lack of histori.
cal knowledge when he says that
South Carolina always voted the De.
mocratic ticket. In 1882, Andrew
Jackson ran on the Democrats ticket.
and South Carolina was mad at him
on account of notification. and voted
for his opponent5 and on another oc-
casion, South Carolina cast her cleo
toral vote for man who got the vote
of no other State. And so if waeo To-
Chicago, we will not be bound bysthe
action of a convention controlled bys
men elected from States that cannot
cast single Democratic vote in the
electoral college, and whose represen.
tatives in congress are cheek by jowl
with John Sherman.
He (pointing to Senator Irby) says
that the Democratic party was good
enough to elect me governor twice.,
and good enough to elect me as sens
tor, and that the trouble now is simp
ly that want to be President. Think,
my friends, that the gentleman has
simply misunderstood the situation,
and that all of this outcry is simply
due to the fact that the gentleman
wants to be Senator again. So far as
my desiring to be President OF the
United States is concerned, I view it
simply in this way: In the first place
I come from a State that is hated all
over the north because secession origi.
mated here-I am no fool. Whatever
else may be said of me, no one has
ever accused me of being q fool.
Therefore, when they accuse me of
having presidential bee in my bon
net they simply magnify the purposes
and hopes of my heart. I have done
my best to elevate and iberate the
people of South Carolina, and my ann
bition is to do in the national field in
those other down tfodden States, what
I have done here. III should receive
the presidential nomination I should
receive it with the same missgivings
which many Of you heard me express
when was nominated here in 1890;
because I would realize the greatness
of the task that I would have before
me. N
Though we may split on the FEEDER
al ticket and have two electoral tickets,'
in the fall, there is no reason why we
should have split in State politics.
We can 60 on and nominate and elect
our State and county officers as here.
tofore, unless some of these men (here
Senator Tillan's voice and manner ex.
pressed great animus) whom the devil
has taken upon the mountain, go to
the negro and try to bring the black
man into South Carolina politics asan
arbieter of our affairs. But If they
do, we can 60 right on and take care
of the State, anyway.
What principles have We abandon
ed9
Voice-s'None."
There is nothing in the platform
that even hints at the abandonment
of principles. We are simply saying
to the northern friends who havestood
by us as long as they could keep their
hands in our pockets, that they can
no longer dictate to us. -
sat on this floor when a gentle.
man from Newberry uttered these very
same things, and told him that he
would be making ourselves the laugh
ing stock of the country it we did
what he proposed. Now, I hope we.
will control the convention and will
make the other fellows do the boiling.
But if we don't; if they prove too
strong for us; if by the use of money,
as they have used it lavishly in Michi,
gan, Florida, Illinois, Indiana and
Minnesota, they buy enough OF those
ignorant and corrupt people to force
down our throats the doctrine of gold
bugism, then I say it will be Cleve-
landism; and we will say to them,
"Gentlemen, good evening"" You
can do nothing else. If you wish to
be terrorized by the sheet-lightning
that you have seen tonight into incor.
porating into the platform the resolu.
ton to support the gold bugs, I tell
you, the common people OF South
Carolina will never support him.
(Applause.) We must simply say to
these people, "You come from States
that have no electoral strength, and
you cannot force us to support your
platform"
When the gentleman from Charles.
ton says that we cannot carry the elec.
ton on silver platform, I appeal to
him in the name of the common sense
that he appears to have lost, where 1s
the hope, then9
It has been asked where we will 60.
I favor a resolution to have the chair
man of the convention to call it to-
gether again in case we have to come
back, to give us further instructions.
The people are moving. Isaw them
in Kansas and Colorado, and Florida
and Kentucky, and when l called q
hand primary on uniting with us IN
Kansas, it might have oeen Anderson
county to judge from the response.
The men who are raising this fuss
are those who feel the teat slipping
from their mouths.
I am not debating this question
here: am simply talking to amuse
the Columbians who came QUITO boost