The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-03

plishes by indirection what he had no
authority to do otherwise"
Continuing about the issue of bonds
and still reading from Hills speech he
exclaimed: And he QIi) went on to
catalogue me with a coterie Of four
farmers, and with sarcasm referred
to the Senator from Kansas (Peffer)
and said: eve the tailors of Tooley
Street are opposed to the Democratic
party. | deny his right to pass upon
the nomenclature of my party.
Then saying he represented South
Carolina, as quoted above, Tillman ex-
claimed: THE people are desperate!"
That is very evident, retorted Hill.
Tillman proceeded much stung by
the last barb of Hill and took deme-
gogue's trick to wreak his vengeance.
1T is pitiful," he screamed, Eor a
President by veto to take money,
pension money, out Of the hands Of
some poor devil, and turn over 100000
QUO, 70 Jewl"
Then proceeding: Grover Cleveland
is the tool and instrument of the Re-
publican party: he has had no policy
evcept that of the Senator from ohio.
If ne dares run again, he can wear on
his brow a cert ficate OF the Senator
from Ohio. Grover Cleveland and John
Sherman and John Carlisle are trim
ity and you can't separate them"
During this portion of his speech he
dramatically called upon Sherman to
answer a question. Sherman sat icily
silent during the pause.
Tillman had a great chance here but
did not take it.
IF anybody" he continued, ''will
just take Sherman and Carlisle as syn
onymous except that one is honest
and consistent and the other is treach-
erous, he will have it right" Then he
ridiculed the idea that Carlisle spoke
to any labor meeting out west: he
said he had letters saying that the
labor men had nothing to do with the
ambition Of Carlisle.
And now Tillman pranced up and
down, with his hands clasped behind
his head, aus above noted, and sneeIed
at the New Yorker who, he said had
urged that the Republicans and Demo
Gratis should combine against this CO.
terie of farmers. "The rottenness of
party that now hangs around the neck
of the people" exclaimed the speaker,
is like Sinbad's old mani"
referring to the silver cranks, he
said:
Yes. silver cranlls, lunatics, Wild
eyed people from the West, amt 1T
time for people to be wild-eyed when
they support the whole country"
One of the most striking portions of
Tillman's speech was an illustration,
taking a gold, silver and paper dollar
and burning them all up He said the
paper dollar went up in smoke: the
other two melted ''Then," he said,
with force, the gold dollar can go to
the mint and get on a new frock and
be called a dollar: il silver could go
and get ON a new frock, it, too, would
be dollar"
Then came a hot denunciation of the
money-power, II don't want to be
swallowed by degrees" said the Sena-
tor, ''if we have got to be swallowed, 1
prefer to 60 in at once like Jonah IN
the whale" And then he counselled
that if the people chose to follow false
leaders, who would sell them out, then
let them fry. He then saw ahead
bloodshed or reputation of bonds. u
can see, he said: Il may be one Of those
Cassandras who can see evils that no
body else can see and weep over over
them. .Belshazzar saw nothing. The only
hope / have is that there is God IN
heaven who cares something for this
country and is bringing about all this
unrest for greater purposes.
Who will finally tie the tyrants and
| thieves who now govern"
pausing a moment Tillman sald,
sfor the benefit of the Senator from
New York whom | dearly love (and
here ne pranced up and down and smii-
ed Economically, who is labelled, ! am
a Democrat, / say to the gentleman
| from New York, / ana a Democrat aftef
| the manner of Jefferson and jackson.
lie prates, sound money! I cry, hard
money!
cleveland, Carlisle and Sherman on
the one hand-I jefferson, Jackson and
Lincoln on the other there they
stand!"
Mr.. Tillman said he would bolt the
| Chicago convention, if it went for a
gold nominee. II don't know where
| I'll 90, he exclaimed, / viii not go to
| Populism Populism is an explosion
OF disgruntled Democrats and Repnl)-
/ licans at the rottenness of both. But
popmlisIn has done too much and spat-
/ tered itself on the floor"
1 ssIf there be any Southern men that