The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-02-07

are fast drifting into government BY
injunction in the interest of monopolies
| and corporations, and the Supreme
Court, by one corrupt vote, annuls an
act of Congress looking to the taxation
of the rich.
''The money changers are in the
temple of our liberties and have
bought the sentinels on guard. 1t
may be too late God grant it be not
so: but this great republic can only be
saved from the miseries of revolution
and iuternecino strife in the near fu-
ture by its citizens casting aside blind
allegiance to party and marshaling
themselves under the banner of Jeffer-
sons Democracy and Lincoln's Repub-
licanism, determined to restore the re-
public to the form in which it was left
to us by tho fathers.
In concluding, the Senator said: ga
day of reckoning will come unless
there is no longer u Just God in
Heaven, and when it does come, woe
be unto those who have been among
the opprcssors of the people. The
present struggle is unfortunately too
like that which preceded the late civil
war, iuasmuch us it il sectional The
Of the North and East those which
have grown inordinately wealthy at
the expense os the producing classes of
the South and West arc urging this
policy with the bcsottcd blindness of
BclshaZzar. The old Shareholders of
the South were not more arrogant or
"r more determined The sordid
dcpotism of wealth, to use the apt
phrase OF Justice Brown, is already
felt throughout the land
From the opening sentence OF the
speech down to its close, Mr.. Tillman
commanded the keenest attention anu
curiosity of n numerous Senate and
crowded galleries. His attitude and
his manner caused much amusement.
With his left hand pressed against his
side aud with tn printed slips OF his
speech (from which ho freiuentiy
st1ayed), in his right, he wheeled
around in II circle, facing the galleries,
more frequently than he faced the
chair, At the point where he wns de-
nounciug President Cleveland he abau-
doncd his prepared speech and lnpsed
into n description of how he came to
Washington to Witness Mr.. Clevcland's
first Inauguration and had exposed
himself for four hours on the plaza ni
the capital III order to Farticlpate IN
the jolliGcation over Democratic
President. Democratic Senate and !.
Democratic House, and he exclaimed
| dramatically "Gud forgive me for be
ing such fool"
Laughter and applause broke out in
the galleries, which tho presiding Off
| Ger, Mr.. Faulkner, tried to suppress;
and this caused Mr.. Tillman to apos-
trophize the chair, saying: 'If you let
me down into the bog and quagmire of
having nobody 'sapplnuse when speak,
L suppose L will get used to it after
awhile" Subsequently he got into
colloquy with Mr.. Hoar as to au ex-
| preston of the latter upon the deca-
| dence of Southern statesmanshlp. And
when Mr.. Hoar said he would look up
the record to Justify himself, Mr.. I'LL
man said that he would wait, but that
he would not "wet his whistle" because
IA windmill could not be run by water.
Renewed laughter.
| Mr.. Tlllman said that he would mp
pend to his speech that infamous con
tract with Stetsun" (thc syndicate con
tract also an extract from the Demo.
cratic year book of 1888 showing the
purchase of bonds with that surplus
which used to keep this man awake ut
nights. Laughter
"Aud it must be authentic" he
added, coming ~ it does from the
Democratic national committee.
Lnue htor. just want 10 put the
two cheek by FOWL you know, in iux-
tapooition
Coming once more TO Il dcnuuciution
of the President. Mr.. Tillman snapped
out the question to Rcpubiicun Sena-
tors: why have you not impeached
him.
Mr.. Hawley replied that tho last
Congress was Democratic.
Il have already paid my respects 70
the last Congress- Mr.. Tilimun said,
and | hoped better things from the
Congress which the people have now
sent horc. But you are Ill of II kind
towards, tools Of monopolists! Sen
sation. He ia not impcachcd because
ho il carrying out Republican policy.
Mr. Tiilman spoke for exactly two
hours. delivering with great dramatic
power and effect the last sentence in
which he predicted n natural cataclasm
unless you take your hands off the
peoples throat and give them an OPP
@"rtunity to breath, to work, to live"
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