The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-08-22
T|LLMAN TALKS
FOR FREE SILVER
Makes an Address to the
Farmers at Mount
Gretna.
sCOLDs HIS OPPONENTS
Grover Cleveland Classed as q
Bag of Beef Afraid to Do
Anything.
BoURKE COCHRAN ANSWERED
The South Carolina Senator Runs
Rampant While on the Money
Question.
BoURKE COCHRAN ANSWERED

MOUNT GRETNA, Pa, Aug. 21.-Sens-
tor Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina
made an address here to-day for free sill
yer to the farmers gathered around the
Mount Gretna Agricultural Fair. About
500 people, mostly farmers, made I'D Sena-
tor Tillman's audience. The speaker was
given respectful attention and was fire.
quently applauded. Senator Tillman said.
We are face to face with crisis. We passed
through two or three other crises in our Gov.
eminent. One was in 1892 when Jackson
throttled the same money devil He took it
by the throat and stood there, bulwark be-
tween the masses and the classes. He vetoed
the United States bank act Tapplause1 and
there was your Democrat; not like the bag of
beef now in the White House, whose only We
toes have been that of the seigniorage bill for
the relief of the people and some tour pension
bills to get few dollars out of the treasury.
To-day there is not an article which enters
into everyday consumption in any consider
able amount through which tribute is not
levied on you by some corporation, or trust,
or monopoly; making the rich man richer and
the poor man poorer. We have laws on our
statute books prohibiting combinations and
monopolies and trusts, but Score tary Olney,
who was himself a corporation attorney. can
not find one to bring lawsuit under, and his
Predecessor uuQSE ddIEl6Ou QlQ uOb 10 any
better.
have the greatest admiration and respect
for Mr.. McKinley-that is, have as much adj
miration for him as 1 can have tor any man
who Is badly off, who is wrong, so benighted,
so lost in the wilderness of ignorance. Nc
Kinley will not utter anything unless it has
been submitted to Hanna or to some other
boss. That's what they say ABOUT it, yet may
be mistaken, but l say circumstantial evidence
would indicate that Bryan speaks right out.
I believe Bryan is honest and true, and
being honest and true, he is not going to say
do anything that is going to hurt him or
his case. We have these two men before US in
that public attitude. One is to-day before the
people, not too great man to shake hands
even with a coal HEAVIER, and the other is too
high, like Grover Cleveland, who surrounds
himself by detectives to protect himself from
assassination.
Senator Tillman then went into an elab-
crate discussion and exposition of the
money question. He then proceeded to
answer the recent address by Bourke Cock
ran, which he pronounced to be an effort
to array the wage.workers against the
farmers. The Senator was very emphntic
that sectionalism did not enter into the
money question. He continued:
Will you submit to English domination?
We whipped England in 1776, we whipped
her in 1872, and we can whip her to-day with
one hand tied. Think whether you will again
have Pierpont Morgan and his gang OF ghouls
in Wall street to govern and have dominion
over our President and Congress, or whether
you will free US and restore our majesty as
American free men. Tell your party to go to
the devil unless it is going to do what is right.
With this blunt ending the Senator con-
cluded his speech and sat down. Con-
gresham Turner of New York also made
silver speech.