The San Francisco call., 1896-11-07
SENATOR TILLMAN
WILDLY PRAT TIES
Chagrined by Defeat, but
Remains Talkative, as
Usual.
Peculiar Reasons Attributed to
the Triumph OF Major
Mckinley.
BRAYs FRAUD" QUITE LOUDLY.
Declares That Dave Hill Is Dead
Duck and That God Democrats
Must Go.

ATLANTA, Ca, Nov. 6. = Senator
Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina, who
was here to-day on his way home from
Chicago, declared that Bryan would be
the nominee of the Democratic party in
1900.
'Hhe battle has been the most heated
and hardest fought political contest in our
history, and the Democratic party has
n yer shown to better advantage" said
Senator Tiilman. 1.-The issues have been
clearly defined and bravely sustained,
while our great leader. Bryan, has covered
himself with glory and is the idol OF the
Democratic masses"
ITO what caus do you attribute Nc
Kiniey's triumph2'
There Were several causes, all of the m
making a combination that it was impos-
sible TO overcome. In the first place, the
odium attaching to the Dem ocracy from
Clevelandism and all that it implies drove
from us hundreds of thousands of men.
Hard times, the issue of bonds in time of
peace. the so-called free-trade tariff bill,
the loss of employment-ali these were
charged to the Democratic party, and the
Democratic speakers and the few Demo-
SIdtlC HGMSpdptIS ICaCACu thC
masses in the Mort ern cities were power
less to obliterate the impression. The
Democratic party suffered, although it
had repudiated both Cleveland and his
policy.
''Then the unblushing use of money in
unlimited quantities controlled many
thousands of votes. The campai of
Republicans was conducted by the Repub-
licans with great vigor by large corps of
well-trained speakers, many of them men
of National repute, while the Democracy
without means relied upon volunteer
speakers and these could not cover the
field as thoroughly as their opponents.
"a third factor was the threat open or
implied by thousands of owners of manu-
factories and workshops that Bryan elec-
tion meant the closing down of work.
The army of idle men were promised work
if Mckinley should triumph. The Repub-
lican masses in the country or agricul-
tural districts were promised a return of
good prices and prosperous times under a
Republican tariff policy and the resto-
ration of confidence. The nstural
alliance of the South and West, though
not complete, has received an impetus
which cannot be stopped or prevented
The issue OF financial reform and reStOra-
ton of the money of the constitution is
not dead and will not down.
1--WE have broken the solid North. while
the South Is practically solid. The
tyranny OF the +. deral Judiciary and the
greed OF the plutocrats will drive the
masses by the million 10 our support in
the next great struggle. Jefferson lost his
tirst battle in 1876 but won in 1900. The
r publican party was overwhelmingly
defeated in 1856 and Lincoln was defeated
for the Senate in. 1858, but he was elected
President in 1860. We will win in 1900
Mckinley cannot give relief or restore
prosperity unless the law of supply and
demand, as it affects money, has been re-
pealed."
''Will the policy of the party leaders
look to conoiliating the gold Dem ocrats ?"
mo, they have a gold party, TO which
they belong, and are a good riddance.
There can be no step backward. The
Southern people and the Eastern Demo-
Gratis are separated by an impossible bar
rier. They are our Iaskmasters and we
know it. We have turned to the West
and must look and work in that direction.
If the Democrats had put up gold plat
form we would not have carried single
gold Democrats voted for Mckinley almost
solidly. There may be a spasmodic rise in
prices and a resum ption of business activ-
ity, but 1t cannot last"
What do you think of David B. Hills
future2''
Hills dead duck and will never again
declaration of Senator Tiliman.