The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-04-21

don that the silver men will control
the National Democratic Convention"
l believe that the South will be
solid for silver, as we'll as the West
and some of the Central States. The
wave Is on the increase, IL you can get
b papers to tell the truth"
WHO is your choice for President
on the silver ticket? 2"
"Some good man who has battled for
silver. 1t won't do to take n OF the
fellows who falls in with the tide. We
want everybody to be with us, but
those who are nominated must have
been all right"
Suppose Cleveland or Carlisle were
nominated on the Democratic ticketY"
Then it's all up with the Demo
cratic party. Neither of them could
carry q State in the Union, and Cleve-
land would have hard work to get a
county. l tell you 1 would rather vote
for a good Republican than Carlisle,
even John Sherman, because Sherman
has been consistent and Carlisle has
not"
lis there any chance of q split in
the Republican party 2"
Il think that the five Senators who
refused to vote for the tariff bill, Car
ter, Teller, Mantle, Dubois and Can
non, will surely bolt their party il a
gold platform Is made at st. Louis"
Don't you think hat If the gold
men are beaten at Chicago they will
bolt ?"
eyes, l do, and let them go. We
will have the name and the good will,
which Is worth a heap, especially in
the South. / am firmly convinced that
silver will win the fight. l will be a
delegate at largo from my State, and
If some of the present Senators don't
leave the Chicago convention with me
IL q gold platform Is adopted, | pity
them. They will lose their jobs.
This is true of Vest and Cockrell of
Missouri. If they don't leave the gold
wing of the Democratic party in that
event, the people of their State will
leave them"
"Have you never regretted any
which you were so severe in denuncia-
tiOn Of Cleveland and Carlisle ?"
Not n word of it. | have receiv-,
ed not less than 90 900 letters from
every State in the Union commanding
my course. The people are with me
n so are some of the Senators, IL
they were not afraid to say so. Not
long ago u we'll known Southern Sena-
tor, who Is q gentleman and an orator,
came to mo and said 'Tillman,
your speech was all right, but don't
you think that you might have left
some things unsaid, for instance, that
reference to manure on a pitchfork
was a little rough" 1 replied to this {:
My dear sir, my farmers in the South
understand that illustration better
than anything l could have said. and
they appreciate the aptness of the
illustration"
I'm your short experience in the
Senate. whom do you consider the
ablest Democrat ?"
West of Missouri. He is q great
man and a fearless a Morgan and
Daniel are also very able, and Dave
Hill is q shrewd parliamentarian."
"WhO Is the greatest Republican ?"
ITO tell you the truth, none of the
members of that party have impressed
me very much. l suppose that Sher-
man and Hoar are the best. You
speak Of Teller. He is a smart man,
but | don't consider him a Republican
any longer. Wolcott is talented, but
he broke his neck by his speech against
the Monroe doctrine. / have had as
many letters from Colorado as any
other State, and they all roast VOL
colt; besides Wolcott is inclined to
stick to his patty, no matter how the
~" ~ >oh' oiouVo ehO oiiSS'
question"
"Whom do you think the Republi-
cans will nominate for Presidents"
ut locke like Mckinley. The
party is going to try and sidetrack the
silver for the tariff, but it won't go .
The people will not be deceived in that
way"
When asked if he we're a President
ial candidate, Senator Tillman turned
the question off with a laugh, and de-
clared that he was simply on a mission
Of peace and good will for good money
and government. He talked enter
tainingly about the South, and told
how he had overthrow the old South
Carolina officeholding aristocracy.
He said That his State had always had
the misfortune to have only the one
party and a little ring had parcelled
the Offices out among themselves for
many years. The abettors of negro
domination had forced the white peo-
pie to unite, and all it was necessary
to do was to name u ticket and all the
white people had to do was to vote for
it without any question. In his fight
againet the ring he was opposed by
every paper in the State except a few
country weeklies. The people had
won there, as they would do every
where, when they had confidence in
their leaders.