The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-09-30

enclosure Of the race track. A process
sion of 1000 followed the visitor to a
clump of trees about a square from the
Judges stand. Here everything went
on smoothly and enthusiastically.
Mr.. Tillman mounted a deserted re.
freshment stand, where he spoke and
answered questions for one and half
hours. His audience included men of
both parties.
After climbing on his perch he pro.
voked great cheering by saying: 'This
is as solid as the Bryan Democratic
party" His reception here was pleas
ing to him and he said: Il appreciate
this mark of courtesy" He spoke OF
his treatment on the race track as fol-
lows: 81 have spoken to many large
audiences in Pennsylvania. Ihave ad-
dressed in this State crowds that have
packed halls to sutfocation and open
air meetings numbering 10000 and
was the subject of no discourtesy until
T reached Reading. But will not
Judge the fairness of the city and
county toward strangers by this un.
civil treatment. 1t was only a few
boys. am accustomed to bowling.
Why this was mere zephyr compared
with the riots in South Carolina that
the newspapers lay at my door. But
the newspapers have maligned me. L
like quietness and am a peaceable
citizen. But when I speak 1 talk
straight out and I may sometimes
tread on somebody's toes. l like to
get up discussions when speak, in Or
der to get at the bottom of the tinan-
cial issue" The Senator next des-
cribed the struggle for party suprema-
cy since 1884 and referred ID the dis
gust of the people for Cleveland and
his "rotten Democratic Congress. !"
He said there was as great difference
between the Democracy OF Cleveland
and that of Bryan as there was be-
tween the Republicanism of Lincoln
and that of Mckinley. He termed the
Cleveland Democratic party "a Repub
lican annex"
Senator Tillman then launched into
a long argument on silver and gold.
He spoke about money, its qualities
and nature, what it is and how 1t is
made. 1t is first medium of ex.
change through which commerce and
trade are carried on; second, legal ten
der for debt and taxes; third and most
important of all, it measures value
aud fixes prices. There can be no
prices unless measured in money.
Money is subject to the law OF supply
and demand, and when the Govern
ment by its action makes money
scarce it makes prices low, and when
Congress makes money more plentiful
it makes prices high. The power OF
the government TO contract the cur.
rency and make money scarce is one
of the issues of this campaign. Then
he told how silver was demonetlzed.
And with it all, he said, the last issue
of bonds was made payable in either
metal, showing the fallacy OF the sim
gle gold standard. By the destruction
of one. half of the money, the Senator
continued, they doubled the value OF
the other half.
He gave this illustration: Suppose
we here constituted the whole world.
We come down to breakfa I. Ga the
table is a great big biscuit or large
loaf of bread, large enough TO give
each an equal share. On the table are
two big plates of butter, one yellow
and the other white, and of equal size.
But some one says TO the waiter, You
smuggle that white butter OFT the ta-
bic and I will make you a million
aire.' She slides up, sneaks it under
her dress and slips off and throws 1t
in the slop barrel. The same biscuit
and bread are there, but only one
plate of butter. What is the result9
Either one half must 60 without but.
ter, or they all get just half the much"
Tillman's point was that, by striking
out silver it was contracting the cur
rency one.half, that the rich man was
the gamer and the poor the loosers.
The truth of the matter Is, he said, the
poor were not getting either cake,
bread or butter, and that they were
cursing the Wilson tariff bill and
Cleveland for it, though the tariff
question had no more 10 do with 1t
than if it wouldn't exist.
Mr.. Tillman, after denying he was a
followed this u by a little
tariff talk. He declared the recent
Democratic Congress pretended they
wanted tariff reform, but that they
lied when they said it He snd the
wanted high protection
and he was willing 10 give them all
the tariff they want and make it so
prohibitory that there would be no
revenue and that they would have to
resort to the income tax for revenue.
THE Republicans and certain Demo
Gratis or rather assistant Republicans,
for God Knows it sticks in my craw to
call them Democrats stand in solid
phalanx for gold and gold alone to
enrich the millionaires and to give the
banks a monopoly of the currency.
''How much are you worth, Sena-
tor" shouted a man in the crowd.
I'm forty nine years old, and been
farming all my life. l nave 1000
acres of land worth So to IS an acre,
and have 81, 900 worth of debts" He
paid his respects in denunciatory terms
to J. Pierpont Morgan as the govern
ment bond manipulation. The Senator
declared that all the gold bug propa-
ganda, all the bribery which debauch-
ed Congress and the Presidency, all
of these interests are concentrated in
the East, and where live the million
aires who have stolen their millions.
"IGow soon will another bond issue
be ordered?" interrogated Councilman
w. A. Whitman.
"As soon as the election is over and
Mckinley is elected" was the answer.