The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-18
HE WILL WALK OUT
SENATOR TILLMAN DECLARES
AGAINST VIM. @. WHITNEY.

Silver Platform, and He Would Have
to Know More About w. j. Morrison
Before He Could Support Him-He
Says No GoIdbug Can Carry Single
Southern State-Compares Carlisle to
Judas IscariOt
Senator BENJAMIN Tillman of South
4 Carolina. arrived in the city yesterday
morning on the 8:45 Missouri Pacific.
1 He was met at the depot by a delegation
representing the silver league and driv-
en- in a carriage TO the Commercial club
where he was entertained.
At the club he was met by a reporter
for the Eagle and asked to give his
views as to the issues before the people
at the present time, and to tell what
were his opinions of the west.
"WeIl, you sit on the other end of the
table so I can have my good eye on you.
like to face the music whether in
politics or anything else and although
I am very weary I will give you a talk.
You see like newspaper men and rea-
lie the hold they have upon the peo-
pie. If the press Of the country was
only free as 1t should be and they were
uOl nStu DY the VICIOUS Sentiment llldI
prevails they would be a great power.
You want TO know what 1 think OF
the west and I will simply say 1t is
grand, 1t is glorious, it is beautiful, and
thank God its press has the right ring
to it. If we bad few more papers
throughout the country which had the
courage, and its editors the manhood to
condemn the existing wrongs Of party
government, the country would not be
In the fix It is at the present time"
what do you mean, senator, by the
country being in a serious fix?'
''Meanl I mean just what 1 said
The country is in sad condition and
unless the people arise now above party
and contend for their own interest a
worse state Of affairs will soon exist
than ever occurred in the south when
human beings were bought and sold.
1t may sound strange to hear an ex-
rebel tell you that l am an Abraham
Lincoln Republican and a Thomas JEFF
fersOn Democrat, and / am for the
masses and against the classes.
That is, don't want to take any
thing away from the classes which
rightfully belongs to them, but I want
the classes to keep their hands off that
which belongs to the masses.
Il never saw such wheat fields in my
life as I beheld from the car windows
today, and I was perfectly amazed
when I saw the great cribs of corn piled
Up along the railroad track. then be-
gan to mediate and think how the
financial scheme of John Sherman and
Grover Cleveland had crowded down
the prices until the men who had raised
this wheat and corn were unable TO get
enough to pay them for their labor.
There are thousands of men who are
starving to death for the necessaries of
life. They are anxious to work but
farmers and others can not hire them.
God has done his part but the goldbugs
and the devil are causing suffering and
want in d land of plenty and my trip
10 the west is to endeavor to persuade
men to stop and think I say damn a
party whenever 1t gets so that its in
terests are against the interests Of the
people"
But, senator. is not your trip in the
west in the interest of the Democratic
party? Are you not trying to bolster
up a lost cause-a party which has
brought more desolation and want in
the country than any party which was
ever given control of the destinies OF
q country"
eff you think, or anybody else thinks,
] am in the west to apologize for Gro
yer Cleveland, John Carlisle's Democ-
racy, they are badly mistaken. 1 have
a hundred times more respect for John
Sherman than I have for Grover Cleve-
land, and Judas Iscariot was an angel
when compared TO John G. Carlisle, who
once loved"
Then, senator, you have left the
Democratic party, have you not?"
mo, l have not left the Democratic
party, but my efforts are TO arouse the
people to that standard where they will
throw off the yoke OF the eastern wing
and condemn the course of the traitor,
Cleveland. and dismiss the gold bug
wing from the council of the Cody"
He declared TO the reporter that the
Democrats meant business in this silver
fight and that they are in TO a finish.
He thought the battle inside the Dem
ccratic party would be on the floor OF
the Chicago convention. And when
asked If there might not be some COM
promise effected there was wave OF
displeasure passed over his broad face
and he declared that compromise was
impossible"
Suppose the Chicago convention
were to make free silver platform and
in order TO hold the sound money Dem
ocrats should nominate Whitney for
president. What would you do them?'
II should walk out Of the convention.
do not propose to be fooled by New
York goldbug on any platform
well, suppose they should nominate
Morrison of Illinoise?"
Il might. in that case, feel like walk
ing out, but 1 should have to overhaul
his record and see how he stands on the
silver question. 1 don't really know
where Morrison stands"
Ibid Won ever auVhGIU that did
know where he stands of late years?"
At this question a genial smile spread
over Senator Tillman's face and he
said:
II don't know that I ever did"
We'll. Mr.. Mckinley is a silver man,
Is he not?''
Mckinley a silver MANI" repeated
the senator after the reporter. why
yes, he is the kind of a silver man that
might favor free coinage II England
would allow US to do It. What does
England want to do that for when she
can buy the American farmers produce
for half what ii is worth?"
What is the outlook for free coin
Rge?"
LAS 10 the outlook. Senators Jones.
Harris and others have the details. We
expect 10 have one-half Of Michigan.
Indiana, Ohio, all Of Illinois. and the
south except Kentucky, and Kentucky