The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-04-29
The Bee has got Ben.

WASHINGTON, April Ex-senator Till
man told me to-day that on his western
tour he had taken q good many hand pri-
maries and found everybody for silver.
The Senator's familiar hand primary was,
he ssys, we'll received wherever he in
troduced it. When I asked Tillman
about the situation in South Carolina he
said: "Ihe State is all right, The only
trouble is that a lot of politicians don't
know where in the hell TO STOP"
He says there will be only n State
convention. The Senator has abandoned
his idea to speak in South Carolina, but
will soon leave on q Southern tour. He
will first speak in Georgia, then 60 to
Alabama, Florida, Texas, Arkansas and
other States.
Tillman is in The race for the presidential
nomination at Chicago and is laying his
silver men will control there. He e1pects
support from numerous Western and
Southern States He holds that seces-
sionist sentiment against a South Carolina
man has died out.-SpeciGI to Greeaville
Ne,cs.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. April Ex-senator
Tillman returned to Washington to-day
from his Western tour, and entertained
his political friends with an account OF
his experience in the free silver regions
of tbs West. He wore on his coat q silver
badge, surmounted with an eagle, under
which was inscribed "16 to l." The Sem
ator remarked that modesty prevented
him from saying that he was accorded an
enthusiastic reception in st. Louis, Dem
yer and wherever he appeared in public.
He referred to the full reports OF his
speeches, published in all of the leading
papers Of the country, and added that be
had much better success than some of the
''eoldoug" speakers who went into the
West to try to enlighten the people on
the financial question. Wherever he
went, he says, he found the people welded
to the free silver cause and prepared to 60
to any reasonable length to secure recog-
milton for the white metal. To use his
own expression, "the West is wild for
free silver, and they intend 70 instruct
their delegates to the Chicago convention
to secure free silver or burst."
The Senator says he heard a good deal
Of talking about Bland for president in
Missouri, but that talk did not extend
much beyond the confines of that State.
The silver people of the west are not com
hitting themselves to any candidate at
this time, but they seem to be most
earnestly engaged in mastering their
forces "to' fight the g~oldbugs."
"What about your own presidential
prospects? ?" asked your correspondent.
"Oh," replied the Senator, laughing,
"they did not say much to me about that
matter, but they were thinking about it
all the time."
SIS there any disposition on the part of
the free silver people of the west and the
southwest to try to reach an equitable
agreement with their sound money breth-
rem at Chicago? ?"
81 don't see any prospect Of an adjust
ment of the difficulty unless the goldbugs
surrender. There Is no chance for com
promise. We will never consent to
enter into any further compromise agree
men,s. We have had enough ofthat kind
of business in the past. Why, they have
compromised US out of the contest every
time for the past thirty years and there
is nothing for US to do but to demand an
unequivocal and plete surrender.
We will 60 to the convention with a fixed
determination to exercise our full power,
and if the goldbugs are not willing to
listen to US they must take the conse-
Quences"
The Senator says has notthe slightest
doubt that the free silver men will have q
good working majority in the Chicago
convention and unless the sound money
men are willing to submit to the dictation
of the majority they will have to take the
responsibility of Boiling. On the other
hand, if the sound money men should
control the convention, Senator Tillman
says, the free silver me7 will leave the
convention and set up another party.
Senator Tillman went over to the house
during the day and visited his friends in
the South Carolina delegation. He re-
peated to them in substance what Is above
stated and also conferred with them about
State politics..
The impression grows stronger in ths
South Carolina colony that Governor
Evans may have to defer his senatorial
aspirations until some future period.
While Senator Tillman is friendly with
Governor Evans. and would like to have
him as a colleague in the Senate, there is
a growing sentiment in the state, accord
ing to reports received here, that be Ia
not the man to put forward for Senator
Irby's place.
Representative Talbert, who has been
mentioned Els a senatorial possibility,
SAYS he Is contented to remain in the
House, and he will not be in the senator
isl or g~ubernatorial race.-Specialt9 NeWs
and Courier.