The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-08-06

Mr.. Cobb was not londing himself inst
then to the idea. He would NOT nTrnn
with him. He believed The News nn6
| Courier would print his speech and do
1t fairly. !ic was only saying what he
conscientiously believed he WAS NOT.
ashamed OF 1T, and he was ready to
stand by it. w
MIR. Cobb then tried to close his
speech, but the crowd insisted that he
should go on, and Tillman called out
That ho was doing far too well to stop.
SO ne won't on speaking. Ho touched
upon variety of things in frapmen-
tury manner, and was frequently an.
plauded. He tried once moro to stop
put the crowd would not havc it, and
ne had TO go on again. Somebody
wanted him to talk about Mckinlcy
tie ana not intend to talk about him.
he said. Mckinley had been harpjng
on dead issue. He (Mckinlcy) looked
ike man astridc of Il dead iackass in
storm. The speaker then insisted on
stopping, although the crow again tried
| TO make him go on. After he sat down
| tho crowd chccrcd him for nearly Il
minute.
TILI.MAN'S 'rAIK
Dr. StOkos tried to Introduce Sem
ator Tillman, but the crowd started
TO cheering and would not listen to
! him. Men called out, "Oh, we MI
know old Bon" Come on, Bon, don't
wait for him '" and other sim liar
things. So DR.. Stokes stepped aside and
Senator Tillman came to the front
Hc began with reference to the op-
presslye weather, quoting Sidney
SMITHS famous desire to take or his
llcsh and sit in his bones. lie was, he
said, at Observation-Disclosures was no.
body In sight to fight. He compliment
ed Cobb highly on his speech. 1t was
a3klng too much to expect them to sit
there while he tod them over again
what everyone OF them believed He
dld knot think thcre was Il gold bug in
the audience, and if there wore any in
the State they wore very fow. The
country had At last come down to some
genuine Democracy. They ncw saw
that light in the West they had heard
about. He thought he had had some
thing to do with bringing about the
conditions which prevailed. He had
been out among the people, and he had
yet TO meet an audience that did not
give him the courtesy and tho cnthus-
lasm that he had received there.
He said he did not propose to make
a regular speech. He was only going
to touch on two or three points, and he
would detain them but q fow minutes.
lie referred to the occasion which
brought him therc-cclebrating the
birth OF the Tillman Volunteers. He
complimonted the company highly,
ana referred to tho part It had taken
n the Darlington war. He urged
them to look well to their liberties no
one would do it if thov did not.
III q rafnrrp1 n thn fret visit a., l,,l
ever paid to Orangoburg. He made
his second speech there, and he drew
humorous picture Of how he had felt.
Orangcburg had always stuck by him.
IL was the banner county Of Reform
| Tho people had sometimes shown a
confidence in him which he did not
have in himself. This had sustained
him in his fight.
When he made his speech in the
Senate it appeared to him that the
country was in critical condition.
t'ut sec tho effect that had been pro
duccd by pressing that issue by him
sell and others, among whom was
Bryan. See the effect of declaring
that they would no longer cling to /
party that betrayed the people. They
Jefferson. The victory at Chicago wa,
the greatest achieved since jackson
whipped the banks. The Democrac,
had been on trial it had boen carried
back to first principles and taken ou
OF the hands Of tho buccaneers VIII,
had taken possession Of it.
The speaker then reviewed the for
nation OF the party and the issues tha
have separated the two great natiOna
parties since the beginning Clevelan
had been better Republican tina
Harrison. See what he was now con
'spiring to do-nominatc ticket tn
expressed object of which would b
the defeat of the Democracy. Hc HOP
ed they would do it. Thorc WAS n
such thing az a gold bug Democrat
tho name was Il miSnOmcr.
He told Of how Whitney, Russell an
belmont had gone to Chicago, takin
Senator Hill with them, and then II
told OF how the silver men had caucuss
: cd there ana won tho fight.
Bryan was not afraid to come TO tn
common people and tell them what H.
felt and believed, because his hear
was pure. That was tho difference be
tween him and Mckinley. His youn.
friend had paid his respects to th'
United Statos Courts. They would SC,
| in the platform that govcrnmcn
by injunction had to cease. The pco
pie knew what this meant they hat
seen how q man right here anon g
them had tried to overthrow the law
and bi nj down the dispensary Those
usurE&tions OF the Federal judiciar,
were menace to the country. Tho
Courts had crept from one point tC
another until now nothing was sacred
from them. They had seen in the pa
pcrs of the day before what one Federal
Judge had done.
! He read here the dispatch announc-
ing that Judge Simonton had issued an
injunction prohibiting the cutting OF
rates He went over the history OF tn c
rate war, tolling how tho tight came
up. The Scaboard had cut its rates TO
protect itself and its territory and then
the Southern and the Association had
made still larger cut. These are cor
poratiOns running through manyStatcs.
| They have their charters in the various
States and had their rights under them.
Would any one deny that thcy had the
right to cut rates if they wanted to ?
Whom did they hurt? Their stock
holders? Had not tho stock holders
control OF their property, and if they
| wished to stop the war could they not
dc SO without outside aid 1t was q
private business affair. But instead OF
letting them fight it ont here comes q
| fc1n Uh Of