The San Francisco call., 1896-05-02


pudiate both the principal and interest of
the bonds recently issued.
''And if not" Hill said with sarcasm,
1--WE will have bloodshed | suppose"
"You can force the bloodshed," Tillman
shouted excitedly. 81 tell you that we are
desperate"
THAT is very evident" Hill interposed
with a sneer.
Yes" Tillman retorted, "and before it
IS done with we will make somebody else
desperate, my friend. / know whereof
speak. There is greater feeling in the
States west of the Mississippi against the
bondholding people of New York and the
East than there ever was against the peo-
pie of the South. To paraphrase the re-
mark of Charles Sumner, gold monomet-
aliism is sectional; free silver is Ma
tional.'"
Tillman went on 10 contrast the two
Democratic leaders-Calhoun and Cleve-
lsnd-and said that Calhoun stood up for
the people, while Cleveland was the ex-
emplar and tool of the money classes and
represented only the almighty dollar. He
sneered at Mr.. Cleveland's veto of small
pension bills while he turned over $10,-
600. 900 to one Jew. [Laughter.] Tillman
declared that Mr.. Cleveland had no finan-
cial policy except of Senator Sherman,
and said that Secretary Carlisle and Sena-
tor Sherman had exactly the same no.
tions.
Whenever ne mentioned Carlisle he
meant Sherman, for they were inter
changeable, except that the one was hon.
est to his friends, the bankers. while the
other had proved treacherous to his party.
He quoted some extracts from Carlisle q
recent speech in Chicago ana from Secre-
tory Herbert's speech yesterday in Cleve-
land, made, Tillman said contemptuously,
Ito some commercial com mbination to
some bond-clippers.
If silver coinage were established by
Congress, he said when he got on an
other tack, "there would be an effort by
the shylocks to foreclose their mortgages
and thus reap the fruits of their roguery.
They are now swallowing US by degrees,
and 1 would prefer to be swallowed at
once. like Jonah, and be done with it."
Laughter.
But where is it going to end? / can
see what is coming. l may be one of those
Cassandras who see what is going to hap
pen. although nobody else will sing in
Greek over what they say. 1t has been the
history of the world that the oppressors
never see anything. Belshazzar never saw
anything; Nero never took warning.
"They go relentlessly and blindly for
ward to their doom. The only consolation
have got is that l hope and believe there
Is God in heaven who has some regard
for this country. We need other things
besides rectifcation of our finances. We
need the publication OF our official life.
We need constitutional convention to
take new guarantees and to tie up the
hands of tyrants and thieves who now
govern the country"
Continuing in this style of speech, Till
man referred again to Senator Hill as ''my
friend from New York, whom 1 dearly
love-" shouts of laughter and said that
Hill had labeled him, as the newspapers
also did, as a Populist. He had no fault
to find with the word "Populist." 1t
meant the greatest good for the greatest
number. 1t meant the rule of the major
ity. 1t meant local self-government; it
meant, in short, the principles of Jefferson
and Jackson.
"The Senator from New York had de.
parted from that faith and prated for hard
money. No one," Iillman continued,
"had the slightest idea that the Democrats
would win in the next election. On the
one side were Cleveland and Carlisle and
Sherman, and on the other side were
Jackson, Jefferson and Lincoln.
"The Senator from New York." Tillman
continued, "asked me what was going
to do with South Carolina at Chicago. ]
will say this to him: L expect to go to
Chicago as a delegate to the National
Convention. l expect to do my level best
as Democrat to keep my party back out
of the woods of Republicanism and to
throw off all the slough and rottenness
that it has accumulated during the last
three years. But if Doodle is to win al
Chicago, then 1 am willing to take my hat
and bid the Senator from New York and
all like him long farewell"
| This sentence was delivered in such 6
ludicrous manner as to provoke genera
laugh throughout the chamber.
GAS to where will CO." Tillman con
tinued, 81 do not know. viii! not 20 t
Populism; but Populism is simply an ex
preston of wrath and anger on the par
of the disgusted Democrats and disgustec
Republicans. The Populists were il
error at the last Presidential election
they spattered themselves on the wall
Laughter.
"Those of US Democrats who have not
been debauched or who don't allow gold
to control Us will line up somewhere, but
will not be. after the election, under rh,
gold standard. II we don't get recogni-
ton of silver at the Chicago convention
Then the Democratic party is dead anG
gone forever. A new party will spring
into existence. If we cannot beat you thi,
time, we will serve notice on you that we
will have America for Americans and sto
hell with Great Britain and the Totries.
[LaIghter.] If we don't beat you in 1896
we will interest you in 1900"
Hill O.) of New York spoke of Till
mans speech as q remarkable perform
ance, which did not call FOR any special re.
ply from him. 1t would have been wiser
perhaps, when that Senator gave to the
Senate and to the country the spectacle
which he did the last time he spoke never
to allude to anything he said. Possibly
he (Hill) erred to-day in noticing some OF
his suggestions. The Senator from Soutt
Carolina had not wholly addressed his re-