Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-15
Wednesday, July Is, 1896.

storm of Kisses from the galleries which
was increased to perfect whirlwind
of sibilant sound as he added:
"I came from state which was the
home of secession"
Senator Tillman turned defiantly and
fercely surveyed the vast congrega-
ton who were Kissing him. With .
contemptuous toss of his head he looked
down at the silver delegates before
him, his eye blazing, and said:
"There are only three things that
hiss" said he with a curl of his thin
lips, "a goose, a serpent and a man."
Raising his head and addressing the
galleries, he shouted that the man who
hissed South Carolina forgot the his.
tory of the Revolution when that state
kept the fires of liberty. This pro-
yoked wild demonstration.
"South Carolina, in $780," he said,
sled the fight in the Democratic party
which disrupted it."
"Secession," )" he continued, while the
galleries hissed, "brought about the
war, the war which emancipated the
black man."
"Now," he added, sweeping his hand
through the air above his head, Eve
are leading the fight TO emancipate
the white slaves" This time the sill
YER men had their innings, but they
did not applaud very loudly when ne
declared that with conditions reversed
he was willing to again see the Demo-
cratic party disrupted.
As he proceeded the galleries again
hissed and several times the sergeant
alarms threatened to clear the gal
leries. The silver men had q chance
to shout their approval when he de-
clared that they were adopting new
Declaration of Independence Of "l6 to
1" or bust.
The storm of Kisses issued forth
again when he repudiated the denial
that this was q sectional contest.
~ say it is sectional ISSUE" ne
cried, sand it will prevail" After the
pyrotechnic expression, so characters
tic of the man, he drifted into statis-
tics to show the bondage of the south
and west TO the east, and these dry
figures gave the galleries another op-
portunity to cry him down.
"Time, time, time," they shouted.
This reused the senator again to angry
resentment. He paced the platform
I;l,a m ouro0od HIM fE-ff'-
81 know, 1 know he cried, with
with arm aloft, "you are against us.
There is not a paper in this city that
is not in the power Of money intiu-
ences. They will not give US 9 fsir
show. They characterize US as howl
ing dervishes and silver lunatics."
Many Of the delegates crowded up
the aisles and stood at the foot Of the
stage studying intently the features OF
the man before them.
Senator Tiliman declared chat the
only way to avert revolution was TO
select man whose record would fit the
platform. Soon the Kissing began
again at some radical utterance and
the South Carolinian took occasion to
say that "four years ago the New York
senator was Kissed as am now.
Where is New York nowP Where Is
New York's leader ?" From the gal.
lery came the cry, "In the SOUP"
which brought down wave OF cheers
for Hill, topped with foam of Kisses.
Tillman stayed, waiting for the noise
to subside, and then putting his hand
before his mouth for speaking trum.
pet, called like foghorn in defiance
"You can just as well understand
that am going to have my say II l
stand here until sundown."
He was permitted to go on with COM
parative quiet for the chairman had
pleaded with the auditors and threat.
ened to clear the galleries. He sur.
prised his hearers anew by an attack
on Senator Hill because the senator
from New York had refused to make
the first speech on the platform and
give the South Carolina man the reply
Incidentally he said of Hill:
"He despised the president of the
United States in 1892 since then he
tbas had cause to more than despise
him." He scored Hill for assuming
the role of apologist for the admins
tration.
.tBut as Grover Cleveland stands
for gold" he began, whereupon
"Hurrah for Cleveland" was shouted
which drew quite a hearty response
from the galleries. The attack on the
president which followed did not fine
marked demonstration of approval.
"Now, want you all to listen,' y
Tillman shouted, and then he read
the substitute resolution which Is as
follows:
| awe denounce the ADMINISTRATION OF
president Cleveland as undemocratie
and tyranical, and as a departure from
these principles which are cherished
by all liberty loving Americans. The
veto power has been used to thwari
the will of the people as expressed BY
their representatives in congress. Tne
lappointive power has been used tt
lsusidize the press, to debauch congress
and to overawe and control the citi
zens and their free: exercises Of theil
constitutional rights as voters. a
plutocratic depotism is thus sought tt
be established on the ruins of the re.
public.
i "We repudiate the construction
placed on the financial plank of tht
| Democratic national convention BY
Isecretary CarlisleAs contrary to the
plain meaning of English words and al
being an act of bad faith, deserving
the severest censure. The issue o
bonds in time of peace with which Il