Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-01
as1iseellaneous geadins.
TILLMAN To NEW WORKERS.
The Inimitable Ben Makes More Converts
For Silver.


The Inimitable Ben Makes More Convert,
For Silver.
Senator Tillman made great speech
to an audience composed of many
thousand people at Cooper Union last
Thursday night. The fullest report
we have seen was published in the
New York World as follows:
Senator Tillman was greeted with
howl of delight when he entered and
fastened his hawk.like eye on the au.
dience. He was we'll received, and
caught his audience in a moment.
When he got a chance to talk, he
delighted his hearers by abusing the
sssubsidized press" for ten minutes
It was a sweet old song to that audi
ence, one to which they had listen
ed many times from that and other
platforms in this city where theoreti'
cal revolutionists hold forth. Then
Mr.. Tillman admitted, however, that
if it were not for the press he did not
think that more than two-thirds oi
those who were listening to him would
have attended the meeting, being there
simply out of curiosity.
II am here to hew to the line, let
the chips fall where they may" shout
ed the senator. "I do not hesitate to
tell you men of New York to your
teeth that on the question of finance
Won are the most ignorant and benight-
ed community in the land"
"No, we want silver" shouted q
whitehaired Theosophist who was q
delegate to the recent convention in
this city and who had a seat on the
platform.
Mr.. Tillman smiled condescendingly
on the enthusiast and went on to say
that this country was in q more excit-
ed state than it was in 1860. Demo
Gratis, Republicans and Populists, he
said, were all at sea.
"Four months ago I served notice
upon the Democratic party" he said,
s'that unless they returned to the faith
of their fathers and gave us free silver
I would have nothing more to do with
them, and 80 help me God, won't!"
Both the great parties, the senator
said, had been fooling the people long
enough. When he mentioned the
names of Cleveland and of Harrison,
there were Kisses for both.
"Oh, keep your geese quiet" he
shouted. "You had better bottle up
your indignation until I uncork it. 1
promise 1 will either pull the cork or
break the neck of the BOTTLE"
Cleveland, the speaker said, had
proved himself to be the tool of the
Wall street sharks. He had tried to
forever kill the coinage of silver by an
unscrupulous use of patronage and
by the use of money furnished by the
Shylock gold bugs.
at is said the money question is q
sectional one," he said. "It is more
sectional than was the question OF
slavery, for the area in which the de-
mand of the gold bug Is heard is smaller
than was the slavery area.
II come to New York, where you
are surrounded by millionaires and
belong to them as slaves, to beg you
to arise in your majesty as citizens
and break away from your bonds, but
tell you now that we are not calcu-
lating on your aid. We are planning
our battle to beat you at the polls in
spite of your money.
"The wage earners in the great cities
of the North are as poverty stricken
today as are the farmers of the West
and South. On this island of Manhat-
tan you have 1900 millionaires who
own half the country. you work
ingmen were only getting some of the
benefits of the blood money that is be.
ing wrung from us, it would not be so
hard to bear, but you have more abso-
lutte poverty and misery among you
than we have"
A man in the crowd shouted out to
ask Mr.. Tillman whether the silver
bugs had not been just as voracious in
eating up the wealth of the nation as
the gold bugs had been.
"We have not had a silver bug in
this country since 1873, when silver
was demonetized," he answered, "but
we are coming, Father Abraham, 300,-
600 strong, and we'll elect president
and a congress. .-,
"The trouble with you fellows is that
you have been lulled to sleep by the
siren songs of the subsidized press.
When you allow your little bosses, who
are in the employ of your big bosses,
to lead you to the polls by the noses,
what can you expect? You must
break away and give the farmers a
chance"
We can't, answered somebody in the
hall.
"Well, so help me God, we are going
to take the chance right now," said
Tillman.
"The gold bugs are hypocrites and
liars from the ground up" shouted Mr..
Tillman.
"That is hot stuff, old man." replied
an auditor.
"Money is the blood of commerce, }"
Tillman went on. eff you stop its cir
culation, commerce must die. Money
is stagnant here in the North"
"We have not got it," cried an old