The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-11-17
THE SOLID NORTH IS BROKEN
Senator fillman on the Election lee
sults-The Democratic Party Would
Not Have Carried q Single State on
the Gold Platform.

Senator Tillman in an interview
says that Bryan will be the nominee of
the Democratic party in 1900.
"The battle has been the most heated
and hardest fought political contest in
our history and the Democratic party
has never shown to better advantage"
said Senator Tillman.
The issues have been clearly de-
fined and bravely sustained, while our
great leader, Bryan, has covered him
self with glory and lis the idol of the
Democratic Masses"
To what causes do you attribute
McKinley's triumph ?"
There were several causes, all of
them making a combination that it
was impossible to In the
first place, the odium attaching to De.
mocracy from Cleveland is more and
oil that it implies drove from us hun
drcds Of thousands of men. Hard
times; the issue OF bonds in time of
peace the so-called free trade tariff
bill the loss of employment; ali these
were charged to the Democratic party
and the Democratic speakers and the
lew Northern newspapers which reach
ed the masses in the Northern cities
were powerless to obliterate the i'm
preston. The Democratic party suf-
fered, although it had repudiated both
Cleveland and his policy.
Then the unblushing use of money
in unlimited quantities controlled
many thousands Of the votes. The
campaign Of the Republicans was con-
Quoted by the Republicans with great
vigor by large. corps of well trained
speakers, many of them men OF nation
al repute, while the Democracy, with
ont mnnna ralial nnnn nIrt.
speakers aud these could not cover
the field thoroughly as their oppon-
ents.
"A third factor was the threat open
or implied, by thousands of owners of
manufactures and workshops that
Bryan's election mean the closing
down Of work. The army of the idle
were promised work If Mckinley should
triumph. The Republican masses in
the country or agricultural districts
wore promised q return OF good prices
and prosperous times under O. Republi-
ian tariff policy and with a restora-
ton OF confidence. The natural al
lance of the South and West, though
not complete, has received an impetns
which cannot be stopped or prevented.
The issue OF financial reform and the
restoration OF the money OF the Con-
stltution is not dead n will not down.
I'VE have broken the solid North.
while the South Is practically SOLD.
The tyranny OF the Federal judiciary
and the greed Of the %plutocrats will
drive the masses by the million to our
support In the next great struggle. JEFF
ferso1 lost his first battle in l796, but
won in 1900. The Republican party was
overwhelmingly defeated in 1856 and
Lincoln was defeated for the Senate in
1888, but he vas elected President In
1860. We will win in 1900. Mckinley
cannot give rolief or restore prosperity |
unlcEs the law Of supply and demand,
as 1t effects money, has been repealed"
Twill the policy OF the party lead |
ers look 10, conGiliating the gold Demo-
q /
mo; they have got in the party to
they belong and are q good rid
dance. There can be no step back
ward. Tho Southern people and the
Elstern Democrats are separated by