The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-22
SENATOR WLLMAN
LETS OFF STEAM
Red Hot Silver Speech to the Farmers
at Nit. Gretna.
CALLS GROVER A "BAG OF BEEF
Pays His Respects Also TO Secretary
Olney.-Receiyes Applause for the
Sentiment Expressed Regarding
Slavery, but the Vote of Thanks Is
Not Forthcoming.

Benjamin Tillman, Of South Carolina,
made an address here today for free
silver to the farmers gathered TO attend
the Mount Gretna agricultural fair.
About 200 people. mostly farmers, made
up Senator Tiilman's audience. The
speaker was given respectful attention
ana was frequently appiauded. Sena-
tor Tillman said:
~ shall coniine my remarks almost
entirely to the money question. We are
face to face with a crisis. We have
passed through two or three other
crises in our government. One in 1892,
when Jackson throttled this same
money devil He took it by the throat,
and stood there a bulwark between the
masses and the classes. lie vetoed the
United States bank act. (Applause).
And there was your Democrat, not like
the bag of beef now in the white
house. whose only vetCes have been
that of tine seignorage bill for the re-
lief of the people aud some pension
bills to get few dollars out of the
treasury We win spit ON him out OF
our mouths, and we have repudiated
him.
The first thing l want to ask you is:
Is this republic for sale? | saw in the
papers day before yesterday that the
New York Chamber of Commerce,
through It's committee called upon Mr.
Hanna and notified him that The mill
liOndi.oS ne represented, the great
banking and capitalistic corporations,
the millionaire merchants and others
all were ready tn cooperate without
regard to party What does that mean?
1t means that they are ready to buy
up every vote they can. There are so
many thousands and millions of Ameri-
can voters who have not got the in
ttiiigence or The integrity toresist ioat
ing with the current and if they can
get a few dollars in their pockets to go
along with them, they can go So much
easier.
To-day there is not an article which
enters into every day consumption in
any considerable amount. through
which tribute is not levied on you by
some corporation, or trust. or monopoly,
making the rich man richer and the
poor man poorer. We have laws on
our statue books prohibiting combina-
tiOns and mOnopuiies and trusts. but
Secretary Of the State Olney, who was
himself a corporation attorney. cannot
find one to bring law suit under. and
his predecessor under Harrison did not
40 any better, and If Mckinley is elect
'h' ilA ATTORNEY -GtNtT'al VIII 40 no Det-
ter.
RESPECTS Ml<INLEY.
II have the greatest admiration and
respect for Mir. Mckinley--that is, !
have as much admiration for him as
can have for any man who is so badly
OF who Is so wrong, SO benighted, so
lost in the wilderness of ignorance.
The honest man is not afraid to speak
at any time, because he cannot tell Il
lie unless lie is in his heart and he is
not afraid to speak it to his brother.
because the truth cannot hurt any man.
But Mcktnley Will not utter ANYTHING
unless 1t has been submitted to Hanna
CT some other boss. That's what they
say about it. but | may I've mistaken.
but say circumstantial evidence would
Indicate that Bryan speaks right out.
J believe Bryan is honest and true, he
rs not gong to say or do anything that
Is gong to hurt him or his cause. We
nave these 'Wo men before us on that
pubic attitude. One is today before the
Deupie, not too great a man to shake
hands even with Il coal HEAVIER. and the
other is too high--like Grover Cleve-
land, who has surrounded himself by
detectives to protect himself from as
sassnatiOn.
Senator Tillman then went into an
elaborate discussion and exposition of
the money question. He then proceed
cd to answer the recent address hv
R0urke cochran, which he pronounced
to be an effort to array the wage work
cr against the farmer. The senator de-
clared that not only would the farmers
product be increased in value, but that
the wage Garner would receive double
j. 10
would be a sure result of free coinage.
lie was very emphatic that sectional
ism did not enter into the money uues-
tion. This is Il common country" he
said. I'VE in the south, tried to go off
once. | think it was more desire
to maintain the union than it was to
free the slaves that whipped US. am
satisfied it was-l know it was. but slay-
cry went down in the struggle, and |
thank God for it." This statement was
appiauded.
'Will you submit to English d0mina-
ton? We whipped Englandfn l7T6, we
whipped her in 1872 and we can whip
her today with one hand tied. Think
whether you will again have Pierpont
Morgan and his gang Of ghouls in Wall
street to govern and have dominion over
our president and congress, or whether
you will free us and restore our ma
jesty as American freemen. Tell your
party to go to the devil, unless it is
going to do what is right
With this blunt ending the senator
concluded his speech and sat down. In
mediately a man rose in the audience
and proposed a vote Of thanks to Mr..
Tillman, hut there We're score of
shouts of no" The senator sat en-
tirely unmindful of the turmoil that was
created for the instant, until the chair
man could call the meeting to order and
introduce x-Congressman C. II. Turn
en- of New York, who also made silver
speech.