The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-02

50 damnably foolish as to trust them
Proceeding. he argued with vehe-
mency that the tax to pay bonds would
be wrung from the hands Of the toiling
masses Nothing would be paid by
the plutOcrats who sat ia their offices
and clipped coupons. Mr.. Tillman re-
ferred to the Ohio senator lShern1an)
and his associates lin their contempt
bic work Mr. Sherman sat across
the aisle. apparently unmoved.
Perhaps 1T appears you can bam-
boozle the people he said. addressing
Mr. sherman. The fools are not all
dead yet, but they are getting mighty
restless. %
AT one point Mr.. Tnlman addressed
direct question to Mr.. Sherman con-
corning the interest Of the laboring
people.
WIN the senator answer me that?"
asked Illlman, pausing in anticipation
OF q response by Sherman, but the lat
ter looked at the South Carolina sena-
tor and remained in his seat without
answering. Mr. Tillman next took UP
Secretary Herbert's statement who
said the Senator Sad been making a
speech at Cleveland to some bond own
ers and coupon clippers, and made rum
ming comments while he read a speech
recently made by the secretary in The
cleveland chamber OF commerce
If the people wanted this Cleveland
Carlisle-Sherman rule. all right, let
them have it, let they fry.
14@ A ten you can see the euQ
coming" said Mr.. Tnlman. "One thing
I know, there is a God in heaven. and
reckoning must come. We need a
publication of public life. We need
constitutional convention to declare the
peoples rights and to tie the hands
Of thieves who are rObbing them. You
are damming UP the waters But wait
till there is a fun head on You people
are going to see some fine grinding this
year or within the next four years.
Then turning again to Mr.. Hill Mr..
I1llman said. And now, for the ben
eft of the senator from New York
whom I love, the senator whose motto
is i am a Democrat I viii say. Il am
a Democrat. too; a Democrat afer JEFF
ferson and Jackson He pirates Of
sound money; 4 cry hard money; ne
is a Democrat for national banks
for the national government
But the senator added that the De
mocracy could not win in the coming
election. If the farmers could be fooled
into voting that ticket any longer. let
them do it, And what viii I dO2'
the senator asked of himself, and then
answered: III expect to go to Chicago
as a delegate. / expect to try to get
my party there to throw OFF its rotten
ness If we have to bid good bye to New
York and Tammany, we may shed a
few tears. But if they succeed in buy
ing few more delegates-as I under
stand they did in Michigan the other
day-sO as to be able TO indorse Grover
and sound money then / am going to
take my hat and bid the senator from
New York and all like him a long fare
we'll
Where I'll 60 / don't know I can't
go to POpulsm. POpulsm is only an
explosion Of wrath. The Populists tried
too much and spattered themselves on
the WALL TIE senator declared that the
Democracy was on its final trial If it
did not pronounce for silver at Chicago
it was gone forever
We may not beat you this year" he
concluded dramatically lit would be
1H r1rre n n
together by an idea could defeat at the
polls a well discipline, compact organ4
ization, backed by money. But SO help
me God, we viii serve notice on you
that our slogan is America for Ameri-
cans; to hell with Britain and her
torch
If we don't defeat you this year. we
will serve notice that we viii in the
year 1900
With these words Mr.. Tillman threw
his arms up into the air with gesture
as II TO say; Il am done and walked
over ana TOOK his seat
When the senate had regafned its
breath. Mr. Hill, who had been taking
notes. took the floor.
AT the outset Mr.. Hill characterized
Tillman's speech as remarkabl per
Torrance" and expressed doubt as to
whether ne did not err in making any
response at all to anything that hae
been said. He. however, assured the
senate that he should confne himself
to some of the gratuitous, uncalled for
and undignified remarks Of his friend
who loved him
The senator has denied here today
that he was a Populist" Mr. Hill then
proceeded Let me say to him that
what he has said leads on the straight
road TO ROpulsm, or, after q pause.
to some other place. (Laughter) llr.
Hill congratulated Mr.. Tillman. how
ever, on his assurance that he would
not join the POpulist party. AS TO
what the Democratic party would do
at Chicago. Mr. Hill declined to make
prediction, in view Of the rapidity with
which events were at present MAKING
But say to the senator from South
Carolina that If he loves Jefferson and
Jackson and still represents his people
he viii have no reason to leave the
party he has served 50 well in the
past"
As to Mr.. Tillman's statement that