The record-union., 1896-05-02

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the greatest number. 1t meant the rule
/, of the majority; it meant local self
| government; it meant, in short, the
principles of Jefferson and Jackson. The
Senator from New York had departed
| from that faith and prated for hard
money.
No one, Tillrnan continued, had the
| slightest idea that the Democrats
would win in the next election. On the
one side were Cleveland and Carlisle and
Sherman, and on the other side were
Jackson, Jefferson and Lincoln. The
Senator from New York" Tillman con-
tinued, asked me what 1 was going to
do with South Carolina at Chicago l
will say this to him. l expect to go to
Chicago as a delegate to the National
convention. 1 expect to do my level
best as a Democrat to keep my party
back out of the woods of Republican
ism, and to throw off all the slough and
rottenness that it has accumulated
| during the last three years. But if
Doodle is to win at Chicago, then l am
willing to take my hat and bid the Sem
ator from New York and all like him a
long farewell
This sentence was delivered in such
a ludicrous manner as to produce
| general laugh
As to where I will CO." Tillman con-
| tlnued, L do not know. I will not go
to Populism, but Populism is simply an
expression of wrath and anger on the
| part of disgusted Democrats and dis
gusted Republicans. The Populists were
in error at the last Presidential election.
! They spattered themselves on the wall.
! daughter) Those of us Democrats
who have not been debauched or who do
not allow gold to control US will line up
somewhere, but it will not be under the
gold standard. If we do not get a re-
| cognition of silver at the Chicago con-
Vention, then the Democratic party is
! dead and gone forever. A new party
will spring into existence. If we cannot
| beat you this time we will serve notice
! on you that we will have America for
Americans and to hell with Great Br-
| tain and the Tories. 'Gaughter) If we do
not beat you in 1896 we will interest
you in 1900"
| Hill spoke of Tillman's speech as a
remarkable performance, which did not
call for any special reply from him. 1t
| would have been wiser, perhaps. when
that Senator gave to the Senate and to
the country the spectacle which he did
/ the last time he spoke. never to allude to
anything he said Possibly he child
erred to-day in noticing some of his sug-
| gestions. The Senator from South
/ Carolina had not wholly addressed his
remarks to the appropriation bill. but
| had spoken of the circumstances of the
! bond issue and of the bond fnvestiga-
| ton, and had finally wound up by form
| ing new party "All by himself and
South Carolina" Gaughter)
| With much that he said he (HiID had
nc concern. With his criticisms of the
Administrator he did not propose to re-
ply. He had (as the Senate and the coun-
/ try knew little in common with the
present Administration He mad moi
been the recipient Of its patronage or
faVors- Therefore he cid not propose TO
notice except very briefly some of the
gratuitous, uncalled for and undignified
remarks of his friend from South Caro-
INA, who loved him. daughter)
If his friend, he added, was not on the
straight road which led to Populism. he
was on the stright road to some worse
place. He did not know exactly what his
friend meant when he spoke about the
Popuiists "spattering the walls" but he
+ had said that he was not going to the
Populists. He would hold his friend from
South Carolina to that promise. He
Child was not gong to prophesy the
troublous political times
I'VE are changing rapidly" he con-
tinued, day by day. The present polit-
ical campaign is unprecedented in both
parties. There has been a cyclone
sweeping through the country in Repub-
/ lican circles which all it's leading states
men have been unable to check. A nom
/ ination is likely to occur-stren-thened
by the events of the last few days-
which six weeks ago no one could fore
/ tell. Changes are likely to occur re-
| peatedly. Even they are likely to occur
IN the Democratic party, which may
change the present situation. I therefore
| decline to make prediction. But / say
to my friend from South Carolina, if he
has that love for Jefferson and Jackson
that he processes, then 1 hope he will
i have no occasion to leave a party which
he has served so well in the past.
| 1 do rot propose at this time because
! hope to have the opportunity in the
! sweet by and by) to discuss the bond
resolution Then l can express my views
fully on the great question involved-the
| tremendous, monstrous question-as to
whether we shall have a Senatorial in
vestgation of the bond issues of the
| Government by the present Administra-
ton"
Hill went on to speak of the regular
Democracy of the State of New York.
and said that it could not be charged
with responsibility for the nomination
of Cleveland in 1892. Il recollect," said
he, that State after State in the South
! instructed their delegates for free sill
yer and Grover Cleveland. They have
not got free silver but with bitter sar-
casm) they got Cleveland General
| laughter) The regular Democracy of
/ New York protested against it, but after
the nomination was made loyal Demo-
Gratis as they are, they went back and
l joined them in giving New York again
to the Democratic column. And, sir,
nc matter what may be in store for US
in the next campaign. come victory or
defeat, come sunshine or shadow, come
/ veal or woe, will be found again in be-
half of whoever may be the Democratic
candidate-and in behalf of whatever
/ may be the national Democratic plat
form" (Applause)
Speaking of the Chicago convention,
Hill said: II will go there with my
party. l will go there expecting to
speak my sentiments and to abide by
the result when the convention shall be
ended" Then he said, in another con-
nection: while we are washing Dem
ocratic linen we might as well wash it
out