The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-07-09


the Democratic party which led to it's
disruption. That disruption of that
party brought about the war. The war
emancipated the black slaves. We are
here now leading a fight to emancipate he
the white slaves. And if we must meet
with the conditions reversed we are will
ling to see the Democratic party dis
rupted again to accomplish that result.
lCries of No, mingled with hisses)
don't know neither | can say l am rep
resentative of the entire south or not.
(Cries of No.) | should hope not.
have been in fourteen states since Sep
tember /, making the announcement of
II new declaration of ndependence-that
of '16 to l or bust is the slogan--and
say that while there is danger of the
Democratic party again dividing there is
no danger of its surrendering its time
honored principles.
Some of my friends from the south
and elsewhere have said that the fnan-
cial question is not sectional issue.
say it is sectional issue"
This utterance of Mr.. Tillman was
greeted with such vigorous Kisses that
the chair was some time in getting the
convention to order. Mr.. Tillman pro-
ceeded:
''rhe truth is mighty and will prevail
in so far as it is sectional between the
eastern bosses and not between the pco-
pie of the east, west and the south.
81 attended the national convention in
this city in 1892. Then. as now, my
state was on the side of silver. We We're
side by side with New York then. Cap
plausc) New York's candidate was
orator and sponsor, this distinguished
gentleman here gazing in The direction
of Senator Hid, was howled down.
The conditions are reversed. Where is
New York's leader. The state which
the. logical and proper candidate of Dem
ocIhcy. are here today behind him"
AT this point the speaker was inter
rupted by great uproar, amid which
could be distinguished Kisses and derisive
applause and calls for Hill The chair
man vainly pounded for order.
Senator Tillman managed to make him
self heard sufficiently to declare that the
audience might just as veil understand
that he was going to have his say if he
had to stand here until sunrise. And
then his voice was drowned.
The sergeant-at-arms announced that
the chair had directed him to clear the
galleries if order was not preserved, but
for several minutes Senator Tillman
could not proceed. after the confusion
had subsidized Mr.. Tillman proceeded as
follows:
'AIr. President, the senator from New
York despised the president of the
United States in 1892. He has cause
since to more than despise him. But.
for some reason, he has appeared here as
the sponsor and apOlogist for the ad-
This fight against the ad-
ministration is not of my seeking.
Cleveland stands for gold monometallism.
"a voice, 'Hurrah for Cleveland,1. and
we have repudiated it. Then .swe., I, are
asked to endorse Grover GleNfaSul, &, pd-,
we. are asked 70 wwriit66 our
selves down as liars. They want us to
say that he is honest and link with him
all his cabinet in order to try to bolster
him up. The only thing | have ever
seen that smacked of dishOnor in his
career is that he signed contract in
secret, with one of his partners as a
witness, which gave millions of dollars
of the American peoples money to n syn
? dlcate and an appointed the syndicate re-
his courage We'll, now, nobody dis
putes the mans boldness and obstinacy,
because he had the courage to ignore his
oath of Office and redeem gold with the
paper obligations of the government
which were payable in cOin-gold md sill
yer. (Applause.) And, furthermore, he
has the courage to override the constitu-
ton of the United States and invade the
state of Illinois with the United States
army to undertake to override the rights
of his fellow citizens.
"They ask us to endorse his fidelity.
He, has been faithful unto death, or
rather unto the death of the Democratic
party, so far as he represents it. He
has followed the friends that he had in
New York and ignored the entire bal
ance of the Union. came here in
1892 opposing Cleveland. We have de-
nounccd him in South Carolina as tool
of Wall street. l appear here today in
the same attitude and what was pre-
dcted then is history now.
Mr. Hill appears here in the attitude
of his sponsor and apologist. We of the
south have burned our bridges as far
as the northern and eastern Democracy
is concerned. as now organized We
have turned our faces to the west, ask
ing our brethren of these states to unite
with us in restoring the government. the
liberty of our fathers, which our fathers
left us. The west has responded by
its representatives here. (Appause)
The west, however, is in doubt, while the
south can rely on its electoral vote. But
you must get the Republican silver men
of the west and the Populists of these
states to endorse your platform and
your candidate or you are beaten. If
this Democratic sh'- "oes to sea on storm
waves without fumigating itself, we ex-
press reputation of this man who has
sought to destroy his party, then the Re
publican ship goes into port and you go
down in disgrace and defeat in Novem-
ber. That is the situation as / see it.
We have announced the sin in the plat
form without mentioning tho sinner; we
have repudiated everything that he has
lone, almost. Now we are forced either
% repudiate him and his administration,
,r, as | said before, we will go before
he country stultifying ourselves"
Mr.. Tillman here presented the plank
n the South Carolina Democratic plat
Orm cOndemning the Cleveland admin
stration. He closed amid considerable
applause.
Senator Hill then took the platform
mid storms of applause. When order
vas partially restored at last, Hill said
"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Convention / do not know that it is
Iecessary that should reply to the dis
inguished senator from South Carolina
Tillman), and trust that in any reply
may make | shall not fail to accord to
i'm my profound respect
IL would say at the outset, | am :