The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-08-04

wanted him to talk about Mckinley
He did not intend to talk about him
he said. Mckinley had been harpins
on dead issue. He mckinley looked
like man astride of a dead jackass III
q storm. The speaker then insisted OF
stopping, although the crow again tried
TO make him go on. After he sat dowl
the crowd cheered him for nearly {
minute.
TILLMAN'S TALK.
DR.. Stokes tried to introduce Sen
ator Tillman, but the crowd started
to cheering and would not listen tt
him. Men called out, "Oh, we al
know old Ben" Come on, Ben, dom
wait for him ~ and other slmila,
things. So Or. Stokes stepped aside and
Senator Tillman came to the front
He began with a reference to the op
pressive weather, quoting Sidne,
Smith's famous desire to take off his
flesh and sit in his bones. He was, he
said, at disadvantage-there was no
body in sight to fight. He compliment.
ed Cobb highly on his speech. 1t was
asking too much to expect them to Sit
there while he told them over again
what everyone OF them believed. He
did knot think there was gold bug in
the audience, and If there were any in
the State they were very few The
country had st last come down to some
genuine Democracy. They now saw
that light in the West they had heard
about. He thought he had had some,
thing to do with bringing about the
conditions which prevailed. He had
been out among the people, and he had
yot to meet an audience that did not
give him the courtesy and the enthus-
iasm that he had received there.
He said he did not propose to make
a regular speech. He was only going
to touch on two or three points, and he
would detain them but few minutes.
He referred to the occasion which
brought him there-celebrating the
birth of the Tillman Volunteers, He
complimented the company highly,
and p; RET referred to the part it Aha taken
them to look we'll to their. liberties !; no
one would do it if they did not.
ever paid to Orangeburg. He made
his second speech there, and he drew
humorous picturs Sthow he had felt.
Orangeburg had alwhys stuck by him.
1t was the banner county of Reform.
The people had sometimes shown a
confidence in him which he did not
have in himself. This had sustained
MIN In his light.
When he made his speech in the
Senate it appeared to him that the
country was in critical condition.
Put see the effect that had been pro-
duced by pressing that sue by him
Bryan. See the effect of declaring
that they would no longer cling to q
party that betrayed the people. They
had gone back TO true Democracy of
Jefferson. The victory at Chicago was
the greatest achieved since jackson
whipped the banks. The Democracy
had been on trial it had been carried
back to first principles and taken out
of the hands of the buccaneers who
had taken possession of it.
The speaker then reviewed the for
nation OF the party and the issues that
have separated the two great national
had been a better Republican than
Harrison. See what he was now con-
spring to do-nOminate ticket the
expressed object of which would be
the defeat of the Democracy. He hop
ed they would do it. There was no
such thing as gold bug Democrat;
the name was misnomer.
He told Of how Whitney, Russell and
Belmont had gone to Chicago taking
Senator Hill with them, and then he
told Of how the silver men had caucuss-
ed there and won tho fight.
Bryan was not afraid to come to the
common people and tell them what he
felt and believed, because his heart
was pure. That was the difference be-
tween him and Mckinley. His young
friend had paid his respects to the
United States Courts They would see
in the platform that government
by injunction had to cease. The peo-
pie knew what this meant they had
seen how a man right here anon g
them had tried to overthrow the law
and bi nd down the dispensary. These
usurpations of the Federal judiciary
were menace to the country. The
Courts had crept from one point to
another until now nothing was sacred
from them. They had seen in the pa
pers of the day before what one Federal
Judge had done.
He read here the dispatch announc-
Ing that Judge Simonton had issued an
Injunction prohibiting the cutting of
rates. He went over the history of the
rate war, telling how the fight came
up. The Seaboard had cut its rates to
protect itself and its territory and then
the Southern and the Association had
made q still larger cut. These are COR
p0rations running through manyStates.
They have their charters in the various
States and had their rig hts under them.
Would any one deny that they had the
right to cut rates If they wanted to ?
Whom did they hurt? Their stock
holders? Had not the stockholders
control of their property, and if they,
wished to stop the war could they not
do so without outside aid 1t was q
private business affair. But instead of
letting them fight it out here comes
federal judge, who steps forward, as
sumes all power and stops them. The
czar says you shall do so and so here
Is another czar, who says you shall not
do so and so. Each is tyranny, and
the one Is no more oppressive than the
other.
Where does this man get his author
ity to control solvent corporations II
he had the power to say that they shall
not cut the rate then he has
power to say that they shall cut.
Then whose property Is safe from
his interference He can initiate
Judge Woods, who imprisoned Debs
because he stopped work. TO what
point have we come when such things
are possible? 1t is time that there
was some one to step forward and say
to these judges: you Internal scoun.
drels, II you go any further we will not
only choke you. but we will hang you"