The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-09-08
FEARS A MONARCHY.
senstor Tillmsn Addresses Silver Demo-
Gratis In Brooklyn.

| A New York dispatch says Benja
min Ryan Tillman, senior United
States senator from South Carolina,
came to town Tuesday to open the 10
Gel campaign for those Democrats OF
the Greater New York who stand by
the Chicago platform and who insist
that its essential points must be en-
hlszoned upon the standard to be car
ried by the party nominee in the ap'
preaching election.
The senator was not wearing the
silver pitchfork with three gold-bugs,
supposed to represent Cleveland, Car.
Isle and Sherman, impaled on its
tines, which was presented to him by
his admirers in his own state. When
this was commented on he said:
well, that was only a. campaign
button. YOU know. You Cont want
me to wear it all my life, do youf I
suppose you folks who are around
here would rather wear gold pitch.
fork with Bryan, Tillman and Altgeld
on the tines"
After quiet day Senator Tillman
was escorted over to Ridgewood Park,
a desolate picnic ground on the out
skirts of Brooklyn, where the mass
meeting that he was to address was to
be held. It was q most undesirable
place to hold meeting, yet the crowd
was big one, more than 5000 men
being in the pavilion.
Henry Nichols presided over the
meeting and made short speech, in
which he extolled the provisions OF
the Chicago platform and berated the
Democrats who left the party because
of it.
Tillman was introduced as the "the
peoples advocate and the foeman of
the Sugar Trust and every other form
of MONOPOLY" His speech was not
argument, but assertion, interspersed
with jests and jeers. Here ara some
of the things he said:
1.-The Democracy was born 100 years
ago and went down to defeat in It's
first struggle through the efforts OF the
aristocrats. A new, regenerated De-
mocracy was born in Chicago last
year, and it went down to its first de-
feat under the blows of the aristocrats
and the influence of the tens Of mil
lions of tribute levied upon them by
Mark Hanna. But just as sure rs you
live that regenerated Democracy will
come to the front again in 1900 and
will elect William Jennings Bryan.
prolonged cheering.)
1.-THE Republican party in its thirty
years of rule succeeded, with the aid
of an occasional so called Democratic
president, i'm emancipating the black
slaves of the south, but it made white
slaves of the working people of the
north.
I'm 1860 the millionaire was a rare
bird, but now there are thousands of
them all over the country. and there
are some men even with $500. .000, ,0O0.
1t is millionaires by the thousands
now, but it is paupers by the millions.
Read the history of Rome, of Athens,
and of great empires which stood
where there is nothing but wilderness,
now, and you will find that they fell
because the few enslaved the many,
and then governments became cor
rupt. Wake up, or before you know
it you will have king!
''Why is it that here in New York
you always have political boss2 1t
is because you are such Internal fools
that you don't know any better than
to carry a yoke around your neck.
You have just been swapping bosses
here year after year. The boss runs
the machine which names the cand;.
dates, and then you just 60 and vote
the ticket like a lot of blind asses.
| (Laughter)
"Who did you send to represent you
at the Chicago convention2"
"a lot of dirty dogsl" shouted q
listener.
"You sent q delegation with Whit.
ney and Belmont and Flower at its
head" Senator T1llman went OH, land
they travelled west in parlor cars to
keep the Democratic party from dis,
gracing itself. But the west and the
south had risen, and they found Out
that New York, Pennsylvania and
New England were not the whole
| United States, and by God they ain't
why, in your local campaign here
they are asking you to give UP all
you won as Democrats last year.
| What FORE To get some money from
! the dirty boodlers who have stolen
your railroad franchises and every
thing else. Sell your birthright for a
mess of pottage. But you say you
| have nc money to run your campaign.
| Well, don't get your money from
your Whitneys, your Belmonts and
your Flowers, for after election they
| will rob you of $40 for every dollal
| they gave you.
''They are singing the praises of dol
| lar wheat. Who gave us dollar wheat
, Did Mckinley DO it2 No. 1t YVES the
failure of the crops in Europe. This
dollar wheat will 90 in another yea,
when India and Russia and the Ar
gentine raise another crop and the
supply equals the demand. The only
way to bring lasting prosperity is tc
remonetizs silverl" (Cheers)
| SEPTEMBER WEATHER Keep ur
with cotton picking. A. j. DeVoe OF
New JerseV. the best prophet in the