The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-09-08
BEN TILLMAN MAKES a
SENSATIONAL SPEECH
no BROOKLYN SILL
VERITES.
Calls Them Internal Fools.

New York. Sept. 2.-Benjanin
Ryan Tillmau. senior United States
.senatof from South Carolina. came to
fovn Tuesday to open the local cam
paign for those Democrats of the Great.
er New York who stand by the Chicago
platfofm aud who insist that its essen
tial points must be emblazooed upon
the STANDARD to be carried by the
approaching election.
Tilinan's reception when he arrived
in the city Tuesday morning vas net
such as TO make him enthusiastic. 90
the contrary. there was no reception at
all. BE expected that committee was
going 10 meet him when he arrived on
the Hudson river steamboat Dean Rlch.
mond but there was nobody there
Sohe tack HE gripsack and started for
the Windsor hotel.
The senator was not wearing the sli-
pitchfork With three goldbugs, to repre-.
sent Cleveland, Carlisle aud Sherman,
simpaled on it's tines. which was pre-
seAsed to him BY his admirers in his
own state. When this was conmented
on he said
Well, that vas only campaign
button, you know You don't want
me to wear Il all my life. do you? /
suppose Jon folks aro md here would
rather wear gold pitehfork with Bryan,
Tillmaa and Altgeld Gu the tines. .
Afssf q quiet day Senator 1Tlllmaa
VAS escorted over to Ridgewood PARK.
desoi.te picnic ground on the out
.sksiisss Of Brooklyn, where the mass
meeting that he vas to address was to
BE held. e was uoss undesirable
place to held q meeting. ye. the crowd
vas big one. more than 5000 neD
being IN the pavilion
Il vaa an enthusiastic gathering, too,
which met she South Caroline fighter
With a brass baud and vollsy after vol
lev Of cheers. The men crowded
around aud upon the platform on
which be stood, and bis solitary eye
beamed With grs,i6cation as they burl-
ed all sorts Of remarks intended to be
oom plimentary at him The Interrupt
stions we're not SO pleasing to him, how
ever, during his speech, for they made
Is impossible for him to keep track Of
himself.
FoEMAN OF SUGAR TRUST
Henry Nichols presided over the
meeting and made short speech. in
vbicb he.extolled the provisions Of the
Chicago platform and berated the Dem
ecrats who left the party because Of it.
Former State Senator Francis Nj.
Bixby presented resolutions which de
clared the true test Of Democracy vas
IL the support Of The Chicago plaifcr0;
that the municipal ownership and ope-
safion Of street railroads aud gas ADD
electric light plants was necessary. and
that anti trust laws were imperative.
Tnlnau vas iotrodnced as 1.-THE pee
pIe's advocate and the foemaa of the
Sugar Trost and every other form of
nonopoly His speech was not argu-
nens, but asseriioo, iuserspersed with
iesss aud jsers. Here are some Of the
things heeaid /:
1.-THE Democracy was born 100
years ago and went down to defeat
10 it's fret struggle through the ef-
forts of the aristocra A new, re-
generated Democracy was born in
Chicago last year, aud it went down
TO its irst defeat under the blows OF
the aristocrats and the influence of
the tens of millions of tribute levied
upon them by Mark Hanna But
Just as sure as you live that regener-
ated Democracy will come to the front
again in 1900 and will elect William
Jennings Bryan. prolonged cheer
ing
years of rule succeeded, with the aid
Of ansoccasional so called Democratic
president, in emancipating the black
slaves of the south, but it made
white slaves of the working people
of the north.
To 1860 the millionaire wae a rare
bird, but now there are thousands 6f
them all over the country, and there
are some men even with S200.000.
coo Itis millionaries by the thous-
ands now. but il 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 en-.
slaved the many, aud then govern
ments became corrupt. Wake up. or
before you know it you will have a
king!
CALLED THEM FOOLS.