The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-08
News and Courler.)

Sumter, August 4.--The picnic at
which Tillman spoke today began
as peace and unity love feast, bat
at the end there was lots of ginger,
and the Senator, who had declared
in his morning speech that the peo-
pie were getting along gpretty we'll,
and he would say nothing to raise
old issues or revive old animosities,
and protested against the heavy
coats of "butter" that had been laid
on him by DR.. II. Y. Abbott, the Re.
form Senator from this county in
1870, in his Introductory speech
boldly asserted in tho afternoon, in
reply to speech of Representative
E. ID. Smith, that he was no goody-
good peace and unity man, and that
there had already been too much of
that sort Of thing.
Apart from bis introductory re-
marks in reference to the "belaud-
ing and bepraising and buttering,"
he had received at Mr.. Abbotts
hands, and these were the most
amusing of his speech, there was
nothing very strong or bizarre in his
speech, which was only forty min
utes long. He described tho condi
tions prevailing in the trust. cursed
and boss-ridden North, where wealth
inconceivable is concentrated in the
hands of few and whore tho people
arc fooled and suffer moro than any
where else. Ho ascrbod this con-
dition to the decay Of Americanism
in the North, and the conquest of that
section by the foreign clement that
Is corrupt and servile, and that, sell
ing its votes, lends itself ready to
the uses of the money power and
bosses who seek to establish an in
dustrial slavery. The people there
arc not free, and tho men sont to
Congress are the puppets and tools
of tho bosses. Undcr Republican
rule not even tho representatives
from the South arc free, for with
Reed Speaker they had not even tho
poor privilege Of declaring their
views in Congress.
1t is only since tho war with Spain
that tho Southern mon havo had a
show, and the war was worth all it
cost if nothing else was accomplished,
but the South is only twenty against
fifty million, and | am asked what
we are to do. tell them, eve will
>-ssskand up in the middle of the road
aTSs fight them, so help us God, un-
'Tivss.Ssss redeem the country and
ano an sonSlack to the use of freedom
bring it bike,
and liberty.';.e yoaade up Of a homo.
h'oA'h }Scenu0ntS OF nov
geneoue people Nand they are the
only true Amerioa,ls,s IFS in tho country.
I cell the people ot<tho North that
the South has the seed corn of lib.
erty in it's people, and that they will
have to come to us when they want
it, for they have let theirs rot.
What do they sayY They admit
that l speak the truth, and that thoy
are slaves.
The pension frauds that flood the
North with money and help tho peo-
pie to endure tho harpships of ten
cent corn were treated to dose of
caustic. NcKinley's Atlanta speech
offering to have the Government
take care Of tho graves of Confed-
crate soldiers was reforred to. "I
told them we want no help to take
care of our graves until you do
something for our old soldiers who
are living in poverty" It is all q
big steal with those people, and I
have told them that I know it is q
steal, but I want my share, and I
earn it.
If tho Democrats wore in power
thero would be no stealing, but as
long as tho Republicans control
there will be no change, and the
South should have share.
Trusts, the progeny of the Re-