The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1901-08-14
and Democrats, but not moro so than
this proceeding of yours.
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Senator Illlman Is reported as saying
before your committee that l have
voted with the Republicans lin impor.
tapt matters" and that he has seen NE
comforting with Republican senators.
As will show by the records, he him
self frequently voted with the Repub-
licsns in important mstters," rs sll
other Democratic senators have done
from time to time. 1t is frequently
necessary proper and courteous to confer
with membeIs Of the opposite party, as
he knows and as every man Of practical
St pse knows. These expressions of his
are attempts to take advantage Of ore
dulity and ignorance. | do not tnir K
there is man in South Carolina so ig-
norsnt as to be really deceived By them
He cannot put me under suspicion as he
has put himself by his own acts. L
have not In public flee rotrograded from
a, perhaps, honorable bankruptcy to dis.
honorable and unexplained wealth, he
sud have drawn the same salaries, but
| have found it impossi 10 to save GG DOL
lar from niue. nave never, however,
truckled to corporations WITH the ia VI.
ing of tanned spaniel, made speech es
against them, then voted for them, aad
accepted favors as he has dons. bave
never been the sole boss and buying
agent OF nowiy created whist ey trust,
with its rebates Of 10000 to so, 900
year, none OF which ever reached the
state treasury. have never had the
handling Of state bond reiunding
scheme with $28, 900 of commissions
never yet accounted for or explained.
A year ago Senator Tillmsn weot into
Norsh Dskota and made speeches edvo
cstlBg the re election OF a Republican
senator, Mr.. Pettigrew. Senator Tiilmsn
and this senator were prominent IN pre-
venting, by 6lhbu5terlDg tactics, vote
on the subsidy bill. The newspapers
said that MIR. Hill, head Of tho Northern
Pacific lobby against tho subsidy bill,
gave Senator IIilmau's friend and asso-
ciste tip which paid him $50, 600 -
tn. stock market. Biras OF a feather,
gentlemen OF the committee, always
flock together.
HSs Sens.or Tillmsn, prosecuting at
torney against my Democracy, ever
failed to abuse Democrats and Democ.
racy2 Do you know that in the last two
Democrats national conventions ke
has supported the nomination of Ropu6-
licsns2 La 1896 he favored Senator
Teller for president, an old line Repub-
hcsn and one of the bitterest foes OF
the South in reoonstruc,iou days. He
had himself appeared before tho con-
vention as a competitor Of w. j. Bryan
and been ANONYMOUSLY showed under.
In 1900 he was for TowDe, also a Rs.
publican for vice president. Is he the
man to be supreme arbiter and judge of
what Is Democracy in South Osrolina2
lu the senate l have labored, as the
records will show, to broaden the pros
perity of the country, to promote the
interests of my own people, to spread
civilization, to enlarge and increase OPP
p1rtunlty Tor our young Een aud to
stimulate enterprise. Ris whole
political course and method have been
to tear down, to abuse and oppose, to
blight and restrain, to bite where he
dared and to fawn where he feared or
sought favor. l shall ask the people to
contrast the records and shall claim my
night as free mau, bora and reared
Democrat and q senator from South
Carolina, to do it regardless of the
ord,rj or twenty one members of the
executive committee. | shall ask the
people to decide between the man who
has tried to help cotton factories, open
highways OF commerce and to so com.
mand the Democratic party as command
for 1t the confidence and respect OF the
business and laboling elements North
and South, aud that of the man whose
conduct aud record has been to sink the
party to disreputc and impotence, |
shall ask them to say whether they pre-
for the senator who has tried to retain
for South Carolina the honor and dignity
won by loag line Of illustrous sons
and glorious deeds, or the senator who
has posLured ss butfoon and bully and
who proclaimed on the foor Of the SEN
ate that he represented q constituency
Of ballot box suffers and murderers
who wanted their share of the stealage.
lie ls nov In northern state holding
up our people as negro murderers and
bsllot box thieves.
You have undertaken to condemn and
expcl and depose me, not only wI.hJu.
hearing but WiLhou. evidence. Upon
what grounds arc my good faith a
senator and my fidelity as a Democrat
assaled? Ii il on the tariff? None yf
you ct the committee can prove TO the
people that the Democratic party j. a
i!e5 trade party. Ii mas opposed a tariff
for protecIon only, out as early SIS 1897
We mad protective tsritf, and we have
never In tEe one huuored and four
ears sluco knOHn free trade. General
dznccoS, ,Ae party nominee for presi-
dent III 1850, regarded the tariff as a
!oo,l question. Samuel j. Randall. for
years Lne actY leAGor and speaker OF
inc house, WAS protec,ionIst. In every
congress whore the question has peen
presented numbers oi Democrats have
Voted against ana nolpel 70 kill fcee
trade. L have cOntendud thai Southern
products should be put on equality With
others, and IA 1897 | fought to have
rice, pine lumber G1d cotton protected
The cry Of K publican was raised
against me then, but the pc eOpie, before
whom the issue was squsrciY put, en-
dorsed m3 by sn overwhelming vote.
Arc you nov undertaking to reverse
that verdict
have favored ship subsidies. ii
is great question aud one, | submit,
on wbioh the people Of this state are
c5mpstent to pass after hearing full
argument. The subject has never been
dEclssed before them, although il is of
vast Importance 20 the prosperity OF
this state. The purpose of the cub
sidy is to develop the building aud op-
Grafton of great fleets of American
shils IL touches the interest of our
sea ports Of our lun5er indus rios, OF
ell our manufacturing enterprises and
our grest agricultural products. |. is
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