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GOVERNOR TILLMAN.
BE TALKS OF THAT SILVER CONVEN
TION Ilf ST. LOUIS.
Governor Tillmvn’s Hinging Speech to the
Convention—He Defines the Poaition
of the People of the Sooth.
The governor of South Carolina was in At
lanta last Tuesday morning.
'Tired, and anything hut comfortable
physically. Governor Tillman alighted from
a day catch of the Western and Atlantic
vestibuled train, which was over an hour
and a half late, last evening. He is on
his way home from St. Louis, and the de
lay kept him here all night, as it caused
him to miss the Seaboard train.
At his n»m at the Markham he talked
of the convention of silver men which he
had just attended and of which he was
one of the prominent figures.
“1 believe the outlook for a practical
union which will accomplish much for sil
ver is very favorable,” said he. "Some
of the goldbug organs have 'been sneering
at the convention and declaring that it
was not a success, but. although the at
tendance was not as large as 1 expected, 1
am not at all discouraged by the conven
tion nor about its results. 1 find that not
many of our friends in the south under
stood about the convention, and of the
southern states only South Carolina, Mis
sissippi, Texas, Alabama and Arkansas
sent delegates. Yes,” in response to a
question, "there were other governors
there —Governor Stone, of Missouri; Gov
ernor Leweiiing, of Kansas, and Governor
Waite, of Colorado. Then there were a
number of distinguished men among the
delegates, who numbered about all.”
"What will be the result of it?”
“The interests of the people of the south
and west are identical. 1 believe if the
senate passes the unconditional repeal bill
the people of the west will hold one con
vention and the people of the south
another, and that these tw'o will be welded
together by the appointment of delegates
from one to the other, drawing to them all
the silver men of both sections. And that i
would mean a force that would sweep the 1
country. I’m glad I went up there; glad j
I met them face to face. 1 feel that 1 have
gotten on the inside of the situation up ,
there and have learned how deeply sincere ;
those people are. The cause is a righteous i
one, and it is bound to triumph in the end.” j
Atlanta is to have the next convention.
Th<* St. Louis convention left the matter
of location to the president and secretary,
and while no definite action has been
taken, as nothing will bo done until after
the senate acts, the sentiment of the con
vention was clearly experessed at a confer
ence held after adjournment. All of the
leaders were present and Atlanta was the
unanimous choice.
Governor Tillman was chairman of the
committee on resolutions, and in presenting
his report made a stirring and striking
speech to the convention. The speech is
well worth reading and is given here as
reported in the St. Louis papers:
Governor Tlllni«n’« Speech.
Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Con
vention: It is not my habit to make any ex
cuses for my style of speaking or my lack of
what men call oratory. And 1 will simply
make a brief explanation in order that you
may not believe, since I have told you that I
came lire to make a spe<s-'.i. that I have any
specially prepared speech, that I have elabor
ated anything, that I have polished anything.
It has been five years since 1 wrote anything
on paper that I expected to speak. When I
first began my career as a politician, which
was in ISSrt. being unused to public discussion,
and naturally nervous. I wrote down what I
wanted to say in order to keep from forget
ting it. Well, I have had a pretty rough-and
tumble time since then, and have learned to
depend on my head to furnish the words,
whether they were exactly grammatical or
polish, d or rhetorical, and if I have found the
facts and the ideas I don’t care a snap for the
Ut.in i r in which they me dressed. lAppt.iiiife.)
Now. in rising to address you upon the sub
ject matter of the resolutions pres,-med by the
committee. ’f what I shall sny should realty
cauwv any r»r <V> me any cre<Ht. I itinwt
vfM-osun:-Hy t hi-ssh Homo nt raw which other**
liavt- beaten and who haw done it more <?lo
quently at>d*a»»ly than 1 cun . _ ,
I propone to take a t>lr<l’*»-eye view of the po
litical, financial and commercial condition. or
the country. ,
I am a plain. Irtunt man. as you have «Ua< ov
<d. I sav what I think and heheve. and uhva
1 get tbrougli I <l"'< . tLniishlrr mid ;ip
plaus ■ ) Therefore. 1 shall not worry you.
Two Political <tuestipns.
In turning your eyes backward over the pag- 1
»-s of our past history you lind that prior to
the war there wcr- iwo great prevailing po- j
litical issues—slavery ami the farin'. The
war grew out of the desire of the south for i
free trade rather than the preservation of I
slavery. We wanted to got off to ourselves, !
in order to sell our products in the best mar- |
kit ami buy in the cheapest market. There
were then onlv two gnat questions, ami Just ■
year We were toid tnslt there were still two '
great que.-ii.ms the financial question Slav- ;
••ry having happily passed away and the tar- |
iff. We were led to expect that when this |
democratic congress met, with a majority in ‘
both brunches and the executive sent there by j
the p.opie for the first time in thirty years, ;
the tariff would be one of the tup ill questions
ir» which it would address itself. We lind,
however, that congress has been called in ex
tra session to solve the othi r question. tin,
financial question, which 1 have always con
tended was the burning question. (Applause.)
And today it is the most burning question in
American politics and has brought the west
and the smith togethet and made men who
for twenty years have Isen mortal political
enemies act here as a band of brothers. (Ap
plause.)
it is true that for a short period before the
war. during the time of Andrew- Jackson -Old
Hickory the tin.im ial question amt the ques
tion as to whether money in the hands of a
few. to be manipulated by them, should run
the country or the people should run it. was a
burning question, and the tariff and slavery
questions Ih.Ui dropped a-ide until that mat
ter was settled to the satisfaction of the peo
ple. Jackson won his tight against the bank
in spite of :*. subsidized press, such as we
n w have advocating the gold standard. Now
the same issue confronts us.
The White Slave.
1 said the financial question was a buttling
question. While we nad hoped that the
question of slavery had forever been settled
nnd that it would never again be an issue be
fore the America’' people, it confronts us
now. But alas the color of the slave has
changed; the .-laves are no longer black, but
are white men. (Applause.) What do I
ircan by slave? Tell me, gentlemen, what
more absolute condition of servitude can pos
sibly exist than that of the farmer, who, in
ihe language of the eloquent gentleman from
Missouri this morning ’Mr. Cochran) litis for
twenty years, since 1873. been making his
crop's on a falling market and iias grown old
hoping io nay off the mortgages on his prop
erty. (Applause.) Who, in the language of
Cowper,
Has lowered his bucket into an. empty well
And grown old in drawing nothing up.
(Applause.)
At the same time he has seen men reap the
fruits of his labor, ami grow rich beyond the
dream of avarice, millionaires multiplied un
til they cannot count them, while paupers—
white slaves have been multiplied ten thou
sand fold for every millionaire.
And what are we confronting now? The
single gold standard face to fata* right k-- •.
It isn’t a theory but a reality that confronts
ns. “It is a condition," in the langting'
ON THE OUTSIDE—
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p“| T“ as soon as you get it
| I inside, it Begins to
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with it, when you
can get more help
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These liny, sugar
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ou permanent
They act
mildly and natur
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bowels are prevented, relieved, and perma
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They’re the smallest, the easiest to take,
and the cheapest — for they're guaranteed
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You pay only for the good you get.
Nothing else urged by the dealer, though
ihey may be better for him to sell, can La
“just as good” for you to buy.
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION; ATLAJnA.. TUESDAY. OUTOBEK 17,
| Mr. Cleveland. The Sherman law repealed
| and silver demonetized as a money of final ac
count confronts us. 1 believe the people of
the T’nilod States will rise in their wrath
before they will permit such wrong. But
with that law repealed and silver no longer a
legal tender, before the terrible wrong to
; the debtor class can he righted, millions will
be pauperized and become tenants when- they
1 now own homes in fee simple. The liqnidn
-1 tion of debte and mortgages will go on under
1 the gold standard with one-half of the me
tallic currency of the world destroyed ami the
capacity to pay debts reduced one-half. It
will take two bushels of wheat or two pounds
of cotton to pay where it took one before.
1 say. if we are not confronted with human
slavery of the white race in this country,
where are we? (Applause.) Because, if
the titles are gone to tin- homes that these
men struggled to obtain for themselves and
their families, and they become tenants, sub
ject to the humiliations amt the tyranny of
the money power, what have you made of
them but serfs like they have In Europe?
Serfs, as the gentleman said, ami a new form
of serfdom. They talk about the dishonest
dollar, they talk about the SS-cont silver dol
lar! My God! my countrymen, doesn’t the
same amount of silver buy as much wheat
and corn as it ever did? Which is the dis
honest dollar? That which lias remained nt
a parity with all other products, or tin- one
which will buy twice as much as it ought to
buy, the gold dollar? (Applause.)
The Money of the Poor.
Silver is the money of the poor; gold is a
robber, and lias always been the money of
thi- rich. They talk about restoring confi
dence! These patriots that are so solicitous
that confidence shall bo restored by the re
peal of the Sherman law! Do they care
anything about restoring confidence to you
ami 1 mid the millions of American freemen
whom t liey claim to represent?
A Voice—No.
By the gracious permission of England
they will do it; otherwise we are not to be
considered. And then tin- Innnbuggery which
they express in their speeches in congress!
"We are friends of .silver within certain limi
tations.” old Dr. Abernathy, a celebrated
English physician, used to say the first thing
to do In treating a man was to get him to
acknowledge that he was sick. Well, I think
the most hopeful sign that I have seen K.'
many a month, because 1 come from a section
where the sun of hope does not shine brightly,
is that tin- men of the west realize nt. last tlnit
they are sick. (Laughter mid applause.) But
these bimetallists, these friends of silver,
their remedy for the trouble of silver is to
lay the poor thing in its coffin and prescribe
death as a remedy. That is a new kind of
medicine. (Laughter and applause.) Let us
repeal the Sherman law. demonetize
silver, and then we will take into considera
tion a remedy always, understand, with the
consent of England. (Applause.)
Doesn’t every man in congress who has
pretended to deceive himself witii that delu
sion know that they can never legislate after
they have repealed that law. Does he not
know that Cleveland will veto everything
they do? If they pretend they are bimetal
lists and friends of silver they simply lie.
(Great applause.) I told you I would ‘speak
plainly and bluntly.
A Voice—That is what wo want.
Governor Tillman —I sjx-ak the language of
the Bible, the plain Anglo-Saxon. Why, for
the conditions they are offering us the reme
dy reminds me of the old doggerel:
Mother, may I go out to swim?
Oh. yes, my darling daughter:
Hang your clothes on a. hickory limb.
But don’t go near the water."'
(Ln lighter.)
Don’t you go near the mint with vour silver
bullion; don’t keep in that direction. We
want you as a commodity, not ns money
nutke you a slave of gold, not its equal: we
xx ill redeem you in gold. and. therefore, de
stroy you as money of final redemption. And
they tel) you they are bimetallists! (Ap
plause.) 1
Thu South’s Situation.
Gontlemtn. so mueh by xvay <>f ge ier.ilities.
I tun not trying to convert a'nv of y Gi i to bi
metallism. It is useless to talk of that to
jgii. I fiinie hen? for another purposo, an 1
I want now to proceed to fulfill it. I want
you to understand, once for all and fuiiv
the situation in the south. The talk wliith
timid patriots
p.ltliots. <,od forbid that 1 should so dese
emte tho word politicians, these timid poll
thi- ‘o. 'TI'* 1 '* hav r r ' f " s, ‘ , l "• part lei pat,- in
II ii. ot who have not taken any pains to be
-ome ntqiiainod and get in touch with one
all ’” 1 ’ , ‘ r —tlrnse fellows who f.-el one side with
a gentle touch to see how tile popular feelintr
is going to be—they say that this is a s*-e
--iiiii' 1Ilov, ‘“"‘ nl; ,bnt < b, '. v cannot take part
d-.mL one of the morning
fiUle sqnib:"‘ S V "' V ’ had *" jt ,I)is •’«
sorne >«*n toiires of VV<»l>st<‘r’s speech reniy
tn Havnv. ’ ‘ 1 *
Frentivnien. may clisK-uino n ns wo
fy <llMprnif*o it. try t<» protend tliiw.
tiiat <»r tin* otlier. I»nt I Yinvo alwnvH not!<*«*<!
tnat In tldw union tin* HoetlonH voted an tHeir
in t ••rests dietated. 'l'liey luxve a I way k voted,
and will eonllnut* to vote, and ft is tlieir duly
to vote, for wliat they regard ns tho Interests
of thrir eonst It nonts. J mean representatives
or UKYorent sections In congress should vot<
for wliat they regard as the interests of their
constituents, and it is not sectionalism at all
within reasonable bounds. This is a great
country, and it is so great that the extremi
ties of ti know nothing of each other. The
papers of one state do not circulate ‘in an.
otlier. We never se- in .South t’arolimi anv
papers from up here, and you see no nailers
form our state. 1 ' '
A Common Meeting Ground.
The only plats* where the people of this
or mt d ‘'‘■'’i'nTh C T‘ ~‘ ,U 'V a bbinmon
giotmd in 'ihe hubs of congress, and livre
I rt.sli to suggest an de.t that has caused me
groat uneasiness for the perpetnitv of our
insetu;.oils and the continuauee of the union
as it .s -ihat is the great diversity of inter
ests and that pari.saji adherence to partv
which makes men forget that other men have
r.glits. (App.ause.) Thai makes them forget
that some v.a,.tsos ‘which they .are u-g. sorting
against may be albolutely .ruined by tin* pas
sage of a ‘certain law. and J announce todav
that, any mail who is not broad enough anti
patriotic enough to consider the whole na
tion, consider the Interests of every state hi
th.s union, is not t 0 reprex tn ‘anv state
in any icg’.slature anywhere. (Great ap
plause. I Talk about sectionalism I When th*'
flat went forth from the leaders of the re
pitbllvati praty that the fourteenth and fif
teenth amendments must, be passed in order
to humiliate and punish the southern people,
they .ticket! one vote of tii«. tieeessarv two-
thirds majority to carry it. What did bey
d<>? Nevada at that t.'mi* was a mining ca up.
The discovery of rl"' Comstock lode had filled
her with ail vent ttrors from at] parts of the
earth, and sin* had a floating population of
lOti.OIXt or 15b,009. They admitteii Nevada
into tin* union, solely with a view to get that
one vote that was nei'essar.v. No.w ‘whirt ‘tire
they proposing to do with Nevada? (Laugh
ter.) Now they propose to übliterate as
far as they may Nevada by adding Utah to
it an 1 giving her some population. (Laughter.)
I have got no objection in the world, because
I think Utah is democrat.e or popu st or
sum thjng of the sort-Maaiglt ter and ap
plause) —at least the people ■are ti favor of
free silver, and i don’t, think they will get
rid of Senators Stewart and .Tones by that
■sort of hocus-pocus.
Probing Old Woontii.
Now. let us come on down to the eml.
You will excuse me if I rip up some oiti
wounds, or if I prolw* those that are healed.
1 do *t in kindness and in sincerity, but it is
necessary in order -to have a clear and per
fect understanding of the s’tnation. We
are—all men are---more or less creatures of
habit anil “dueatlon. We inherit our reli
gion, we inher.t our poiiities, and we (trans
mit to our chlbireu our hates. D ; s not
worth while to ta k about the war, or how it
came on, or who got the most glory out of it.
You got all the g.ory ami we go; all the bit
terness and ashes. lam not going to speak
of that. I j tst want to attract your atten
tion to it. that 'those of you In this western
country who are our allies in everything, who
have been f- lowi tg the banner of New Eng
land and those eastern manufacturing states
in your efforts to erush and enslave the south
ern people by your adiicreuci* to the repub
lican oarly-those of you who have been told
to volt' as you shot and have done it. I sim
ply want to say to you that I am glad that
daylight is nt iast dawning amt that you re
alize. after twenty-live yetirs, ffiat we have a
cornuiunity of interests betwi*en the south
and the west, and you are tiirtiing to us with
longing eyes to come he p you battle for
your own interets. and undo the wrong you
have done to ns. (Applause.) Wo can staml
anything down our way. (Laughter.) Our
climate ’s so genial, our s >,‘l so fertile that
we have been enabiel to rehab.iitate our
country and to enter the race with tin* north
ern pi ople. a long ways behind it is true, but
sti?! rapidly gaining. Although we are be
hind you at the production of iron, we are
(.steadily approaching you in that, anti the
same is true i'n the m.ttiufaeture of e» -ti and
other ent<'rpr;ses.
The interest the farmers down there have
paid since ’fi3 lias amounted to from 1<» to i’Hl
per cent for what we have bought on credit,
and yet we have stood it. and we are not so
deeply in debt now as you are. (Laughter.)
T tell you that we have been skinned by the
financial ysstem and the tariff so long that we
have got no skin left and have learned to live
without it. (Laughter and applause.’ It does
my soul good to know that your withers are
wrung, that your backs tire being bared until
you have risen up and intend to help us grow
some skin ourselves in order that you may
save your own. (Great applause.)
The Nruro Question.
What is tiie trouble with us? What has
been the bone of contention? The negro quei
tion. The republican party has been wavin
tiiat old rag—the bloody shirt —ami has mad
accusations of murder and of bulldozing. •
-ballot box stuffing and all that sort of thin,
but the greatest curse of nil to us has bee
those who were told to vote as they shot an
who have followed blindly the dictation <
republican orators and voted on section
and race lines only. You shot us hack in
the union and we intend to stay there. (A
plause.) Wo are ready to help 'you to malj
it a real union. (Applause.) We are reml
to shake hands across the bloody chasm at
throw away the malice mid hatred we han
felt for tin- wrong we have endured.
Will you let us? (Cries of “Yes! yes!’.
Can w - trust you? (Cries of “Yes! yes!” Bi
let :. call your attention to something
(Laughter.) A voice: "Spit it out.”
Yes. I am going to spit it out. (Laughter
It may lie bitter, but you people up here lint
the fever mid quinine will do you goo
(Laughter.) I have found my old friend, tl]
governor of Colorado, the most reealcitrmJ
red-hot, old-time state’s rights democrat '
ever met in my life. (Laughter and applausd
He is masquerading as a populist borause r
is ashamed to say lie has been mistaken a
long. (Laughter.) Have any of you ev‘
heard of the Hamburg riot? I don't suppoj
there is a man here who has not. because!
was heralded all over the union and held u
as a typical southern outrage. Hamburg |
within thirteen miles of my home. I am!
Hamburg rioter, mid I desire to ask if ya
would take me to be a man who would mtirdj
negro s in col l b| ol an 1 without provocat :oJ
(Applause.) We had to rise In our desptl
and undertake to restore Anglo-Saxon civil
zation. or-leave our homes. The rottq
government, fastened by Grant upon us froj
1868 to 1576 became so burdensome that vl
preferred martial law to a continuation I
robber government. Well, that Is the sit;-.!
tion. There are in Smith Carolina ilo.bl
male negroes over twenty-one years of
there is a 40.000 negro majority, mid th-,
point to that fact as evidence that that stag
cught to go republican.
What do the men in the New Englai
slates, whore thousands upon thousands a
employed in factories, do when they want
carry mi election? They say to their oner
lives, “If you don’t vote like wo want you
vote, yon can move on.” That is all rigli
We. down in our country. In our endeavor
maintain good government mid good ord<
use our means and say. “If yon don’t Hi
it help yourselves.” There is 2.000 negro >i
jorlry in tny county, and Grant hud a rei
mont of troops there is '7(l trying to tu-eve .
tts from carrying it. and we bent them 3.0
votes. (Laughter mid applause.) I make i
apology for it. You would have done ti.
same, and you wouldn't have endured on"
tenth of what wo had to endure. We we
a conquered people and we had to submit. 1
Tlift Solid Si.utb,
Wliat has kept the south solid? Why won.,
it split up on economic questions? you asl-i
J tell you. gentlemen, there is but tine thiih
that has kept the south solid, and that wir
keep it solid as long as we are threateink
with it. and that is tin- fear of negro donilmrt
tion and the restoration of those governmeiJl,
that robbed ns of over $150,000,000 during tjtl
short time they were in existence. lit
Whv don't we vote with you up here? W].‘
don’t we vote with the populists? you asjl
Why don't we give you some assurance?
tell you perfectly plain and blunt. Let
understand one another. You have been t
most reeahitrant, red-hot. black republic;,
in this union. 1 mean by that, republic, -t
who arc forever ami eternally harping abo
the “poor negro.” They love him aceordit
to the square of the ’distance ami ha
used, iiint for nothing else on the face
God’s earth than for perpetuating the r
publican party in power. Now they fa
about taking away a certain part of our repr
sentation ami disfranchising the negro.
Then* are men .at the north ami there are Ini
dreds of thousands of them, who are ready
join us in a sehonto to disfranchise the po
ami Ignorant everywhere. The anarcliisl
communists and other foreign riff-raff gli
them the ague. When they enfranchised l1
negro they gave ns a club that we h ive silt
used in a very scientific manner to club the
with. They gave us thirty to fort.v add tion
votes in the electoral college and the additio
a! members of congress bj* reason of tteg
representation.
Hnv«* I'sed the Chib.
We have used this club very skillfully to pf
serve our liberties up to this time. They ga|
us the club to use and we are going to hoi
on to it. and it will be to your benefit thl
we do hold on to It, because with it we wj
win this tight, for sliver ami the rights of ll
masses in which wo arc now engaged and l><*
those who are mainly instrumental in enfr.i
chising the negro to perpetuate republic)
rub*.
Now, gentlemen, I have told you that fj
negro is the troublr with us. The blackest ii
publicans, the stanchest and most outraj-’j J
in ihe.r demands that the negro in tin
should have a free vote and a fair count..*'’, j
n the northwest. was tu«>ir sbl'aC *» ,
m*":; l.s safo ,M .‘.rta .'n for th* 7^ , '»>fl l
nonitue,- ,is Smillii ’.irol !>•>•
vrm'-e an.l -spec. :11 l.v '' M
farnmrs was that way and they ttsed lit,
spites and hatreds </f the war to Induce y.
to "vote as you shot:" ami they have quiet
regulated tiie progress and growth of tl>
countrv in that little corner over yonder oat
of Lake Michigan and north of the I’otouia
A Pertinent Question.
“What are you going to do about it’
*‘Whi*re are we at?” 1 asked you a mom,),
ago ,f we could trust you; and some of y<
said “ye.'.’’ lowa is not represented her
Miuiicsbta is not reprcsenied here; neither <
the Dakotas is represented here.
Governor Lewe.iing lowa w<ts represents
here by General Weaver.
Governor T.liman les, ami lie sa.d he wa
readv to meet us half way and all that sm
of thing, ami then he stopped. M here did W
look for assistance and he.p? We loutnl .t l
tin- stanch democracy of New York, New Jttl
sev Connecticut and Ind.amt. We could iff
conie here because Ephraim was wedded I
his idols and we lent to let you alone. If y<)
are ready to leave those idois and set up
new god—a god of our wlm.e country—:t go
whom we can ail appreciate as tree Amer
cans- we are ready to jam hands with ym
(Applause.) But we cannot, we dare nt
spurn the bridge wh.ch hits earr.ed us safe,
over, until we know upon what we maj d,
’"Todav. gentlemen, some of your represei
Prives 'n congress who nr<* making this ga
lain' tight in behalf of silver and for rl
emancipation of the people from ta.s fliianci;
thralldom are as b.lter in their leeimgs to tl
south ns they have ever been. Ih s ,s
complex eond.tion for tt>. It we woti.d kn
from being ground to powder we w.ll jo.
forces with vou as soon as we have guarantet
thir ent be trusted implicitly. (Applause
Tiie dem ,era.-y of th- east appear io h.it
deserted the democratic standard, are .gno
ing our platform or are construing .t t • sti
themselves, and are in open a.l.am-e " 'l'. ’I
republicans in the.r tin'inc.al p0,“.'.-. 1,1
have left us of the,south on the st.ver que
tion. can we trust you of the west on 1!
negro question ?
an We Trust You
The gentleman from Kansas tells me we a
right. M,v friend over there says they w
turn the.r senators out if they try that, at
alt that sort of th.ng. I’erhaps so. I tel. y (
it is the God’s truth that as much as we r
allze and understand the evi.s that eonfro
its *n the s.ngle gold standard, and the loss
that it w.ll entail upon the people, the gr.n
tig perpetual poverty that confronts its if r
go”d standard is adopted >n this country,
does not beg.n to compare with negro domm
t.on in the south, and before we permit it. i
" I nderstand me, we are ready to give tl
negro id h.s r.glits under the law. We do n
propose to oppress or injure h.m in any wa
While 1 do not pretend that there was n
fraud and biilidoz.ng, both .n ’<(> and ’7B
8 ,tiih Carolina, there has been none of eith
s.'m-e ’.82; and if we are left to solve the neg
problem in our own way. the better it w.ll
for him and all concerned. Ln.ess the will
men of the south and west can remove tl
stumb’.ng block which now separates the
the next decade will see more white slay
in the I'nired States than there were ev
colored ones. The eimtue.pat.oil of the Allg
Saxon and the preservat.on of our governnie
- tiie pre'ent.on of a plutocracy mure gr.nd.
than that of Rome, merits our ardent.on.
I am nearly through. I think we undi
stand each other fully, but In order to tn
this into a practical shape let us start o
right. As I told you. I am not a politlcia
unless you consider plain common sense p,t
lies. Let us come right down to practit
business. The states south of the I’otom
' and. Ohio rivers anil west of the Mississi;
will send to the electoral college 224 vote,
Iwo more than enough to elect a presiden
■ They have iifty-four senators—majority
, twenty. They have 170 representatives
! the house, nine less than a majority. Bet
I cross the river and see what our prosper
I are over there. We see plainly enough th
I wo can hold the senate; we can capture
anti we can held it. and we can capture t
presidency. (Applause.) There are Illlno
Indittna. Michigan and Wisconsin I won’t
to Ohio because I believe they are so weddet
or rather they have developed their mtinuf:
Hiring industries to that extent that ’lew w
stick to tiie republican party, or the caste
democracy, because it looks very much to t
as though party lines were absolutely oblii,
ated hi congress—l think it is a question n,
of “each man for himself mid the devil ta
stanch allies and vote solidly with ns. (.i
pl a use.)
T he Folk* Across the Itlvcr.
Rut what is the prospect of carrying thes
I don’t know anything about the situatii
te« in a general way. <knight a
ills witii a vast floating vote. h« 5 *h
ill- with us, because we are fight Ing nt p
tittle of the laborer and of the taciory b
naive as much as we are a i(llc u
ens the farmer. Those men who Aie mm (
ulhere—hundreds of thousands k U p;us '
<of them starving while wheat in
nlrth 35 Cents a bushel, ought <
nl-h allies and vote solidly p ith uk. (Al (
uK mid the grandest of governments. ,
iifthlngs were not wrong smh a *
mi not exist, as farmers sta G g '' llb \ UI
h wheat and laborers s,! j h ( .
dl. If things were as thej «noum
3# man who wanted I y Y ork . c ? u ,, ( J„ S f. nu ii <
nJ get food and clothing for his family.
Wil N >t V tit ei-e li.e i rexhic"-
' r ftat do times millionaires up t} l . er n e ™™ so
utf n,.. v c ih) their coupons and go to
■>lpe and buy such official positions as
’filter*?
ff the republicans were just as 1 a • I
'T.ittle Johnnie Wanamaker. (L-Ui.-l’t 1
”dit here I will take occasion to s-D. J•“ *
‘S-n’t a word of abuse for sTlr’A.l^ 5 T lr ’A. l^' to
fl think It does any good. I was sorry t
•• the gentleman from Alabama .
>?-gs) pass those strictures <>n
,'lffing. He is the President of the J,'•»
ll |les, mid he was put there 11
’ltv. and under circumstances shat
fc’Xe’in'-hc will
fe l or'^ 1 « MeV
irb^e^t^bls and the .
‘b'VsaiA H S ls°a n that without
'Essing either of these rlv '“ ...V I?
' , \\’:!^ssi r^^ll ,1 f-r. and ct
r inly enough straggling n « n
enough io }ojo so» tl,( ‘ or
> hole rath.-r than their iu4iv! Inal int nst
ti e dictation of Wall street to „iv<- us ama
' ,r tv tn eon-Tess and to restore our countty
i ad‘ bring if back to its original pnn>. sex
t i-t<-h wore “the greatest good to the greau st.
umber." without interfering
ml liberties of any section. (Appian. .)
S»n i ill West.
Sectionalism! Well, we can’t help it. if the
nterests of one part of «'>LV OUI kn- we of
be’-muth and’west "in this proposed alli-ance
oeking to do any wrong or to "take
|are’of' o'n'r'iejves. 'and "ivin'g VaJ"
[dnuse 1 ’)' 1 Ami ’it's I sold ’this'nmriiing. - the pro
nmlon’of om‘ self-interest is Patrhdisui l>ro
tvlded s-ls-i nt erest does not go so fa- tna .
tob vour neighbor, and make him your slaw.
(Applause.) The south and the we>t pos.e--
Itiio strength to run this country mid to tult
it anil we will rule it unless we have b ee°"' e
Lo besotted mid so lost to our in '•rests, mid me
], ssles-.- we me so far enslaved ,b '
kings that they can come out here . in«l I,
von Can they buy you? (A
’ Governor Tillman: Ah. that s mig l.v, w ak..
You seem to fear the power of go d t » <
tlon< but I can tell you there tsn t motlgn
n-onev in Wall street to buy South (arolina.
‘Vt’nI 1 men: I beg your pardon for <’’espass
ttg upon y«"ir time so long, " 111 , ~~0
ipport uni ties to consult with your .
th.-m understand the situation Vu emt get
i-our organizations and P olinL ’ a \ lK ’ > 770?7 ( ?v0'r
can find out Where vou are. And whemiir
vou are satisfied to let the past be past and
turn vour fact's to the future, reaehit'g to .is
he hand of brotherly love, we will <->me to
your standard from the Potomac to tae
Grande. (Applause.) -
Governor Tillman, as ho ’itb-red tne I. -r
words of his speech, was given choir aitet
cheer.
Kansan and South Carolina.
Governor Lewelling, who lad resign'd the
chair followed Governor I tlltn.in in a si.m t
speech. Ho stti.l he was willing to
South Carolina’s governor at ,he lino, tint m
thought the fact that Kansas’s V'.et'tl repub
lican majority had been oblitertU-tl ought o’
show how his state stood. He said Huy far
ed nothing for the color auosfion. He wan.ed
patriotic sentiment which would inc’” l .''' J 1 '’
upbuilding of the whole people. Mill tie'
governor of South Caroli 11a grasp my hanu.
he said in conclusion.
And the south and the west joined hands.
When Nature
needs assistance it may be best to render it
promptly, but one shoidd remember to use
even the most, perfect 'remedies only when
* Iv »M tl»<» s.vrun of
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FROM FJIF
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Editor Constitution—M ith very great reluc
ftnee, I beg to discuss the call ‘“o the col
/ red people of the United States.” issued by
Ishop Turner In today’s Constitution. lie
(has done much to upbuild his race. Hither-
I to, as far as his public utterances are con
/ eern ’d, he has not sought to antagonize the
The card in question, however, is to be de
plored.
It is, in the last degree, inflammatory and
exaggerative. The bishop, for cupa', loses his
equipoise and grows hysterical and inordinate
ly furious. Lynch law should be reprobated
everywhere. It is disruptive of all law. ami
its baneful effects weaken, and if unrestrained
will subvert all government. It is a cup of
gall which the white people of this country
would gladly have passed from their lips for-
The evil cannot be remedied by such in
flammatory appeals as contained iu the card
meiitiotieil. Conventions of the character
cal.ed, wrought by such passion as Bishop
Turner manifests, will intensify the evil.
For a crime, which should be nameless, ex-
I ce.pt in the confines of hell, negroes have been
\ occasionally lynched in this country.
The vast'majority of our colored population
ire good citizens, and live among us in con
entment and security. The southern whites
treat such class with especial kindness and
•onsideration. M’e educate their children,
tud Bishop Turner, am! his ministerial co
laborers. do not. hesitate to ask. and as un
liesitatingly receive, from their white friends,
-I'bstnntial aid in building their churches.
\tul yet. because vengeance swift and resist
less, ’is sometimes visited upon lustful vaga
boittls of his race, this man says: .
‘•■rite history of the world furnishes no
sina’.ogv for the state of things transpiring in
this country. The bloody reign of Queen
Vt irv. ’he horrible massacre of St. Bartholo
new’s dry. m>r the bio.’dy orgies of the
vorl'l’s historv present no paralie.. rm - tnej
political’, religious or civil persecutions,
hili' ours is upon the plea of most revolting
! t .on»ss perpetrated.”
i Tie slightest knowledge of history teaches
I fat the above statement is grossly exagger
ledand does the south, from which such ap
pal emanates, and against which it is evi
! <j.‘ntr directed, a most grievous injustice.
I t'otiniiing, the bishop says:
i “Tterefore. if we are the execrable demons.
' it* Ualleged, through tl"' public press daily,
I tl • let should be impartially investigated ami
nbuitioiiablv established, ami we should do .
it "'Selves; and if our guilt is established.
i ar.<l bobs are indispensable to tiie eradica-
I tiinf our hideous crimes, we should cmisti
i tu'ciir own mobs and punish our own cul-
I prltsbind free white men from that bloody
I taskis a largo majority of \‘s have always
beeniw-respectlng and law-abiding.”
\ Irimts anomaly tills. Thus perverted
anil inassloned. how can the facts under dis
cussjj be “impartially investigated?” 'Die
eonvition. align itself with the accused, [
how mid they impartially try their own case,
and 1 their own prosecutor am* jury? But
tiie list significant statement there conta’neil
is th proo’’ "f ’t'e rr"'lt of th" scoundrels of
the tie being furnished, the bishop and his
eonvition will mob and lynch them them>
S 'ls Ire a doubt in this bishop’s mind that
f,,. i; , “execrable demons” of his
ra 'e tve brutallv ravished and murd red and
; ilismubt'i-i'd sweet and innocent white wo
men id ehiblren- aye. at times going to the
verv ndle for victims? Is nto Mint fact m
<!ubit.>lv known of all men? I’oes he not
1 know hat a nameless horror hangs over our
snarstf settled rural communities, lest some
s.iiilkiff Dcjxro, like it bcusi the ,jiiu.ub'»
' siloid. spring unoti and ruin and rend some
unsusM-ting child woman? Mhat warrant
I has tl< man to bring such facts “tto eontro
versv -hen hundreds of graves of women am
eh hirk a, d ruined homes ail over his land
•ittesth;“iv and horror beyond peradventure?
Is not’iis insensiatc fury ami miserable etiy
illluo *insult t-o our ravished, sainted dead.
! M’ou'ld tpm’e permit I could,
’l7r’;"oin~ *i"V
, \k; b w l rtly-. tocondeinn..i A^st
time Its a vagabonds prom-
nhleh sows in. t " m ? bv geo-
''aul- r'l • i” imr.ded “Chester County
inseraoe." and begins with this appalling
Bl^‘U lt h -",'inai
mouths.
Some hava beau jirreSted. amt “
fullv half a dozen of these fiendish cihnina.
aro’nncaught and likely to escape J t i e .
n( ;\^ns e n , m , eseam? , 'frmn Me' ctutehes
the of
forts of the quaker element so elj btcau
was a negro, ami concludes urns. r . A ,...,- !l rc
"••The pw.ple of h'-th Cin-stt-r ;md Dclavtam,
counties are now leaping a hat • Johnson
teeth from the seeds sown lh< .
ease. and. unless the law s all --P „„
same its imperious sway. 1 11 " v ,.m-old
nrotectloil Io" girls, even f*n • ,i ivneh
children until the swift r L
upon a— nity.
other. K
ing if the horrible impulse or necessity
V ’l”°ainvention of the best clement of the
colored people was to meet :U " 1 , e * l -'Xnt
•raking mariyis or . 11 r lnut th( . n great
t’ne' the innocent vict.ms of lu.o,
harm will ~ pmocence and beau-
When a child, in ml I[s ti nmens, torn
tv. is ravished nn ; l. ns often hapjnn ~
| almost limb fromi Inn >. >• ■- by a
! t ho relatives ■' l “_ l . n ! , . ni i irresistible as the
i •'"Re k hon'd "immediately slav the
eyclonp > bn.Jh. £ innocent I:f<?
wretch? One sinb<-amirui. . ~l nb ruted
worth the r.v-s ot <■'<'' was
fiend Who mis oxer ,11V , er f n ’ly. _
risen from the ueaa.
Graves’s Comment on T *’ rne, ‘' her e
Editor Constitution: } '’-ell-meaning
an earliest diflen-nee vutltit- protesting
men of my own race • _ negro con-
against Bishop Turner s .. (1 increase
vention at Cincinnati to <; 01 ' sbl . “Lu-,
of the crime of rape, am ‘ Ti ; rlier . 1
1 "X the w'umst negro of
regard him as easily tn w . gef thnn
America—broader and klndc . states- !
Fred Douglass, if not so ?" L must be a mlx
manship. in its last ’ ( ..,,, a citv to feel .
lul . o of brain and Heat t-lhe . I for
deeply for a ‘ u red by «’’• ,he
their welfare. ‘ „ ,<■ j.jq zealous
earnest and consistent Je- - Turl) er
an(l yet conservative <a t ; uuilic stateS .
has demonstrated 'a-.Gann g lasl .i grat- |
n anship, and is e ,ll ‘ lle d ' tl Vl!ll imued cuii
itude of his own race, amt tnc
fidence of ours. i,,<elv Hid «<> satis-
.hands m every great nio me in the
and this inclination abides wttn
present instance. il( Jd j* ca re-
H the .Titles - hi" dH \ carnest-
fully they .must be s 11tik nn, )( . th(>
ness and I, ’e,d !lt ' ! ‘ ..Yv lllv ‘e men shall compost
that only coon ~iou upon injtmeion
this convention. 1-Ju >-" > ‘qection or ad
is pll ed U' iXalis. angtopho
rntssioii ol e-' ll ‘ - ~,<0,1,. men. Dele-
bists, drtmkads or d’lespons.bk m ~.
gates are urg-d to pr< P ; )e iIuUH-« .. J nf ..j
“ml
timoiiy i-eiieernmg the * v ” I .’ l i localities,
the action ot moi» lb ' - d tl , S( , n ,l
« of thls eonventhm
is to reach the truth, ami to v b lar us
be esurm
fi^;Lb“the M nntu% of this assembly is uatur-
'the ra" amt
delila-rate council, must make the Ingiiesi
g-..gate of negro inte.ligence to whmn > pa
triots of his own race, or the statexim n m
ours have ever had an opportunity to .ippial-
Stlielv the thoughtful men ot otir cornu D
-1-0“ see in the convention a. great and x la
. opisn-t unity. With the facts and >he evli.enee
at Hand to establi-h Hie a PP :,lliu « ‘.’.f
' rape among the negroes of ' i'!. < ,l }!. b
i uHouiii .-••■
lUtH >;•-<■•!■ iC, ir i>r».«Hii>i-’. In-- ,im-
... .1, <l<-ruo e'*' 1 ..; jo,-.-!-! >
•t,ija>uii*-- pr <*rln , <- I -,v.
inirmm-t U -1 'L... r,Hi..-<.r ■-• n.itura
,'f;;:r'?nri'>-reiVt' amt e’ultlvaled race antagonism,
the negro is not likely to lie intlnemred by the
tide of public opinion atmnig white men. It
is a last, and in many respects, a ii'-peftii ex
periment' to bring to bear upon him the stern
and outspoken condemnation of his own peo
ple. > ,
Let the white men everywhere who have
facts and statistics bearing upon th- qm-s
tion gather ami tabulate them. Let ns tar
nish to the world and to the negro hunselt
tl-.e definite proof of tin- charges we make. _ 1
am willing to trust to Bishop Turner and to
hope something from a convention in whieb
liis influence is central. .
JOHN TEMPLE GRACES.
Manchester, Ga., October Oth.
Seeking InfornialiOT..
Eden House, N. (’.. October 5. - Editor Con
stitution: I am a subscriber ami reader ol
your great paper, and have been edified and
impressed with the views you express upon
the financial and other questions of public in
terest. According to my judgment you advo
cate the right view of the silver question and
the only one that will bring permanent reliei
to the great, mass of the American people.
There are some things, however, 1 cannot
quite tinderstand, ami would be glttd if you
wouhl explain them in The Constitution. In
the first place it is stated tnat we have only
about •s■’{ per capita in the south, while in
the north and New England states there is
from S2OO to S3OO pel 1 capita. That money
is congested in New York and other north
era cities. How would the fre ■ and unlimit
ed coinage of silver increase the per capi'a
circulation in the smith and make a more uni
form circulation • 1 <*annot see hott xte art*
to get more mom y in this section unless there
is something to bu.v money with. Money is
only a commodity that is exchanged lor an
other commodity. It is true tiie south makes
largt' crops of cotton, tobacco, etc., that yield
an immense revenue, but if the low prices for
it nearly or quite equal tiie cost <>! produc
tion h'>w are we to retain any money although
there is an abundance in circulation? Under
the present system of farming in the south,
purcitasHig nearly all supplies from tin* north
ami west, we cannot see how we are to keep
'much money here. If 'he free and unlimit >d
coinage “f silver will increase the price of our
products, then our section will be benefited.
Will it do this? Does not a greater part of
tne money that buys southern cotton come
from Europe which consumes about three
fourths of our products If this is true, how
would Un increase in our circulating medium
enhance the price of it? M’ould not a de
crease in acreage of 33 per cent in cotton
I do more to advance the price of ii and bring
prosperity’ to our country than an increase in
our currency? I’lease elucidate and e.blige.
J. Tl. ETHERIDGE.
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