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| VOL. XXVI. LEXINGTON, S. C., FEBRUARY 5, 189G. NO. 10.!
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! POWER OF EXAMPLE.
j REV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE LESSON
OF ABIMELECH.
I
i The Folly of Depending Upon One Form
of Tactics?The Advantage of Concerted
Action?The Danger of False Refuges?A
Safe Tower.
Washington, Jan. 26.?In his sermon
j for today Rev. Dr. Talmage took for his
subject "The Power cf Example." The
text selected was Judges 9, 4S: "And
! Abimelech took an ax in his hand and
j cut down a bough from the trees and
! took it and laid it on his shoulder and
j said unto the people that wero with
j him, What ye have seen me do make
j haste and do as I have done. Aud all
! iho people likewise cut down every man
his bough."
Abimelech is a name malodorous in
Bible history and yet full of profitable
suggestion. Buoys are black and uncomely,
but they tell where the rocks
are. The snake's rattle is hideous, but
it gives timely warning. From the piazza
of my summer home night by night
I saw a lighthouse 15 miles away, not
placed there' for adornment, but to tell
mariners to stand off from that dangerous
point. So all the iron bound coast
of moral danger is marked with Saul
and Herod and Rehoboam and Jezebel
aud Abimelech. These bad people are
mentioned in the Biblo% not only as
warnings, but because there were sometimes
flashes of good conduct in their
lives worthy of imitation. God sometimes
drives a very straight nail with a
very poor hammer.
The city of Shechem had to bo taken,
and Abimelech and his men were to do
it. I see the dust rolling up from their
excited march. I hear the shouting of
the captains and the yell of the besiegers.
The swords clack sharply on tho
parrying shields, and the vociferation
| of two armies in death grapple is horriI
bio to hear. Tho battle goes on all day,
; and as tho sun is setting Abimelech and
j his army cry "Surrender!" to the beatj
en foe, and, unable longer to resist, tho
J city of Shechem falls, and there are
' pools of blood ami dissevered nmus ana
i glazed eyes looking up beggiugly for
; mercy that war never shows, and dying
i soldiers with their head on the lap of
> mother or wife or sister, who have ecme
; out for the last offices of kindness and
| affection, and a groan rolls across the
city, stopping not, because there is no
; spot for it to rest, so full is the place of
other groans. A city wounded! A city
! dying! A city dead! Wail for Shecliem,
; all ye who know the honors of a sacked
town.
A Strange Aruiy.
As I lock over the city I f:nd only one
! building standing, and that is the temi
pie of the god Berith. Some soldiers
j outside of the city in a tower, finding
that they can no longer defend Shechem,
! now begin to lock out for their own
| personal safety, and they fly to this
j temple of Berith. They go within the
! door, shut it, and they say: "Now we
j are safe. Abimelech has taken the whole
city, but he caunot tako this temple of
! Berith. Here we shall be under the proi
tection of the gcds." 0 Berith, the
i god, do yonr best now for these refugees.
' If you have eyes, pity them. If you
! have hands, help them. If you have
j thunderbolts, strike for them. But how
j shall Abimelech and his army take this
1 temple of Berith and the men who are
; there fortified? Will they do it with tho
i sword? Nay. Will they do it with the
j spear? Nay. With tho battering ram
I rolled up by hundred armed strength
j crashing against the walls? Nay. Abimi
elech marches his men to a wood in
Zalmon. With bis ax he hews off a
limb of a tree and puts that limb upon
his shoulder, and then he says to his
j men, "You do the same."
They are obedient to their comrnand!
er. There is a strugglo as to who shall
j have axes. The whole wood is full of
bending boughs, and the crackling and
the hacking, and the cutting, until every
one of the host has a limb of a tree
cut down, and not only that, but has
nut it on his shoulder just as Abimelech
showed hiin how. Are these men all
armed with the tree branch? The reply
comes, "All armed." And they march
oil. Oh, what a strange army, with that
strange equipment! They come up to
the foot cf the temple at Berith, and
Abimelech takes his limb of a tree and
i throws it down, and the first platoon of
| soldiers come up, and they throw down
I their branches, and the second platoon,
| and the third, until all around about the
I temple of Berith there is a pile of tree
| branches. The Shechemites look out
from the window of the temple upon
what seems to them childish play on the
' part of their enemies. But soon the
flints are struck, and the spark begins
to kindle the brush, and the flame comes
up all through the pile, and the red elements
leap to the casement, and the
j woodwork begins to blaze, and one arm
' I of flame is thrown up on the right side
! of the temple, and another arm of flame
t i is thrown up on the left side of thetemI
pie, until they clasp their lurid palms
! under the wild night sky, and the cry of
j "Fire!" within and "Fire!" without
: j announces the terror, and the strangula;
j tion, and the doom of the Sbechemires,
i and the complete overthrow of the temt
; pie of the god Berith. Then there went
J j up a shout, long and loud, from the
' j stout lungs and swarthy chests of Abim|
! c-lech and his men as they stood amid
; [ the ashes and the dust crying, "Victory,
victory!"
Forms of Tactics.
Now I learn first from this subject
: the folly of depending upon airy one
! form of tactics in auyrning we nave it
do for this world or for God. Look over
; the weaponry of olden times?javelins,
i batrleaxes, habergeons, and show me a
| single weapon with which Abinielech
: and liis men could have gained sucli
i i complete triumph. It is no easy thing
i to take a temple thus armed. I have
! seen a house where; during Revolutionary
times, a man and his wife kept bach
a whole regiment hour after hour, be
1 cause they were inside the house ant
j tho assaulting soldiers were outside the
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,
house. 1st hero Abimelech and h:s |
army come up, they surround this tern- i
pie, aud they capture it without the loss j
of a single man on the part of Abime- ;
1?'- T entiifl of t!,n !
illlUUUgU JL V.'X liiv Viv* I
Israelitish heroes told Abimelech, "You j
are only going up there to be cut to j
pieces." Yet you are willing to testify
today that by no other mode?certainly
not by ordinary modes?could that temple
so easily, so thoroughly, have been
taken. Fathers and mothers, brethren
and sisters in Jesus Christ, what the
church most wants to learn this day is
that any plan is right, is lawful, is best,
which helps to overthrow temple of
sin and capture this world God. We
are very apt to stick to the old modes of
attack. We put on the old style coat of
mail. We come up with the sharp, keen,
glittering steel spear of argument, expecting
in that way to take the castle,
but they have a thousand spears where
we have ten. And so the castle of sin
stands. Oh, my friends, we will never
capture this world for God by any keen
saber of sarcasm, by any glittering lances
of rhetoric, by any sapping and mining
of profound disquisition, by any gunpowdery
explosions of indignation, by
sharpshootings of wit, by howitzers of
mental strength made to swing shell
five miles, by cavalry horses gorgeously
caparisoned pawing the air. In vain all
tho attempts on the part of these ecclesiastical
foot soldiers, light horsemen and
grenadiers.
My friends, I propose a different
style of tactics. Let each one go to the
forest of God's premise and invitation
and hew down a branch and put it on
his shoulder, and let us all come around
these obstinate iniquities, and then with
this pile kindled by the fires of a holy
zeal and the flames of a consecrated life
we will burn them cut. What steel cannot
do, fire may. And I announce myself
j in favor of any plan of religious attack
j that succeeds?any plan cf religious at
tack, however radical, however odd,
I however unpopular, however hostile to
| all conventionalities of church and state,
i If one style of prayer doe3 not do the
work, let us try another style. If the
church music cf today decs not get the
victory, then let us make the assault
with a backwoods chorus. If a prayer
meeting at half past 7 in the evening
does not succeed, let us have one as
early in the morning as when the angel
found wrestling Jacob too much for
him. If a sermon with three authorized
heads docs not do the work, then let us
have a sermon with 20 heads or no
heads at all. We want more heart in cur
! song, more heart in our almsgiving,
| more heart in our prayers, more heart
! in our preaching.
A Blood Eed Fact.
Oh, for less of Abimelech's sword and
: mere of Abimelech's conflagration! I
j had often heard
There is a fountain filled with blood
; snug artistically by four birds perched
on their Sunday rocst in the gallery until
I thought of Jenny Lind and Nilsson
j and Scntag and all the other warblers,
I but there came net one tear to my eye
i nor cue master emotion to my heart.
| But one night I went down to the Afri{
can Methodist meeting house iu Philaj
delpbia, and at the close of the service
a black woman in the middle of the ani
dience began to sing that hymn, and all
I tho audicnco joined in, and we were
j floated seme three or four miles uearer
j heaven than I have ever been since. I ;
; saw with my own eyes that "fountain ;
! filled with blood"?red, agonizing, sac'
iificial, redemptive?and I heard the I
i crimson plash of the wave as we ail |
; went down under it.
For sinners plunged benoatb that flood
Loso all their guilty stains.
Oil, my friends, tho gospel is not a j
! syllogism; it is not casuistry; it is not
I polemics, cr tiro science of squabbles. It
is blood red fact; it is warm hearted iu;
vitation; it is leaping, bounding, flying
good news; it is efflorescent with all
light; it is rubesceut with all summery
glow; it is arborescent with all sweet
shade. I have seen the sun rise on Mount
i Washington, and from the Tiptop House, i
j but thcro was no beauty in that compared
with the dayspring from on high j
i tr-Vion fbrist r/ivoi lit'hr to a soul. I have i
i ' * **. v ' ?P ;
heard Parepa sing, but there was no i
music in that compared with the voice
of Christ when ho said, "Thy sins are '
forgiven thee; go in peace." Good !
news! Let every one cut down a branch j
| of this treo of life and wave it. Let him !
| throw it down and kindle it. Let all the j
i way from Mount Zalmou to Sbechem be ;
i j filled with the tossing joy. Good news! \
I This bonfire of the gospel shall consume j
, | the last temple of sin, and will illumine j
the sky with apocalyptic joy, that Jesus j
Christ canto into the world to save sin- j
' ners. Any new plan that makes a man !
: i quit his sin, and that prostrates a wrong, j
i i I am as much in favor of as though all j
| the doctors, and the bishops, and the
' S archbishops, and the synods, and the j
: academical gownsmen of Christianity j
k | sanctioned it. The temple of Berirh !
i must come down, and I do not care how j
i it comes.
\ ! The Power of Example.
! j Still further I learn from this subject I
: the power of example. If Abimehch |
: | had sat down on the grass and told his j
l men to go and get the boughs and go j
I out to the battle, they would never have |
> gone at all, or if they had it would have j
" , been without any spirit or effective re
i ' ?.:?i. i.;., ;
suit, but when Atnmeiecn goes ?un mz
' own ax and hews down a branch and
witli Abimelech's arm puts it on Abimj
?lech's shoulder and marches on, then,
my text says, all the people did the
same. How natural that was! What
' made Garibaldi and Stonewall Jackson
^ the most magnetic commanders of this
55 century? They always lode ahead. Oh,
1 the overwhelming power of example!
e Here is a fathc-r on the wrong road.
.1 All his boys go on the wrong road,
j Hero is a father who enlists for Christ.
q ; His children enlist. I saw in some of
r*_ j the picture galleries of Europe that be|
fore, rnauy of the great works of the
masters, the old masters, there would bo
sometimes four and live artists taking
copies of the pictures. These copies they
were going to carry with them, perhaps
to distant lands, and I have thought
that your life and character are a masterpiece,
and it is being copied, and
long after you arc gone it will bloom or
blast in the homes of those who knew '
you and bo a Gorgon or a Madonna.
Look out what you say. Lock odd what i
you do. Eternity will hear the echo, I
The best sermon over preached is a holy |
life. The best music ever chanted is a i
consistent walk. If you want others to j
serve God, serve him yourself. If you. j
want others to shoulder their duty, J
shoulder yours. Where Abimclech goes
his troops p.). Oh, start out for heaven
today, and your family will come after i
you, and your business associates will j
come after you, and your social friends i
will join ycu. With on j f ranch of the j
" * ^ t \ ? - I
tree ct me tor a uaion, <a :sji;u just as j
many a? you can gather. Oh, the infi- I
nite, the semiomnipotcut power of a good j
or bad example!
I saw last summer, near the beach, a i
wrecker's machine. It was a cylinder ;
with some holes at the side, made for
the thrusting in of some long poles with
strong leverage, and when there is any
vessel in troublo or going to pieces in
the offing, the wreckers shoot a rope out
to the suffering men. They grasp it, and
the wreckers turn the cylinder, and the
rope winds around the cylinder, and
those who are shipwrecked are saved.
So at your feet, today, there is an influence
with a tremendous leverage. The
rope attached to it swings far out into
the billowy future. Your children, your
children's children, and all the generations
that are to follow will grip that
influence and feel the long reaching
pull long after the figures on your tombstone
are so near worn out that the visitor
cannot tell whether it was 1896 or
179G or 1696 that you died.
Concerted Action,
Still farther I learn from this subject
tho advantage of concerted action. If
Abimelecb had merely gone out with a
tree branch, the work would not have
been accomplished, or if 10, 20 or 60
men had gone, but when all the axes are
lifted and all the sharp edges fall, and
all these men carry each his tree branch
1 3 ? *- ^ U A f Al>> r\1 A
UOWIJ UIIU lliruw I'J UUUUU iu\j itiojm., I
Ihe victory is gained?the temple falls.
My friends, where there is one man in
the church cf God at this day shouldering
his whole duty there are a great
many who never lift an ax or swing a
bough. It seems to me as if there were
ten drones in every hive to one busy
bee: as though there were 20 sailors
sound asleep in the ship's hammocks to
4 men on the stormy deck. It seems
as if there were 50,000 men belonging
to the reserve corps, and only 1,000 active
combatants.' Oh, we all want our
boats to get over to the golden sands,
but the mc-st of us arc seated either in
tho prow or in 1 ho stem, wrapped in
our sliiped shawl, holding a big handled
sunshade, while others are blistered in
the heat and pull until the oarlocks
groan and the blades bend till they
snap. Oh, you religious sleepyheads,
wake up! Ycu have lain so long in one
place that tho ants and caterpillars have
begun to crawl over ycu! What do you j
know, my brother, about a living gospel
made to storm the world? Now, my idea
of a Christian is a man on fire with zeal
for God, and if your pulse ordinarily
beats GO times a minute when you think
of other themes and talk about other
themes, if your pulse does not go up to
75 or SO when yon come to talk about
Christ and heaven, it is because you do
not knew tho ov.c, and have a poor
chance of getting to tho other.
In a former charge one Sabbath I i
took intu the pulpit the church records, |
and I laid them on the pulpit and opened
them and said: "Brethren, here are j
the church reccids. I find a great many j
of you whose names are down here are j
of? duty." Some wero afraid I would !
read tho names, for at that time some
of them were deep in the worst kind of
oil stocks and wero idle as to Christian
work. But if ministers of Christ leday
should bring the church records into tho
pulpit and read, oh, what a flutter there
would be! There would nor. be fans
enough in church to keep the cheeks
cool. I do not know but it would be a
good thing if ilie minister cuce in
awhile should bring the church records
in the pulpit and call the roll, for that
is what I consider every church record
to be?merely a muster roll of the Loid's
army?and the reading of it should reveal
where every soldier is and what he
is doing.
Call the Roll.
Suppose in military circles on the
morning of battle the roll was called,
and out of 1,000 men only 100 men in the
regiment answered. What excitement
there would be in the camp! What I
would the colonel say? What high talk- j
ing thcro would be among the captains j
and majors and tho adjutants. Suppose
word came to headquarters that these \
delinquents excused themselves on the !
ground that they had overslept themselves,
or the morning was damp end
they were afraid of getting their feet I
wet, or that they were busy cooking rations.
My friends, this is the morning
of tho day of (led Almighty's battle. Do
you not see the trcops? Hear yo not all
the trumpets of heaven and all tho
drums of hell? Which side are yon on?
If you are on the right side, to what
cavalry troop, to what artillery service,
to what garrison duty do you belong? !
In other words, in what Sabbath school ;
do yoa teach? In what prayer meeting :
do you exhort? To what penitentiary do j
you declare eternal liberty? To what
almshouse do you announce the riches
of heaven? What broken bone of sorrow*
have you ever set? Are you doing nothing:
Is it possible that a man or woman
sworn to be a follower of Jesus Christ
is doing nothing? Then hide the horrible
secret from the angels. Keep it away
A Lif-3 Saved.
Jamestown, Term., October 15, 1891.
My daughter hied physicians ami
! nearly all remedies for Female irregularities,
but received 110 relief or
beuetit whatever. We had nearly
despaired of her recovery when we
were induced by our postmaster,
Mr. A. A. Gooding, to try Gerstle's
| Female Panacea, and after using four
: bottles she was entirely cured, for
; which I feel it my duty to let it be
1 known to the world and suffering
| humanity, for 1 believe she owes her
| life to the Panacea. A J MACE,
Sheriff of Fentress Countv, Tenn.
v
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15.
from the book of judgment. If you are
doing nothing, do not let the world find
it out, lest tlicy charge your religion
with being a false face. Do not let your
cowardice and treason be heard among
the martyrs about the throne, lest they
foiget the sanctity of the place and denounce
your betrayal of that cause for
which they agonized and died.
Iday the eternal Cod ruuso us all to
action! As for myself, I feel I would be
ashamed to die now and enter heaven
until I have accomplished something
more decisive for the Lord that bought
me. Oh, brethren, how swiftly the time
goes by ! It seems to mo as if the years
had gained some new power of locomotion?a
kind of speed electric.
The temple of Berith is very broad,
and it is very high. It has been going
up by the hands of men and devils, and
no human engineering can demolish it,
hut if the 70.000 ministers of Christ in
this errantry should each take a branch
of the tree of life, and all their congregations
should do the same, and we
should march on and throw these
branches around the great temples of sin
and worldliuess and folly, it would need
no match or coal or torch of ours to
touch off the pile, for, as in the days of
Elijah, fire would fall from heaven and
kindle the bonfire of Christian victory
over demolished sin.
One Safe Rcfnge.
Still further, I learu from this subject
the danger cf false refuges. As soon as
these Shechemites got into the temple
they thought they were safe. They said:
"Berith will take care of us. Abimelech
may batter down everything else. Ha
cannot batter down this temple where
we are now hid ,1 But very soon they
heard the timbers crackling, and they
were smothered with smoke, and they
miserably died. I suppose every person
in this audience this moment is stepping
into some kind of refuge. Hero you step
in the tower of good works. You say, "I
shall be safe in this refuge." The battlements
are adorned; the steps are varnished;
on the wall are pictures of all
the suffering you have alleviated, and
all the schools yen have established,
and all the fine things you have ever
dene. Up in that tower yon feel you are
safo. But hear you not the tramp of your
unpardoned sins all around the tower?
They each have a match. You are kindling
the combustible material. You
feel the heat and the suffocation. Oh,
may you leap in time, the gospel declaring,
"By the deeds of tbo law shall
uo tiesli Jiving be justineu."
"Well," yen say, "I have been driven
ont of that tower. Where shall I go?"
Step into this tower of indifference.
Yon say, "If this tower is attacked, it
will be a great while before it is taken."
You feel at ease. But there is an Abimetech
with ruthless assault coming
on. Death aud his forces are gathering
around, and they demand that you surrender
everything, and they clamor for
your overthrow, and they throw their
skeleton arms in the window, and with
their iron fists they beat against the
door, and while you are trying to keep
them out yen see the torches of judgment
kindling, and every forest is a
torch and every mountain a torch and
every sea a torch, and while the Alps
and Pyrenees and Himalayas tnrn into a
live coal, blown redder and redder by
the whirlwind breath of a God omnipotent,
what will become of your refuge
of lies?
"But," says some one, "you are engaged
in a very mean business, driving
us from tower to tower." Oh, no. I
want to tell you of a Gibraltar that
never has been and never will be taken,
of a wall that no satanic assault can
scale, of a bulwark that the judgment
earthquakes cannot budge. The Bible
refers to it when it says, "In God is thy
refuge, and underneath thee are the
everlasting arms." Oh, fling yourself
into it. Tread down unceremoniously
everything that intercepts you. Wedgo
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TILLMM'S I'iTCHFOKK
Plunasd Into Cleveland
w
and Carlisle.
| oldites Excoriated
j
i TRUTH TOLD IN THE
SENATE FOR ONCE.
I
TERRIFIC ARRAIGNMENT OF THE DARK
CONSPIRACY OF THE CAPITALISTS.
?
A GREAT SPEECH WHICH ELECTRI
FIED THE COUNTRY.
_
A Clear Bugle Blast of Defiance
South Carolina's Great Senator,
j tho "Tiibuneof the People," Makes
a Speech the Like of Which Was
Never Heard Before in Congress.
Cleveland and Carlisle and Their
Co Conspirators Handled Without
Gloves?The Crowds in the Galleries
Could Not be Restrained, but
Applauded Him Again and Again.
1 Columbia Register.
"j Washington, January 20 ?The prosenta!
tion of committee rtports on Cuba and a
i highly dramatic and sensational sp.-ech
i from Mr. Tillman, the new Senator from
j South Carolina, furnished two stirring
i events in tue Senate today. The majority
resolution on Cuba, presented by Chairman
j Morgan, asks the President to urge Spain
| to grant belligerent rights to the iusnrgents
while the minority report, offered by Mr.
Cameron, directs the President to take
I
! steps towards securiug from Spain the complete
independence of Cuba. Both resolutions
went to the Senate calendar.
Such a torrent of inventive has seldom
been heard in the Senate as that in the speech
' r ? ? t* i. 1 ~ e th ~
i oi air. miman. v citrau memucis ui iuc
body characterized the speech as one of the
most remarkable in the history of the upper
branch of Congress. Is abounded in
statements of a sensational character, arraigning
President Cleveland, Secretary
Car!:s'.eaudoth<rm n in high plac.s. There
was a directness of s'atenicnt and a drat
inatic manner of delivery which awed floor
! and galleries. The gestures of the Senator
were u->ed frequently in acting his words.
At one point he made a profound salute r.nd
' tipped his hat to Sherman" as the fiuancial
victor of a quarter of a century. The
J galleries were moved alternately to applause
and laughter. Pausing for a sip of water,
| amid roars of laugh'er, he remarked, "I
seldom wet my whistle while I sp<"-ak: still
you can't run a wind mill on water.
Tho next moment there was a hush
. through the chamber as the Senator applied
such names as "Judas'' to a member of the
I Cabinet, or chara tenz^d the President in
sup?._*lative bitterness. At times the Senator's
voice sank to a whisper, as lor instance
when he gave warning of the api
proach of a popular revolution and communism
and the marching on Washington
of a host with -ifl -s in tbe'r hands. Agaiu
his \olce resounded through the chamber
; and outer corridors as he called Senators
and members "cowards" for not resorting
to impeachment.
! Mr. Tillman took the floor at 2 o'clock.
The galleries filled quickly and tie Senator
was accorded close attention. He moved
down from his rear seat to one in the front
row iu mediately in front of the presiding
officer. Although pr^v.de l with man
uscript, he began extemporaneously.
During Mr. Tillman's bitter criticism ol
* j the President, he laid aside his notes and
! j put Senators and galleries in roars cf laugh.
ter by telling how, r.s Governor of South
^ Carolina, he had come here to inaugurate
I the President and had stood four hours out
' in the snow and sleet until he was nearly
j frozen to death to do honor to this l'resil
dent. '-And," concluded the Senator, "I
ask God to lcrgive me for doing it."
r At o ie point, alt -r bitterly arraigning the
I Pre-idtnt, the Senator addressed bimse'f to
the ilepublicans and exe'aimed: "Why have
' you not impeached him? You have thema
jority to do it."
- j Mr. Hawley interrupted with the query:
. | "Wny didn't the last Congress do this? '
"He is not impeached," continued the
! Senator, "because be carries out your Ilcpulican
policy. The last Congress was no
i better than this."
Senator Tillman, iu bis introductory re[
marks, referred to the so called Senatorial
j dignity which does not permit apphuse
from the floor or galleries. He was a far"
! mer pure ani simple, he said, accustomed
' to speaking in the op^n air upon the hustings,
where meu where free to applause it
they felt so disposed. Iu the Senate it was
, considered undignified to applaud, the galleries
being reprimanded and the Senators
! confronting the orator with a "Senatorial
s'are which turned him into stone." S?n|
ators got up like school boys and read essay's
in a monotonous tone to empty chairs,
k j Where was the purpose of the founders ol
the country when they made the Senate the
B I greatest deliberative body in the world? It
- i was never intended that the speeches of a
y I ----- - .
Senator should be buried in the arclrves,
a which was now the case.
s ' How much of this, Mr. President," exclaimed
Mr. Tillman, "is clue to self comi-|
placeney, to the feeling among yoi?1
C hardly feel prepared yet to say amoug us ?
that you arc the Senate? How much of this
1 so called Sen itorial dignity, of which we
t hear so much and see so much, is wortkj
e of preservation? It hangs over this cham
' | her like a wet blanket; it smothers dowr
j independent action; it obliterates the mar
aud we are here the puppets, the cogs ii
the wheel of party, to do the b d ling o
the manipulators of the party machines."
These words, uttertd with much energy
1 provoked the first manifestation of applause
iu the galleries, which the Senator hardly
seemed to notice. lie returned to the assertion
that he was the only farmer, pure
aud simp'e, in the Senate, although out of
seventy million people, thirty-five million
were engaged in agricultural pursuits. As
a farmer he had broken the barrier and
forced his way into the Senate aud he proposed
to give utterance to their wrongs.
"Before I get through," said he, yon
will realize the fact that I speak'plainly and
! bluntly and use the language of the common
people, for I am one of them, aud I expect
to tell you how they fetl and what they
think and what they want."
Mr. Tillman began by sajing that he
would use plaiu Anglo Sixon. the lauguige
cf the common people, for ho was one of
them. He spoke bitterly of the essay reading
indulged in by Senators. He referred
to the statement of the Senator from Ohio
(Sherman , that the silver <picstion]bad been
thrashed out, sajing "yes, it bad been
thrashed by the speculators but not by the
farmers." As a farmer he would thrash it
again, taking tip the whole subject on a
pitchfork, ready, if need be, to uncover
the manure likely to be found."
Senator Tillman closed at 4 o'clock.
With sarcastic irony he thanked his colleagues
tor not having adjourned and left
him to deliver his speech to an empty hall.
At the close of his remarks the mcmb rs of
the House from South Carolina und many
others crowded around him and congratnlated
him.
"Mr. President," he said, "it is not say*
ing too much and I feel warranted in changing
that the derangement ia our lininces
and all this cry about sound money and
maintaining the honor and credit of the
United States are all a part and parcel of
a damnable scheme of robbery which had
for its object, first, the utter destruction of
silver as a money mttal; second, tho increase
of the public debt by the issue of
bonds payable in gold; and third, tho surrender
to corporations the power to issue
all paper money and give them a monopoly
of that function."
Senator Tillman referred to the Shermau
silver law in 1S90 and in this connection
said: '-The silver Itenublic-ns of the West.
? - i
who had deserted the silver Democrats of
the South and accepted the compromise
offered by Senator Sherman, may take
warning as to what faith or trnst they can
pat in any utterances or actions of the Senator
from Ohio as to legislation in regard
' to our finances. The time for another
Presidential election approaches They
mu-d understand that the election of any
man to the Presidency who would veto a
free coinage bill means defeat. It means
mor-; it means continued disaster to our
industries and increased poverty to the
masses of our people.
Under the Sherman law, he continued,
there was a diminution of the amount of
free gold in a gradually decreasing scale,
but not enough to cause any alarm. Dnrthe
entire year of 1891 and the entire year
of 1S92, there was approximately as much
gold as there was during I83i and 1885
He said:
If the secret history of ihe year 1892
shall ever be written, it will di.-close the
fict, which canLOt be proven now. but of
which I have not the slightest doubt,
that the gold ring of Now York, which cmbraces
nearly all the bankers in the Eastern
and Middle States and the stock g*m;
biers of Wall street, contro.led the PresiI
dential nominations of both the Demccra|
tic and Republican parties and had an unj
derstanding with the managers, or with
j both the candidates themselves, in regard
j to what policy should be pursued towards
j our finances They contributed money for
i the booming of Mr. Cleveland, as the only
available Democratic candidate, aud they
abused and ridiculed every o:her Democratic
aspirant.
There was plain evidence to show that
I
j the President himself had weakened on the
I epiestioa of tar:ff reform aud the financial
plank was cunningly dratted so as to satisfy
both gold and silver mtn with the intention
that it would be interpreted, if Mr.
Cleveland was elected, as meaning the ces-I
satiou of silver coinage and the lorciug of
a gold standard upon the people. Interpreted
according to the p.ain use and meaning
of the Eugli.sh words, the platform
' * <-?yti
means oi-meiRiasuj, uu, muc ui? .
tions aud ambiguous phrases which have
aflford-jd an < xouse to the conscience of the
bull headed aud self idolatrous man who
holds the reins ot power to pursue the
policy he has. Whether the scheme was
agreed to by the President in person or
not, ami whether he bound himse'f in plain
terms or not will, perh aps, never be known.
His coarse has been unswerving in the absolute
contradiction of his public profes- |
sions and letter of acceptance. The expectations
and interests of the people have
been forgotten and ignored. The party
which c-lected him has been betrayed and
its banuers, which floated so triumphantly
in the breeze of 1S!>2. now trail in the dust
! of defeat. The practical destruction of
the party has been accomp'ished."
There has been no trouble with gold reserve,
the Smatir asserted, and no hint of
any lost of confidence in the national credit,
. j until about the time of the last Presidential
| election. The-, for the first time, we got a
I glimpse of the conspiracy which he had referred
to before, ilr. Foster gave the holders
of greenbacks and treasury notes the
option of having government paper cashed
in gold or silver, and as they all demanded
gold the gold in the treasury rapidly ran
I down. The financial papers took up the
j cry of the country going to a silver basis,
! and the first premonitory breezes of the
i panic oi i8!?3 swept over the land and the
conspirators fomented it by every possible
ineaus.
' Instead of endeavoring to stem the tide
I min nnrt redeem the nlcdces of the
Democratic party, to cive the people relief.
; President Cleveland lent aid and comfort
. I to the conspirators bv his utterances and
>
j official actions in continuing the policy of
T his predecessor."'
The Senator ipioted from President Clevei
land's response to the committee that notii
lied him of his nomination the last time,
i and declared that there was nothing in it
f to vrarraut one to expect that the leader of
the Democratic party would ignore the
platform and treat with contemut the
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trusted lieutenants whom the peop'e had
scut to the national capital to assist in shaping
legislation.
4 The language would lead us to expect
the wry reverse. How many of these reasonable
expectations have been met?
How many of you men grown old and
gray 111 the service of the party and of the
Lation, men who were the trusted leaders
before Cleveland was ever heard of, how
many, I say, have been called into his
council*? If any speak, I shall be glad to
hear them Where has this man sunk his
personality? Whom haa he consulted?
Whose advise has he recognized? None,
but thatof the bootlicks and sycophants, who
have crawled on their knees for the crumbs
of patronage and.betra; ed their constituents
for the offices in his gift,
In the entire history of this country,
the high office of President has never been
so prostituted, and never has the oppointing
power been so abused. Claiming to be
the apostle of civil service reform, he has
debauched the civd service by making appointments
only of those whose sponsors
would surrender their manhood, and, with
bated breath, walk with submissive head
in his presence. With relentless purpose
he has ignored bis oath of office to nphold
and obey the law, and has paid out gold
instead of coin and issued bonds to buy
more gold, by bo:li actions overriding the
law aud RiviDg no heed to the interests of
any but moneyed friends - I might say his
owners or partners.
"While to this besotted tyrant coin has
come to mean gold alone, he caunot by his
mere 'ipse dixit' change the law of this
land and pervert the plain meaning of the
English language. His Republican partners
in crime, who set the unrighteous and
unlawful example which he has persistently
followed, and encouraged him in it to the
utmost extent, cannot escape the condemnation
of the houest, working, business
meu of the country as equal partners of
his guilt."
The repeal of the Sherman liw, it was asserted,
which was the first point ot attack
of this "unholy alliance," was only accomplished
through th6 aid and in conjunction
with a majority of the Rt publican
Senators.
This Democratic President accomplished
what was not possible for any Republican
executive under the circumstances to have
brought about. A change of the party in
power had Jelt a large number of offices in
his gift with which to buy votes."
In discussing the "honest meaning" of
parity of gr>ld and silver in the Sherman
law, he said: v
"The olj-ct was to have them assist each
other, to hold silver up by holdiug gold
down, and an honest Secretary of the Treasury,
who should have resigned his office
rather than submit to the dictation of a besotted
chief, would have paid out silver to
p otect tbo Treasury from the gold gamblers
and bond robbers, as the law and his
oath of office required But, alas, the old
breed of Southern statesmen like Calhoun,
who, after a life spent in the public service,
had to be buried at public expense and
bis debts paid by the State of Sontb Carolina,
is no more. No wonder the Senator
from Massachusetts feels warranted; in
twitting us with the decay of Southern
statesmanship and charging us with dishonesty.
He charges it, however, in another
connection and as aiding and abetting
this Judas from Kentucky, who, after
a brilliant career of twenty years and
more as leuler and champion of the silver
forces, has, in his old age, come to this
pitiful pass.
"The South bows its bead in shame at
this exhibition of moral cowardice and despises
the renegades; but I must remind
the Senator from Massachusetts that there
is as ret only one moral turpitude and
triachery to be charged against these men.
The Southern Congressmen and Senators
who came here poor, are still poor. They
have not become millionaires like some cf
their Northern brethren;and there is no
credit mobilicr steal, or Colfax scandal, or
Belknap bribery, chargeable to any Southern
man. Let him remember these things
and keep back his sneers and taunts."
The Senator contended that if there has
been one idea more persistently and prominently
presented to the American people
by Fresident Cleveland than any other, it
bad been the iniquities of the tariff aud the
demand for its revision. In season and
out of season, with '-damnable iteration,"
he had sung this siren song in the ears of
the farmers. In this connection he quoted
from messages of thi President ol 1887 and
1888, and said he did it for ' the purpose of
pointing out the evolntion of a tryrant and
of showing the transition from a conscientious,
law abiding chief magistrate to an ar|
rogaut and obstinate ruler who ignores the
j law aud issues bonds at will and issues
them under a statute that is subject to *ha
suspicion that it was intended to be temporary
and limited in its application, instead
of conferring a discretionary authority.
' He not only issues them, but does it
i secretly, with his law partner as a witness
to the contract, and has created the suspicion
in the minds of millions of bis country
j men that a President of the United States
! can use his high office for private gain."
He differs with the ltepublican party only
j in the one particular of the tariff and on
I that he has blown bot and cold as his pet
j hobby, and will go down in history as the
; most gigantic failure of any man who ever
! occupied the White House, all because of
his vanity and his obstinacy.
"To make good this charge," Mr. TillI
man argued, "that when President Cleveland
came into power in March, 1803, and
could have called the Senate and House
(both Democratic lor the first time since
the war) to carry his policy into effect, ho
did not cail an extra session to give the
i tariff* reform to the people, but instead
I called Congress together to stop the coinage
of silver. He, the President, had
waited until tbe 'object lesson,' the panic
j made to order by his fellow conspirators,
i had swept like a cyclone over tbe country,
prostrating all business euterj rises and in*
dustries and the newspapers had howled in
chorus iu the ears of the people that the
coinage of silver was the cause of the monetary
crisis."
Discussing the repeal of the pnrchaslug
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Continued on second inj,