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fb Wl aitjpait mb jiflutjjnm. j WBDNKSDAY, JULY 31, 1895. -.- - j Tiilman the Alliance: He Fames Free Silver and Independent Action?The Democratic Party May Take Care of It self. The Alliance Meeting at Tirzah? A Political Meeting Pure and-. Simple. The following report of Senator Til 1 mao's speech at Tirzah is taken from The State. There were other speeches ?Marion Butler, of North Carolina-, and Got. Evans, bat their speeehes were of secondary importance com pared with the speech of Senator Tili man. ,*'Wben I received the invitation to speak at Tirzah my mind travelled back to 1886. Capr. Tiilman, who bad been raising some rumpus in the News and Courier with his pen, was invited to York." The Senator theo indulged in a little fun at his own expense, and referred to the old Tirzah, where he mr.de his first extemporaneous speech uine years ago. **I had been tongue-tied previous to tbar, bat the people of York clipped it, and my tongue has been wagging ever since." He was glad to be on band to-day. He thought tbey liked him, because he bad always tried to tell them the truth. This was what he wan tedd to do now. This was an Alliance meeting. The Alliance was not so strong in numbers as heretofore,' bat as an edu cative force its principles were strong* . er than ever. He felt proud that the Alliance was the organization through oar principles of reform had been ad vanced. Why are yoa so poor ? He said tbss Senator Butler told a truth when be said fifty voters in one party are cutung fifty other' votes in a dif ferent party. "Look at y oar condition. Although the ? United States bas produced unex ampled crops for many years, there are millions of oar people starving, and other milione naked. We will always be Democratic in principle, because we sacked those principles with oar moth* er's m'Jk, bat we cannot continue to wear the livery of a party io which such debauchery and treachery exist *'When yon look back at the repeal of the Sherman law yon find that the Republicans and Democrats of the Northern section voted'without regard to party Hoes. They buy your Con gressmen np there at Washington like yoa bay sheep. They also cuntro.led the nomination for President in both parties." It did not matter whether Harrisnn or Cleveland was elected* The Repub licans bad been trying for years to demonetize silver and could not do it. The change of the government from one party to another enabled Cleve land, by the use of? the patronage, to demonetize silver. The greedy Demo crats who had pledged the people tp fight for silver, sold their votes fcT offices for their friends or for money, I don't know which, and the conspir acy was consummated. The Demo cratic platform was good enough to be elected on, bat not worth carry out. The result has been that our yardstick which measures values has been cu^ in half, with the effect of doubling. the purshasiog power of the gold dollar. It takes now twice as much of labor or the products of labor, to buy a doliary Everything has shrunk in value except debts. To ail intents and purposes' tbey have been doubled. I will illus trate. If a man had ten biscuits and there were two plates of butter, one white and one yellow, and you threw away the white (silver), there is only half as much butter to the biscuit as there was before. The shrinkage in the amount of butter represents the shrinkage of the price of commodities, and until we make them bring back that other plate of botter all the pro ducers of this country will have to spread it very thin, and a great many will have neither bread uor butter. It is clear that both old parties are disintegrating and an new alignment* is in process of formation. Party ties are weakened. Like drowning men who catch at straws, the people are"! casting about for means of relief. The issue has heretofore been obscured or sidetracked, but in the next Presiden tial campaign the cniy question will be the financial question. A new ilason & Dix^n's 'ine is forming on the one side with the Northeastern section, con sisting of the cr?diter and manufactur ing States. On the other side will be a Solid South allied with a practically Solid West. An examination of the censas reports will indicate the enormous increase in the wealth of the New England and Middle ?tares, as compared with rbe re*t of the country, and even a fool must know that it is the result of legal robbery and unjust discrimination by Congress. Democracy is a dear name to us, bur wr no longer have the stbsiauce? we bave only the shadow. Aesop's fable of the cog aixi the shadow will illus trate the situation and show the condi tion of those of us who cling to the name, whilst we can't get the sub stance. We had a very small bone under the 1 Sherman act. We snapped at the.shad ow of a great relief promised in the ; Chicago platform and the restoration of the Democracy of power, and we haVetlos trt L ^ ? i 111 e. bo n*?.w eah ad And got nothing. At Memphis. I undertook to repre ! seni^W'people of Sooth Carolina and I told tithe friends of r?wr that if we j could not get a man whom we could trust in the Democratic party ou a i platform that was unequivocal and ex i plicit, we would cast our electoral vote l*rbr the candidate of some other party, jc #Did I represent'you ?" (Ooe or two j '?Noes" and a ohorus of .."Yes" were j heard.) . , "Well, I'll take a hand primary on it. I don't want yon to? declare - your selves Populists. .vl;ask all of you who J are willing to vote for a man for Presi * der?t, pledged to free silver, whether he be a democrat or not, to hold up your hands.". -:, (There, was a forest of open palms in the air in a moment^ ouly one man, Mr. Hull/ voting in the negative,* amid de risive cries.) "Now, gentlement,. he's not to blame ?he'.s only bliud. I respect and ad mire men who disagree with vie. but who have the manhood to stand by their Convictions. "We are all white men, but for God's sake, fov South Carolina's sake, never ret it be.said that the white men ap pealed to the negro to arbitrate their differences. I am no Populist. The Democratic party in the Northwest has been practically disbanded in ten or twelve States. WTbat hope have we oLelecting a Democratic Presi dent? What sort of a hope have we for genuine Democracy to wio in the next general election ? The result of the last election indicates that the Re publicans have strong hopes of elect ing the next Presiden' and there are many men in the South who think it a good time to join that party in the hope of getting office. I have been looking for some new converts to that party in this State, but so far none have announced themselves. Can we stand four more years of this sort of thing, boys ?" .Well, we have stood so much of it that I don't believe you can starve us. Nothing can do thai, but my God, it i? so awfully tiresome. "While the South is practically solid for silver our condition of financial slavery is almost intolerable. We must endure our suffering until'the hand of American brotherhood is reached out to us by the Northwestern farmers, and tbey cry aloud in their distress, 'Come, help us ' The only hope is to ally the South and West together against the North' and East, but don't let ue im pose the condition ou those seeking the Alliance that we go as Democrats alone. Those people despife that name. That hatred is an inheritance of the war?justas we hate the neme He publican. Those States contain a larger percentage of Union soldiers thao any others, because they moved there just after the war to get eoldiers' home steads and tbey have been accustomed io connect the ..word Democrat and Copperhead together just as we connect Republican and negro together Those people are now being ground to pow der between the upper and nether mill stones. Why not both sides give up .party names and meet half way '{ If your house is burning down, will you stay iu it because it is labeled Democratic. We can't take the name of Populists because they have too many 'isms' and radical ideas, aod they have [ pandered too much to socialism. They call me an anarchist?a right bran new One?but cannot 'stand many things in true Populist platform. Why, in "GrbdY name, stay here and go down with Jtbe 'hull of the old rotten Democratic ship? At \M em phis I trod on some ?f?mocratic'1 toes But on the other hand you should have heard the wild : Hurrahs of those who agreed with me. It was like a.Tilimanite campaign meet ing in 1890. Now they talk about a ring. Yes, its. a hand's-all-round ring of 00,000 Reform Democratic voters? and I am proud to belong to it I s CONTROLLED BY TRAITORS. "Tcaonotsee how any man con stand I by the Democracy when it is cc-utrolled j by such traitors as Cleveland and Car j lisle. I say to you now?when the : time comes we can deliver the electoral j vote. I believe, I know we cau do it j (Applause) Theouly test heretofore in j this State, of Democracy, has been white I supremacy The only obstacle to the . union of the friends of silver is the loaves aod fishes of the local officer , The desire to control these has moie to . do with the.continuation of the exisit i-ing parties than the principles. The j local machine-? in each State are the greatest barriers to the formation of a u.ew natioual financial party The American people should narrow d<?wu their locai politics and come together. For myself. I am s;> disgusted that I . am ready te threw up the name and give up the party. We must join the people of the North-west. The friends of sii ver are in the majority?40,000, 000 "ut of the 70,000,000 in this republic?but they are held down. All they want is the opportunity r.i get together. Shall we 1er. this matter of name keep us apart ?" Senator Tiilman then referred to the buying up of the metropolitan news papers and news agencies by the gold bugs. "Their cry,'* said Tiilman, ''is that the -liver craze is dying out There was never a more brazen false hood. here is ?<> silver era/.'* to begin with. Our people arc oot fo< Is, j and they are only striving with ri; ; in tensity of despair in release cur go'.ern . ment from the grasp of ri)" octopus to ? prevent the tories fr.it:? - King us into bondage t,o." the . British goldbugs. They understand the issue perfectly, as I will be proveo when the time comes to vote. 1 think I can safely pay the i South is solid for financial relief. ! Wben we'meet; the Nortwestern* 'p?o'pjej we must'be ready to go ahead ana oijjd gaoize. the new party.' Let'-the anrei be what it will. Let us determine here cow that we will get together, and that j the gol i bugs wil see* bow. little reHanoe is to Beplaced on the cry that the silver caze is dying." Senator Tillman spoke forty mioutes and was frequently^'tfjjplaued. ? A CHANCE FQR CHEAP O?L; v Bradford, Pa., . July 26.?jh ere was a drop, of 15 cents in-gerade -?U-i to-day from Thursday'-S 'closing-pride; | ?1 45v .The'.pjpe line agencies began*;': buying a? $1...42-.this morning and j continued at ' this-price until about 11.30, when there "was a temporary ; suspension of busiwess-. in the agencies here, lasting perhape fifteen minutes, j and no credit balances were purchased, j When business was resumed again ?1 | 37? was the price paid, which was con- j tinued until the close. On the Oil Exchange floor the best price at the close was $1 37^ cents be low the Standard purchasing agency j price. There is a large crop of new wells j due, and the drop in prices is taken as ; a criterion that some new field h to be ; tapped. There is no precedent for even momentary suspension of buying credit balances by the Standard or ! Tidewater agencies, and to-day's action | caused considerable surprise and com- ! ment about town Io answer to a query as to the cause of the temporary suspension of business by the purchasing agencies Mr. Joseph j Seeph, buyer for the Standard Oil Company, wires the United Press from Oil City that he knew nothing of such action.. -J Shot With His Own Weapon. Brandenburg, Ky., July 25.? George Robinson, the keeper of the j work house in this place, was shot aod killed this morning by Bland Shacklett, j one of the commissioners of the! institution. Shacklett and another | gentleman were riding into town in a buggy, and when within three miles of town, Robinson rode out of a cross road and, it is said, began cursing Shacklett. Robinson soon began firing and one bullet hit Shacklett in the mouth, lodging just beyond the ear. Three others miesed him. Shacklett, although wounded, took Robinson's pistol away from bim and fired one bullet into Robinso's right breast. 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