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Tillman in a ta Field.
He Used His Pitchfork at
Last and a Big Crowd
Present to see the
Circus.
_____ .
Senator B. R. Tillman made his
maiden speech in the Senate yester?
day the subject under discussion be?
ing the financial question. The fol?
lowing is a synopsis of the principal
poin?s of his speech, which occupied
two hours:
'.Mr. President," the senator be?
gan, "it is not saying too much, and
I fee. warranted in charging that the
derangement in our finances and al!
this cry about sound money and
maintaining the honor and credit of
the United States are all part and
parcel of a damnable scheme of rob?
bery, which had for its object-first,
the utter destruction of silver as
money metal ; second, the increase
of the public debt by the issue of
bonds payable in gold, and third, the
surrender to corporations of the
power to issue all paper money
and give them a monopoly of the
function."
In a reference to the Sherman sil?
ver iaw of 1S90. Mr. Tillman said :
.'The silver Republicans of the
west who had deserted the silver
Democrats of the south and accepted
the compromise offered by Senator
Sherman, may take wrrning as to
what faith or trust they can put in
any utterances or any actions of the
senator from Ohio as to legislation
in regard to our finances. The time
for another presidential election ap?
proaches They must understand
that the election of any man to the
presidency who shall veto a free
coinage bill means defeat. It means
more ; it means continued disaster to
our industries and increased poverty
to the masses of our people."
If the secret history of the year
1892 should ever be written, it
would disclose the fact that the gold
ring of New York which embraced
nearly ali the bankers in the eastern
and middle States and the stock
gamblers of Wall street, controlled
the presidential nominations of both
the Democratic and Republican par?
ties and had an understanding with
the managers of both the candidates
themselves in regard to what policy
should be pursued toward our finan?
ces. They contributed money for
the booming of Mr. Cleveland as the
only available Democratic candidate,
and they abused and ridiculed every
other Democratic aspirant. Mr. I
Cleveland was undoubted y very j
strong with the mass of the people I
and his patriotic and sympathetic
utterances during his first adminis- i
trat ion. in behalf of the agricultural j
classes gave him great strength ; but j
there was no doubt that money was j
used lavishly and that there were j
pledges made in regard to the distri-1
button of patronage as a means of
controlling delegates and securing
votes.
There was plain evidence to show
that the r/resident himself had
weakened on the question of tariff
reform and the financial plank was
cunningly drafted so as to satisfy
both gold and silver men with the
ntention that it should be inter?
preted, if Cleveland was elected, as
meaning the cessation of silver
coinage and the forcing of the gold
standard upon the people. In?
terpreted according to the plain
use and meaning of English words,
the platform meant bimetallism, but
there were conditions and ambigu?
ous phrases which had afforded an
excuse to the elastic conscience of
the bullheaded and self idolatrous
man, who holds the reins of power
to pursue the policy he has.
Whether the scheme was agreed to
by the President in person or not
and whether he bound himself in
plain terms or not would perhaps
never be known. His course had
been unswerving in the absolute con?
tradiction of his public professions
and letter of acceptance. The ex?
pectations and interests of the peo?
ple had been forgotten and ignored.
The party which elected him had
been betrayed and its banners which
floated so triumphantly in the bieezes
of 1892, now trailed in the dust of
defeat. The practical destruction of
the party had been accomplished.
Mr. Tillman quoted from Mr.
Cleveland's letter of acceptance and
commented upon it in these words :
"There is nothing here which
would warrant one to expect that
the leader of the Democratic party,
its head and guide, would ignore
the platform and treat with contempt
the trusted lieutenants whom the
people had aeut to the national capi?
tal to assist in appointing the party's
policy. The language would lead us
to expect the very reverse. How
many of these reasonable expecta?
tions have been met ? How many
of you, men grown old and gray in
the service of the party and the
nation, men who were its trusted
leaders before Cleveland was ever
heard of, how many, I say have been
called into his councils ? If any,
speak. I shall be glad to hear them.
Where has this man sunk his per?
sonality ? Whom has be consulted ?
Whose advice has he recognized ?
None but that of the bootlicks, who
have crawled on their knees for the
crumbs of patronage and betrayed
their own 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 appointing power been
so abused. Claiming to be the apos?
tle of civil service reform, he has de?
bauched the civil service by making
appointments only of those whose
sponsors would surrender their man?
hood, and, with bated breath walk
with submissive head in his pres
ence. With relentless purpose he
has ignored his oath of office to up?
hold and obey the law and has paid
out gold instead of coin and issued
bonds to buy more gold, by both
actions overriding the law and giving
no heed to the interests of any but
his moneyed friends-I might say his
owners or partners.
"While to this besotted tyrant,
coin has come to mean gold alone, he
cannot by his mere 'ipse dixit*
change the law of this land and per?
vert the plain meaning of the Eng?
lish language. His Republican
partners in crime who set the un
rigteous and unlawful example which
he has so persistently followed and
encouraged him in it to the utmost
extent, cannot escape the condemna?
tion of the honest, working, business
men of the country as equal partners
in his guilt.
The repeal of the Sherman law, it
was asserted, which was the first
point of attack of this "unholy al?
liance." was only accomplished
through the aid and in conjunction
with a majority of the Republican
j senators.
I "This Democratic President accom?
plished what was not possible for
I any Republican executive under the
circumstances to have brought about.
Change of party in power had left a
large numbe? of 'officers in his gilt
with which to buy voters."7
In discussing the "honest mean
? ing" of parity of gold and silver in
the Sherman law, he said :
"The object was to have them as?
sist each other, t<? hold silver up by
holding gold down and an honest sec
? retary of the treasury, who should
have resigned his ellice rather than
submit to the dictation of a besotted
chief, would have paid out silver to
protect the treasury from the gold
gamblers and bond gamblers, as the
law and his oath office required. But
alas, tlie ond bread of southern strtes
men like Calhoun, who after a life
spent iu the public service had to be
buried at public expense and his debts
paid by the State of Sounh Carolina
is no more. No wonder the senator
from Massachusetts feels warrented
in witting us with the decay of south?
ern statesmanship and charging us
with dishonesty. He charges it,
however, in another connection as
aiding and abetting this Judas from
Kentucky, wh? alter a brilliant ca?
reer of 20 years and more as a leader
and champion of the silver forces,
has, in his old age, come to this piti?
ful pass. And then to think that the
indictment thus brought against a
whole section should have so much
color of truth and of fact to back
it up in the apostasy from their, prin?
ciples of the two other secretaries
from the south of a President who
has so disgraced the name of Demo?
cracy.
"The south bows its head in
shame at this exhibition of moral
cowardice and despises the rene?
gades ; but I must remind the sena?
tor from Massachusetts that there is
as yet only moral turpitude and
treachery to be charged against these
men. The southern congressmen
and senators who came here poor are
still poor They have not beceme
millionaires, like some of their north?
ern bretheren, and there is no credit
mobilier steal or Colfax scandal or
Belknap bribery chargeable to any
southern man. Let him remember
these things and back has sneers and
taunts."
Discussing the Wilson tariff bill,
Tillman said : "It is true he did not
sign it, and allowed it to become a
law without approval. But here
again we have a spectacle of charla?
tanry and hypocritical assumptian of
superiority to his party which has
always marked his career. The tariff
law which he repudiated as unworthy,
involving 'party perfidy and party
dishonor/ in the sheet anchor to
which he clings
And again referring to the Presi?
dent : "If he was honest at the start
(and I am willing to grant that
much) his association TV Uh Wall
Street and his connections with
wealthy men had debauched his con?
science and destroyed all sympathy
with the ma88es.',
The senator then referred to the
fall in the prices of all farm products.
The impoverishment of the farmers
had destroyed, he said, their ability
to purchase on the one hand, while
the decreased prices of their products
of export in European markets had
left our debts for imports and interest
on obligations abroad unpaid. Hence
the export of gold to meet these
obligations. In this connection he
said, in part :
"Rothschild and his American
agents graciously condescend to6ome
to the help the United States treasury
in maintaining the gold standard
which has wrought the ruin, and
ouiy charge a small commission of
ten millions or so. Great God! That
this proud gavernment -the richest,
most powerful on the globe -should
have been brought to 60 low a post
that a London Jew should have beeu
appointed its receiver and presumes
to patronize us."
Other extracts are as follows :
"The responsibility of providing
revenue and looking after the solvency
of the treasury, which rests with con?
gress, has been usurped by the Presi?
dent.
Why is he not impeached ? Because
he is oarrying out Republican policies,
and the majority io the house of repre?
sentatives feel safe and believe that they
are certain to elect the next President
aod obtain control of the government.
They are willing to load down the in?
competent or dishonest Democracy (I
say the incompetent and dishonest De?
mocracy) with the odium of the misgov?
ernment, to lend their help by acquies
ence in wrong doing. The policy ia to
do nothiog-to preserve a masterly in?
activity, and only obstruct where relief
could be given.
"The encroachments of the Federal
judiciary and the supineness and ven
alty-corruption, I may say-of the
representative branches of the govern?
ment, are causes of drep concern to all
thinking and patriotic men. W? are
fast drifting into government hy in?
junction in the interest of n_ooopolie_
and corporations, and the supreme
court, by ono corrupt vote, annuli an
act of congress jocking to rl e taxation
of thc rich
"Tho money changers are in the
temple of our liberties and l-ive bot:?hf
the sentinels on guard, it may I-;; too
late. God grant it be nut sn ; bu. (his
grear, ?epubiic can cr.?ly be *aved from
t- o C-iscric? of revolution aod inter?
necine strife in tho near Suture bv its
citizens, casting aside blind allecriar.ee
to party and marshaling themselves
under the manner of Jefferson's De
; mocracy aod Lincoln's Republicanism,
determined to restore the republic to
thc form in which ir was left to us by
the fathers."
In concluding the senator said : "A
day of reckoning will come, unless
1 ~ j
-bore is no looger a just God ID beaven
and when it does come, woe unto these
who have been among thc oppressors of
the people. The present struggle is
unfortunately too much like that which
preceeded the late civil war, inasmuch
as it is sectional. The creditor and the
manufacturing States of the North and
east-those which have grown inordi?
nately wealthy at the expense of the
produciug classes of the South aod
West-are urging this policy with the
besotted blindness of Belshazzar. The
old slaveholders of tbe South were not
more arrogant or more determined.
The sordid despotism of wealth,' to use
the apt phrase of Justice Brown, is
already felt throughout tbe land."
From the opening sentence of the
speech down to its close, Mr. Tillman
commanded tbe keenest attention and
curiosity of a numerous senate aod
crowded galleries. His attitudinizing
and his mannerisms caused much
amusement. With his left hand
pressed against his side and with the
printed slips of his speech (from which
be frequently strayed) in his right
hand, he wheered around in a circle,
facing the galleries more frequently
than ha faced the chair. At the point
where he was denouncing President
Cleveland he abandoned his prepared
speech and lapsed-into a description of
how he came to Washington to witness
Mr. Cleveland's first inauguration and
had exposed himself for four hours on
the plaza of the capitol in order to par?
ticipate in thc jollification over a Demo?
cratic President, a Democratic Senate
and a Democratic house, and he ex?
claimed dramatically : "God forgive
me for being such a fool." Laughter
and applause broke out io thc galleries,
which the presiding officer (Mr. Faulk?
ner) tried to suppress, and this caused
Mr. Tillman to apostrophize the chair,
saying : "If you let me down into tbe
bog and quagmire of having nobody
applaud when I speak, I suppose I will
get used to it after awhile." Subse?
quently he got into a colloquy with Mr.
Hoar as to an expressioo of the latter
upoo the decadence of Southern states?
men. Wheo Mr. Hoar said he would
look up the record to justify himself,
Mr. Tillman said he would wait, but
that be would not "wet bis whistle,"
because a windmill cculd not be ron by
water. (Renewed laughter.)
Mr Tillman said that be would ap?
pend to his speech "that infamous con?
tract with Stetson (the syndicate con?
tract), also an extract from the Demo?
cratic year book of 18S8, showing the
purchase of bonds, with that surplus
which used to keep this man awake at
eights. (Laughter*)
"And it must be authentic," be add?
ed, "coming as it does from the Dem?
ocratic national committee. (Laugh?
ter.) I just want to put the two cheek
by jowl, you know, in juxtaposition."
Coming once more to a denunciation
of the President, Mr. Tillman snapped
ou< the question to Republican sena
tors :
"Why have you notimpeached him."
Mr. Hawley replied that the last con?
gress was Democratic.
"I have already paid my respects to
the last congress," Mr. Tillman said,
"and I hoped better things from the
congress which the people have now
sent here. But you are all of a kind
cowards, tools of monopolists. (Sensa?
tion.) He is not impeached becausa
he is carrying cut Republican policy."
Mr. Tillman spoke for exactly two
hours, delivering with great dramatic
effect the last sentence in which he pre?
dicted a national oataciasm "unless you
take your hands off tbe people's throats
and give them an opportunity to breathe,
to work, to live."
As soon as he resumed bis seat, tbe
session practically broke up, nearly
every senator rose and left the chamber
and the crowds flocked out of tbe gal?
leries.
For "Peace on Earth."
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 29.-To all
ancient, free and Accepted Masons
throughout the world, greeting:
The grand lodge of Tennessee, now
sitting in annual communication in the
city of Nashville, do send this, their
fraternal greetings, to the brethren of
the Mystic tie, wheresoever dispersed,
and sincerely hope and pray that the
war clouds which now seem hovering
over the nations of the earth will soon
be dispersed and the white wings of
peace will again cast their lengthening
shadows over the world.\
As this end we urge upon every
grand lodge cf Ancient Free and Ac?
cepted Masons, meeting during the year
1896. to isiue some fraternal sentiment
favoring a peaceful termination of all
international strife. Also that thev
J
j U3e their great influence rrith the war
making and peace-keeping powers of
tho two worlds, to exhaust all honor
j able and peaceful means to settle all
j contention before the resort to arms
I War between natioL.s me.::^ Jc^rh and
i destruction and untold agonies, and j
1 we who believe in the Fatherhood of j
God, ant! tho brotherhood of man, I
j cannot refrain fron) raising our voie- in I
condemnation cf thc needless shedding j
! of human blood.
Brethren, we greet, you, aod strike
hands with you in bringing abor<t a
peaceful solution of impending dangers
of war.
Suffering Armenians.
Bishop Capers Issues an Ad?
dress to his People.
The following address to the clergy
and laity of the Episcopal church in
South Carolina, issued by Bishop
Capers yesterdy, will be read with
general interest :
Episcopal Residence,
Columbia, S. C., Jan. 28,1896.
To the Clergy and Laity of the
Diocese of South Carolina.
Dear Brethren: I have received from
thc presiding bishop copies of sundry
petitions, to which he has asked my
signature, the same being addressed
by himself, and the bishops of the
Protestant Episcopal church in the
United States, to the archbishop of
Canterbury, and to the crowned
Leads of Europe, asking their inter?
vention in behalf our suffering fel?
low Christians in Armenia. Accom?
panying these petitions is a commun?
ication from a confidential correspon?
dent in Constantinople, whom the
presiding bishop assures me is in
every way trustworthy and entitled
to entire confidence. This corres?
pondent gives the presiding bishop
the facts respecting nuraerons mur?
ders, massacres, outrages and martyr?
dom which transpired in the months
of October and November last, given
in the order of their dates.
I make the following extract under
date of November 11th:
"In the city of ilarpoot the Chris
tain quarters of the city were sacked
and many houses were burned,
Over 5000 people were killed and
many others escaped death only after
accepting Islamism. The churches
and schools were sacked and burned.
Many priests were killed with hor?
rible torture. Others yielded to
the pressure and became Moham?
medans. The Protestant pastor at
Koh, near ilarpoot, was killed for
refusing to become a Muslim. The
Protestant pastor at Nulakeny es?
caped from the horde of butchering
Muslime and with his wife reached
the city of Harpoot in safety. There
they were taken from the house where
they had found refuge, were ordered
to accept Islamism and on refusal
were put to death. At Itchee, near
Harpoot, a number of the people
8ticeeded in escaping to the Armen?
ian church, which was a strong, stone
building. Having been induced to
come out they were allowed to pass
the door one at at a time. Each one
as he came out was invited to em?
brace Mohammedanism AU who re
sused were killed on the spot. Fifty
two accepted martyrdom, and among
them the venerable Pastor Kriker."
# %
The correspondent above referred
to, writing to the presiding bishop,
uses the following language :
"I wish you could help force upon
the minds of the public that no ef?
fective relief can be distributed in
the villages without a special staff
from abroad under the protection of
the foreign governments. * * *
"There must be plenty of young
men who would willingly go out on
this errand of mercy accompanied by
native interpreters. There must be
enough conscience in our government
to insist upon their being protected
while doing BO. * * *
"Whatever is done must be done
quickly. People are dying at the
rate of six to ten a day in several
towns like Ervingan, Arabkir and
Malatia. Even in Yan this death
rate exists among the refugees. * * *
"That no nation is really Christian,
and that all nations secretly hate
Christianity has been the burden of
the appeals made, to which in past
years Muslim writers have prepared
the minds of the people for the
dreadful work now being done. The
apathy of Christendom is now point?
ed to as proof of these assertions.
Is Christendom to stand idly and see
the impressions left indelibly upon
the minds of the whole present gen?
eration of Muslims ; that Islam is
proven by its success to be blessed
of God, while Christianity is dis?
credited throughout the world ? The
church everywhere has a duty to
perform for the honor of Jesus
Christ."
I write to you now, brethren, to j
ask your prayers and your a?r in j
behalf of our suffering brethren ie .
Armenia Let lhere be an offering !
in each of our churches for their re- ?
lief and sont to ?he Kev. Dr. John P. '
Peters. 2-5 west Ninety-ninth street,
New York city I also request that j
the prayer, "For times of* war and
tumult," be used among the special
prayers at Divine worship, adapting
the language of the prayer to refer
especially to our persecuted and dy?
ing brethren.
Faithfully, your bishop,
ELLISON CAPERS.
A Lot of Criminals."
Spanish Description of Reb?
els-An "Understand" of
Madrid.
From a Staff Correspondent of the United
Pres3.
HABANA, Jao. 31.-Gen. Sabas Ma?
rio, acting captain general and com?
mander-in-chief of the Spanish forces
in Cuba, who left Habana yesterday
morning on board a special train, pass?
ed last night at San Antonio, 10 miles
west of Rincon, in the provinoe of
Habana. General Marin's reception
was of the heartiest character, both the
military and civil officials participating.
The colonel commanding the volunteers
at Rincon said to Geoeral Marin:
"There are rebels in the town as well
as in the country."
Whereupon General Marin replied :
"If you have rebels against thecouotry
again, take them, and we will punish
them immediately."
Repairs are being made to-day upon
the railway between San Antonio and
Guaoajay in the province of Pinar del
Rio and also upon the line between
Habana and Batabaoo. The railroad
line between Habana and Matanzas is
only capable of being operated as far as
Aguacate, in the province of Habana.
The Diarce de la Marina in an arti?
cle on the suggestion that the United
States interfere in behalf of the insur?
gents says :
"The hopes of the separatists will be
once more defeated, because telegrams
received from Madrid says that the con?
ference held between the United States
minister to Spain and tbs Spanish cab?
inet has been most satisfactory. It is to
be hoped so because the insurgents cao
not pretend to have the rights that are
reserved to the cause of justice, or at
least to the cause of dignity and honor.
The rebels are only a lot of criminals,
who burn, steal, rob and murder. What
do the negroes compromising the band
under Maceo and the rascals command?
ed by robbers like Mirabel and Delgado
understand about patriotism and politi?
cal ideas ? If the United States were
to reoognize such people as belligerents
crimes would be legitimatized, and the
right*to burn, violate and steal rec<g
nized It is absurd to think that the
United States would encourage such
atrocities, but should *ucb a thing hap?
pen, the United States would have more
to lose than Spain would, because rhe
latter bas decided to resort to every?
thing before allowing barbarism tc,
reign io Cuba.
?ra-- -?
Sullivan's Condition,
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Jan 31.-The
condition of John L. Sullivan is not
as satisfactory this evening. The
wounds on his head are suppurating
and much inflamed and the patient is
irritable, restless and and feverish.
His manager, Mr. Glickauff, met the
newspaper men and stated that the
physician^ orders was to let no one
see Sullivan, and the ex-champion
was in no condition . to talk, and
wished no one but his wife to see
him A large number of telegrams
were received to day making in?
quiries concerning the pugilist's con?
dition, and some offering assistance.
Tiie latter were promptly declined, as
Sullivan needs nothing. A change
was made in physicians to-day from
Dr. J. N. Dixon to Dr. W. R Ryan.
This change was due to the fact that
Dr. Dixon declined to go to the hotel
in the middle of the night when
Sullivan's wounds became painful.
There is no immediate prospect of
the pitient's recovery, and should
erysipelas supervene it will be a
very serious matter for the ex cham?
pion
How To Prevent Croup.
Some reading that will prove interpsting
to young mothers. How lo guard against
the di.-ease.
Croup is a terror to young mothers and to
post them concerning tiie CHUSP, first symp?
toms and treatment is the orj^ct of this item *
Thp o.igin of croup is a common cold.
Children who are iut'jpc? to it tnke cold very
easily Hud croup is ?Imost s::it- t!> fellow.
Tiie first symptom is hoarsened: 'his is soon
followed by a peculiar rcueh c;>U?h. which is
C?sily recognized und will r.*\-n be forgotten
by one who has hi ird i\ The ;bne tr, act ts
v. :*:ie child first t>ee:):;.t hoarse. It
Chamberlain's Coi'gh Remedy i? ireely given
all tendency to croup will soon disappear.
Even after the crcapv cough developed it
wili prevent the attark. There is un d -t^er
in tr j v : n jr :\,\? remedy tc. it contains oohing
injurious. For sale by i>r. A. !. China.
Consolidated Aug. 2,1881.
SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1896.
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