Question

HI! Can anyone give me something to go on for this? My book has literally one paragraph of nothing to go on. SO if you could help me by telling me a bit about this it would help a lot!

Answer 1

Discuss the views of the Tillmanites and the Conservatives in regard to education, farming, and racial tensions. Which side would you have voted for during the election of 1890? Explain.

Answer 2

sorrwie I dono this one

Answer 3

what grade and what class??

Answer 4

8th grade, history.

Answer 5

any choices??

Answer 6

No it's like an essay question so you have to write it out in three to five sentences.

Answer 7

oh then idk sorry...

Answer 8

@mmmmmmmmmm123 btw the people in the chats are always rude and disrespectful.

Answer 9

thanks for letting me know :D

Answer 10

yea they do!!

Answer 11

@e.mccormick @iambatman

Answer 12

@radar @undeadknight26

Answer 13

I googled Tillmanites and found this:
http://www.teachingushistory.org/lessons/BenTillman.htm

Answer 14

It made it to a California news paper:
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH18940919.2.13#

But not really that useful.

Answer 15

Oooh, this one page free preview has some good facts on it and is of a reputable source:
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2715494?sid=21105790644561&uid=4&uid=2&uid=3739256&uid=3739560

Answer 16

This page talks about someone else, BUT, it overlaps Tillman and exposes a bit of what Tillman was about:

http://library.sc.edu/socar/mnscrpts/evansjg.html :

Evans had political aspirations from the start of his legal career. From an early point in his career, he established relationships with Benjamin Ryan Tillman and John Laurens Manning Irby, two prominent South Carolina legislators. Evans probably owed a great deal of his political success to the support and backing of these two men. Evans was a staunch supporter of Benjamin Tillman and Tillmanism. As a Tillmanite, Evans supported agricultural reform at the state level. Ironically, Evans was always a bit of an anomaly to Tillmanism, as he seemed to represent the very forces they fought against. He was from a wealthy family, was educated, and practiced law. By all accounts, he appeared to be a southern aristocrat; however, he captured the attention of Tillmanites with his pledge to help the plight of poor, white, Southern farmers.

In 1888 he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives. At age twenty-five, Gary was the youngest member of the House. His tenure as a state representative was a successful one – in the eyes of the Tillmanites. He worked for the repeal of the Reconstruction Civil Rights Law and supported a Jim Crow law that provided for segregated coaches on trains. He worked for the introduction of the Separate School Act (allowing school districts to levy extra taxes for school purposes), the County Government Act (designed to meet the growing protest against the convict lease program), and supported an act opening South Carolina College to women. He also supported a bill to regulate hours of labor in factories.

During the years Evans served as a representative, he never failed to show his support for Tillman. He supported Governor Tillman's proposal for the establishment of a dispensary system as the most feasible plan for limiting the sale of alcoholic beverages; in fact, in 1892 Evans campaigned for and won the nomination to the Senate partially on the basis of his position regarding the dispensary system. From 1892 to 1894, while Evans represented the state in the Senate, he worked closely with Governor Tillman. In 1892 the South Carolina Liquor Law (also referred to as the Tillman Liquor Law) was passed. This law set up the dispensary system in South Carolina. The Supreme Court of South Carolina declared it illegal the following year, but Tillman, Evans, Irby, and other supporters continued to fight for it.

Evans had served only half of his senatorial term when he won the South Carolina gubernatorial election in 1894; at the time, he was the youngest governor South Carolina had ever elected. Several issues marked his term in office: a continuance of the policies of Tillman, the maintenance of the dispensary system, the establishment of the South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1895, and the removal of the two-mill school tax. By and large, Evans continued to administer the policies and programs established under Tillman. As part of his support for the dispensary law, he provided for the establishment of the metropolitan police force in Charleston, a state force designed to enforce dispensary policies. Support of the dispensary system was a major theme that ran throughout Evans' term and office. Ultimately though, the dispensary system became the center of controversy concerning alleged fraud and scandal.

Answer 17

All of that sould give you a good sense of what th Tellmanites stood for.