He was elected by a large majority.
At the end of Tillman's first term two years later, he was again a candidate, and the convention which nominated him approved the Ocala platform.

Since the party machinery was in control of the Tillmanites, the opposition adopted the name "Cleveland Democracy" and sought to undo the revolution.

The result was never doubtful.

Tillman was reelected by an overwhelming majority, and on the expiration of his term was sent to the United States Senate, which he shocked by his passionate utterances as he had so often shocked his own State.

The attitude of the educated and cultivated part of the population of South Carolina toward Tillman affords a parallel to that of Tory England toward Lloyd George twenty years later.