The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-05-21

7 therefore challenge vou 70 a3;,:t
to one instance where Tie ia1.
mers lave been Ictl.au>i..,; by tie
manufacturers o; fertilizers wileie
sl:"!. fraud was :i1t punished With al
the pover that tie department had
st its command. and e;c1nu.i:l list
vou make good yo2i. charge q e
tract it. :. 2 BvT:E.:
Commissioner OF AEri> .tt:::'@.
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A PEN PICTURE Or BEN '!LLmA's'
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VINO was surgcste:. for Gov.raor by
the c.sa:zacre' Convention ,s south Gar
nlins.
II lis report o. til4 t;,,!.2c!s rco:-
ileg at Anderson. s. G.. IIr. 4. 5. W.
li;.ms of the Gra:.ny.ile News draws
the following picture "i Capt. s. =
I:iiillnan:
The IN st t:n.c SaW Ban illlEaa
was on tha5 1no!aeHtH'lsi N ti!s Iii
OF 1875 when the iI,igtiiv:G iln,; Lall-
rens delegations 10 the House "i
Representative We're stopped at the
door OF the State House bY Federal
troops. 1t Was lust after the most
se,i0l,s crisis tnis country has known
since Fort Sumter was fired or-
that tremendous tifteeen ,1inutcs dur
inc which Il mass of infu1iatel South
Caroliuans were wave1iDg between
obedience to thedesperate impulsethHt
moved them toadyance thirty PAGES
ana storm the door of tue Stale
House Over tie small group cf blue
clad men representing the Federal
government. and the pleadings Of
reason AMI patriotism expressed by
Wade Hampton standing upon the
steps hall way between the opposing
parties. The danger was over for a
time: the shot that would have snap
ped the stt..ai,.etl bonds that held the
people OF the two parties throughout
the country mad rot been fired. Ben
Tillman was lust inside the door OF
the State House. .lc,uli.lg against one
of the big tutett&13;li:trs there. His
breccles were IN lis b2uts and his
dress III 10 way differed from that @:
hundreds OF men who were there
that day FROM the farms OF every
part Of the State. Hewas noticeable
because he WIS apparently lost IL
thought OF something far of While
everybody else was watching with
painful eargerness the events imme-
diatelv passing and because there
WAS about his mouth g. cynical and
half mockinc expression as if he dis
approved ali that was being said and
done. Somebody said it was Ben
Tillman. I do not remember seeing
him again until Yesterday and did
rot hear of him again in eight years.
Yet there was something in his per
sonality that impressed me with
out the speaking OF word or the
| movement of q limb. On all the
MANY occasions in recent times when
T have heard or read of Ben Tillman
he bss come TO nv memory IS he
was then.
CLOSE and curious study Of us
form and face since we met OF the
trsin bound here yesterday does 40;
enlighten lne as to why this 1n&n has
remained i'll my memory whl:> thoa,
sands of others whom [ have scc,l
and talked with and been Il, many
places and ways thrown with since
then have faded from It. He isEot &
large man-iust little above medl:
I'm height. He is slenderly but
coanpactly bul5-not q mo0ei n buiid
o. carnage CT moulo o. E.np: ana Io'
noticeably awkward. He dtes*eS
neatly, wearing apparently 1oc t2ls
campaign black diagonal sllt'
Probably the noticeable feature Of nls
face is his mouth. He mas, as Cal-
lyle said Of Daniel Webster, IN an
CRY shut moaih. 1t Is inclined to
droop just at the corners after run
nng straight acEoss has 1'ce; 1t Is
shaded by !" rather short &n'' Sc;;ll'y
moustache OF reiuSh Sii;s'se. me
nose Is well cut, pIohiHenc ana
shapely. MI. lIllnh one remain
ing eye IS dark and hazel, tuil, clear
and bllght-deciAedly Il tine eye and
imp:essulg one with the idea that lie
lost his best feature when the otilHr
WAS unfortunately destroyed. als
| hair is dark and without sray, his
forehead is scanned with some lines
of thought or care, he IS forty-ioui
years old and doesn quite looh iiAe
1t. That IS the man us nearly rs
words can photograph nm rs Ee Up
pears lnrepose:
lie IS rather demonsttasl7e---a
little bolsterous pcrhaps-in me-
ne liaS !! o'ulouo il'5olC - 49, y
ol Stouoln; .'t s'i.'.ssS . - ~ v.b;.f ' 'e Lo
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