The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-05-21
These are the Men who Capt. Ben Tillmal
Says are PerjurerS.
.Neacs and Courier.

81 have just pointed ont to you that ques-
ton about the apportionment. said Capt.
Tillman to Attorney General Earle at the
mass meeting at Anderson on Saturday
last. u stand here to-day, acsigAing nly
,corls ,ceN, and say that those men who in
that legislature, in 1884, swore to support
the constitution (Which ready and which
REQUIRES them to hold census and reappor-
ton the representation, and they didn't do
it, say they l,erj,red Themselves d1m are cor
ratpt" This is an infamous charge to make
against any man or set of men. 1t will be
interesting to learn who are these men that
have been charged by Capt Tillman with
perjury and corruption.
In his message to the General Assembly IN
November, 1854, Governor Thompson call
ed attention to the provision Of the consti-
tption directing that the enumeration of the
inhabitants of the State for the purpose Of
the apportionment Of the representatives be
made in the year 1875 and in the census Of
every tenth year thereafter, and recon-
mended that '.such appropriation be made
as may be necessary for this purpose. Sew
eral bills upon the subject We're introduced,
and among them was introduced on Decem-
Der II "a bill to provide for the taking the
census of the population, industry, and
wealth of South .Gasselina On or before the
-Ist day of June, 1885," This bill WAS laid
on the table on December lG. On motion of
Mr.. Lee, of Sumter, q lawyer, the House re-
considered the vote by which the bill had
been taoled, and on December Is it WAS
passed by the House and sent to the Senate.
The bill came up for consideration in the
Senate on December %, and caused consid-
erable debate. Upon the motion Of Senator
Maxwell, of Abbeville comfy, the enactlng
words Of the bill were stricken out by vote
of 20 to Is. The Senators who voted il the
affirmative and, therefore in favor Of killing
the bill were: Benbow, biemann, Black,
BUST, Byrd, Coker, Howell, Izlar, Maxwell,
Moody, J. w. Moore, Munro, Reynolds,
Simmons, Smythe, Wallace, Wingard, Wood
ward, and Youmans. The vote in the House
on this bill is not given in detail in the
House Journal. The names of the Senators
who voted against it are published to-day
to point the moral Of Capt. Iillmau's speech
at Anderson. These are the men who are
charged by Capt. Tillman with perjury and
corruption.
Do the people of Oconee county believe
that Diedrich Biemann, OF Walhal!a, per-
iured himself or that he WAS corrupt?
What answer will the people OF Williams
burg county make TO the charge that DR..
Byrd is perjurer or corrupt man: Who
would dare say that W. c. Coker, of Dar-
lineton-one of the best men in South Car
o!ina, an honest, Christian gentleman with
clean hands and without reproach-perjur-
ed himself, or that he is corrupt? Then
there are Judge IZlar, Of Orangebnrg, and
Gen. J. W. Moore, Of Hampton, and Dr.
John c. Maxwell, Of Abbeville, and T. G.
Moody, of Marion, and William Munro, OF
Union, does anybody believe that any one
of these representative men peunrea him.
self or is corrupt? Does anybody in
Charleston believe that Bulst and Snythe
are corrupt men and pernrers? Who
would dare say that Benbow and BLACK and
Howell and Wallace and Wingard and
Woodward and Youmans are pejurers?
Capt Tilhnan has charged that nineteen
Senators Of South Carolina are felonS: that
they are guilty Of q crime punishable by i'm
prlsonment in the penilentiary; tha: they
are purjurers and corrupt men. He did
not make this charge in the beat Of debate,
or in the nature of a confidential comMuni-
cation to few chosen friends. He pro-
claimed it from the stump 1t 4 public meet
ing, before twelve or fifteen hundred people,
and with the boast that he was weighing
his words we'll"
What answer have the men who are in
cluded in the indictment to make to tae
charge? Are you guilty or not guilty
Does any man in South Carolina, does Capt.
Tillman himself, believe that these men are
perjurers and corrupt?