Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-07-24

| And, 10 ! Ben Adhem'S name led all the
rcst.n e 3. IS
This love for their fellows will
never be understood or appreciated.
imagine the righteous contempt
which fills their look (for they ,re
extremely sarcastic) when they heal
tho echo of "demagogue," started
by good people who do not knoG
them. (This, in no spirit Of dcfemsc.l
They long to be understood, yct
believe that all tho batteries Of the
earth, i'll sarcasm and ill-dircctcd
abuse, could not rout ono of them
from q well determined position.
This fact should have emphasis in ex.
planning the men. The manner in
which they stand to their opinion is
indeed wonderful. The cause that
has one Of them to avow for it has in
deed champion. Doing more than
to hold his ground, he will push the
cncmy to their ramparts, soaling
them, if possible, but if impossible,
shclling their position with grape and
canister to the cnd.
A Tillman is man Of the intcps-
est feeling, Of tho most wonderful
and exhaustlcss energy. lie is for.
over rcady, waking lightly with tho
poignard of his sharp intellect, clea,
and unshcathcd to serve in necessity
There is no halfway ground for him,
either in feeling or action. A Till
man never conccals n feeling. Per-
haps the matter of discretion and
prudence, in their lack of them, may
be denominatcd n fault. Possibly;
but they show the man asI wish tc
present him.
Nothing, I believe, Chat is nc
prospect, no man or set of, mcn) has
as an atom of influence per sc to di.
rect q Tillman to any position
They go unwavcringly along the line
of truth with laugh in the face Of
any other proposition, though the
truth lead Gas it sometimes may) tc
their own destruction. Arrived at {
conclusion, and having formed con.
viction on any question, worthy of
remark, all those who come in con.
tact with them will know their ideas
fully. There is absolutely no dis
stimulation with them. Their disrc
gard for the opinion of any other
man, especially if he WELD power,
makes them in any position they
take, bold defiant.
1t is well known that the present
candidate for the Govcrnorship is
having his first experience in politics
-Four years ago he could not talk tc
an audience of twenty five. lie has
never been i'll the politics of his
county, not even in its machinery in
the rcmotcst degree except as voter
lie has never held any public Office
A man of innate power, he has pur-
sued his course evenly, living on his
farm, hard at work and leaving poll
tics alone, up to the time of tho
present agitation. But such man
as it has long been felt he was, could
not live in community unknown.
and for years his county has been
persistcntly striving to get him into
its public life, without success. IIc
had never made speech in his
county before the recent campaign
visit to his county seat.
What is peculiar of one of these
remarkable men is true of the other
The Congressman came into life ir
'76, winning the then Second Con,
grcssional District for the white
Democracy when no other man in
the District, on account of the seem.
ing f,rtiiity of fight, would attempt
it. But, rs cxcmplifying the Till
man characteristic of independence
lot it be published that all this time
of his cncumbency, from beginning
to the present, according to his own
peculiar disposition, the Congress.
man has abhorrcd, it has even seemed
to me, dctcstcd, any cooperation OIL
society with the other political men oi
his District or the State. The mo.
ment a man is placed with himself
in office, and in the service of the
State, the Congressman seems tc
drop his touch with him. His rela
tionship with all other servants o.
the State has appeared to me to be
combativc. lie fights before tho
people, alone. Ten years ago | heard
men wonder aloud why George Till
man (thcn clcctcd) did not seem tc
be Gin with" the "big fellows" mean
ing the other politicians of the State
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