The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-06-16

when Richardson was in, the amount
was $13l 200. He says my appropria-
tion was $126,OOO. But he does not say
how much was expended, though he
could easily have ascertained that from
the Comptroller Generals report. Only
$117 ,460 was expended.
The farmers are beginning to think
that can do anything. have a letter
in my pocket from a farmer up in An
derSon saying that his wife has run
away and left him, and that there's an
other girl there that wants him, and he
wants me to fix 1t so that he can marry
the girl. get many letters like these.
My hands are tied and l can do moth
ing. I made thirty recommendation
In my message, and not single bill
was introduced to carry any of them in
to effect.
From the United States Government
funds were obtained for the education
of farmers. These funds were given to
the South Carolina College, a literary
institution. They now 90 to Glenn
son Agricultural College, one Of the
grandest institutions in the country,
where man can he educated for a
farmer from the ground floor up, where
man can obtain his education for
$lOO year, while at the South Caro-
I mo OolACSO Ctlu IIlC SlIduel IL COSlS
$500 year. We have 100000 up there
in good brick and mortar. 1t cost YOU
nothing except little at the start.
| The money comes out of the privilege
tax which they had been squandering.
AS to the perjury question that mat
ter Is res ddjUdicata. 1t was settled
two years ago. L said there was per-
jury because no reapportionment of
representation was given. Earle
fought me all over the State on that
issue. Why bring it up? Everybody
knows that many Counties were robbed
IN order TO give Richland and Charles.
ton more than due representation.
Voice: "1Iow about that free pass >"
| Tlllman--I rode on one all last year
and L am not ashamed to own it.
Voice: "IIe didn't use free pass and
then charge his travelling expenses to
the State"
Tillman--No, L saved the State
money by using free passes. That talk
about my accepting free passes is all
bosh, 1or every one knows that | have
nothing to do with the railroads. Talk
about bamboozling? Didn't Haskell
| distribute tree passes on the floor Of
the House? 1t has been proven on
him.
Voice: I'm no Haskell man."
Illlman-lfyou weren't you wouldn't
kick so much. In 1886 we asked for q
primary and they wouldn't give it to
us. In 1888 we again asked and did
not receive. Sheppard was sent from
Edgelield in delegation instructed to
vote for primary, and he disobeyed
the orders of his County.
| When the few politicians Of the
towns met and elected delegates to the
Thirteen's March Convention, they
SAID, "For Gods sake, get us a primary
had only to throw one rock at them
and they dropped the demand. Iput q
communication in The Register on tho
subject and showed what harm i,
would do, and they dropped it like i,
was hot at both ends.
The State Asylum is now run fo,
$4,000 a year less than it was before
the farmers got control Of the govern
ment. The only explanation that can
give is that l put new superintend
ent and new secretary and treasurer
in otlice there.
Columbia wants sewers, but she wants
the State to build them at an outlay of
about 100000. We are told that the
Asylum sewerage should be emptied
into the COngaree DelG" the citv, and
bills are yearly introduced into the
| Legislature to provide for such sewer
at Ine States expense.
| Voice: put Haskell in that sewer"
Illlman-lt you want Haskell and
his crowd back into Office he will have
that sewer at the States expense.
| am not down here to make enemies.
l say that there was too much drift
wood in the Legislature. | will not say
| who are the driftwOod. That is for YOU
to say, and pick out better men. There
was enough driftwood to defeat the
pledges that had been made for the
Farmers movement. | do not want q
Legislature which will obey my orders,
but one which will obey yours. Send
men who when they come home will he
able to say that they have done all that
they promised to DO when on the
stump.
Voice: "Can't l vote for whom
| please?"
Tillman-You've got the right to
vote for whom you please so long as
you vote the Democratic ticket.
Voice: I'LL vote the Sheppard ticket"
Tillman-VOte it and see how lone
some you will feel.
tax?" f'
Illlman-l never dodge anything
say. There is plank in the platform
upon which l was elected, and upon
| which Sheppard crawled, demanding
compact school districts, with one
school for each color in them. The
Legislature never touched this with Il
| lO-fOot pole. Out on the hedges and
by-ways the children are in a state OF
| comparative ignorance. If there are any
schools the farmers have to 20 down in
their breeches' pockets and pay five
times more than the S3 for their sup.
port.
Under the present system only tho
towns and villages and cities have good
schools. There are 10000 colored men
of age in this State and 100000 whites.
Deduct say 10000, for men over age,
etc, and you will have 3OO,OOO people
liable for poll tax. At So head would
give 100000, which with the two mill
tax producing 100000, would make
100000 available for educational pur-
pose: This would be step toward
making the negroes pay for themselves
Voice: eve ought to pay all, for
they do all the work"
Tillman-That is not true see too
many sunburned faces before me of
men who have omit tho p1ouuh hop6lno