Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-12

Zalser captured MIN, Dnt DeIOle ue
could induce Server to submit he
was compelled to use his club and
nippers. Server was taken to the
city hall.
Tillman Of South Carolina.
Under the above heading the
st Louis Republic give the fol-
lowing pen picture of Governor
Tillman as he appeared in the
bi-metlllic convention; s.
ssGoyernorsesTillman,s,;of South
Carolina, was the striking figure of
the convention. He is more to be
considered than the resolutions.
because he is the thing itself. He
is the embodiment of a force that
is going to tell in politics and
government. The Republic gave
him and what he says liberal at
tention because there was more to
be learned from him than from all
the addresses, motions and resolu-
tiops. About many subjects he is
mistaken. He does not take into
account the qualifications that
men Of larger experience have re-
piled to the premises with which
his thinking begins.
Do not, nevertheless, let your
self suppose that because you can
detect fawsin hislogic, blemish-
es in his taste and omissions in
his data. this man Tillman is not
a living forceof more than ordi-i
nary momentum. Momentum is
the result of weight and motion,
and he has both.
; Emerson wrote of Napoleon
that every sentence he spoke is
worth reading because it is the
sense of France. Tillman ls worth
the keenest watching because he
is the sense of...an immense body
of small farmers in the South who
are as hard headed, independent
and determined.as. any men who:
tread the soil of America. Look:
well at Tillman. Heis the man
with whom it is going to be neces~
sary to deal. He is of his time.
Mistakes and all, he must be met
and met with honesty and reason.
for he and his kind are hard to
fool and harder to browbeat.
He is artificial nowhere. From
the standpoint of artistic finish, he
is in state of nature. He is not o
looking-glass talker, not a poet,
feeding the sugar-appetite with
confections. He has not the
anent and stately platitudes Of the
old school Southern orator, nor
the condeacending affability of
the old school Southern politician.
In what is more to the present pur.
pose he is highly educated. He
knows his clients. He has the
degree of high training the instinct
of playing in tune and time with
the popular apprehension Of his
section.
He will take people with him at
first because he is earnest and
direct, and because he says 30
many truths that they will not
perceive the Inconsistencies and
shortcominga.sss His, soul is
demonstratiye. and his tempera-
ment is combative.! Later, to re-
tain his following, he must gain in
wisdom and knowledge. But fora
q asyear or, two yet he can carry
them with what he is md has!
And neither "a SUCCESS nor re-
tirement will anybody laugh at or
pity him. He is not that kind of
a man.
In politics-and in all else that
men do-you can tell ten times as
much about what is likely to hap
pen if you know the men than if
you know only the subject. Men
never act out a theory. The SUBJ
ject is seen through their instincts
and is acted upon by their habits.
They turn and idea more than an
idea turns them. They accept as
much of it as they please and work
it out as far as they care 10 60.