The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-07
1Atlanta Journal.l

stretch him out q little, e,vknock one eye
out, make him left handed, put a seven
teen and half collar around his neck
and you will have Tillman over and
over again.
At first the governor was very reluc-
tsnt about talking, but when I asked
him about Bruffey's report from Char
lesion in which he said whiskey could
be bought openly from ''blind tigers"
of that place the governor seemed to
get interested and said:
sob, that's nothing. You know
your paper and the Constitution are
both sensational. I only glanced at
Brufey's piece, and then 1 knew be
had been with the News and Courier
gang and had been stuffed by them"
Governor Tillman became enthused,
and rising from his chair and empha-
sizing his remarks by pointing MS
finger, said:
"Why, to show you the power of i'm
agination, I'll bet you I could give
Bruffey in Atlanta some of that one
x rye liquor which he declares is light
ming and will kill you the day after
drinking it, and he will swear that it's
as good whiskey as be ever drank"
essay, Governor" T remarked, 'the
. people of Darlington were very much
enraged yesterday about one of your
spies breaking open trunk which had
been LETT at the depot the night before
by a gentleman visiting his daughter.
The trunk had nothing but clothes and
crockery in it, nevertheless the spy
broke it open, scattered the articles
around, looking for whiskey, but never
found drop. The spy never looked
for the owner OF the trunk and had no
warrant to search it. Do you believe
in such doings and do you as-se as-sse
them?"
His answer was: ~
ayes. If I can't find the key and If
I have suspicious, I authorize the
trunk to be broken open and searched.
know whiskey is brought into the
State on the traius in trunks"
The Governor crossed bis legs and
said very eEaphatically:
II also understand that whiskey IS
being kept in these old iron safes By
some. # go to one and can't get the
key, I intend to blow it open and look
inside. III 80 to- mans house and
be fails to open the door, will break
it down."
Becoming more interesting, Tillman
said:
"Iintend to enforce the law atallh lhaz-
ards. If I can't do it, 7 can call out
enough militia to do it. I ain willing
to fight man fairly-yes, or I'll fight
him unfairly, don't care which,"
Seeing the Governor 50 talkative, l
said.
governor, how about the killing
and woundipg of the men up here in
Spartanbsg?"
The answer he gave was this:
.'it was nothing in the world but
this: Two men had been going around
in a wagon peddiiug whlskey. They
had openly defied the law, and had
even gone so far as to send word to that
effect to me. sent my officer and bis
constables up there to arrest them. and
the men defed them. One of them
came down the road with pistol in
his hand and in the 'scrimmage' be
was killed and the other was wounded.
That was what was heralded to the
worldaas q cold blooded murder"
-sssss Governor the people claim
Sr officers, without ever telling
.n 10 ,osns they had warrants for their
s-rest, bid in ambush, called the men
,,nt and shot them down like dogs"
That's the lying report that was
sent cut, and there's not a word OF
truth in it," replied Tillman.
When I spoke of having been over
in Darlington and how the people over
there scussed' him out, Tillman said:
"Oh, you have been running with
that James and Wilson crowd over
there"
When ! told him I had not met
those gentlemen be said:
SWELL, you know Darlington is the
most bitter anti-Tillman town iE South
Carolina. Out of the whole place I
have only about twenty followers, but
the last election I carried the county
by eight hundred majority. All the
towns are against me, and in the whole
State there is only one daily paper that
is not an anti-Tillman paper. You
can't hear the truth, as any sort of lies
are sent out from here daily"
When asked about the working OF
the Dispensaries Tiliman said that be
had no doubt that they were better
than the old bar room system, and
lately there had been less drinking,
and fewer drunkards in the State than
ever before, and he was satisfied the
Dispensaries We're doing good and were
making South Carolina better State.
I asked him if he would be IN the
next race for Governor, and the reply
was:
mo; I have been Governor for two
terms and don't care to have the
= place any more"
When asked if he would be in the
race for Senator he said:
''I'll tell you something conhden-
TALLY if you won't print it."
said:
"Gc-eraor, you know / am news
NO ar p,on onS he said.