The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-07-18
lie IS VERY MAD.
WADDlLL, GIVES THE GOVERNOR A
PIECE OF HIS MIND.

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He Says Great Many Hard Thlngs about
Governors, but Now He IS Bitter
Enemy.
CoLUMBI, S. c., July 1l.-Thc fol-
lowing letter explains itself:
To the Public: a few days ago Gov
ernor Tlllmau cowardly attempted 20
hold me up to the scorn of the people oi
my country. 1 was denied the oppor'
tunity to reply to this charge OF his The
Governor denled calling me by name,
but bis friends and coat-ta il sWingers did
it for him.
had information Of the matter The
day before, hence he is guilty OF false
hood and cowardice in the same breath
NV former advocacy of Tillman and
prominence II Alliance work and pres
ent position cause me to become an OBJ
| iect of Tllman's hate and Tlndictlve.
ness.
| wish to retire from active partici
patton Ia politics, but before do want
to put myself right before the people o.
Darlington county and the State at large
Governor Tillman charges me with being
in the pay of Wall street. l sell tlou.
for J. 4. o. Moore, broker, Darlington
and one of Tillman's best friends. l am
also agent for the Home Supply Associa
ton of Chicago. Because l will no lon
ger worship the false and ugly God
Tillman, am to be slandered by thi:
selfish, mean fraud; tor he is nothing but
q fraud. a traitor to the Reform Move
nlent and to the Alllance.
One OF the first acts Of treachery was
to the Reformers of Darlington county
in making al appointment which was II
violation of his solemn pledge made II
his first address at this place in 1890 anc
reiterated to several gentlemen in his Of
fee in Columbia. Then violation after
violation of his pledges to the Alliance
at Spartanburg ID 1891, and May con-
ventlon, 1892. Tlllman is in the inter-
est and I believe, in the pay CT Tam
many Hall. Tillman denies voting tol
Hill al Chicago. 1 don't believe he car
prove it, and, if be does, he caa not dis
prove his advocacy Of Hill before the
convention at Chicago, for be took the
delegation (all that he could influence,
one night to TammanY WlgWam, where
we were introduced to Croker, Bourke
Cochran, Cummings, ct, al, wlned anc
cigared Tillman. and if he gets to the
Senate be will only have Hill to welcome
him. He has vilifed and abused Popu-
lists, Democrats, and Republicans alike
Tlllman wrote one of his henchmen here
that 1 was travelling in E1gefeld IN the
interest of General Butler. General
Butler was kind to me in the war and
prefer Butler to Tillman, thereby nc
principle involved. Butler is an hono--
able, brave soldier and an old soldier
knows how to meet such a man. Ex-
perience of four years, often in contac
with Tillman has lead me to judge him
cold, selfish, cruel and cowardlY man
I thought at the time that saw evi-
dence of his cowardIce at Florence II
1892, and 30 stated to afsw friends a
the time, and have seen more eVlderci
of his cowardice at Chester and Oats.
If the Alliance of South Carolina vii
support such g man, who plainly tel:
them why they can do so, l, for enc
will draw the line right here and say
will support Butler until a slmonpurt
Allianceman is put out. If the true
Alliancemen Of Darlington county vii
allow an Office holder, coat-tail sRipger
dependent on Tiliman, to carry then
into packed caucus to push aside true
and tried Alliancemen for shyster law
yer, an eleventh hour convert, why tie,
can do II, hut will oppose such method
and fight such candidate. Oae wore
to the true one gallus boys who FOLLOWED
Tillman on SC blindly and who swallow
every word he says. If you, the poo
tenant white farmers, who rent land
and to whom Governor Tillman is 8
fond of appealing. if you lived in Edge
feled near Governor Tillman's tenantr
place, and wanted land of him, you coul
, not get it. He has not white tenant
all are negroes and his neighbors sa
that he will not have white man o
his place. Any further information O.
this line will be furnished on appllcatlo
to D. C. Bullock, Esq., GARNER } Nine
: ty.Six, S. G. He ls man OF integrlt
and high standing, descendant Of Rave
lutionary ancestors, and lives Oh land
Sires who fought IN l776 at NInety-SiS
In conclusion 1 ask the Resormers
Darlington county, what has Tlllma
, done for you? Has he out Ct MS abuc
dance, contributed one cent TO anythin
here? Our paper went down; did be eve
pay his subscription? Has any Reforr
enterprise or work every gotten cer
from Ben Tillman; and in the least
the epithets cast upon him, so justly
cannot add one more any say sting
Ben Tillman? Who will follow longe
! a shelfsh, cruel. coWardly apd sting
man, however able he may be? In tn
end he will dlsappolnt us.
JOHN NJ. WADDGLL.
Darlington, S. c., July I.