The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-03-20
AS IRBY SEES IT.
SHALL HE HAVE 4 SECOND TERM IN
THE SENATE?

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white Supremacy. Restoration of White
/, Unity, Il Good State Constitution are Mat
fer, of Moonshine to Irby Unless Ee Car
be Reelected.
WASHINGTON. March S.-Although
Congress has adjourned and all of the
South Carolina Congressmen have
gone home the members of the Pal
metto colony here are still specializing
upon the causes and the effects of the
split" between Senator Irby and
Senator-elect Tillman. Senator 1rby
may try to disguise the fact as much
as he pleases, but the general impres
sion prevails here that Tillman is moi
working in double harness with him
any longer. AS near as | have been
able to get at the meat" of this pecu-
liar contention the trouble arises over
tie next United States Senatorship.
Senator Irby wants second term in
the Senate. and he wants it badly. He
not only wants it. but he demands it
as matter of right. In recent con-
versation with him on the subject he
said that he intended to make fight
for reelection in spite of any opposl.
ton that might arise. He contended
that it is the custom to give Senator
VINO attends to his business acceptably
q second term. He feels that he mas
done all that could have been expected
of him since he entered the Senate and
he will therefore ask the people OF
South Carolina to give him another
term after 1897, when his present term
expires.
The friends of Senator-elec. Tillman
say that he does not want Irby to have
a second term and he will do nothing
to assist him in that direction. Who
Tillman has selected as his favorite to
succeed Senator Irby will appear later,
Just now very little is being said on
the subject. It is claimed that Irby
was but an accident in the first in
stance, and, therefore he should be
satisfied with six years in the Senate
as the immediate successor of Wade
Hampton. That may sound all very
well &or those who have not tasted OF
the Senatorial sweets. Senator Irby
may not have been an active partici
pant in the great debates that have
taker! place in the Senate during the
last two or three years, but he has put
in four years of comparative luxury,
with private secretary, a private com.
mittee room and all of the trimmings
that 90 with Senatorship. he can
not be blamed for wanting more of it
They all do. The more they get the
more they want.
The only interview that Senator
elect Tillman and Governor Evans hac
with Senator Irby during the recent
visit of the Senator-elect and the Gov
ernor to this city must have been very
interesting. It took place in Senator
Irby's committee room. Senator Irby
was spread out in a luxurious recEn.
ing chair, with his wool hat canteo
over to one side-he generally wears
his hat in his committee room and
also at his private apartments. He Is
getting bald rapidly in consequence.
Senator-elect Tillman and Governor
| Evans entered the room and proceeded
to relate to the Senator the terms OF
the recent compromise, with the &C,
companying details. It seems that
was the first intimation that Sena-
tor Irby had received on the subject.
He is naturally sensitive man, and
he at once appreciated the fact that he
had been totally ignored in the trans,
action. It was-a terrible blow to his
pride, but he struggled to control his
feelings and appear Indifferent as far
as he was personally concerned, but
expressed great anxiety as to the effect
it might have on the Reform Movement
in the State. He went so far, it is said,
as to chide Tillman with a lack of tact
and political sagacity. and charged
that the editor of The News and Cou-
rier had "dehorned'' him. The auth
orized interview with Senator lrby i'm
properly used the word deceived" for
''dehorned I" The latter word IS the
one Senator Irby claims as his own,
for he was going on to tell Tillman of
the amputation of several parts of his
political anatomy by the Conservative
leaders. It was anything but merry
party. The next day Messrs. Tillman
and Evans proceeded further North to
Baltimore, Philadelphia and New
York.
The night after their departure Sena-
tor Irby went into executive session"
with himself, and considered all that
he had heard from Messrs. Tillman
and Evans in connection with other
rumors and actual occurrences that
| have been floating around In South
! Carolina politics for several months
past. The result of his deliberations
| was the authorized interview which he
gave out to the press associations.
He realized that determined effort is
being made to turn his political pic
ture to the wall, y and he objects to
such proceeding for the reason above
stated. When Seuator-elect Tillman
returned to Washington, on his way
home from New York, it was under
stood that Tillman and Irby were to
have another consultation. T llman
dined with Representatives Talbert
and Strait, but a few doors from the
residence of Senator Irby, but they
never met again in this city. Mutual
friends stated that Tillman and Irby
had engagements to meet each other
at varions places within twenty-four
hours, but they manged to keep out OF
each others way like two professional
prize fighters Of the present day en-
gagged in making "a draw of it. ;"
Married in Haste.
CHICAGO. March 11.-Paulin Cony