Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-01-31
PINE BLUFF, ARK, JAN. S1. 1896.
LARGEST DAILY CITY CIRCULATION
TILLMAA',S TRADE.

A more remarkable occurrence or disgusting scene never occurred in a great parliamentary body than that of last Wednesday afternoon when Ben Tillman, of South Carolina, made his maiden speech in the Senate ot the United States. In no other par liamentary body in the world would such scnrrilous, if not reasonable utterances, have been tolerated. ltI is rather extraordinary that this scurrilous demagogue should have been permitted to open the food gates of blackguardism and allowed to proceed without Interruption. He manifested an utter disregard for the dignity of his position and a perfect contempt for his surround ings. In denunciation Of those who entertain opinions different from his own his language was violent and unrestrained, and was so disgusting and unparliamentary that the mar vel of it all is that dignifed Sena- tors and the Vice-Presidenn did not sseall him down. In the many re- markable episodes that have occurred in the Senate, Senator Till mans speech is unparalleled. In the denunciation of the alien and se- dition laws of John Adams, the em- bargo act of Thomas Jefferson, the bank fight of President Jackson, or the subsequent administration of President Tyler, or during the i'm peachmeIt proceedings of President Johnson, no Senator ever so far transgresssed the proprieties of the occasion and expressed himself with the violence and extravagance of language, that Ben Tillman did on this occasion. He referred to the President as a "besotted tyrant, and to Secretary Carlisle as the "Judas of the Treasury. The cus- toms of the Senate were set at deti- ance, the reading of speeches by Senators animadverted upon; fel- low Senators were lampooned and denounced as towards, and every
 thing and anything sayagely de nounced that did not accord with his peculiar and Populistic views.
 It was the exhibition of a rufian and the .act of a barbarian. In a ruthless and iconoclastic manner he denounced everything sacred to the American people. He acted the part of the buffoon, the ruffian and the demagogue in turn. He was tragic, melo-dramatic and comic. He literally danced jig on the floor of the Senate while picturing the glee of Wall Street over the present financial situation. He character ized the Senate as the "Temple of Thieves. Indeed, it was an exhibi- tion of low bred demagoguism that would have been disgusting to the most uncultared, unlettered and vulgar audience.
 Poor old South Carolina To such complexion has she come that the State once honored by Calhoun, Pickney, Hayne and Hampton, has passed into the control of such vaunting and vulgar buffoons and demagogues as Tillman and Evans, who have brought disgrace to their names and dishonor upon the fair escutcheon of their State. How we once loved dear old South Caro- final The State once stood for states manship and all that was lofty and noble in American politics. But, alas the South Carolina of old is no more. 1t has degenerated until the most ignoble and scurvy class of politicians aad demagoglIes that ever disgraced and dishonored the fair name of State have come into control of it's destinies.
 But Tillman and Tillmanism have