The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-02-12
TILLMAN'S HOT WORDS.
THEY WERE BYNO MEANS WITHOUT
SOME GOOD PRECEOENTS.

THEY WERE BYNO MEANS WITHOUT
SOME GOOD PRECEOENTs.
Speeches in Which Equally as Strong Ian
cuage Was Used. The Fact That no AT
tempt at an Answer Has Been Made
Makes it Appear Unanswerable.
ATLANTA, Feb. 1T. r. r. Cabb, q
brilliant young lawyer Of this city,
writes as follows tothe Atlanta Consti
tuition:
have read Tillman's speech from
the Congressional Record. It is ter,
rible arraignment. Neither admitting
nor denying his bold charges, Imain.
tain that there isno one word of black.
guardism in the speech-his language
comes within the precedents made by
Americas greatest Senators, and is nc
harsher than that used in debate by
the foremost statesmen Of other coun.
tries. Furthermore, from an Ameri.
can standpoint, his words were not
even unparliamentary, used as they
were and when they were. To prove
these assertions, I would first quote the
Constitution of the United States,
where it says: The Senate shall have
the sole power to try all impeach.
ments. Each House may determine
the rules Of its proceedings, punish its
members for disorderlv behavior, and
with the concurrence Of two-thirds,
expel a member. Therefore, the
only parliamentary law" of force in
the Senate is the code of rules made
by the Senate. Tillman has broken
none of these, else there would be a
motion al least to punish or expel
him. For, if Ben Tillman has behav.
ed the blacksuard in our Senate, his
fellow members therein are derelict in
duty, false to oaths, and particeps
criminis to blackguardism, if they sat
dumb and idle and interested, during
the performance. So, it is fair to pre-
sumo Tillman broke no present rule
of the Senate, and therefore he was
parliamentary within the Senatorial
sense Of the phrase. For comparison,
l have chosen the roughest of Till
mans uiterances; they are as follows
''Besotted tyrant," "Bull-headed aud
self-idolatrous man." Judas from
Kentucky, Vanity and obstinacy,'
process Of debauchery, why have
you not impeached him. The Su.
preme Court, by one corrupt vote. ,
Now for precedents. John Randolph
said, in that same Senate, of President
Adams and Secretary Clay; This
neutrality-suspicious. legged ad
ministration." Henry Clay said in
thatsame Senate of President Jackson
What security have we against the
lawlessness of any Presidentl" THE
people have been betrayed, insulted
their interests betrayed" ITO propi-
tiate the President we see approaching
tyranny" MAY I live to see the peo,
pie rescue the public Treasury from
this pillage." John c. Calhoun said
of President Jackson in that same Sen
ate: He has entered the Treasury
with false keys of sophlstry, as pill.
ferer, under the silence Of midnight" :"
The corruptions and encroachments
Of the executive" After these speech
es, the Senate passed resolution, by
6 majority, condemning Jackson.
AS such speech was not unparliamen'
tary there and then, many Senators
have used such language directly
against colleagues. For instances,
Ben Hill on Malone: 1.-The people
Will not tolerate treachery," false to
a trust" "soiled with dishonor." etc.
Ingalls, said in the Senate of one of
Cleveland's former Secretaries: "a
more degraded, loathsome, eNecrable
and detestable utterance never came
from any public official" Old Hoar
interrupted Ben Hill, just like he did
Ben Tillman. Berrien said in that
same Senate: 1.-The administration and
its allies give currency to these calum-
Mes" while Forsyth said in the House:
"a stupendous fraud is intended by
the Secretary of War ITO call it a
bribe would shock his delicacy, just as
Cowper's preachers could not mention
hell to ears polite. :" profitable
scheme OF villainy" Sir John Ell
lott, in 1923, said in the House Of Com
mons: 'The ignorance and corrup-
ton of our ministers. eff you sur
vey the court, the bar and bench show
our disease to be desperate." Catham
said Of Prime Minister Walpole: ''By
his ignorance and wickedness" His
weak, pusilanimous and wicked meas,
ures."
So could 60 on and on quoting
English and Irish statesmen. Who
can forget the close of Grattan's great
invective2-''The merchant may say
of you, the constitutionalist may say
of you, the American may say of you,
and I, now say, and say to your
beard sir, you are not an honest y
Did not L. Q. G.. Lamar say in the
United States Senate such awful words
Of Conckling, that he himself describ-
ed them thus: II have said to you
what no good man deserves and no
brave man will bear?" Was Lamar
blackguard? Did not Cleveland make
him Supreme Court Judge? Has
not Justice Brown used the epithet,
'Sordid despotisn Of wealth." Does
not Mr.. Carlisle's eloquence abound in
anathemas, notably his denunciation
of 'the greatest crime of the century.
Did not Thomas Jefferson, the great
est of parliamentarians, use language
in the Declaration of independence
like ?--"Absolute tyranny" 'Judg-
es dependent on his will alone. " His
works are begun with cruelty and per-
fidy." Did not our great party de-
nounce certain legislation as "a cow
ardly makeshift:" Does not President
Cleveland himself speak right out
sometimes? Did he not once say otfi-
cially to those from whom he differed
something about, Party perfdy and
dishonor.'
These are h,,t q few illustration and