Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-02-05
TILLMAN'S PITCHFORK.
What the Press Has to Say Of His First
Speech In the Senate.

What the Press Has to Say OF His Firs,
| Speech In the Senate.
New York Sun : If anyone expected
that the solemnizing precincts of the
United States senate would tame Till.
mans turbulent and blackguard spirit,
he did not know the man
St. Louis Globe Democrat: The
president needs no defense from any
such assaults as Tillman's, yet it is
strange that some Republican or Dem.
ocrat did not, in the interest of politi'
cal decency, interpose to shut off his
flow of biackguardism.
Charleston News and Courier: Coarse
and vulgar abuse of the president and
his cabinet passes without rebuke, be-
ing regarded as part of the horse play
which must be expected at variety
shows and which is intended for the
amusement of the b'hoys.
Washington Post: One forgets the
mans coarse ribaldry and brutal vio-
lence in simple wonder as to how such
creature got into the United States
senate, and why, since he did get there,
no one intervened to protect so grave a
PROCLAMATION as he committed last Wed
nesday.
Columbia Register: There was nc
senatorial courtesy about that speech.
Tillman used plain English and called
spade spade and traitor. Judas
It was a mastery presentation of a
burning issue, and a fearful arraing'
ment of those who oppress the poor
and fatten on their misfortunes.
Greenville Is. CO. News: Abuse with
out proof, the ribald railing of an
infuriate blackguard, the bold, palpa'
BILE, shameless wandering of a shallow
politician to a debased appetite fol
coarseness and vituperation, seem to
us to be the striking characteristics Of
the loug-heralded speech of the senator
from South Carolina.
Chicago Tribune: On one occasion
where the sentiment seemed to de-
mand it, he skipped around the open
space back of his desk in something,
which was very much like jig, and
which so much annoyed Senator Nor
rill that the old legislator from Ver'
mont deliberately turned his back on
the South Carolina demagogue.
Macon Telegraph: The fact remains
that Tillman is a vulgar demagogue
unable to discuss public question on
its merits and dangerous to the degree
that he is able to move the passions
and prejudice of men as ignorant and
reckless as he is himself. The senate
of the United States has not before
known such an exhibition of bad man
ners, ill temper and gross ignorance.
St. Louis Republic: Senator Till
man may hear some approval. There
are men everywhere to applaud boor'
ish and excited vituperation. They
are in no corner of the earth, however
the men who do good to their commu,
mites. They are the men whom laws
against assault and riot are made to
fit; the men who make the progress oi
civilization slow and painful; who are
the enemies of the sheriff and the
courts of law. Business and education
languish where they are numerous.
The Christian preacher is discouraged
where they infest.
Philadelphia Press: Senator Till
man, of South Carolina, gave the
senate a taste of his quality yesterday
and it was not refreshing. There is
crude force in the senator's deliver
erance, and possibly he believes most
of what he says; but it is offensive,
and in its grossly personal alluslon TO
the president and secretary OF the
treasury. we should suppose he was
unparliamentary, even under the ex'
tremely elastic "courtesy OF the SEN
ate." He was not called to order,
however, though nearly every line OF