The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-27
Ben Tillman Goes Down on Wall
Street
To See How the Wolves of That
Famous Locality
DRAG IN THEIR PREY.
He Says Il Wish to See for N.Y.
self"
shall Have Something to Say
Later On"

NEW YORK, Feb. Ex-senator Tillman,
of South Carolina, is in New York. He
came up from Washington yesterday.
and is staying at the Marlborough hotel.
He is here to view the goldbug and the
Wall. street bull and the Wall street
bear in their native surroundings. He is
therefore here for study.
He is a man at whom you would look
more than twice if you CHANGED upon
him in crowd. He has large, irregu-
lar looking head, covered with gray
tinged black hair, which he probably
combs in the morning. But he tolls SO
diligently at dlsarranging it with his
long fingers all day that by night it is
disheveied. He has a strong, homely
brown face, in which are three fascinat-
ing features
The first is his eye-for he has but one
eye. II is large and restless and brown
and SLY, yet frank. He has a way of tilt
ing his head on one side and SO turning
his face that his blind eyelid confronts
you, and then you are startled by seeing
his sly, piercing brown eye peering into
you over the bridge of his nose
The second fascinating feature is his
nose. 1t is large and long and has a
hump at the bridge He has perfect
control of the muscles of this nose and it
is as expressive in its dumb way is his
eye.
The third feature is his mouth-large
and loose and sardonic. 1t suggests that
he has keen sense of humor, that is.
humor of that gay and sweet sort that
breaks into laughter at news of horrible
i'll fortune to an enemy. 1t Is the mouth
of a speaker, and it suggests a flood OF
speech of the sort called roasting" or
tripping open"
As to the rest of him, he is tall and
slightly stopped and long of leg and arm
and heavy in the body. His frame is
carelessiv covered with a black suit, q
statesman's coat of course, careless
shirt and plain black tie. ready made.
aud with the string pulled through, so
that it shows wrong side out on one side.
Senator Tiliman is one of those men VINO
do not know what they weaf. and do not
care, and would go unbrushed year in
and year outi they were unmarried.
~ am here to study the tinanc cial con-
ditions,'' said he in a slow, drawing
voice of a South Carolina farmer. II
wish to try to get at the bottom of these
Wall street matters. l wish to see for
myself. TO learn. to study. l have use for
this information.
81 shall have something to say later
on, | think" he said.
Mr.. TiIlman, an investigator of great
| acuteness and experience, will, without
| doubt, discover much that will pain and
surprise him; much that will spread in
dlgnatlon and amazement among MS
| neighbors when his report is received
| and examined. Almost at the start Mr..
| Tillman will discover that the man with
| chin whiskers in d Prince Albert coat and
| black slouch hatwhom the stock exchange
| guide always points out to visiting South
| Carolirians as Cornelius Vanderbilt at
! % cents per point is not that celebrated
| gentleman at all. but second cousin of
| the guide, vino lives in Hoboken.
Pursuing his inquiries little further,
Mr.. TilIman will find that the bucket
shop at Charleston does not have
special space on the floor of the ex-
change set apart for the transaction of
its business; he will also find that the
famous time when Neighbor Thompson
lost his hog crop through bulling sugar
in 90 is much less vividly impressed
upon the memory of Wall street than it
is upon the recollection of Cracker pre-
| cinct, Tar county, South Carolina.