The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-08

1t must be remembered that Mr.. Vest
in his nimble polished way attacked
the integrity of the Supreme Court as
to the Income Tax decision, and Till
man coming along later with the echo
of Vests words in his ears, made
brutal attack upon the Supreme Court
which seemed all the more brutal IN
his deficiency of Senatorial language
poor as compared With that of Vest
Thus Vest, right or wrong, might be
called an edition de luxe of Tillman
For his attack Wednesday on Secretary
Morton had the carmine coloring OF
the South Carolinian's methods, only
used with the artistic touch OF the Ma
ton freseo worker. Tillman slaps II
on all in one CORY daub and glories n
it. It may be questionable It men ike
Ingalls,, when he was bidding Tor re-
election, or Vest, now, are not quite
culpable for putting into sort OF Ter
mentation the minds of men like I'LL
man who needs check instead of con-
donement, specially from the Older
Senators.
Mr.. TilIman said he did not have
time for interviews he had now on
hand 500 letters, and had man who
did nothing else but select those which
he should answer. His manner in the
lobby was rather boisterous during his
more earnest moments, and he could
be heard from one end to the other
! asked Mr.. Tillman was the fight in
South Carolina a social rather than
political one, in other words whether
it was not a fight between the so-called
Il n. 10 Ia
was very loud in his response, eXclaim-
ing with emphatic gestures that he
knew of no such thing as an aristo-
crat; there were no aristocrats. | sug-
gested to him then what they call in
the South "ole famblys." Yes, he said,
taking South Carolina from the sea-
side the two tiers of counties border
inc thereon were where most of the
old families resided but from these
counties back. the people were of Ger
man descent, English, Scotch and they
were all as good men as any in the
State, and for that matter, there were
among his friends plenty of what they
called aristocrats.
Mr.. 1illman looks SO differently
when close. His eye is a brown and
strange to say-a hard brown--his
might say. uncurbed. The lines run
horizontally from one side of the chin
to the other, in ropey wrinkles that
seem to mark "a resolution? Well if
not a resolution desperation, double
twisted. 1t is tempestuous face,
choppy as the English channel, with
one side all the worse for the loss Of an
eye / tried to imagine what he would
look like with another hard-brown eye
to match the one left He would look
like far different man; | thought his
face would be softer. even by the adj
dition of another hard brown eye. The
application of the man is to be la
mented / thought Of Gambetta and
his sightless another tumultuous
soul, and / thought 100 Of comment
that was once made III the editorial
columns Of the News and Observer,
namely, that he might have been pref |
ty good man If he had been caught and |
tanned i'm time. There is a rasp in his |
whole bearing; the clouds hang low |
and mutter and rumble about him; the |
cry of the common people for "a REM
edy! a remedy" whether the cry be |
or not gets but too yenge- |
full vent through him But allowances
must be made for South Carolipa |
which, if it can't have u Tillman, will |
have Il civil war, cyclone or an earth |
quake. Without South Carolina or the |
Irishman in the earth's makeup, un-
less some wicked soul would include |
also the mother-in-lawg, the English |
speaking race would doubtless be COM |
paratively at peace. As a substitute |
for the Charleston earthquake Till |
man is a success, and get, as open 10 |
criticism as the statement will be, If |
Tillman lives to be three-score years |
and ten, I believe in the light Of the 1
mans career that he will have exerted |
his now vicious force his now SPLEEN
didly vicious force, more, on the whole, |
for the good Of hisfellows thar for evil. |
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Mr.. j.. II. Haynes. of Winston, IL here, |
en- route home from New York. He |
will leave tomorrow morning. He |
says money is very tight North, and |
that it is almost impossible 10 borrow |
any, even on gilt-edge paper.
Senator Pritchard has reported q bill |
from the Military Affairs asking the |
Secretary of War for an estimate Of the |
cost Of "Harbor of Refuge" to be |
located at Cape Lookout, on the North |
Carolina coast.
Miss Eva Summers, postmaster at |
Lincolnton, n. G., is visiting Mrs. |
Vance.
w f.. CHRISTIAN.