Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-02-05

his speech was calculated to make The
judicious grieve. His TRADE may be
admired by his partisans in South
Carolina but for demagogic violence,
it surpasses anything the senate has
yet listened to.
Atlanta Journal: Nothing that Ben
Tlllman did could surprise anybody
unless it were something decent. His
speech in the senate yesterday was in
no sense a surprise. 1t was thorough
| ly characteristic of Tillman. That is
to say, it was coarse, vituperative and
scurilous. 1t made no pretense at
argument. From first to last it was
one string of angry assertion, furious
denunciation and cheap epithets.
Louisville Courier Journal: Senator
Tillman, of South Carolina, delivered
| in the senate chamber yesterday a
speech that is characterized by vete-
ran members of the body as the most
remarkable volume Of invective that
ever muddled the dull stream of sena-
torial life. Senator Tillman distribu-
ted denunciations right and left. He
threatened a popular uprising and the
march of armed thousands upon the
national capital. President Cleve-
land was called a "besotted tyrant," "
and he branded members of congress
as towards for not impeaching him.
Secretary Carlisle was referred to as
"this Judas from Kentucky" and the
South, he declared, bowed its head in
shame for the Democratic leaders.
New York Mercury: Tillman is a
disgrace to the senate and to the
country as we'll as to South Carolina.
He fought his way to the front on the
political field of his own State in pre-
cisely the way in which he evidently
hopes to succeed in the senate. A
way should be found to teach him that
while "plantation manners" may 60
in South Carolina, they will not in the
highest legislative body of the land,
and that while he may on the South
Carolina stump call his crippled COM
petitor hypocrite, liar and horsethief,
he shall not apply similar epithets to
the peoples president in the senate.
But the right time to have taught
Tillman this lesson was before he had
proceeded far in yesterdays harangue.
Shame upon the senate that it permit
ted this coarse blackguard and would
be repudiator to stand in his place and
wantonly assail the man who has more
than once stood between the people
and anarchy and reputation Nsena-
ator Tillman made an exhibition of
himself yesterday that was positively
disgusting. His attack upon the pres
ident was one of the most disgraceful
things the congress has ever been COM
pelled to witness. The senator can
only be likened to a certain little strip
ed animal that is actually harmless,
but extremely disagreeable because Of
the odor it gives forth.
New York Mail and Express: With
tears of noble shame in her eyes South
Carolina may look fair and full into the
face of her degradation this morning.
From Hyperion to satyr-from Mat
thew G. Butler, the gallant soldier and
accomplished gentleman, to such a
man as Tillman-is, indeed, a slip
backward. The seats once occupied
by Calhoun and Hayne, and lately by
Hampton and Butler, now held by
Tlllman and Irby! New York has
suffered from degeneration in the char
acter of her senators, but nothing like
to this. Poor South Carolina
Baltimore Sun: Senator German
will have to look after his laurels, for
he has a dangerous rival in Senator
Tillman, who yesterday delivered
what by Senatorial courtesy" may be
termed speech, but which resembles
somewhat enlarged edition of our
senior senator's attack on the presi-
dent. The South Carolinian announc-
ed some time ago that when he took
his seat in congress he would have a
pitchfork concealed about his person,
with which he intended to disturb
things generally. If be succeeded in
disturbing anything by its outpouring
of commonplace invective it was the
sense Of decency of the American peo-
pie. 1t was a pitiful exhibition that
he made, one which will make every
South Carolinian blush for shame that
State once represented by Calhoun
and Hayne should have as its expo
nent a man so coarse and vulgar.
Truly the pitchfork will hereafter be
regarded as the most appropriae en-
blem af Tillmanism, and as that in
strument is used almost exclusively in
the barnyard it is pity that the SEN
ator does not confine his talents to
the same sphere.
Atlanta Constitution Of course,
Senator Tillman made several unpar-
liamentary and some very harsh per-
sonal illusions. 1t is to be regretted
that in dealing sledge hammer blows
against the iniquitious policy which is
wrecking the prosperity of the people,
he should have permitted himself in
his excited outbursts of invective to
have, at intervals, diverted the main
line of his argument into personal
vituperation. The speech would have
been just as strong had he not called
the president "besotted tyrant," and