The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-06
MAD AT TILLMAN.
The South Carolina Senator is
Ostracized,
Because He Ripped Up the Sen
atorial TOgas
And Exposed Some of the Scala
wags Underneath.
SENATORIAL DIGNITY
Presents a Tattered and Woe
begone Appearance
Since Tillman Ran His Pitch
fork Through 1t.
TILLMAN CARETH NOT.
Getting Thousands of Letters
That Praise Him.
Is There to."Watch ROgues and
Prevent Steals"
Since TilIman Ran His Pitch
fork Through 1t.
TILLMAN CARETH NOT
Getting Thousands of Letters
That Praise Him.
Is There to."Watch ROgues and
Prevent Steals"

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-Senator Till
man is receiving thousands of letters en-
dorsing his sensational speech which 80
startled his fellow senators and brought
such a storm of denunciation upon him
from the metropolitan daily papers. His
excoriation of public men has penetrated
to the remote wilds of the United States
and his mail is crowded with letters
praising him and asking Tor copies of his
speech. Therefore, it appears he has
struck popular chord
This man, whose spectacular talk has
been denounced as revolutionary, fanat-
ical and dangerous and labeled every
thing from vulgar to clownish seems to
be neither frightened at epithets hurled
at him nor f1attered by the praise of
those who admire him.
reporter for a local paper inter-
viewed Mr.. Tillman about his views and
asked:
ally, Mr. Tillman?"
NO" then, after thought, "Oh, yes.
There ore a dozen, such as they are in
there" with nod of his head toward the
senate chamber. 81 haven't any quarrel
with them; but it's the system that makes
them that OBJECT 10.
II haven't any objections to a man
making as many millions as he can un-
der just laws and equal conditionts. 1
hold that with equat opportunities and
equal burdens whatever a man may gain
should justly be his. 1t is only when
mau avails himself of the labors of other
men, under conditions which give him
unjust advantages, that l object"
DO you believe that a man can make
khr5 OirA oof.
conditions honestly?"
Except in rare cases no man can
make million honestly. He might if
he went out into new country, bought
up great areas of land and along came
a railroad and a town grew up whereby
values of land increased immensely. Or
he might go into city and buy real es-
tate like the Astors. That is legitimate,
or at least not stealing other mems la
bor"
"Do you really expect to accomplish
anything, Mr.. Tillman?"
Yes, when the country sends men
here who think as l do and hold the
same views, and believe in equal privil-
eyes and equal opportunities for all
1 think 1 have accomplished some
thing already in waking up peo-
pie by telling them plain truths. The
trouble is men who come here are afraid
to tell the truth. The papers are afraid
to tell both sides of question. But if
you would see all the letters l have got
ten you would see what great wave of
revolt is already stirring the country
"What are you going to do in the SEN
ate?"
Watch rogues and prevent steals-if
l can
"Yes, but aren't you going to introduce
measures to correct this awful system
that creates milliOnaires and saps the life
of the land?"
AUST give me the prospect of getting
any measures through and then PIl tell
you, but I'm not building air castles"
The senators have not forgiven and
will not forgive Tillman, however, for
his violation of senatorial courtesy"
The senator from South Carolina is per-
mitted to flock all by himself in the SEN
ate chamber; in fact, he is almost COM
pletely ostracized except by the Populists
and u few of the silver senators. 1t looks
as if nobody would speak to him who
could escape doing so. He is greeted
with averted eyes and a general air of
fer in the coventry to which the senate
has consigned him. He sits at his desk,
as usual, regarding his associates with
sinister glances from bis single eye
beaming with baleful lustre.
Indignation of the senate is caused not
merely by what MIR. 1llIman said about
MIR. Cleveland or Secretary Carlisle, but
from a consciousness that the manner as
we'll as the matter of his deliverance will
shock the country and tend to lower the
popular estimate of the entire senate as
legislative body. For some time older
and more conservative members of the
senate have felt that the entrance into
that body of what is called the younger
element from the states recently admitted
to the union and resulting from political
upheavals in other states has had a ten
dency to deprive the body of that vener-
able dignity which is one of its historic
traditions, and with which it would still
encloak itself if that were possible.
No such violence of language, adorn-
ed with such acrobatic gesticulation has
been either heard or seen in the senate
as Tillman's since the stirring days just
before the civil war, when Zach Chandler
denounced jefferson Davis as a traitor.
The Indignation in the senate over Mr..
Tillman's harangue was so deep and
widespread that the body actually could