The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-10-12
TILLMAN IN CHARLESTON.
He IS Entertained at a Dinner by
the Mayor.

The Charleston correspondent of the
State says Senator B. r. Tillman ac-
companied by former Gov. Sheppard
and Representative Rains. ord Of Edge
field county. arrived there on the morn
ing train from Augusta, Wednesday.
They registered at the Charleston no.
tel, where the senator was soon sur
rounded by callers and newspaper men
and held quite levee for time. 1t
is the senator's first visit to this city
since 1894. as he remarked The party
are here or purely private business, the
senator said, and nothing farther was
elected from him on this point
The correspondent drew the senator
out concerning the matter Of helping
Charleston in bringing the soldiers
here He said that he had received a
telegram from Mayor Smythe several
days ago asking him to assist Charles
ton in the matter. but that it so hap
pened his hands were tied. he having
on former occasion urged the advan-
tages of the Port Royal harbor for such
purposes, and telegram having reach
ed him from that place just little
prior to Mayor Smythes and of a
similar tenar in behalf Of the latter
port.
But Port Royal was not in this
competition was it,"
u do not know that it was, replied
the senator, but that was the thought
that controlled me. | have always
been very prompt and willing to help
Charleston whenever the opportunity
arose, and have materially assisted her
on more than one occasion. But kicks
and cuffs were all the thanks | ever got
for it from the Charleston newspapers.
That, however. makes no difference.
She can depend on me to help her when
| can.
Speaking of his programme for the
near future the senator said that he
would 90 to Virginia shortly to make
some campaign speeches, and later
would come back though North Carroll
ma and enlist in the fight for white su-
premacy in that State. 1t had got to
be question purely of white and black
rule in that State, and at present the
negroes were on top.
"A few years ago. he said, the
North Carolinians were bemoaning the
fate of South Carolina, but now they
are in the valley of Jehosephat while
We look on from the mountaintop.
Among those who called en- the sena
tor and rendered him civilities were
Sheriff Martin, Messrs. ". Gibbes
Whaley, James NJ. Eason, B. l. Sim
mons, 4. c. Kaufman, NJ. S. Stoppel-
bein and others.
Mayor Smythe called on the senator
and conferred with him relative to the
question of bringing share of the
troops here When the business con-
ference was over the mayor invited the
senator to accept of dinner party in
his honor.
AS soon after the mayor left, as his
business engagements would permit,
Senator Tillman sat down at the table
IN the reading room OF the hotel and
wrote a strong and urgent telegram of
about 200 words to Secretary Long ask
ing him to give both Charleston and
Port Royal due consideration in the
movements of too personal and delicate
nature to quote, the senator cited the
superiority of the Charleston harbor
over that of Savannah. The tele-
gram dispatched, the senator gave him
self up to social intercourse until the
hour for dinner.
At o'clock Mayor Smythe, Alder
men Lapham, Percival and others
called at the hotel and escorted the
senator to dinner. The party remained
at dinner until the senator was ready
to leave on the $50 train for Trenton.
This attention to the senator on the
part of the city administration folks is
unprecedented and is causing much
rumination in the city.