New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-18

the governed" and who. dissatisfied with the
inadequate effect of the first reading theatri-
cally paused and repeated the final clause which
declared imperialism the paramount issue
of the campaign of 1900.
But alas! between Mr. Tillman excoriatng
trusts at Kansas City and Mr.. Tillman taking
the stump in South Carolina to defend the
State Dispensary monopoly-the cher prop or
his power in local politics-what a disparity
there is of promise and performance! And be-
tween Mr.. Tillman clamOring in MISSOURI FOR
the constitutional rights of the Filipino brown
man" and Mr. Tfllman exulting at home and
in the Senate that the South Carolina "black
man. has been stripped by force and fraud
of his right of suffrage, what a yawning gulf
there is of cynicism and effrontery! 1t is not
surprising to find even the "Pitchfork" Sena-
tors friends and neighbors alive to the ex-
traordinary contradictions in which his assent
to the declarations of the Kansas City plat
form has recently involved him. Says THE
Charleston Post" of Mr. Tillmans recent per-
formances:
From the soul stirring spectacle of Colonel
Bryan shifting imperialism and the trusts let
turn for a moment TO the alluring spectacle
of his chum, Tillman, shifting for imperialism
and his particular trust. We behold the
Senator prancing over South Carolina and max
ing welkins ring in favor of the most notorious
trust, whiskey trust, in the known world. This
trust of the Senator's boldly seizes legislation
as its instrument and brushes out all compe-
tition in the perfectly legitimate business of SELL
ing intoXicants. Far in advance of all other
trusts, this modest one has grabbed the reins
of government and merged itself into oneness
with the State-so that even now the State gov
eminent and the State dispensary entity.
AS for mlltarisIn denounced IN the platform
which Senator Tilman helped to promulgate
at Kansas City, this trust of his Is backed by
standing army OF armed Constables, and Is per'
haps the single and singular example in the
ted q
trade promoted by with guns paid with
money wrung from the taxpayers pockets.
This bitter indictment is indOrsed by 1.-THE
State" OF Columbia, as true and valid, and
1.-The State" perhaps the most representative
and influential of South Carolina newspapers,
adds:
Tillmans practices are in startling contrast
with Democratic principles. He is chief spokes-
man for a great whiskey trust. He Is the en-
bodiment of bossism. He practises militarism;
he illustrates and praotises Imperialism. What
Democratic issue of the present campaign does
he not antagoniZe? Bryan is trying to stop the
slaughter OF another in the Philippines;
Tillman has been boasting of the slaughter Of
another race in South Carolina. Bryan is seek
ing to put the Government the high plane
OF New Testament morality; Tillman is stump
ing the State r1diculing and insulting the teach
ers of that morality and preaching a gospel Of
liquor drinking.
Senator Tillmans case is perhaps an extreme
one: for no one among all the Southern leaders
who have identified themselves with the cause
of government with the consent of the gov
erned" In the Philippines was, on his South
Carolina record, more vulnerable TO the charge
of political hypocrisy than he. Yet he is only
one Of hundreds of Democratic statesmen whose
insincerity will be subjected to equally painful
exposure before the end of the campaign Of
humbug conceived at Kansas City and elab-
grated in all it's details In Colonel Bryan's re-
cent Indianapolis speech.