The age-herald., 1900-08-28
THE CAMPAIGN IN
 SOUTH CAROLINA

Columbia, S. C., Aug. 27-(special) )-Soutt
 Carolina has become somewhat noted for
 the uniqueness of her political campaigns
 The present one is different from all pred
 ecessors and is being fought on new lines
 Senator Tillman is the central figure;
 standing, metaphorically speaking, with a
 Bible ia one hand and whiskey bottle
 bearing the coat of arms of South Caro-
 lima and stamped chemically pure,'' in the
 other, he invites the populace to drink and
 quotes scripture to prove that to use liquor
 is not considered immoral in the Bible ex-
 eept in Habakkuk, which he declares to be
 ''obsolete;'' around him the same wool hat
 boys of 1890 and 1892 applauding his
 sharp thrus ts at the ministers; others of his
 more serious followers are more silent still
 others have openly turned and speak
 ing against him, while from hundred pull
 pits pours such stream of denunciation
 as has never before been turned simulta-
 neously upon the most evil works of the
 satanic majesty. With scathing tongue and
 bitter pen the preachers of almost every
 denomination, particularly the Methodists,
 Bapusts and Presbyterians. have drawn the
 line of excommunication around the person of the portly Senator.
 
 question being dispensary or prohibition. Even the twelve consecutive days when the
 average maximum temperature was 100 de-
 grees In the shade could not keep the Sen
 ator off the stand: indeed, with the con-
 tinued heat he became more warm in the
 use of language and it is question
 whether the ministers kept pace with the
 Senator's vocabulary. Up-to-date, however,
 they are doing fairly well, and the indi-
 cations are that they will not be outcla ssed. Among other things Senator Tillman de-
 clared in his speeches that 'of all things I hate is the hypocrte, and I would not swap places today with any of the preach CTS for my own chances in the next world" He has done more, he declares, for the morals of the people of South Carolina than all the preachers put together. "The preachers and the old barkeepers
 have formed an unhoy alliance to break
 down the dispensary
 "The preachers may be honest, but they are weak in the upper story Capping his
 head). They do not know" He accused some preachers of distorting | their texts in order to show that liquor was condemned in the Bible; he then quotes Pauls advice to Timothy to take wine; Solomon, he declared had given the same advice, while the instances of good men like Lot and Noah having got drunk without reproof or punishment cited to show that drunkenness was not consid- cred a sin. The miracle of water being turned into wine by Jesus has been re- peatedly referred to proof, furnished by the New Testament, of the Senator's contentious.
 Ministers of the gospel were alliterative in their attacks on his cause, the Senator said, and he might retalate by saying that some people attributed ID. D." to stand for Damned Devils!'
 People had threat aed to scratch his name from the ticket he said, and he in vited them to do so, declaring that, al- though he had no opposition for re-elec- tion to the Seuate he would not accept the office if he did not receive a majority of the votes cast. He expected, he said, to make 10000 new enemies by his canvass. But Senator Tillman has not held the monopoly of the talking A hundred se.,- mons and as many letters to newspapers
 might be quoted from, but here are a few l samples:
 Rev. G. w. Gardner, D. D., editor of the | South Carolina Baptist, has been sup porter and admirer of Senator Tillman, and has kept out of the fight until this week, when he attended meeting and | heard the Senator speak
 | He says: Tt was an outrage and we | are ashamed that South Carolina has such man to represent her so destitute of rev erence so biasphemous.
 He is a far worse man than his most ardent enemies have ever branded him. Dr. c. s. Gardner of Greenville, referring to Tillman's statement that Habakkuk | is obsolete, says; "Habakkuk did not live to see the time when United States Sen ator would go about the country preaching
 that the liquor traffic is benevolent and
 moral institution.
 "He is either a religious ignoramus religious imposter who tries to bolster up liquor traffic with the Biblen Rev. F. c. HiclSson of Cherokee County, who attempted to interrogate Tillman on the stand and was snubbed and sawed off, says:
 "Wil the people follow Mir. Tillman or
 the preachers and the Bible? There was a time when they would follow Tillman has that time passed? The Lord grant that it has But want to say to my people in Cherokee If you think MT. Tillman knows more of the Bible and of right, of how to live and how to de, than I do, let him be your pastor; let him come to pray for you when you come to die, let him preach your funerals when you are dead do not want | to do it. s8 4#  FIRST, CATCH YOUR EMPRESS From the Baltimore American.