The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-09-11
LAURENS. S. c., Sept. IL, 1901.
Ten Years Of TilImanism.

"Tillman is right now, conservative,
strong, and we are free to say, is the
master spirit who has brought the
State back to where it normally should
be, where it has stood for half CEN
tury before TillmaD, and stood nobly
and honorablyn
If our contemporary is serious in
this statement 1t is conspcuously un-
familiar with the position occupied oy
South Carolina "for half century be
fore Tillmar" To say that Tiliman
''has brought the State back to where
1t normally should be-" is matter for
the exercise Of individual taste, but to
say that he has brought the State back,
politically, morally or materially to
'where it had stood nobly and honora-
bly, for fifty years exhibits q pitiful
Ignorance of the history OF South Car
olina and her noble traditions. Till
mans accession to political power in
this State was essentially revolutionary.
fle has been from first to last an icono-
clast OF the most radical type. With
nought but the gift OF CAB and the sell
fish instincts OF the demagogue he
came to the surface in 1890 solely by
dragging down into the mrc the idols
and honorable traditions of the people
" which had lived for generations before
his political existence was possible.
There was no name too sacred, no in
tGitution too honored to escape his vi
tuperatiOn so long rs he conceived it
necessary to his advancement over their
blackened ruins, Was it bringing the
State back to where it had stood for
half century before Tillman, and
stood nobly and honorably," to defame
the fair names of Hampton, Wallace,
Fraser, Hudson, Haskell, Kershaw,
MCGOWAN, clarcm, ct venerable no.
men, and the host of other true and
tried heroes OF Carolina who had offer
ed their lives, and fortunes upon the
tented field for the liberty Of their
people in time OF war and had been
again in the van of that great strug-
gle for political freedom in 1876? Was
1t bringing the State back to the noble
and honorable position occupied by her
people for half century, to invade the
judicial sanctuary of South Carolina
and stab justice in her own temple?
Was 1t bringing the State back to where
it normally should be, to climb rough
shod over her educational institutions
and by stirring up the prejudices of
the masses against the classes seek to
pose as the patron of the poor?
Was 1t the work of great benofac-
tor and savior of the people to crush
with a mailed hand" the prosperous
phosphate industry reducing the States
revenue from nearly a half million dol
lars yearly TO mere bagatelle? Was
1T the work of q great moral leader to
blot out the business of the States
Chief City and upon the ruins build up
a.gigantic ,whiskey trust the very life
OF which has been sustained by the
blood of the people and the sacrifice
OF the States fair name? Was it upon
such rum Ncask pedestal that South
Carolina "stood for half century be-
fore Tillman, and stood nObly and hon
orably?'
Was it return to the "noble and
honorable place where South Carolina
has stood for half century," for this
master spirit" to degrade such names
as McDuny, HaYne, Pickens, Hampton,
Hagood by coupling the executive office
with such incendiary and lawless ute
RANGES as: 81 as governor would lead
mob to lynch a nigger for rape"
Has the pitchfork methods and the
barnyard manners of this demagoguo
in the Senate of the United States tend
ed to bring back the State to the no.
BILE and honorable position where it
stood in the days Of Calhoun?
But why go further into this sicken-
ing record OF "Ten years of Tillman-
ism" in South Carolina. Like the
deadly upas tree it's blight has black
ened all within it's influence, and
nought but the master spirit him
self has grown fat and sleek upon
It's poisonous Xhalations.-Greenvi
Daily News.
We reproduce the above with pleas
ure, "Ten Years OF Tillmanism", from
the Greenvile Daily News, con-
tent to have furnished convenient
text for our talented contemporary
cons0led that we are not only w.tty in
ourselves, but the cause OF wit being
In other people," But the ingenius
News must not be allowed to divert the
issue-it is not Tillman's careering
from 1890 until now but his present
attitude towards immediate and pend
ing Issues that we have to deal with.
Tlllman's attitude to-day is adverse to
Imperialism and Republicanism, and
therefore NORMALLY" bringing the
State back to the attitude of Hampton
and her honorable holding, before Till
man.
We accept Tillman as he is and
stands to-day, not at his price ten years
ago. Tillman was an accident in $780,
There was unrest in South Carolina,
"io ohpU ubIcSb, uuuouHdOle, hOlStgd
Tillman into power ard placed South
Carolina In false attitude. Yet two
thirds of the white people of South
Carolina took Tillman on their shoul-
ders. The Greenville News therefore
In assaulting Tillman's past, indicts
more than two thirds OF the white peo-
pie of South Carolina. 1t is not new.
or unexampled, that the masses of men
are aroused and make revolution with
out reason. There has never been r.
Government without flaw, with all pure
agents, by Anglo saxons. II this were
so, then "Thou shalt not steal" coming
from Mt. Sinai, had been superluous.
South Cardinals government at TIL
mans exodus was probably as pure
as any thGt ever existed. But it
Is altogether mistake to charge the
uprising by the people of the State in
1890 as an indictment of the noble
South Carolinians named by the News.
Haskell, was not even in position, but
private citizen. Hampton, Haskell,
Hudson, Wallace, Hagood, Butler, Nc.
Gowan, and all the rest were victims OF
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