Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-08-14

me Senator Tillman is reported as
saying before your committee that
have voted with the Republicans Gin
important Matters" and that he has
seen me comforting with Republican
Senators. AS l will show by the
records he himself frequently voted
with the Republicans Gin important
Matters" as all other Democratic
Senators have done from time to
time. 1t is frequently necessary,
proper and courteous to confer with
members Of the opposite party, as he
knows and as every man Of practical
sense knows. These expressions of
his are attempts to take advantage
of credulity and ignorance. do not
think there is man in South Caro-
lima 30 ignorant rs to be really de-
ceived by them. He cannot put me
under suspicion as he has put him
self by his own acts. I have not in
public office retrogradcd from a, per-
haps, honorable bankruptcy to dis.
honorable and unexplained wealth.
He and | have drawn the same sala-
ries, but | have found it impossible
to save dollar from mine. l have
never, however, truckled to corpora
tions with the fawning Of tanned
spaniel, made speeches against them,
then voted for them, and accepted
favors as he has done. | have never
been the sole boss and buying agent
of newly created whiskey trust
with it's rebates of 100000 to $40, 900
year, none of which ever reached
the State treasury. | have never
had the handling Of a State bond
refunding scheme with $4,000 Of
commissions never yet accounted for
or explained.
A year ago Senator Tillman went
into North Dakota and made speeches
advocating the reelection of Re
publican Scnator-Mr. Pcttigrew.
Senator Tillman and this Senator
were prominent in preventing by
filibustering tactics a vote on the
subsidy bill. The newspapers said
that Senator Hill, head Of the
Northern Pacific lobby against the
subsidy bill, gave Senator Tillman's
friend and associate "tip" which
paid him S450,000 in the stock
market. Birds of feather, gentle
men Of the committee, always flock
together.
TILI.MAN NOT A DEMOCRAT.
Has Senator Tillman, prosecuting
attorney against my Democracy,
ever failed to abuse Democrats and
Democracy? DO you know that in
the last two Democratic National
Conventions he has supported the
nomination of Republicans? In
1896 he favorcd Senator Teller for
President, an old line Republican,
and one of the bittercst foes Of the
South in reconstruction days. lie
had himself appeared before the
Convention as competitor Of w. j.
Bryan and been ignominiously
showed under. In 1900 he was for
Towne, also a Republican, for Vice
President. Is he the man to be
supreme arbiter and Judge of what
is Democracy in South Carolina
GIVE THE YOUNG MEN a CHANGE.
In the Senate have laborcd, as
the records will show, to broaden
the prosperity Of the country, to
promote the interests of ny own
people, to spread civilization, to en-
large and increase opportunity for
our young men and to stimulate en-
tcrprisc. His whole political course
and method have been to tear down,
to abuse and oppose, to blight and
restrain, to bite where he dared and
to fawn where he feared or sought
favor. | shall ask the people to
contrast the records and shall claim
my right as a free man, born and
reared Democrat and n Senator from
South Carolina to do it regardless Of
the orders Of twcnty-onc members Of
the Executive Committee. shall
ask the people to decide between the
man who has tried to help cotton
factories, open highways of COM
mercc and to so command the Demo.
cratic party as to command for it
the confidence and respect of the
business and laboring elements,
North and South, and that of the
man whose conduct and record has
been to sink the party. to dlsrcputc
and impotence. shall ask them to