Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-09-18
TILLMAN ON ANARCHY.
Power to Expel May Become q Tool
of Tyrants.


Senator B. R. Tillman passed through
Augusta yesterday on his way home
from Clemson college, where he has
been to superintend, as member Of the
board Of trustees. the erection Of
large new dormitory which Is being
built to accommodate 1s0 boys. The
senator appeared to be in excellent
health and spirits. He has but recent
ly returned from Mt. Gretna, Pennsyl-
vania, where he made stirring speech,
and in about a month he will COM
mence a regular lecture tour Of the
west, which will extend over a period
Of about six weeks.
Senator Tillman was not talking state
politics nor national politics. for that
matter, except in a casual and general
way. He was asked what he thought
Of the expulsion Of Wellington from the
leading club Of Baltimore. Without re-
plying directly, he said that the sena-
tor had violated one Of those canons
Of decency which all men recognize,
and that is to say nothing but good Of
the dead, for at the time he made his
brutal remark about the president, he
was to all intents and purposes a dead
man.
When a man has been dead for years
his faults and shortcomings might be
quietly, even publicly, criticized, but
1t was resented by the people until
some time had passed.
Senator Tillman paid a high tribute
to Mr.. Mckinley as man. He was,
he said, man Of ability and amiabili-
ty, a good husband and an excellent
citizen. Certainly he had achieved the
greatest diplomatic triumphs of any
man who had occupied the White
House since the war.
One Of the group Of gentlemen to
whom he was talking, expressed the
hope that he would use his influence
to the fullest extent In securing the
expulsion from this country of all an
archists
Now. that's where you go off half
cooked" said the senator How are you
going to tell who are anarchists? If
you take merely those who acknowl-
edge that they are anarchists, and are
down as such on the roster Of the or
ganiZations, you get but q small per
cent. And who is to say that such and
such are anarchists and must be ex-
PEELED? The great difficulty is that
when you place any such power In the
hands Of any man or any dozen men,
though they be the very best men that
could be selected at the time, you put
a weapon in the hand Of the tyrant Of
the future. Whenever you break down
the barriers by which the people pro-
tect their liberties you open the way to
the abuse Of power"
He went on to say that 1t was dan
gerous to trifle with the principle Of the
charter wrested from King John at
Runnymede. The habeas corpus could
not be suspended with safety for any
length Of time. He would be very care
full. he said. how he voted for any leg
islation expelling the anarchists from
this country.
Continuing, the senator said that the
race problem was the gravest question
which confronted the people Of the
South. He did not hesitate to tell the
people Of the north that they were re-
sponsible for the conditions which pre-
Vail in the south. We Of the south, he
told them. felt certain sense Of graf
itude to the Negro because Of the fact
that all during the civil war, when the
men of the south were away fighting,
as the Negroes knew, for the continu-
ance of their bondage, with the women
of the south absolutely unprotected. no
body ever heard of a single instance
where the Negroes had offered these
women an Acknowledgements Chroni-
Gle, Friday.