The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-05-28
Senator Tillman's Sensational Reply.
Editor The Manning Times:


Editor The Manning Times:
From accounts that are going the
rounds in some of the newspapers II
appears that Senator Tlllman has
AGAIN created Il tlutter among some
neople in some parts of the country,
bv his sensational reply recently in the
United States Senate, to Republican
United States Senator McComas from
Maryland.
In the continued discussed question
in regard to the Philippines, McComas
like the most of the other greedy and
avaricious Republicans, put in his mite
in an effort to minimise, and to justify
the cruel and inhumane treatment that
the American army has been: and still
are infiicting on weak, simple and
basely betrayed people by the secret
connivance and approval of the gigantic
Republican party, party gigantic only
in devilment. rascality and wrong 40
ing generally. and party that IN
the past, delighted so much in claim
inc for themselves to be Il party OF hui
manity, friends of the down trodden
and the oppressed unto the uttermost
parts of the earth and to be party OF
great moral ideas
We have read Senator Tlllman'S
sensational reply" to Senator Nc.
Comas. and in doing so, we have found
nothing in the reply to justify the crea'
ton of any unusual Autter among any
part of this country, or to create nut
ter among any of the people OF any
Fart of the country.
Senator Tillman's charge to Nc
Comas. that the Republicans had been
for sometime, and was still shutting OIL
the light in regard to the crueltles as
continually practiced by the American
soldiers On the people of the Philip
pines-and that too by military authorl-
tv. secretly approved of by many Re
publicans will be pretty strongly sus-
tanned, if people will take 1t upon them
selves to read and to note the reveIa:
tions drawn out by the Congressional
committee OF investigation, from SOL
diers as witnesses, and who have serv.
ed as soldiers in this cruel and unholy
war.
What Senator Tillman said in regard
to the reconstruction period in this
State. and it's devilish and humiliatlng
operations, is all true, and many OF the
people are still living that can testify
to the truth as Senator Tlllman has
told it. as also the truth and the dread
of horror that hangs over the house
hold of every white man in South Caro-
lima, and it may be safely added, every
household in this whole Southland.
Senator Tillman's remarks in regard
to the Confederate soldiers adopting q
mode of guerrilla warfare in the late
war for Southern Independence, had
they any idea that the lying and hypo:
critical North was going to try and
force negro social equality on them
end theirs, need not be considered sc
bloodcurdling. for tactics Of this kind
was resorted to by the forefathers o!
the Confederate soldiers in the war fol
American Independence with England
from IT'S till 1883.
Principally by the tactics OF guerrilla
warfare was not only the independence
of South Carolina secured, but in
large measure the independence OF the
whole thirteen colonies as well.
Senator Tillman was right again
when he said. las Confederates we
cannot think it right to so into the
PHILIPPINES and desolate the islands
with ire and sword -,
No, no Confederate soldier that still
remains true to principles, can for one
moment exult over and condone ths
cruel and inhumane treatment OF the
Philippine people by the soldiers who
are disgracing the uniform OF the gov
ernment founded by the just and pat
riotic Washington. The Philippine:
are fighting for the same principle that
the Confederate soldiers fought for
and of course no true Confederate sol
der can or will blame the Flliplnos
for doing now what the Confederates
did forty years ago.
The Confederate soldiers that IS still
living and their defendants IS as true
today to the old flag and will tight as
hard in defence of its rights and honor
as any Republican yankee that Is eter'
nally prating about the honor OF the
flag and the necessity OF rascatly eX'
pansion.
During Senator Tillman's ''sensa
tional reply" it has been reported that
many of the Democratic members LEFT
the Chamber and left him in the hands
Of the Republicans.
This Withdrawing on the part 81
weak-kneeed Democrats did not IN the
least deter or intimidate the invinclble
Tillman, for he continued to strike
straight from the shoulder, and tc
pour without stint his hot shot into the
Republican camp.
If the withdrawal of the most Of the
Democrats was intended as q rebuke
for Senator Tillman, they have made g
mistake, for the rebuke with right
minded people of the South don't re
buke in the least.
We are quite sure that the people ot
South Carolina 1T least that has an.
patriotism about their makeup and
who has at heart the preservation o.
the civilization of South Carolina, will
not con6escend to think that the with
drawal from the Senate Chamber O.
the Democrats during Senator It'll
mans sensational reply" as a rebuSe
but will on the contrary endorse every
word uttered recently in the United
States Senate Chamber by Senator
Tillnan and known as Senator Till
mans Sensational reply"
GEO. r. JONES.