The Tucson citizen., 1902-01-24
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
SENATOR TlLLMAN'S RASnNESS.

The Hon. Benjamin Ryan Ttllman.
the one-eyed Senator from South
Carolina. has more than once con-
vinced his countrymen tnat he had
tendency toward rashness. But 1t was
NOT believed that Tillman was utterly
reckless until the people had opport-
unity to read a brief speech he de-
liyered in the Senate a few days ago.
Mr.. Tilmans remarks were rather III
the way OF an observation than
a speech, hut there IS no douot that
what he SAID will give gvieyoas ofense
10 New England. ana doubtless Pro
Yoke a rushing resoin3er trorn The
Senator's from thA, see;on,
Nj. Tinman. according 70 " ash
ins1on dispatch. spoke Of The ac-
h.evements OF the South Carolina
,rc,ops in the Revolutionary War,
ana said that The battles fought IN
his State were more important than
those fought in Massachusetts,. We
don't want Massachusetts, to bag all OF
the glory" ne added. for as our IL
Iustrious Rear Admiral Schley has
said of later triumph of our arms,
there is glory enough for all
1t is regrettable that the rash and
impuIsive South Carolina Senator
should be led into this indiscreet utter
ance. Upon the best Massachusetts, au-
thority-and of course nothing comes
out of Massachusetts, that is not the
best--it can be asserted that the ReVolu-
tionary War was waged solely ana
exclusively by the descendants oil the
Pilgrim Fathers, dispite all state
ments to the contrary. George Wash
i1gton. the great soldier of the Re-
yolution. was not, as some ill-inform-
"a persons assert, a Virginian or the
cavalier type, who liked good whiskey
horse racing and cock-tighting and
vas altogether very natural human
man, but pure booded son or
Praise God Barebones' sire. Thomas
Jefferson was OF undiluted puritan
ancestry and the Declaration of In
dependence was a rehash of the ex-
prcssions of Boston tea party patriots,
Massachusetts troops alone ana uh-
assisted fought Burgoyne To a stand
still and compelled him to surrender
The capture OF Cornwallis at York
town. Va. was a triumph of New
England valor and generalship, the
French allies of the Revolutonists
being merely spectators, who were
permitted to be present to see how
Massachusetts could humble Periid-
iOus Albion. The battles in the South
were all fought by New England
warriors, the natives coming upon the
field after the victories We're won to
congratulate the legions from boston
upon their invincible courage. Some
historians who have not availed them
selves of Boston sources OF informa-
ton. which of course, are the only
reliable ones, have rashly asserted
that John Paul Jones. the dashing
sea-fghter. was born in Scotland, and
gallant Jack Barry. the first commo- /
dore of the American Navy. was ma /
tive of Ireland. OF course. this cannot I
be fact The ancestors of Jones and
Barry came over in the Maytlowcr,
and the naval heroes were born under
the shadow of the Sacred Goldfish In
the second war with England Massa-
chusetts maintained her supremacy.
That cultured Bostonian, Andrew
Jackson, was in command of the New
England troops which won the fam
GUS battle of New Orleans. while the .
Virginians and Carolnians and Ten
nesseans were holding a convention +
at Hartford.
Senator Tillmaus friends will be-
surprised TO find that he Is not con
versant with history as it is written
in Boston. After the Senators from
that part of the country have finished
with him he will be wiser an" a
,addcl man He will learn that every
great and good man who has had
hand in the making OF this republic
was a New Englander South caro-
inians, Virginians. New Workers ami
Pennsylvanians may have made feeble
efforts to be useful. but their lahOrs
were. Of couse. IN vain. When senator
Hoar turns his batteries upon Mr.
Tillman the latter will discover just
how insignificant and trivial a part
everybody except the Pilgrim Fathers
played In the development OF the
United States. 1t is impossible not to
feel sorry for the South Carolina
Senator, for HIS motives were good.
even II his discretion was below par
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