The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-03-18
BILL ARP ON TUE FIaRr.
Hc IL Not So DiHgustcd with riiiman no
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WAS ruminating about tho fight.
1t is common property and everybody
has the right to talk about it. Till
man did wrong i'll jumping ovor thr"o
desks to strike McLaurin. About
ono desk was tho limit Of propriety.
Throo dosks givo man time to cool
and that makes it against tho law to
light. As to the timo and place,
| that is Of no consequences now.
Thcro was Gmo in tho days Of
! Wcbstor and Calhoun and Tom Bon.
ton and Horny Clay whom tho United
States scnato was M sacrod almost IN
II church, but now largo majority Of
It's members got their places by con-
duet infinitely moro disgrac"ful
than fighting. Bribery and corrup.
ton havo got SO common that Il
man can't got thoro without using
Il big pile Of money and making u
| lot Of promises. OF course, | do not
include our southern senators, for
they haven't got the money. If wo
had some millionuires in Georgia,
/ Clay and Bacon would have to
stop down and out. And l am not
80 disgusted with Tillman for fight,
ing in the senate chamber. He had
reason to believe that his partner
had received promises, and l reckon
ho had Ho certainly had great OK.
prctations or he would not have
hopprd ovor to tho Republicans 50
suddenly. Politicians have to be paid
for thcirvotcs. Tillman is true man
but h" is not great and good man.
| admire him for some traits in his
character. lie cannot be bribed or
intimidatcd. llo daros to say what
| hr believes and no uses his pitch.
fork with impunity. He is impot,
nous and combative, but he is sin.
zero and everybody admires sin.
cerr man. Sincere is ono OF the
strongest and best words in our Ian,
guago 1t literally means unsealed
without wax-for in tho olden
| times letters wore sealed with wax,
but if it contained no secrets it was
not sealed ut all, for wax cost money.
Tll(man is n bold, defiant, stub
born man, bnt he is not great. A
great man like Webster or Calhoun
would have said to McLaurin: "Well,
sir, if l am a liar l deserve the cpl
thot. If | am not, then you deserve
it, but shall not stoop to give it,"
wish wa were all that great.
This thing of resonting the
charge of lying with blow
is II strange perversion of pro.
prioty. a man may gain his ends
by cheating, swindling, over reach,
ing, hypocrisy, bribery or conceal
ing the truth, but you must not
call him q liar.
He may break all the command,
ments but don't call him liar,
though that is not in tho Decalogue.
All that | regret about the fight is
that Spooner did not call Tillman a
liar and got mauled for it before
| McLnurin came in. I want some.
body to whip Spooner He WAS the
te"ser that brought on the fight and
WAS delighted that it occurred be-
tween the two Carolina senators.
With his party it is no crime to shoot
down ten thousand Filipinos, who
refuse to give up their country, but
it shocks them awfully to have a lit
| tie fracas in the senate chamber.
| Well, there are some great men
and there are many good mon, but
greatness and goodness are rarely
combined Addison says it takes
both to make man complete. Such,
for example, as Washington and
Robert e. Loo. Job says great mon
are not always wise and he might
have added most Of them are mean,
selfish, heartless and ambitious.
Lord Bacon, for instance, who took
brbes while on the bench, and Crom-
we'll and Napoleon. Webster was a
very great man and long has been
my ideal OF greatness. He was called
tho Godlike, but sometimes his hu-
man nature overcame him. And 80
with Henry Clay and Bob Toombs.
The great weakness of the people is
idolatry, partisan or sectional or reli-
gious idolat.y. Every man who climbs
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