The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-08-20

AscA1rch doorway curing SI0lln.
I s3ire was struck, and. running
The bolt stunned Mrs. Neller.
Was also severely shocked.
Iin EiIlman's Reeord.
hey may cruelty me upon a cross
sIander, but God IN heaven knows
as uniustifable as when they
onsd to the cross the loWly Na1a-
Have hesisated about printing
rk Of jim lTiillman,s because
rdsrs dangerously near the line Of
ersaare, but We have concluded to do
- 81 because there are thousands Of pro-
SCISSORS of Tho Christian religion In
country who viii vote on the 18th
and We want them to know;
soHa M of the character Of the man
IS pyes1n Inning to ask their spf-
ssas fer the high position Of goyer-
sssr es the State. He is accusing the
sapers Of crucifying him upon 8
5ss oE SANDER because they have told
Or the disrep things he
aasas been guilty they have told
M his being arrested for gambling IN
and hes does not deny 1t IN
terms They have shown him
Be slsiier beyond the shadow of
doubt. TThey have shown that he
Eutad MS high Office as presiding
sssssce Of she senate to falsify the OIL,
records OF bis State and to make
talnsns from the presiding on
eer ehai rsnat he knew was false at
time he made it and sha1 has since
Ser proven to be false and yet with
handed inpiety he calls on Ged
sse sness that these charges are $ as
IDLE when they pinioned
as cross the loWly Nazarene. jim
sraan pusting himself in the same
as Jesus Of Nazareth. Could
iIege go mach farther than thates
on men who meet IN your temples
81 worship every Sabbath and worship,
Drecious Name and sing, All hail
sshs bower Of Jesus name, how does
strike yOu so have Jim Tiilman
ke an attitude and place him along
sS1e Of the Saviour Of mankind and
nxcclaam himself to be as innocent as
babe born Id Bethlehem's IS manger?
nan whose mouth is filed with all
iEeness whose reputed private life is
djsrsputabte one to place himself
as0agside Of Him $ who spake as never
m spake. :,
ae eErroEtsry Of THIS man and his.
sk0tal disregard for the truth is shown
81 hen after allowing DeCamp to give
III 4 the lie to his teeth at Gafney
aous rsssntfng 1t and the fact was
seFalded abroad IN all the newspapers
Lhin less than a week afterwards he
Iis up Nerment the man who wrote
e FOR the papers, and attempts to
make him acknowledge that he wrote
Ealsehood, and that DeCamp did not
I'VE him the lie. But Norment stood
Is t. aud jim Tillman s5ill goes on
sra5ing his false statements.
IS reproach to South Carolina,
Sd her chivairy, to her virtue and
egerything that is OF good repnte that
msn shonld even presume to be Q
seaadsdate sor governor. True or un-
%rne, his reputation is that OF a COM.
mon liar, and .that ought TO down
ID, for mans reputation is what
neighbers are very apt to know. Ii
She EeWsDapers are to be condemned
ffo eIIing the truth about this man.
So Be Il. South Carolina has had TO
hang Eer head IN shame for her dis
reputable governors; OF the alien and
seaIaWag. Surely she is not to hang
her head IN shame again. a man who
charged with misappropriatlng S50
s5 Confederate monument fund ought:
disproYe il or withdraw from the
race. With such q charge resting on
nins he cannot expect the votes OF vet.
rans o. their sons. "A ndeFson Daily
Jim TiIlman, in Florence, when CALI
ed npon TO- explain why, during the
Iast session, he appointed a free con-
terence with the purpose Of killing.
Senator Ilderten' g bill for the relief
Of railroad employees, claimed that it
WAS an Hnintentionas error and that
the mistake was entirely incidental
ERas does ne display again his un-
seoRalled nerve and his unparalleled
aptitude at Justification. The unin-
feutional error of appointing COM
stsee opposed TO the bill had great
deal Of deliberation about it, as the
aets show Ti2iman vas not presid-
iIsg the night the committee was ap-
pointed, but he deliberately wrote a
note to the presiding officer making 8
psrscnaI request that certain senators
Be appointed on the committee, when
he lnsN that two of them beyond
doabs were opposed to the bill and the
sbird MAS more or less Indifferent to
Ess fate. That certainly does not look
as # his action was unintentionai, =
hat on the contrary it shows that 1t
ygsss his deliberate purpose to kill the
bSlG Senator Ilderten made a vigor-
ors protest and succeeded in having
h;mself placed on the committee, bit
it vas doomed to defeat, for his two
colleagues we're utterly opposed to the
bill. The appointment OF Senator
Ilderton on the committee unoer the
scempnlsion may have been " remedy
ing the mistake" in jim Tllman's