The sun., 1902-03-09
'TILLMAN PRONE TO BLUFPING.
BITS or THE BRAWLING SEN
ATORS PAST HISTORY.
They show Inconsistency I'm Political Prfn-
cipies as Well as a Discrimination 70
stand the Gan In Cases or
Real Personal Perii-F0r Example.

stand the Can I'm Cases OF
Real Personal Perii-For Example.
COLUMBIA, s. C., Feb. 2s.-South Caro-
linans Of the more sedate way OF thinking
seem 20 resent even more kecnly than the
fistcuffs In the Senate, the terms OF Senator
Tillmans apology. They consider that
the Senator's declaration that his term OF
four years as Governor Of the State just
previous to going to the Senate, had TO
some extent untitled him for properly
wearing the dignity supposed 20 enfoh
United States Senator, was a distinct
insult to the State. Here many look upon
the Governors office as more important
and having more dignity attached TO it
than any other except that OF President
of the United States.
Newspapers and individuals are now
charging Senator Tillman with having
dismantled the Gov ernor's Office of fts
dignity when he assumed that office. Ths
immediate predecessor Of Tillman as Gov
ernor was John Peter Richardson, typical
South Carolina gentleman of the old school
His father and grandfather had been Gov
ernors before him, and the Office had besa
held by five Of his family. Kindness aud
courtesy were prominent characteristics
with Gov. Richardson, hut the dignity Of
the Office was felt in the very air.
Within the last week Northern news-
papers have referred TO Senator Tillman
az South Carolina Bourbon and MoIa,pih
as the representative Of the young pro-
gressive class As matter OF fact, Tnlman
went into office with the cry OF Down with
the Bourbons.' on his lips. With that cry
he rallied those he termed the common
people around him, declared that he was
one OF them and against anything and every
thing having the taint Of sr1socracy. 10
took five years for him 10 work up the
populace TO that pitch. but s,rocess. 'ver-
whelming suocess followed.
II has also been printed that Tfllmau
served for several months In the Conc
federate Army and lost his eye IN the war.
That is entirely without foundatton- He
never entered the army. and, 40 far as can
be ascertained. lost his eye diving In mill
pond and striking a snag.
McI.aurin is decidedly moro OF a Bourbon,
measured by those qualifications 70 which
that term is applied In this seotion. He
is OF old family, has pride in his race, re-
ceived a college education and has tastes
for the things that Tillman affects 20
despise.
When Tillman entered the Governors
office he made a change in the atmospheric
He worked bard He did all Of his own
correspondence. The private secretar
Of the Governor became no more than
ON Office boy. He copied letters and an
swered the door. That was the time OF
harvest for reporters. The Governor pre-
pared things for them They would sit
around his office half the day and. following
his example, would put their feet on his
desk. The Governor cussed there as
freely as ever. II was understood that
the reporters were not 10 say anything TO
his disadvantage and only use news as he
q ave Il out, Ono man disregarded this
unwritten law once and was barred from
the presence. The training the Governor
gave himself was that of n Democratic
autocrat. IL such is possible.
The last occasion on which 1illrnan had
the epfthets indulged in by McLaurin ap-
piled 70 his face was at Marion. s. C, during
the campaign Of 1890, when he ran for
Governor, fractional bitterness was at
its height. II seemed that a bloody riot
would break out at almost every meeting.
Every man went 20 those meetings with aO
least one pistol. some carried five. Shirley
Houghson, who was then studying Tor the
ministry and who has long since been
ordained, was then acquiring knowledge of
human nature and the evil one by acting
az campaign correspondent Tor o CHARLES
ton paper. MIR. Houghson was the mildest-
hammered little man imaginable; very
quiet and very careful.
IL was the habit then 90 charge news.
papers with trying 10 deceive the people,
Capt Tillman was not yet trained de-
batter, and sometimes IN an angry hurry
would say things that looked bad In prmo
next day. II was after one Of these little
outbreaks that the campaign party reached
Marion Perhaps fifty men in the town
were opposed 10 Tillman, but fifty times
their number came in from the country
wild with Tillman enthusiasm
Getting up before this crowd, Capt.
Tillman soon had them yelling frantically,
Then he referred 20 report in MIR. Hongh-
sons paper and declared the reporter
had purposely misrepresented btm- The
reporter got up from the rear OF the stand
and stepped 20 the front. Pull him of,
yelled the crowd Ride him on a rail-
When he could be heard the reporter
demanded to know II Tlllmsn meant thai
he had been purposeiy misrepresented
by him.
Capt. Tillman, you are an informal Iar,s
retorted the student for the ministry
The crowd closed. Men tore at each
other 10 get 10 Houghson. Tilhnan did
not move or speak Perhaps he felt ths
deadly peril There were a handful OF his
opponents there, but they we're deterinined
men who were Oh the stand or directly IL
front of him. 1t seemed that II the infuri-
sted oountrymen laid hands on Houghson
they would tear him To pieces. They
would surely have done so, but for the
fact that their leaders were quickly warned
that II Houghson was touched Tillman
would instantly become the target for
Atty pistols they might kill Houghsou
and a dozen or more others, but the great
Reform leader would go with them
So Tilman leaders from all sections Of
the country yelled 20 their followers 20
stand back and put up their pistols. And
Tillman was saved for the United States
Senate and Mr.. Houghson for the Church.
Heer Notes-Paiiure Of the Hop Crop,