The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-01-22
TILLMAN CURLS HIS LIP.
UNITED STATES SENATE.


LOUIS AppS4e LSG'' -He11IAiio' ~ -
have Just received THE MANNING
TINES ofS, January. Your purpose is
evident. But I do not propose to dig
nify you or your charges by any fur
ther notice in print. l denounce your
four columns OF insinuationS, miSrep'
reservations and falsehoods as ISLANDERS,
and when you decline to face me before
.....c ..v>. eople. YOU fall too low to be
49,. g. any notice at MY hands.
.a. rr.5- to meet any attacks on my
......r...,., or actions from respectable
-.y,:....~ al times and in any place
5is@-- e any people in Clarendon
WHO &g>.v.s me to come to that county
"a l,-gi.s, ny acts as their Governor or
Senator, will gladly do so.
8. f. TILLMAN.
Uusually when an individual
declines to "dignify" US, we
leave him alone to enjoy his
grand estimate of himself, but
when a man writes letter for
publication in this newspaper,
tits our privilege to reply to it,
and when we have done so, he
cannot with good grace come
back at US with Il do not pro
pose to dignity you or your
charges by any further notice in
print" and get off with it. On
no, we have observed such tricks
before and cannot now at this
stage of the game be fooled by
them.
Senator Tillman says he will
not "dignify" US ''by any furth-
er notice in PRINT" and further
says 'sI denounce your four col
umns of insinuations, misrepre-
sentations and falsehoods as
ISLANDERS. The Senator pro
claims that on account Of what
we have written about him no
more notice will be taken Of US
in the newspapers. leaving the
public to infer that it would be
advisable for US to see that he
does not notice US too much, out
of print. Tillman had the op-
portunity on Tuesday Of last
week in the City of Columbia.
We stood within arms length Of
him for over a quarter of an
hour in the lobby of Wright's
hotel and he looked at US but
showed no disposition to ''notice"
US out of print, so we do not
think that we are in much dan
ger.
The letter which we print
above was sent to Manning and
forwarded to US in Columbia, not
in time however to be returned
for publication last week; it
doesn't matter about the delay
of a few days. We said we will
publish anything Senator Till
man wishes published in reply
to anything we might say about
him, and we would do the same
for the humblest citizen. The
above letter is not a reply, but
we produce it as an advertise
ment for Mr.. Tlllman without
charging him a cent for it; The
price for publishing that letter
would be about $500 and were
we to charge him, it might hand
leap his payment of the $4,000
note now living in the Carolina
National Bank, to which Till
man has frequently referred,
whenever anybody limited at his
showing signs of wealth, and
then the bank officials might
have a grievance against US and
not accommodate US with the
privilege of leaving a note with
f6em>that we might refer to
when people get curious to
know where we got our money.
It is always considered good
business to cultivate the friend
ship of the man who holds the
combination to bank vault.
B. R. .Tillman does not attempt
to sustain his assertion that we
slandered him by one solitary
piece of proof. He simply says
it and that is all. We did not
expect to say that our surmises
and our reasoning relating to
the robbery of the .whiskey re-
bates forced him to come for
ward and confess the theft; our
exposure Of his penitentiary
populations was based upon
written evidence which We offer
ed to produce if the Senator de-
sired it: but he does not ask for
it, and hopes to mislead by a
contemptuous curl Of the lip, and
I-do-not-notice-you, wave of the
hand. Tillman knows why it is
we will not be tricked into ac-
cepting his challenge to debate
with him, for he knows the diff
ference between appearing be-
fore the public in cold type,
where people can read and
think, and the excitement at
tending a joint debate where
the speakers have partisans to
whoop them up. Tillman dares
not, for he has not the moral
courage to calmly discuss his
betrayal of the people. We
dare him to write for publication
over his signature a reply to
our editorial of the Sth inst. He
knows that were he to attempt
it we could take his own defense
and convict him: we would show
him up in his true light, and the