The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-06-03
THE TWO TILLMANs.
Colonel Watterson Says the Senator
Is Dual Personality.
N0uisville Courier JournaID

louisville Courier Journal
A little less than three years before
John Caldwell Calhoun died in Washing
ton City, his harness on his back, there
was born I'm Edgefield $. c., baby boy,
destined to play part and cut figure
in the public life of the Palmetto state,
and to occupy the seat IN the senate OF
the United States which Calhoun had
filled 80 long; a farmers boy. as Cal
hOun was; and his name was Benjamin
Ryan Tillman.
Pursuing the restless life of this stormy
petrol Of contemporary politics, we pre-
fer to believe that two baby Tillmans
were born that 18th day of August. 1871;
one with pitchfolk, the other with
darning needle; both with a rattle; for IL
is not easv to reconcile Tilimam. the con-
structive statesman of schools and in
dustries-the Tillman of the darning
needle mending South Cardinals stock
ings-the successful author of the great
est practical moral innovation Of modern
times the dispensary system-and the
Tillmau of knOCk-dOwn and drag-Oht
politics. the Tillman Of the QitchfOrk-
Each of US doubtless has within himself
something of the Jekyl and the Hyde.
Why not Benjamin Ryan Tillman2 Was
it not Jekyl who studied under Galphln,
who. though but a child. enlisted for a
soldier. and. stricken with halt-blindneSS,
suffered the tormCntS and horrors of the
last year of the cOnfedcracy. returning
to an impoverished homestead to follow
the pillow during the awful days of recon
struction. and. getting few pots and
pans together. who married Sallie
Starke9 Surely IL must have been, It was /;
while the Tillluan that sWOODed down
from the hills upon the biue-bloOds OF the
old regime. and sent both Hampton and
Butler TO grass and raised SO much he'll
to the square inch generally, was Hyde,
Everybody IN Washington personally
/ likes this little brusque gentleman with
the pitchforS. II is said the pitchfork is
sometimes padded with velvet. IN his
private life Tillman is as yirtuOus ana
/ clean as Calhoun was. His integrity. as
/ his courage. is Unchalenged. His abili-
/ ties show for themselves. Why should
such a man. with his opportunities for
good, his power for harm, not put him
self through a course of Interrogation.
| why should he not begin to restrain him
self? That fracas in the senate ought
TO have been as a flash of lightning in
/ Oicating the situation as il concerns him
individually. Honestly he was seeking
place himself on an equality with the
I rat2 One can always fight OF all things
| a fight is the thing that cannot. viii not.
/ get away from US unless we so let in.
/ But in politics fighting is a mighty poor
/ business one has % kill so many adj
/ versaries: and. though he kill a thou
/ sand, once he loses "a battle, it is
"-goodby. my honey.
Good evenin'. Mary Jane"
It is much better to give and take: 10
! live and let live. Try IT, Ben TiiImant
/ And so it is that, addressing this sturdy.
/ pugnacious, upright man. as one brother
1 10 another, though as an older to a
| younger. we say. quit your foolishness
| discipline your intellect and vOur feuDer
! and keeping your pitchfolk handy. re-
| serve il for emergencies. Foraker is b.
nature a sweet fellow; and even Iodqe
is not so bad il you fumigate tbe
/ premises. They are professional poll
ticians-statesman-1ke bunko steerer-
/ spresd-eagle card sharps-and they pIav
I YOU. dear boy, for a farmer. as Won are
Learn some OF the tricks OF trade, if no.