The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-01-08

right did he have to the products
of the penitentiary farms or
gardens? Are oats vegetables:
The people placed him in a po-
sition with a handsome salary,
and there was nothing in the law
giving him the right to use the
products belonging to the State.
1t will therefore be seen from
his own admission that he did
get things from the penitentiary
which belonged to the people,
and he did not pay for them,
and it is not ''scurrilous" nor is
lit ''lying* to say that Tilman
procured articles from the State
penitentiary without lawful
right. How many humble ciu-
zens in South Carolina who toll
in a broiling sun to exc out an
existance and scrape up money
enough together to pay taxes,
could have been permitted d
similar privilege.
We would like to know how
many poor farmers, merchants,
or mechanics could have had
shipped to their homes, products
of the penitentiary several times
a week, not even paying the ex-
press charges. This is no lie
Senator, for this was done even
after you were no longer Gov
ernor. It is also no lie to say
that oats from the penitentiary
farm was shipped to youat Tren,
ton after you we're no longer
/ governor. We have authority
for saying that cotton seed meal
was shipped to Senator Tillman
to his farm at Trenton, and the
same was charged to the peni,
tentiary, and not paid for until
years after, and then by way of a
compromise. We have informa-
ton going to show that Gov ernor
Tillman instructed the book
keeper of the penitentiary not to
open an account with him on the
books of that institution, and
that the penitentiary delivered
| to Tillman, cotton seed, CONNER
cial fertilizers, coal, vegetables
and brick. Now this is not the
lively imagination of a Com
mercial Democrat" but solid
facts which can be established
by certificates.
With reference to his ''change
from financial cramp to financial
afiuence" here is our ''evidence
of wealth" Captain Tillman
started on his political career
protesting to be a very poor
man, and in debt, his cry was to
drive out from the temple the
money changers who we're op-
pressing the people: it was a
catching and popular appeal, be-
cause of conditions then existing.
In a few years of official life, we
read in the newspapers where
members of the Senator's fami-
| ly have taken trips away up to
Vermont to attend ''house par
ties," a luxury Captain Tillman
prior to 1890 could not afford,
nor can poor people who are
struggling to pay honest debts;
also, that Senator Tillman is a
director in a S5O00,0O0 New Jer-
sey chartered corporation. We
did not know whether it was
true or false. but being a matter
of public interest we commented
upon it, which was our right. The
Senator admits holding the posi-
tion of director, but makes up a
soft bed of excuses to lie upon,
by explaining that he has only
a small amount of the stock, and
his "name appears as director
simply because I hold a promi-
nent public position" Well
then, let usaccept his confession,
for it may be good for his soul,
that, because he is a United
States Senator the financial pol
| icy of a S5,000,000 corporation
chartered in a State which Till
man himself has characterized as
the ''incubator of fraudulent cor
porations," was given him at
''the instance of a Pennsylvania
Democrat" then our references
to his dictatorship in such con-
Germ. was no lie, but a fact.
Senator Tillman professed to
be a bitter enemy of trusts and
corporations, and in his cam
paigns throughout this State he
charged up to them many of the
peoples ills, he denounced them
and those connected with them,
and the lawyers in the General
Assembly were characterized as
"the paid hirelings of corpora
tions," today, after much tail
twisting he roars forth confes-
sion of his own inconsistency,
and undertakes to distract at
tention by the lame, pitiful, but
incriminating excuse, that al
though a very small share-hold
er, a dictatorship in a $1,000, 900
corporation was given him be-
cause he holds a "prominent
public position
If Senator Tillman did not hold
a position where he could be of
service to the corporation in pro-
tecting it against adverse legis-
lation or securing for it such favor
able legislation, thatits hold upon
the masses would be greater, bV