Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-10-21
JAS. n. TlLLMAN "nor euILry.p

with the murder of Editor N. G. Coma
les, of the Columbia State, was con-
cluded at Lexington last Thursday
morning at 1890 O'clock, when the jury
returned a verdict of mot guilty" It
was one Of tho most famous trials on
record--a trial that has interested a
continent and the outcome OF which
millions awaited with anxiety. The
verdict has weakened the confidence of
the people at large in the sincerity of
courts and the Justice of juries. South
Carolina has suffered in the eyes of her
citizens and in the estimation of the
outside world. The jury has said that
JAS II. Tillman is an innocent man--who
believes itp Tillman said he would Zen
act the --est tragedy South Carolina
ever knew"-and he did. A jury of
twelve men was given the evidence, from
which to make up just verdict, and
by their verdict they made the trial the
---est farce the State has over known.
JAS. H. TILLMAN announces that he
never had the slightest doubt or fear as
to the result of the trial at Lexington.
Lexington juries," he states, "have al
ways been noted for the;r just verdiots." I"
Probably so--we are really delighted to
learn of their excellent reputation in the
past, but if Jim Tillmau's bullet had
missed its mark rs far as the Lexington
juries' finding strayed from Justice, Edi-
tor N. G. Gonzales would be living to-
day and the farce at Lexington would
never have been pulled off.
"How," asks tho Washington Post,
"would you like to be South Carolina
editor ?''
EDITOR N. G. GONZALES, of The
State, sleeps. Peace to his ashes! Yet
we doubt not that his spirit is grieved at
the degradation brought on old South
Carolina by political verdict-espe-
tempt to rid the State of low politics
and lower politicians.
BE careful how you walk. The
weather is becoming cool and one is apt
to forget and put one's hands into the
overcoat pockets. BY the decision of
the Lexington jury this is ga hostile at
titude," and one man is justified in
shooting another in such an attitude
especially if the shooter happens to be
Till-man.
JAS. II. TILLMAN neither doubted nor
feared the ''justice" (p) of the Lexing-
ton jury. 1t is exceedingly doubtful if he
looks with the same serenity and pleasure
on the justice to be meted out by AL
mighty God. Politics will not cut much
of figure in the final reckoning.
SOUTH CARoIINA's SHAME is known
outside her borders, you may be sure.
What others think of us may be imagined.
Read some of the editorial headings
from leading papers in other States:
New York Press: "Shame of the Till
man Verdict"
Knoxville Sentinel: "South Carolina
Guilty"
Philadelphia Ledger: Gan Outrage
and Scandal"
Memphis News: can Everlasting
Shame"
Nashville American: ga Disgrace TO
South Carolina
memphis Commercial Appeal: IAN
Apotheosis of Crime.'
New York Mail and Express Gan
Acquittal that Convicts.''
New York Evening Post: ga Gross
Miscarriage of Justice"
Chattanooga Times: ga Mockery of
Law"
New York Herald: GA Flagrant
Failure of Justice
Indianapolis Sentinel: "Where Muir
der Goes Unpublished"
These comments speak volumes in them
selves; yet they are but brief summary
of the manner in which South Carolina
is being arraigned by the outside world.
1t is the duty of every paper in the State,
as representative of the opinion and
sentiment of its constituents, to let the
outside world know that the verdict of
the Lexington jury is not the verdict of
the mass of South Carolinians, but
rather a stencil to their nostrils.