Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-04-15
notorious the people say that j have got
good gray mattor behind this one eye OF

Woub w tIle ioonato, anu VIII suy
that 1 went there TO represent South
am proud Of this old State,
SO help me God. There is not drop of
blood in mo that does not beat with
patriotic ardor at the sight of this old
palmetto flag"
Senator Tillmap said he wanted to re-
call certain history, the nature OF which
might not be known TO many citizens.
He spoke of Mcultrie and his heroic
work during the Revolution, and told
how the palmetto flag originated.
Speaking of Moultrie Senator Tillmau
said: I'm the last six months the old fort
that bore the honored name of Moultrie
for 127 years has got new designation,
Fort Getty. went to the war depart
ment and found out that it was an acci-
dent or slip, and that there was no in
tention Of doing violence to the senti-
ment of our people. by the aid of the
have the mistake corrected, aud prom
ise you that If the name isn't changed
back to Fort Moultrie they will hear
from Ben Tillman.
"My position in the Senate is this:
represent South Carolina. / don'tIrepre-
sent Edgefield or Beaufort or Orangeburg
or any other county, but represent a
Commonwealth. Now there isn't much
opportunity, outside of getting post
for the interior of tho State If 1 had
been mean or little enough to recall the
fact that you had said 1 was not fit to
represent you, that / lacked the polish
and the education that the war cut me
off from, would not do much. The war
robbed me of one honor, that of wearing
the Confederate uniform.
"The question of ancestors never cut
any figure with me. When L looked up
&c 60 tl,at
the men were reasonably brave and the
women were virtuous, and that was good
enough for me. In fact, got it into my
head that q man never amounted to
much unless he had merit. SO when /
saw the chance of doing the City of
Charleston some benefit went forward
and tried to do it.
81 adopted this policy: I knew the
Southern people were paying one-tbird
ornment and we got one dollar for every
eight dollarSpaid in. felt that if other
States were getting things it was my
duty to get our share for South Carolina
said on the floor of the Senate that I
tried to be open and frank and bold, and
that would fight the devil with his own
fire and If he made my fire hotter, then
/ was happier.
''Much has been said in newspaper
would not refer to this except for the
fact that you do not look upon things as
you did formerly. You say now that
that that eyed farmer from Edgefield
isn't such stick after all. l want as
my first ambition tlo chance of doing
my duty, and next to that the power to
tell the truth. have tried, and angels
can do no more.
eve may speak Of unpleasant facts of
the past if say that we can now cut the
hide of your self-appreciation, your self
idolatry, your bigotry, your provincial
ism, or whatever term you care to use.
can say that this community occupies
a strange and anomalous position. You
have a glorious history, but you have
made so much history that you have
gone crazy. You have such ancestor
worship that your powers of intellect
have been so neglected that you cannot
keep alive with modern progress. l
want to give an expression of opinion
measure, from the rest of the State.
You have miles of swamp lands inhab-
tied by negroes and alligators and you
have grown up to be a segregated COM
munity, and you have persuaded your
selves that you know more than anybody
else. You needed no advice from the
rest OF the State. In the first place, you
disposed of your two railroads, the old
Greenville and Columbia and the South
Carolina roads, the feeders of your COM
merce. You could not have done worse
if you had torn up the rails and resorted
to the old wagon travel. You gave these
roads to your enemies and they organized
a syndicate of railroads to take the COM
merce from your doors to Norfolk and
Baltimore and New York. You have
seen your warves rot, and your whole
sale establishments die in degree. You
had your cotton ships, but you have none
now. Your policy was narrow, it was
idiOtic. You have made jerky efforts to
create a manufacturing center, but you
have got no people to enter your facto-
ries for the reason that your people con-
slider themselves too fine to work in fac
tories. You have seen industrial devel-
opment turn to the Piedmont, which is
now attracting the attention of the in
dustrial and commercial world. You
have got the dry rot, just like George
town and Beaufort, and they got it be-
cause they were dominated by the Char
lesion policy. Your factories here could
not make any money. The only hope for
the community is in the effort to bring
the products of the State through Char
lesion. You have got deep water, but
you have got more of it than you can
use. You have got to have a commercial
spirit that will attract to this port the
that is needed.
81 am glad to hear that you have or
ganized Commercial Club. Your only
chance is for the people to put their
shoulders to the Wheel to work collect
lively, to forget the old precepts that You
have clung to with the desperation of a
drowning man, and you really cannot
meet competition in any way.
"And now we have had a most unpleas-
ant experience. After twenty-six years
of freedom from carpet-bag rule we are
told to remember the 18th, 14th and 18th
amendments to the constitution. You
have had appointed to high Federal
Office man who is not a citizen of
Charleston. You have had appointed to
another high Office a man who is not
white, with the spectre of negro domina-
ton. When l recalled the desperate con-
ditions of the past protested zealously
| have done all l could think of doing
The sentiment of the Senate was q pro-
test against the Crum appointment, but
what is the use of kicking against the
pricks? Charleston is not dead yet,
thank God, and Charleston will not die
because of a negro collector. There is
enough in the hearts of her sons to bring
Charleston on tho pathway of progress.
Looking at conditions in practical way
Crum has taken possession of the Custom
House and we can't help it. don't know
If he will be confirmed, and he will not
If can prevent it. so help me God. He
is in now, and unless he is rejected he
will continue to hold the Office 1 could
get votes enough to reject him in secret
session. Senators have denounced it pri-
vately, but they are afraid to vote against
it. Now let's let it drop. Let US forget
for the time being the outrage upon us.
"Let not our enemies rejoice in the
fact that they have heaped disgrace on
our heads. Leave it alone, having in
view the influence of the navy depart