The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-08-12
VERIFY, TILLMAN'S $0LICITOUSNESS BE
GINS AND ENDS WITH THE 5.

experience last week IN the West.
He had his pockets picked and
did not discover it until he was
on board Of q train bound for
Chicago where he was to deliver
one OF his contract speeches
and act the role OF solic-
ituGe fol' his race He m
formed the conductor who he
was. but that official only knew
his duty, and 4 United States Sen,
aror without q ticket. money OF
pass. was no more TO him than
the regulation hobo on the blind
baggage. 1t WAS money, ticket.
pass. or bounce. and as the great
hot-air Spouter had no money,
pass or ticket he got the bounce,
was put OF at some Way station
and missed his appointment.
The next day he woke up serene
~ at St. Louis where he told 4
reporter, his pocket book contain,
ed. Telegraph franks, express
franks, railroad passes and all
that kind Of stuff.
Now because TillmMn went all
over this State and charged such
mon as Hampton and Hagood
with being "debauchcd and bam-
boozled" by accepting railroad
passes. and because he limited
strongly that former governors
were the recipients Of State prop
ertv, the enemies of the people"
will try to create the impression
that TilLnan.S 5 being caught
with tie goods on" is guilty Of
noISnly violating the law OF his
State which positively prohibits
an official from accepting these
things, but is also guilty OF the
balGest and rankest hypocrisy.
Hampton and Hagood il they
did accept passeSand franks, they
were not prohibited by the law:
nevertheless. Tillman preached
a doctrine which was SO convln-
cing that the legislature made
the acceptance of such things un-
lawful, and when a recent leglS-
lature undertook to repeal that
statute Governor McSweeney ve-
tOed their action. The ''enenieS
Of the people" have no right 70
charge Senator Tillman with M
consistency, because. have not
the people crowned him king:
The king can do no wrong. If
the king deceives the people
about q little thing like accept
ing courtesies from corporations,
it is no reason that he would be
bought by them. tits not an un
common thing for Senator Til
man to denounce railroads and
similar corporations with his
pockets bulging with theircourtc-
sies-the very things which he
claimed ''bamboozled and de-
bauched" such men as Ha-
good and Hampton. The sen
ator should have a right to do
as he pleaSes, did he not go into
market and without a scratch Of
a pen have extended to him per-
sonallv. q credit amounting to
over $500. 600. when the State
could get no credit: Did he not
reciprocate thatcourteSy by max
mga present to the whiSkey trust
500. 600 in rebates without any
authority il law. and without
even deigning to make Il record
of the transaction on the State $
books: Thenif he could do these
things. and did these things-he
said he did. why should he be
condemned for taking free passes
and anything else his fancy
graSpS:
The senator famed the flames
OF political excitement by charg-
ing some Of our former governors
with obtaining State property
and 10. and behold, it has been
charged that he too obtained State
property and when asked about
the quantity, his reply was i
don't know and don't care. and
up went shout Of approval from
the throats Of men who claimed
it to be :. religious duty to scratch
Tillman:s name from 4 ticket
when he had no opposition.
These men feted and dincd him
when only a short while before
they We're denouncing him for all
kinds of william. When a peo-
pie act thusly, is il any wonder
we arc under the tyran-
nical heel Of one-man power?
South Carolina is now in the
grasp Of Ben Tlllman. and why:
Because he has inaugUrated Il
system Of perpetuation on the Sc
ductive pretense Of rotation. Not
even the Car Of Russia controls
the serfs and vaSselS OF his do
mains with i more despotic rule
than does Ben Tillmml through
hiscourt, thceXccutivecommitcc.
Let there b.. Il disscntcr to
his arrogant viii. and by
his order that official head goes.
and as long as this condition eX
lists, just so long viii be continue
to be drunk withpowcrand cxcr
else it with the LASH.
1t was only recently Alex@n-
d1,ia Of ScI.vi;l ruled his subjects
in the same WY. and every lit
tie burgo-naste! and every mil
itary official was Il plant tool
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