The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-10-19
STIRS THEM UP.
Senator Tillman Talks Plainly to the
SOCIALISTS Of Chicago.
BE MAKES THINGS VERY HOT.

BE MAKES THINGS VERY HOT.
He Roasts the Socialists, sDcnounces
Roosevelt and the Republican
Party. Sneers at Debs and
Pleads for Parker.
Senator Tillman is stumping ouc
West for the Democratic presidential
ticket and at times be encounters
some rough crowds, but they dcn'0
make much off the Senator. At Chica-
go one night last week he address
meeting at the stockyards, and this
is description Of the meeting as
published by the Chicago Tribune:
Senator Tillmar, of South Carolina,
fought verbal general engage nent
with an army Of four huudred Social
lists at 18th and H~no:e street last
night. They bombarded him with
questions; he moved 'em down with
''hell 6re' and deyilment." At least
that's what he called bis ammunition.
1t was one man against four hun
dred, but the one man had, in the
language of the sporting editor,
shade tie best Of the argument. Till
man himself gloated over the out
come, and, to use his own happy ex-
pession, be "rammed his words down
their threats and choked 'em into
silence.
When the Southern Senator fred
his last oratorical shot he demanded:
Now, my friends vino are you
going to vote for?"
For DebS," was the answering
shout of over half his auditors.
So far as teing Democratic meet
ing it was failure, but there was
plenty OF exci.en enJ, caused by the
Socialists. The turbulence began
early in the evening, and the two
previous speakers we're constantly in
terrupted by questions shouted from
the back tf the hall. 1t emoarrae sed
them, but not TillmaD.
1--WE noticed some boisterouSn SIS
here tonight" be said, but it amt
nothing, cjmpared to our meetings N
South Carclira, this is but a gentle
summer zephyr"
he invited their interruptions. He
defed them to down bin, and their
questions only served to elicit his bit
ing epigrams.
i've got so much oeyilment in me
tonight, 1 want tC throw cut some
heellire in your direction" be said,
and that started things:
"Why should the lahoring man vote
or Parker?:' shouted Mrs. LilliaD
Forberg, one Of the most insistent OF
the Socialists present.
why" thundered S;nator Till.
man, because il you were in he'll
wouldn't you like to get into pu1ga-
tory while"
Again, when the S. c;alis.s wsre
harassing him on all sides, he yelled:
"Any Socialist who votes for Debs in
preference to Parker is splitting IN his
own face and is donkey"
He was proclaiming the principles
OF Bryant was much more Bryan
than a Parker meeting Throughout
when some enc asked him why Bryan
hadn't been elected.
Because you people didn't vote the
way you whoop. When man talks
one way and votes another, God have
mercy on his soul. because the devil
has a bill Of sale on him"
Picking up the pink card, upon
which the Socialists had printed a list
Of questions for him to answer, Sena
tor Tillman exc aimed:
Socialism, social equality on the
one side, yes, and amalgamation CT
races, and hell and damna.ion on the
other.''
His choicest invectives, however,
we're saved for President Roosevelt,
whose policy towards the blacks in
the South he bitterly assalled.
If niger is good enough for the
President to eat with, be ought to be
good enough for him to sleep with, !"
be said.
Niger" explained the Senator,
"means black man, and is the phrase
used colloQuially when spoken. Negro
is the term you use when you write
and want to be rOlite."
''Are you going to trust this coun-
try again to man who wants to be
the whole shcosin' matca?" was
another Of his phrases to describe the
President.
A man, evidently leader Of the So
ialistS pres ,nt, havin g It requested that
enator Tillman be allowed 10 have
his say before be was interrupted with
questions, the Senator was left COM
paratively unnolestcd during the
opening Of his spesch. He was well
aware that there we're many Socialists
present and be commenced with the
remark.
''The1e is an old adage which says
that fellow feeling makes US wond.
rcus kind. Now, ! have been dubbed
crank, an Anarchist, a wild man
from Borneo, and l a % sure that no
one here will te any wilder Than /
am. I come from a part Of the coun-
try where we have rrCblem which
dwarfS all other problems, and it is
that which keeps the white nen in
the South in a solid line N the Demo
cratic party. You can't tell an, thing
about it unless you live there.
The Republican leaders IT today
are subservient sycophantS, bowiDg
and scrapirg at the White House, and
beilding themselves up to cne man
who directed and controlled them in
the National Convention Every last
one Of them falls down whipped cur
Lz1n.e IN ha 'Nhito INISn