The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-05-18
BEN TILLMAN HAS THEM PUZZLED.
Hard Man to Aualyze, Says Northern op-
server-Adopts Role Of Savage But
Isn't Savage at All.

Hard Man to Analyze, Says Northern op-
server-Adopts Role Of Savage But
Isn't Savage at All.
This secession of Congress, now
drawing near its end, will soon
pass into history, or such history
as its do-nothing record will en-
title it to, with only one charac-
teristic outbreak by Benjamin
Ryan Tillman, and that very
mild one, writes a Washington
correspondent of the New York
Times. In this regard this do
nothing session is certainly ena-
bled to shine with a bright his
torlc light. 1t holds the grand
prix among all expositions where
Tillman has been an exhibitor.
The exhibition referred to was
displayed for a more or less ad-
miring world some weeks ago.
Mr.. Warren, Senator from Wyo-
ming, who had never before at
tracted the calcium rays from the
top gallery, wandered into the
Senate feeling very happy from
some unspecifed cause. and OBJ
served Tillman making gyrations
of a Tjllmanesque sort and hold
ing forth to the discontinue of
Nj. Bailey, of Texas.
Mr.. Warren glanced toward
the gesticulating and expostulat-
ing Tillman and perceived a bot
tie protruding from his pocket.
He Slipped across the aisle, alb
stracted the bottle, smelt it, and
returned it to the pitchfork
pocket.
Later a serious minded Sena-
tor informed Tillman Of the incl
dent, and he arose and declaimed,
Warren apologized but later the
observations of both gentlemen
were stricken out of that unrell-
able publication, The Congress
sional Record, by unanimous
consent of both. The burden of
Tillman's expunged remarks
was that he did not like to be
held forth to the country as a
person of loose habits, when the
bottle contained boracic acid,
with which he was trying to re-
pei the ravages of something
which had recently assailed his
throat.
All would have been well had
not Tillman added to this one OF
his characteristic outbreaks. He
said he never became intoxicat-
ed. except at banquets, and even
then he could find his way home
without being loaded into a cab.
Though this was excised from
The Congressional Record after
Mr.. Hoar and other dignlhed
gentlemen had argued with Mr..
frillman, it got into the newspa.
pers. and there was more matter
for Mortified gesticulat1on on the
part of good people whom the
pitchfork Senator delights to
horrify. There is no doubt that
an additional shade Of red was
added to the mental picture OF
the Senator from South Carolina
which many good people Of the
North use for baby-frightening
purposes.
It is good time to tell the truth
about Tillman, though he will
not tell it about himself, and
though he delights to say things
that make it we'll nigh impossi-
BILE for even his well wishers to
ascertain it, this instance is a
genre picture of it. So serious
was that throat trouble, at which
many people scofed and which
few people in the north believed
that Tillman has long been down
in South Carolina battling with
lit, withdrawn from a scene in
which he delights, and where he
would rather be, warpaint on,
than anywhere else in the world.
Boracic acid has given way to
more stringent remedies, and
Tillman is fighting, if not for
life, at least for health.
It affords a side light on the
whole. Deliberately Tillman
holds out his worst side to the
pubic. Deliberately he paints
himself as a savage, wearing a
breechclout and brandishing a
spear, and deliberately he shocks
and paralyzes decent sentiment
in the North and the best parts
Of the South. Even in his own
home of South Carolina there
are good mothers who tonight
hush their offspring to sleep
with the name of Tillman.
And all the time he is as good
a fellow, as sensible and decent
a citizen, and as wise a man as
one could wish to meet. The
proof? If proof could be asked,
what more convincing could be
offered than the fact that his
warmest admirer in the Senate
is George Frisbie Hoar of Mas
sachusetts? Like seeks like, even
though it be disguised by rough
outside and a savage mask, and
Hoar knows Tillman to be a man.
The Pilgram answers to the Pal
metto as old Butler and Hamp-
| ton and all those cavaliers were
7 i