The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-05-25
TILLMAN, THE PUZZLE.
Deliberately Puts Himself IN q False Light
Before Public.
Baltimore Sun.

The last session Of Congress has
passed into history, or such history
as its do nothing record may entitle 1t
TO. with only one characteristic out
break BY benjamin Ryan Tillman, and
that very mild one, writes Wash
ington corrcspon dent Of the New York
Times. In this regard this donoth-
ing session is certainly enabled to
shine with bright historical light.
1t holds the grand prix among all ex-
positions where Tillman has been an
exhibitor.
The exhibition referred to was dis
played for q more or less adniring
world some weeks ago. Mr.. Warren,
Senator from Wyoming, who had never
before attracted the calcium rays
from the top gallery, wandered into
the Senate feeling very happy from
some unspecifcd cause, and obscr-
we'd Tillman making gyrations OF
TillmanesGue sort and holding forth
TO the discomforturc Of Mr.. Bailey, of
Texas.
Mr.. Warren glanced toward the ges-
ticulating and expostulating Till
man and perceived bottle protrud-
ing from his pocket. He slipped across
the aisle, abstracted the bottle, smclt
it, anG returned it to the pitchfork
pocket.
Later serious minded Senator in
formed Tillman Of the incident, and
he arose and declaimed. Warren
apologized, but later the observations
Of both gentlemen were stricken out
Of that unreliable publication, the
Congressional Record, by unanimous
consent Of both. The burden of Till
mans expunged remarks was that he
did not like to be held forth to the
country 40 person Of loose habits,
when the bottle contained boracic
acid, with which he was trying to re-
pei the ravsges Of something which had
recently assailed his throat.
JEST TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
All would have been we'll had not
Tillman added to this one of his char
aoteristic outbreaks. He said he
never became intoxicated, except at
banquets. I'd even then he could find
his way home without being loaded
into cab. Though this was excised
from the Congressional Record, after
Mr.. Hoar and other dignifed gentle
men had argued with Mr.. Tillman it
got into the newspapers, and there
was more matter for Mortified gesticu-
lation on the part Of the good people
whom the Pitohfork 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 de-
lights to say things that make it we'll
nigh impossible for even his we'll
wishers to ascertain it, this incident
is e genre picture of it. So serious
was that throat trouble, at which
many people scoGed and which few in
the North believed that Tillman has
long been down in South Carolina
battling with it, withdrawn from q
scene in -Aich he delights, and where
he would rather be, warpsint on, than
anywhere else in the world. Boracic
acid has given way to more stringent
remedies. and Tillman 10 fighting, il
not for life, at least for health.
1t affords sidelight on the whole.
Deliberately Tillman holds out hia
worst side TO the public. Deliberate-
ly he paints himself as a savage,
wearing breech-clout and brandish.
ing a spear, and deliberately he
shocks and paralyzes decent senti-
ment in the North and best parts Of
the South. Even in his home Of
South Carolina there are good moth
ers who tonight hush their offspring
to sleep with the name of Tillman.
And all the time he is as good fell
low, as sensible and decent citizen,
and as wise man as one could wish
to meet. The proof? If proof be
asked, what more convincing could be
offered than the fact that his wsrmest