The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1905-10-04
ASSAILED BY HIS FRIENDS.

Some of our esteemed friends have
been insisting that THE ADVERTISER
has hard feelings against Senator Till
man but his own original friends are
much harder on him than we have ever
been.
The Hon. Louis Applet was n of
the most original of all Tillmanites and
the Hon. John Bell Towill is a Tillman-
lite, a nephew by the way of DR.. w. H.
Zimmerman, former Tillmanite State
Treasurer, State Senator from Edge
field and Lieutenant Governor. The fol-
lowing is from the Manning Times, of
which Mr.. Applet is the Editor:
eve wonder what Col. John Bell
Towill, member of the State Board of
Dispensary Directors meant last Sat-
urday at Batesburg when he said to
Tillman God knows what you did
when you went to Cincinnati Can it
be that Colonel Towill was about to let
slip something he knows of Tillman's
transactions when the dispensary was
in its infancy and the purchasers of
whiskcy forgot to put or record the re-
bates the State was entitled to at the
.iIC. IL tlC oClldlOI COIlJlilueS Ills
rrodding game it would not surprise us
i he rams his %pitchfork into a yellow
,ackets nest and come out of the melee
With considerable disagreement. Towill
says God knows what Tillman did in
incinnati" and Tillman says he
didn't go to Cincinnati" Towill should
ave then and there asked him to ex-
lain to the people his transactions
with the Mill Creek Distilling Com
any, and why it was that the many
thousands of dollars of rebates are not
accorded on the books of the dispen-
airy. 1t is very evident that Colonel
Iowill has, during his membership on
the State Board, gotten some informa-
man, because, after fillman intimated
very strongly a reflection upon Towill's
honesty, and the Colonel got to per-
spring under the collar to an extent to
hint that Tillman did something shady
in Cincinnati, Tillman hastens to say
he had absolutely no feeling against
Mr.. Towill, and believed him to be
thoroughly honest but he thought that
he was in bad company When
rogues fall out honest men get their
dues, ard as sure as fate, Tillman is
steering his nerve into dangerous
places. If he believes Towill honest
WHY diu ne very TeCCllJly nlnJ IndC
Towill had been bribed with a blooded
horse by a whiskey dealer, and why did
he charge that the %dispensary machine
was in the hands of a gang of thieves,
and advise Governor Hayward to kick
the brood of thieves out? Towill was
present at the Batesburg meeting and
resented Tillman's insinuations, and re-
torted with a good size one himself,
then all at once Towill's character be-
comes as white as snow and is informed
that his colleagues Evans and Boykin
are ~rascals. AT the next meeting it
will be Hub Evans turn to have his
character laundried, and then Boykin
can come in for a clearance card and a
certificate or label for morality, such as
a saint would be proud to obtain. Towill
has given out the formula how this alb
solution is to be secured. When Till
man again attempts to charge corrup-
ton on the part of the board, let one Of
them step forward, with the inquiry
about the early transactions of the dis
pensary and he will at once disclaim
any reflection, and will intimate it, Is
the absent members of the board who
are bad men,"
Our readers will kindly observe that
the insinuation about Senator Tillman's
visit to Cincinnati was made by Towill.
Now Towill later a~pologized and Till
man pronounced Towill an honorable
man." What was in Towil's mind
when he spoke of the Cincinnati trip?
How did it get there? What does
Towill know and how can he explain
this insinuation? What put it into his
head?
Here are Tillman and Towill, both
Tillmanites, both are or have been con-
nected with the management of the
Dispensary and each making %insinua-