The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-12-15

They were here to 60 through with
forms and to utter formulas merely,
and to abide in peace, secluded
from the Ardor Civceum Juben-
tium."
For what concern with the peo-
pie has the senate? But am los
Ing track Of Mr.. Tillman.
\ BOLD pICTuRE OF BEN TrLLMAN.
He is 80 unlike the rest Of them,
that his address to them gained
thereby greatly in picturesque con-
trast. He is the natural man,
planted strangely in the pleached
garden of ultra propriety and fas-
tidious culture. His roots arc
rugged, rank of the soil; bis foliage
rude as the branchings of the cac-
tus and upon occasion not less
prickly. His speech is unstudied,
honlcly and plain, so denuded of
every rhetorical artificc as to remind
one, in that presence, of some naked,
hairy man of the woods breaking
into a satin-lincd boudoir.
There is no end to the SMILES
which he suggests; so | will merely
add that his speech recalled the
cvolutions of some grizzlcd Spanish
bull in the arena, who is inoffensivc
while let alone; but, does any light
! heeled matador presume to bait
him, he lowers his formidable front,
paws up the turf, and bellows, and
shakes menacingly the sharpness of
his horns. He uses the first word,
the rcadiest phrase, that comes to
his lips; and it is apt to be frank
one.
He had not gone far, when Sena-
tor Gallinger, the hairless, stepped
in his place, and remarked that he
had no intention whatever of OBJ
lection to what the gentleman from
South Carolina was going to say.
Tillman smiled, and was gratified
to learn that the senator was will
ling to fall in behind an invc>:iga-
tiOn of some sort. y
Anon, he took up a copy of Mr..
Roosevelt's recent treatise on poll
tics on their relation to common
morality, and read extracts illus
trating what he seemed to regard as
its inconsistencies and homilctic
eXpansivencss, to which, Frye,
Hale, Allison and Co., listened with
smiles, which mean either that they
thought such animadversions un-
worthy of their august notice, or
that they were rather pleased than
otherwise to hear this rude tperson
applying his rudencss to the Execu-
tive. Be their attitude favorable or
WANTS TO 90 AFTER "scouNpRE1s. -
! Let us hope" quoth he, that
our drag-net will be strong enough
to catch any scoundrcl-as might
say; though perhaps the term seems
a harsh one. But what want to
know he adned, is whether this
senate is going to go after the facts
in a determined, business-like man.
ncr, meaning really to find out
something; or whether they arc
going to do it in lame, white
livered, inconclusivc way, as those
DO whose object is how not to do
things that is, how not to do
things which the corporations would
not like to have done.
The President" he went ON.
gives us excellent advice in rather
a voluminous style, and tells us
that when we get information, we
should act promptly and strenuously
upon it; but it seems to me that
the President should have had, and
must have had access to such in.
formation himself; and that his
recommendations therefore simply
amount to using fine phrases rather
i than be doing anything-which
may be desirable in some respects
but which will not, | should sun
pose, add very much to the Execu.
tlvc's moral and mental stature. "
At this Juncture arose Mr.. Hale.
requesting leave to interrupt, and
standing facing Tillman, and em.
phasizing his remarks with the
gentle impact of his left hand on
the edge of his desk, expressed him.
self in carefully selected words to
the effect that he fully agreed with
the general trend of the Senator's
remarks, but that 80 far as thew
might reflect upon any Senatorial
action in which he himself (Mr.
Hale) might have participated, he
would point out that when the bill
was first presented to his ccnsidera-
ton the clause which might Justify
the Senator's criticism had not vet