Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-07-13
Miseellaneuus 8eadins.
BITTER ATTACK ON LYON.
TilIman Denounces AbbevlIe Man as a
Slanderer and Liar.


TilIman Denounces AbbevIIe Man as a
Slanderer and Liar.
There was a brief mention In The
Enquirer of last Tuesday Of Senator
Tilman's attack on Mr.. Lyon in his
Columbia speech Monday night. For
the sake of the record it Is proper to
give a fuller report of the senator's
remarks. and the circumstances un-
der which they were made. 1t seems
that the campaign meeting was divid-
ed in sections, the candidates for state
offices speaking during the day and
Congressman Lever and Senator Till
man speaking at night. The night
crowd swelled to such proportions
that it could not be accommodated in
the Capitol and Senator Tillman spoke
from the state house steps. There
were no facilities for reporting and
the newspaper men had to get along
as best they could. Following is Au-
gust Kohn's report to the News and
Courier:
Senator Tillman spoke of his inau-
guration from the state house steps
in 1890. He said then there were
few Columbia people present. He al
ways felt a kindness towards Colum-
bia. He said he had always tried to
represent the entire people in the
senate. He spoke of his qualification
at being reelected without opposi-
ton. He expected to make twenty
speeches and II any felt aggrieved
they could scratch him as $4,000 did
six years ago. He said he had been
leader simply because he had the
courage of his convictions, and had
the manhood to go to the front re-
gardless of results. He wanted the
people to act for themselves.
He spoke of the small vote in the
recent elections under the Brice act
He saw no reason why he should not
say the dispensary was the best solu-
ton of the liquor problem. If you
don't want the dispensary vote 1t out
under the Brice act. The old fac
tionalism of the early nineties Is dead
and buried, thank God, he said. The
real meaning of Tillmanism is that
one white mans vote counts for as
much as that of any other There
was no use to get mad about this
liquor issue. He ridiculed the recent
correspondence about the oath against
blind tigering that was recently sent
the officers of a social club in Green
vile. He said the dispensary made
money and reduced taxes and pro-
longed the school term, and as for
himself he had no objection to such
money.
Defended the Dispensary.
Senator Tillman then took up a
general defence of the dispensary
system. Grant that the dispensary is
rotten, who made it but the legisla-
ture? This same legislature that
brought about such a condition want
ed to kill 1t. He expected some steal
ing has been going on. In Spartan
burg. he said, were some dirty, rot
ten dispensaries and the county board
was appointed by the delegation.
some of them prohibitiOnists. he
thought Minimize the liquor evil all
you can and then let's get all the mon
ey we can out of it and not send it to
Georgia or North Carolina. The mon
ey is incidental.
He jumped on county dispensaries.
He endorsed the plan of the RaySor-
Manning bill. but 1t needed COVER
nor who was not afraid of his shadow.
There were four candidates on the
diSpenSary platform, and he wished to
take no sides and play no favorites,
and three against 1t, and one with To-
cal option with the tall license, cut
off. He was not going to meddle IN
this gubernatorial race. He wanted
a man of integrity and honesty select
ed: he wanted q governor elected
ly clean and honest and whose repu-
tation was above reprOach. He want
ed a Legislature and wanted to see
Straddlers killed off. He wanted a
straight clean-cut delegation fight IN
every county I'm South Carolina. the
opposition scheme is to kill the state
dispensary and then all is easy, 1t Is
urged. 1t was a combination Of three
influences to kill the dispensary and
each expected his reward. The next
cry is to take the county out of the
system. The idea is i'm time to get
back to the old days of the mirrors.
Hits at Charleston Again.
He said the mayor of Charleston
had made the pitiful statement under
oath that he had only been able to
reduce the tigers to 100. and these are
made to pay fines and were recogniz-
ed i'm this way. He was utterly OPP
posed to any license system. Charles
ton has nullified the dispensary law.
He was glad there were so many Ia
dies present. He was proud to speak
to so many of columbia'S women. he
made a plea to the women 10 keep
out of the license system. He did not
want to appear to be intermeddling IN
any of the state contests. and he dld
not want to appear as taking any
sides. He simply wanted to speak OF
one candidate as a matter of self-Te-
spect. 1t was purely n personal mat
ter. He then related that he had pup
lished an address about the investiga-
ton and he said. he could not under
stand the delays in getting down into
the cesspool of diSpenSary rottenness.
He and others believed there was
rottenness. He called attention to the
liquor claims TIL at were held up: he
cOntended that none of that liquor
was legally bought. There was no
competition and he could prove IT,
He warned the committee about these
claims The committee seemed to DE
stiff on something and as soon as they
got close to anything they petered
out. He cited the Newberry matter.
Ridiculed the Committee.
He censured the committee for
quitting on this Newberry matter
and then jumped on the committee
for stopping at the name of the party
who represented Lanahan. why ana
they refuse to get the name OF TINS
political agent? Why should they moi
have gotten that name? They Wehl
into other hearsay evidence. They