The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-02-21
LASHED TO FURY.
Hawthorne Pictures Senator
Tillman Discussing the
RAILROAD BATE BILL
Id the Senate, and Describes the Won
dsrfzl Transformation from Lodge
ant. the Isles Of the BEST to
the Storms and the Buc.
cancers.

Julian Hawthorne draws on anus
ing picture Of Senator Tillnan ad
dressing the Ulised States Senat
last week on the railroad rate bill
With the scholarly Senator from Mas
sachuseets, saes Hawthorne, We ha.
bean sailing long and smoothly o.
Summer seas. he seemed to be en-
acting the parts both Of Youth al
the Prov and Of Pleasure at thu
Helm.
The rise and lapse Of his mellihu
Gus cents, as he read bis speech
and. at stated intervals, lifted tht
leaf from the pile OF Law books on hi
left and laid it gently and accurately
on the slowly augmenting pile on nil
right, seemed like the sofsIy swelling
snd subsiding waves Of the blus
cc.sn over which We voysgsd.
The Senatorial audience sat en-
traEosd, with eyes half closed in
dream eomforsableness. The CALLER.
lss, graced with much that was feni.
nine and beautiful, sailed On serenely
with the rest OF us.
Mr.. Knox, keeping his eyes resolute.
ly ajsr beneath his level and slightly
gathered brows, gave his most courte.
GUS attention. Other great railroad
represen tatiyes - Foraker, Aldridge,
Eikins. Gallinger-attempted not to
conceal the plentituds Of their satis-
fsetion In the argument CT tbs spokes-
man Of the White House.
The desks OF the opposition were
less well filed, but several Of their oc.
eupants confessed to the spell OF the
orator. Mr.. Tillmsn read pamphlets,
but he was to spesk after Massaclu
setts had finished.
The Isle of the Blest seemed near.
All was well allow and aloft.
The nation, under the asgis ct tie
Executive, was safe. The rate bill
was an important measure, but Mr..
Lodge had given the sutj ct OF rail-
way rates bis earnest attention dur.
ing several months, and he knew, he
might venture toUbeliebe something
about it. Hs had even gone so far IS
to unload bis modest holdings OF rail-
way stock before beginning his ezani-
nation, lest any shadow ef seli-inter
est might creep into his point OF
view. he vas explicit, after all this
study, In announcing that personal
rebates were really and truly wrong,
and must be stopped. But ab! gen
tlcnen, what a mighty and prosper
GUS nation was ours; and al! again,
what q mighty element Of benefcence
we're our railroads!
Railroads are the property net Of g
few naughty millionaires, but Of mil,
lions of trusting and deserving stock
holders, for whose benefit they are
conducted. To injure railroads, then,
is to aim a blow as the common peo-
pie.
rs any here so base that does not
love the common people? II any,
speak, for him have I off:nd! And,
do not rail ways d psnd upon the pros
perlUy OF the couatry for their ltVtna? :?
How, ther, eau Jh5E bs suspected OF
working against its interests.
III Is prepostsrous," F" exclaimed the
Senator, almost raising his voice,
THAT they should be suspected Of be
ing shortaightsdly avariclous."
And 50, az last, he laid down the
last leaf upon the tour sQusre pile
and turned to receive tbs congrs.u-
lasions Of Messrs. AldTich, Foraker
and the rest uf the men against whose
interests the Hspburn bill is under
stood to be aimed.
Il was beautiful; 1t Was like the
lotus eaters; and We were juss falling
iuto the sweetest slumber when all az
orce an awful thing happened.
In the Senate Mr.. Tlilnsn Is al.
most the only event that ever Goes
1sppen. Up he came from the dark
SONS hold OF our Sn!p OF State, say
age and threatening, a freebooter,
armed and fsrce.eye6; a buocaneer,
wi5h knife between bis teeth and a
pistol in either hand.
The Summer seas passed away like
q dream. The Isles Of the Blest sank
beneath the hor;zjn. The CLOUDS
blackened the sky and the storm'
wind shrieked in the silken cordage
OF the rigging.
Tillmsn had ripped the entire bot
tom out Of cur craft, and We were
sinking.
The seas rose in fury; We were
plunged hesdlong into then, swim.
nirgly suddenly 70. our lives. There
was DO peace, no pres ,ertsy, no econc'
mic benehcancs OF natural lava,
Sharks bit If our legs, swordaah I'M
paled us-water swalloyed Us whole.
The nation vas once QDrc strug
Cling in the grasp OF the octopus
They were starving,- they were
w1ocgsd; they were Vic5ins OF an out
1ageous and Destructive tyranny.
And what a ,hideous farce it al
was! =
Here-ws cur. President, who had
shis nec for the rel.ef OF the pee.
pie so clol-.y ct heart, on whose at
calls we were zdmonished bltndly te
nang, in whose courage and wisdom
We were invited to trust. who fesrec
no foes-least OF all railroads
he was with his bill, and whom had
he, called into counsel with him te
manufacture il? :.
| BE had called in-shouted the buc-
caneer, stalking forth upon the deck
and menaelng the Republicans Wish
uplifted atms-tWo men who nore
tnan any others were devoted body
and soul to railways. he had called
In Mr.. Root and MI. Knox: be hao
confded the drafting Of the measure
to their vision; to their tender mer.
r.e had he entrustsd the salvation M