The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-07-20

80 ~ ~ WAN hNN pNAto AA0ty
md righteous committee, that had
lot sorupled to make him start the
citation OF q private conversation be-
'ond sha State abo1s mstter OF
which he personally knew nothing,
instantly vo1jng not to make him tell
Who this man was. Why not? Is
there any fairness or honesty OF in.
there? On, this great
graft. killing! This humbugl
Witnesses from Ncwberry told
about hats full of money, and how the
man who had the money, and another
man who was interested In or en-
by, or who was controlled by
or who controlled, the Riohlsnd Dis
tilllng company, stood On q chair and
peeked over a transom to watch some
whiskey drummers give money to
somebody elsel
All this trivial and inconst Qusntial
talkl This hurrah about %rObLenness!
And corruptionI This marching I'M
der banners blazoned, Il am opposed
to graftP Who is not opposed to
graft? Some Of you might steal; but
you wouldn't vote to put In ofice q
man you thought would steal. 'Op.
posed to graftl' l tell you, this in.
vestigation' Is as big a humbug as was
oyer put before g decent people.
You heard our noble old Roman,
General Youmans, say today why he
had not prosecuted these alleged graft
ers. Governor Hayward wrote an or
der to The attorney general to begin
prosecutions at once. General You,
mans told you why nobody had been
Observation-Disclosures he had no anidavits
on Whic& to begin prosecution. l tel
you there Is not the veriesG tyro at any
bar-there Is no school hoy-who does
not know that a. prosecuting official
must have, before he may begin tt
prosecute, an athdavit In which some.
body swears that the accused haE
broken a statute.
'Then last April, after l had writ,
ten Ghis address Of warning. Lyon, IL
his peaceful Cficc In Abbeville, wrote
to an attorney representing certain
whiskey claimants, and vino had beer
after him asking Why don't you pay
our btils?' and explained that TIllmar
was seeking to diacredit the board puj
he ought to remember that he was
himself under Investigation. He said
TOO, that Gilman In his tcst,mon,
before the committee had claimed he
paid Hubbell rahates for crediting the
.dispenSary, and l went to Cincinnati
TO see IL he has told the truth and i
Hubbell got the money. l have
heard, too, that Tillman while Cover
nor received q plano rs a gift from q
whiskey house
"Well, l have been charged otter
with stealing rebates. | was charged
with that before l LETT the governor,
mansion. But this piano busi4cr,
was new to mo. l don't know VIM
started 1t, When Lyon, If he hat
boan enough OF a gentleman to have
represented old Abbevtlle cteditaoly
could easily have found out wien
where, how, and from aholn l goi
that piano-and what | paid for IL
lie instead went about TO show tina.
your tUice. elected governof-you
senator, virtually thrice elected, hac
sunk so low that-Oh, gentlemen,
know no word for 1t but q cuss wore
80 strong l can't say it here, ard
VIII have to stop!
Il had bought the piano when
came here; two years before the dis
pensary was even thOugk6 OF. No, tht
easy way to tind out about that piano
wouldn't suit the cur dog propensi
lies of that man who so misrepresents
AbbeYille. Misreprosents? Why dc
| say 1t? Because with pride snc
pleasure | san FAY that in the three
heated campaigns beginning with
1880, AbbeVille was the only county
IN which | was never treated with
the slightDnt discourtesy. Always In
bhe othera there were some dirty
blackguards to hurl Insults at no on
the stand. | found only the cou -tesy
Of the old South Carolin.lu AbNeville.
And this man, coming from among
such S people, voted for by them,
dafes to tell over his dirty signature,
that Tlllman took a measly plano from
3 liquor house!
Il have waited patiently for the re-
port OF that subcommittee, that was
kolrg to Cincinnati to find out from
Hubbeil whether he got the rebates |
said l allowed him. / have read
report TO the governor, in
which he statcl What he tried to do
and what be failed TO accomplish. |
the young man had listened t.
his codcling newspapers and had got
5he swelled head. But l thought
That when lie came to himself-when
ne had had time to cool CIR and settle
!oWn, lie would make ONE amends.
But. no. He made tho matter az d.
'octly personal as he could. | had ex-
pectod that after no had recovered
'omcwhat ne would have the decenoy
md manliness to say In his formal re
port, There is nothin9 In IT, or to
"fiie ms a private letter saying he
LAD erred and was sorry.
did he do T.? Mol lie stood by
t. And | h0ro deny 1t al q most in
ANGUS licl | hope you understand
hat 30 far az the rs.ce for attorney
Is concerned, would have
glAd to have kept my hands on;
felt that my self-respect de-
handed, and that | owed IL az o duty
o you, to denouGcG htm here as o
landeler. / have already called him
liar.
Physical endurance has a limit. |
almost done. | have worked hard
r In the leadership OF this railway
ate bill during the past session than
old IN any six months Of my life.
came homo on a Saturday and stay.
q one nignJ. Than an obligation
lad MADE 20 speak In Illinois caIod
&c a"3y, nine hundred miles. Own.