Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-06
nuNAN 5 BIG FIGHT
South Carolina Senator Takes a
Hand in Controversy
at Home
DEFENDS STATE DIsPENsARY
Renews Old Tactics of Denouncins
Newspapers and State Officers in
Fierce Struggle to Defeat Re- election
of Legislators Who Oppose State
Control of Liquor Traffic.

Columbia, S. c., Aug 8.-Senator
Tillman is making the fight of his life
to save the dispensary as state in
stitution.
When the democratic state executive
committee mapped out schedule for
the candidates for the various stat
offices, including candidates for the
United States senate and congress.
Senator Tillman announced that he
would not speak If his time was linn
tied. AT that time he had opposition
in the parsonage of Colonel w. w.
Lumpkin, and it was probably for this
reason that he decided to have cam
paign of his own and choose his own
places of speaking. Colonel Lumpkin
withdrew after attending several of
the meetings. which left clear field
for the senator Lumpkin's withdraw
al, however, did not change Tillman's
plans, and accordingly he has been
making a speech every day except
Sunday for the last four weeks.
Result is in Doubt.
Whether or not the senator's inter-
ference in state issues will have the
effect of electing a sufficient number
of members to the general assembly to
retain the state dispensary is an I'M
certain question, but it is safe to say
that the revelations made by the legis-
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past two years has developed wide
spread opposition to state control OF
the liquor traffic and the fight will be
at least close, if indeed the institution
is not abolished by the forthcoming
general assembly.
Senator Tillman opened his CAM
paign with a fierce denunciation of j..
Fraser Lyon, candidate for attorney
general, who with State Senator Niels
Christensen was the backbone Of the
investigating committee and thru
whose persistent efforts condition Of
corruption in the dispensary was I'M
earthed Tillman's attack was based
upon statement made by Lyon that
while he was in Cincinnati making in
quiries he stumbled over something
that looked as tho Tillman, when gov
ernor, had accepted a piano as pres
ent from a liquor dealer in that city.
This enraged the senator, and in his
speech from the steps of the state
capitol he denounced Lyon in his alb
sence as a liar" and declared that he
exhibited "cur dog tendencies
Denounces the Newspapers.
Seeing that a calm discussion of the
LIQUOR question was not sufficient to
stem the rising tide of opposition Till
man has returned to his old tactics
of denouncing the newspapers, espec-
tally the State, and it's editor, Captain
w. B. Gonzales. For several years
the State has been making a fight for
compulsory education. During Till
mans second week Of speech making
he stated that what the State favored
was a good thing to oppose and COM
menced to "pitchfork" compulsory edu-
cation, asserting that it meant the edu-
cation Of negroes to the disadvantage
Of the whites The State answered by
referring to Tillman as "sneaking
dirty liar"
In each speech Senator Tillman
urges the voters to defeat for re-elec-
ton to the general assembly the sew
enty-odd senators and representatives
who last winter voted for the aboli-
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