The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-07-25
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, July rs, 1906.
fsTILLEAN UNJUST
70 LYON"
Lyons Home Paper, Which Supports
TiIIman and the Dispensary
Deprecates His Attack.


TiIIman and the Dispensary
Deprecates His Attack.
Mr.. Tillman in his speech in Colum-
bia recently was bitterly personal in
his reference to Mr.. j. Fraser Lyon.
The arrangement Of fact, and argu-
ment on the same is fair and legiti-
mate as long as parliamentary usages
are observed and as long as the civil
ity which usually governs gentlemen
is present. The questions at issue
should be settled by the showing Of
facts and not by the use of abusive
terms. There is no use for anybody
to assail Mr.. Lyons character before
an audience which knows him.
The Press and Banner knows his
character is good, and nobody be-
Heves that he would knowingly make
a statement which was not in accord
with the facts.
MIR. Tillman is perhaps the greatest
man that South Carolina has ever
sent to Washington. His hands are
clean, and nobody doubts his integri
ty. The State of South Carolina
loves him and honors. him.
Mr.. Lyon is a young man at the
,-or1, +bracho1J of n I,cofT,1 onS ho,o
orable career. The people of his ma
tive county honored him with seat
in the house of representatives: The
house of representatives honored him
by placing him on the investigating
committee. In the discharge of un-
pleasant duties he has no doubt in
CURED i'll will i'm some instances, and
on the other hand, if he is not proud
of the words of praise and commen-
dation that have been given to him
he is more or less than man. To be
pleased at the evidences of approval
that have come to him is natural.
Such pleasure furnishes no ground
on the part of any man to seek to de-
stroy him by efforts to ruin his
reputation.
An impartial jury would hardly say
that the offensive expressions were
either deserving or becoming.
Mr.. Tillman is a man old enough to
be the father of Mr.. Lyon. He occu-
pies as high a position with the peo-
pie as was ever held by any man. AS
an old man, as agreat and well known
man, as the distinguished senator at
Washington, it would hardly be a
commendable act to seek to ruin an
honorable young man. This, too, in
the absence Of the victim of his wrath,
when he could not defend himself.
The differences in their physical pow
ers and their ages would preclude the
possibility of his resenting it.
Surely Mr.. Tillman is able to take
Gaze of himself without; taking ad-
vantage of another.
In the cause of justice and fair play
we protest aginst Mr.. Tillman's un-
parliamentary attack upon Mr.. Lyon.
AS the readers of The Press and
Banner know we are a2friend to Sen
ator Tillman. We are. supporting
him and defending the dispensary
against all copers and against all
attacks. Mr.. Lyon is our neighbor,
and if his views on the dispensary
conceded with the views of this edi-
tor we would vote for him against all
the world. He proposes to interfere
with the State dispensary, for this
reason alone we are not supporting
him in his race. But in all conscience
we must protest at the cruel and un-
becoming attack which Mr.. Tillman
made upon him. Mr.. Lyon does not
deserve the treatment which has been
accorded to him by Mr.. Tillman. And
Mr.. Tillman in his better moments
will admit his errors. Press
and RanOer