The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-07-18

,eI. ...s .thcisl's name. And this holE
and righteous committee, that had
not scrupleo 80 nske him start the
relation Of a private conversation be-
ycad the State about matter OF
which he personally knew nothing,
Instantly voting not to make him tell
who this man was. Why not? Is
there any fairness or honesty Ct in.
yesttaation thert? On, this great
graft killing! This hnmbug!
!; Witnesses t4on NoWberrY colo
about hats full Of money, and how tne
man who had the money, ano another
man who was interested II OF en-
o,oysd by, or who was controlled oy
or ~no controlled, the Rtchland DIS,
aillicg company, stood on chair snd
reeked over trsnsolu to Watch some
Hniskay drumners give money 10
somebody else! .4,o,
An this trivial AID incoosf Quential
talk. This hurrah about roatenness!
And corruption! This marching IN
der manners blszoned, I an opposed
: to graftr Who is not opposed 10
orsft? Some Of you might steal; but
Sou wouldn't vote to put in office g
msn ycll thought would steal. 'Op
nosed to gra.s!' I tell you, this in
yastieaticn' is as big hum5ug IS was
ever pus before decent psople.
you heard our noble old Roman,
General Younans, say today why he
aso not prose- Gcuted these alleged graft
ers. Governor Hey ward wrote an Or
der to the attorney general to begin
prosecutions at once. General You
mans told you why nobody had been
arrested-becsase be had nc st6iavits
on whica to begin prosecution. I tell
you there is not the verieSt tyro st any
bsr-there is no school boy-who Goes
not kno8 that prosecuting official
must have, before ne may begin to
prosecute, an affidavit IN which some
body swesrs that the accused has
broken ststuts.
Then lasU April, after I had writ
ten this address OF warning, Lyon, In
his peaceful c1tios in Ao5sViile, wrote
to an attorney representing certain
whiskey claimants, and who had been
after him asking Why don't you pay
our bills:' and explained that Tillnsn
was seeking to disc1edit the board ouo
| he ought to remember that he was
himself under Investigation. BE said,
TOO, that Tillman in bis testimony
before the committee had claimed he
paid Huhbell rebates for creditlng the
6ispensarg, and I went to Cincinnati
to see If he has told ths truth and II
Hubbell got the money. l have
heard, too, that Tillman while COVER
nor received piano as gift frum 8
whiskey house.
We'll, have been charged oiten
with stealing rebates. I WIS charged
With that before I left the governors
mansion. But this piano business
was new to ms. don't know who
star:ed it. When Lyon, II be had
been enough OF gentleman TO have
represented old Abosville c-edits bly,,
could easily have found cut when:
where, how, al0 fzoa .hon I got
that ptanc-aDd what I paid Tor it.
he instead vent about 70 show that
your twice. elected gcVernor-youE
senator, virtually thrice elected, had
sunk so low that-Oh, gentlemen, I
know no word for it but 3 cuss word
so strong I can't say it here, AID l
will have to stop!
Il had bought the piano when l
came here; two years before the dis
psnssry was even thought Of. No, the
easy way to 6na cut aoout that piano
wouldn't suit the cur dog propeast-
ties OF that man who SO misrepresenss
AobeY;lle. Mis-epressncs? Why dc
I say II? Because with pride and
pleasure czn say that in the three
beated campaigns beginning with
1890, Abbavil;e was the only coucty
Ii wtica I was never treated witb
the slightest discourtesy. Always in
tee osae1S there were gone dirty
blsckgusrds to hurl Insults st nee on
the staud. found only tbs courtesy
Of the ole South Carolina IN Aboeviile.
And this nan, coming from among
such a psop.e, voted for by them,
daIss to tell ever his dirty signature.
that Tillman took neasly piano from
a liquor house!
''I have waited patiently for the re-
port OF that sub b-commiotee, that vas
goirg TO Cilcin0ati to find out from
8ubbsil whe ther hs got the rebates I
said I allowed him. I have rezc
Lyon'S report to the governor, in
which he states what he tried to DO
and what he failed to accomplish. I
knew the young man had listened t.
his co00ling newspapers and had got
the swellsd head. But I thought
that when he came to himself-Then
ne had had time to cool s and settle
down, he would make some amends
But. no he made Uhe matter as oi-
rectly personal as he could. | had e1-
pected that after he had recovered
somewhat he would have the decency
and manliness to say in his formal re
port, There is nothing IN it, or to
write me private letter saying be
had erred and vas sorry.
did be Dc Il? No! He stood by
it. And I here deny it as a most in
famous lie! I hope you understand
that so far as the race for attorney
general is concerned, I would have
been al2d to have kept my hauds Cff;
but I felt that my sslt-respect de-
manded, snd that owed it IS duty
10 you, to denouncs him here as 8
slande1es. I have already called him
a liar.
Physical endurance has a limit.
am almost done. have worked hard.
er in the leadership OF this railway
rate bill during the past session than I
eyei did in any six months Of my life.
/ came home on Saturday and stay
ed one night. Then an obligation I
had made to speak in Illinois called
me away, nine hundred miles. Com
ing back, I spoke at Sandy Springs,