The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-03-28
SENATOR TILLMAN
as SEEN TBE EYES OF
4 REPUBLICAN,
As A Prophet Ee Heeries That the
Elind Money Worshippers
Wont See.

says the eternal principle Of tqua!
opportunity for men is the object tor
which Senator Tillman contends in
his report to the United States senate
on the railroad rate bill. Argument
in support Of that demand We do not
behold the rsnting demagogue OF OLD
armed with pitehfork and clustering
blasphemous TRADE. This Ben Till
man is the cool logician, the calm Coz
oroversialist who writes an earnest,
dispassionate and unanswerable brief
for contr,.l by the American people Ct
the highways that should be their
own. Ben Tillman Of the wool hat
slips out OF the minds eye; in his
place looms a statesmanlike figure.
The fate that intrusts the repre-
sentative of a dtScredited minority
with the leadership Of momentous
legislative battle, on whose outcome
the fortunes OF both majority and de-
mocrscy are staked, reveals to Us the
SHINING worth Of this human dia-
nond in the rough. Chief wonder CT
his performance is that the railroad
crew IN the senate, being resolved t.
assassinate the square Geal program
and having relir ut-hed the majority S
duty to the minority in order the
better to ply their kuiVes should have
appoiL ted IS Chief mourner very
Antony to make tbs stones cry out IL
mutiDy.
Senator Tillman, once the most
rampant Of radicals. lf rs here a plan
1T which the younger generation will
live to marvel for its moderation. We
have here the most frel z.ed OF tee
Bryan agitators preaching tn, dec
5rine OF conservatism as the only es'
caps from political and social revolt
sion. The bre king down OF party
lines in the Sehate on this issue In The
strange manner be describes, is only
one CT the unprecedented features Of
the struggle between people and priv
i!eye. In the new alignment OF fJrcss
we see on the side Of radicalism, pas
i sionately urging Immediate govern
mept ownership or outright socialism
msn heretofore known for their mil:
insistence on caution. % the othel
de, pleading for the minimum of ef'
fectiVe government supervision, ar
toe 'miGdle-ot-the-road" non comp1o
uisers, tle brandlshers Of pitchforks
The burn. your-cit1es" horde OF tWt
LEGENDARY campaigns. Y5u7 genulre
ccns rvatives Of to6ay, the lea :er'
wEc stand for reasonable redress o
existing wrongs as against thos'
drastic and clnvulSiVa remedies tt
which the people would repair as shei:
alternative, are the Tillma7s anc
Bryans, and even the Tom Watsons
OF yesterday.
There is not a liue in the Tillnar
program to which the supporters o
the Roosevelt Republican policy car.
po5 subscribe.
"Rsascnable returns to railroads
but always end only on actual capi
tai invested, and not on oceans OF va
ter.
! "Prohibi.icn Of railroads from
creating the freight In competition
wi.n their shippers in addition to car
rYing 1t.
Cor frna.ion OF the long-assd art
long u u2cha:langed poTer OF the Inter
STATE Commerce Cymm!ssion to abolish
extortionate ra tes.
Prison stripes for rebate Grim.
nails.
| To these just provisions som'
things need to be added. NothirI
can b. tsksn n away without continuing
the c;usl irj lstice which railroads
ana their features Standard oil, bee:
trust, coal trust and hundred pr.
vate mcnopciies, are enficting daily
upon the people.
with his single prophetic eye thi!
champion Of American freedom from
economic shackles can decry the disas
Ter that the blind and blundsrine
knaves will not see. Standing almos
solitary IN that wilderness OF strata
gems and spoils, with Lincoln-likt
simplicity and Tillman-.ike fearless
ness he uste-s his impressive forecast
OF tie doom the American judgment
holds over the traitors and OF ths
i wreck American wrath will make o1
their odious system.
The cis:ze3 who is not struck b;
the import OF the Tillman message
misses the meaning OF the prologue tt
the most stirring drama since the Wal
Of the States.