The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-09
TILLMAN'S WAYS
ARE NILDER
HE'S STILL VIGOROUS AND AL
WAYS APPROACHABLE.
Traits of South Carolina Senator
Used to Work Lying on Floor
Sees More Cranks than
any other Public Man
Fond Of Flowers.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
Washington, March 3.-At the mid
die of the main corridor Of the SEN
ate gallery, directly opposite the vice
presidents seat, is a door opening
into the senate document room. Pass
through this and through a long row
of stacked masses Of documents, turn
to the right, then to the left, and into
darker and narrower corridor, and
few feet to the second door, whereon
You will see the sign "Five Civil
lied Tribes.' Open the door and there
you find Senator Tillman, the chief.
When he first came to the senate
ten years ago they say he was filter,
perhaps; to be at the head Of COM
n1ttee on the five savage tribes. Now,
they say, he has become more amlable,
more amenable, ''tamed," and they
have accordingly promoted him. But
when he got this assignment he him.
self, possessed Of keen sense Of
kumor, must have recalled the time
when a few years ago the Methodist
conference in his state assigned the
Rev. Mr.. Sojourner to town called
s'Traveller's Rest" It was at least
suggestive.
You are apt to find him, especially
if he has just spoken in the senate,
pacing up and down telling his clerks
and visitors what has just occurred,
speaking in the same animated way
which he had just been using on the
foor of the senate, making the same
vigorous gestures with his arms
shaking the big head, swapping the
massive jaws; "this old one eye OF
z1ine,'' as he calls it, shooting flashes
throughout the room like those OF a
searchlight. Else you will find hin
seated at desk at the far end OF the
room debating to a clerk who sits IN
large upholstered chair by his side.
He is not hard man to see at all
He seems to enjoy having a crowd
around him when he is at work. Ii
does not interrupt him. When his
mind is concentrated on anything OF
when 'sthis old one eye' is fixed upon
page he seems to be oblivlous to all
else around him.
: It has always been Senator I'LL
mans habit to work thus IN crowd.
He does things and as far as possible
thinks them in the open, as 1t were.
And his family, from his wife, VINO
since he was 20 years old has been his
constant companion and chief adviser.
down to the youngest Of his children,
all know his business, both public and
i. private. At his home he receives his
visitors, friends and strangers allke'
in the presence Of his family. He has
with him in his apartments at the Co.
lonial Hotel on 18th street, besides
Mrs. Tillman, two of his daughters,
Miss Leona. young lady IN the
neiehborhood Of 20, and Sallie May,
AGED u. His oldest son, B. +. Till
man, Jr., is his private secretary, but
: he is married and lives in another part
Of the city. He has another daughter
at Hollins Institute, Virginia, and an
other son studying law in Charles
ton, S. {.
B. R. Tillman, Jr., gives a good IL
lustration Of how his father studied
and worked. The first thing that
brought Mr.. Tillman into prominence
was a series Of speeches and neWspa-
per letters in advocacy Of a farmers
college. They were written, said
Young Tillman. while his father was
living fiat on his back on the piazza
floor. his head and shoulders slightly
propped up on a pillow leaned against
an inverted straight back chair, while
he, the son, and his little sister, both
small children, were crawling all over
his body and between his outstretched
legs and running their hands into his
pockets. It was his habit every day
70 come in from his farm and lie thus
on the floor, reading OF writing, all
unconscious of what was going on
around him.
When Mr.. Tillman came to Wash
ineton and entered the senate he gave
no this habit, but he did not give II
up altogether when he went to Co.
lumbia to be governor. One day a
visitor came into the portico OF the
governors mansion, and somewhat to
his bevilderment found a man lying