Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-07-13
wanted to show the humbuggery o

| wanted to show the humbuggery OF
| this graft-killing committee.
Then he took up the Davis testi-
mony on Hub Evans and wanted to
know why they didn't bring Briggs
Wilson here. Men are running against
the dispensary on all this fiimsy evil
dence. No one was opposed to kill
Ing graft, but why float such a pre-
tentious flag, as that of being the
great and only graft-killer? He
spoke of the committees work as use
less In large part He spoke Of the
daily newspapers as the whisky
sheets. Governor Hayward wrote an
order to bring criminal action, and
General Youmans had told you why
no one was arrested and no action
brought. General Youmans tells you
there is not a grain Of evidence to
convict in the Parker testimony.
Very Mad at Lyon.
position Of the great Conner and You
mans. He'll get there on the votes of
The News and Courier and The State,
he added. He would say why he ad-
vised the people not 10 elect such a
man as Mr.. Lyon, and then he read
the letter Mr.. Lyon wrote an attorney
relative to his claim. Lyon wrote In
substance: "Fbe ought to remember
that he himself is under investiga-
tion." and so forth. and that he want
ed to go to see If the rebates had
been paid back. Lyon did not stop
there, but he went on to say that Ben
Tillman had received a piano from
some liquor firm. Lyon said he had
heard such a rumor, but made no d.
rect charge. Mr.. Lyon did not give
his authority. Had Mr. Lyon been the
right sort of a man he could have
found out all about the piano with
out such a slur on him. He said it
was pitifu to suggest he could be
bribed by such a gift. He bought the
piano i'm 1891 and paid for 1t, but he
Iyon) had the mean, cur dog pro-
pensities Of making such a slur against
him. He said Mr.. Lyon misrepresent-
ed Abbeville by such a course. He
said this because he was never treated
with discourtesy in Abbeville. He
never had an unkind word said to him
in Abbeville, and this man, coming
from such a people, tells the world
over his dirty signature that he had
received this piano from a whisky
house. He had waited patiently for
the report of this subcommittee to
find something on this piano. This
young man had case Of swell head;
puffed up by the newspapers. In his
second interview he repeated his In
sinuation. and made 1t personal. He
expected Mr.. Lyon to have the decency
to retract his implied insinuation, not
having found a particle Of proof. He
could have written him a personal let
ter or apologized. Tonight he wished
to denounce this whole charge as an
infamous lie. He simply said what he
did as a matter of self-respect and he
wished to denounce him as a slanderer.
Voice: "And a liar. Tillman!"
Senator Tillman: "Tve already called
him liar"
Senator Tllman spoke Of his stren-
uous work in congress in his rate bill
fight He spoke Of his plans for this
summer and how sire 1t would
be. He wanted to step speaking, but
the crowd insisted on his going ahead
and talking longer, but he said that he
had twenty more speeches to make IN
this state within the month and ne
could stand 1t no longer. He thanked
his audience and after telling them
something Of his senatorial work re-
tired amid the plaudlts Of the crowd.