The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-08-28
SOUTH cARoLINA's PRIDE n LOOSE.

SOUTH cARo1lNA's PRIDE q LOOSE.
The Parkersville (West Vir-
ginia) State Journal was not
we'll impressed with Senator
Tilnnan's recent lecture in that
town, and makes the following
comment:
if one were called upon without
knowledge of his identity to size MN up
after listening to his bombastlc TRACE,
the verdict would probably be tha1 ne
was q half-educated, ill-bred country
LAWYER who brides himself upon being
rhe cock of f-the-walk in his own small
oonn,nnitv His argument on the race
onas,ion was for the most part Z rehaSh
If nawspaper and magazine articles
M he subject thirty years ago, replete
wi,h outbursts of vicious hate lncredl-
bic. The presence OF cultivated ladies'
and young girls who formed half OF his
large audience was no restraint to his
profanity and obscenity, the latter
being of the most shocking type. It is
to be regretted that the cause OF the
State for whom he pretends TO speak
could not be represented before the
public if thought best. by some one OF
character and standing, falrmlnded.
able and conscientious, and he would be
given an earnest welcome and a SYM
pathetic hearing in all sections.
And because Of this adverse
comment one or two Of our
Southern newspapers takes ex-
ceptions, and attribute the crit
icism to sectional hatred, which
they are not justified in doing.
Tillman is in the lecture busl-
ness. and unless he says things
sensational he will fail to draw
people to the ticket office. He
knows his business, and if to be
offensive he can make the most
damn Yankee money" offensive
he will be, his audience will go
off mad, the newspapers will tell
the truth about him, and then
he is ready for the next town
where his boorishness has been
advertised ahead, and the peo-
pie tumble over each other to
See the show. P. T. Barnum in
his best days was no better ad-
vertised than our own Benjamin
Ryan Tillman. the greatest wind
jammer ever produced in Amer
ica.
Golfers Weekly views Till
mans performances from a busl-
ness standpoint, and comes near
sizing up the South's wonder, by
asking the following pertinant
question;
rs it not possible that Tillman stirs
the fire and birthstone for his Senate
speeches with mind alert to the lee
ture bureau managers. and in casting
his vote, may not his motives be mixed
with the same considerations:
The idea that Tillman has a
mercenary thought would be
shocking to few Of the old
timers, but they may as well
make up their minds that s:our
noble leader" loves money with
such devotion that he has never
been known to part with dollar
by contributing to any charity
or in any other cause other than
h;s own Tho friends that called
him from between his plow
handles (:) however, did contri-
butte literally to a cause which
lifted this Cincinnatus from a
"hewer of good and drawer of
water" but if he mas ever done
one charity or given dollar to
anything it has been kept a
secret. Since the common
people" permitted themselves
led out of the wilderness by this
latter day Moses, he has receiv
ed in salaries alone fully SIS, 900,
and with which great sum he
could have helped considerably
in some Of the States develop
ment, but no, the only invest
ments we have. ever heard of,
and this information came from
his own lips, was the stock he
tookin..a 100000 oil corporation
in Texas, and because of his high
government position, the corpor-
alton made him one Of it's direc-
tors. Therefore we say, that
Collier is not without justlfca-
ton in regarding Tillman's
methods mercenary-he is out
for the stuff, and the stuff he is
without doubt making: this great
leader of the down trodden who
once, and not long ago, was a
poor farmer, is now an oil mag
nate, and with vice-like grip