The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-01-25
IILLMAN'S ORDER
\ A PRECEDENT
RIFLES DISCHARG.
Il ED WITHOUT HONOR IN '94.
Senator 8 Criticism Of President Con-
Il flicts With His Own Action
n, While Governor.
THE State, 23rd.


Senator Tillman's recent criticism
MDf President Roosevelt for dismiss
ing without honor from the army the
battalion Of negro troops Of the
IasIwenty-fifth infantry has caused
Some Of the members Of the upper
Nbranch of congress, who approve of
1.-THE president action, to produce
some records which. are not at all
Spleasing to the senior senator from
HSouth Carolina in his present predica-
sEment. 1t appears from the record
that Senator Tillman is criticising the
for doing exactly the same
@thing he did 13 years ago, while he
Ewas governor of South Carolina.
SDuring Mr.. Tillman'$ second admin
istration as governor Of this state,
1.-THE first day Of April, 1894, he issued
ssaaa proclamation declaring martial law
aa95n the counties of Dh arlington and
@lorence and called out the state mil
aAitia to "suppres the rebellion.' The
ssf ssft Darlington war" was the result Of
Hitter fractional feeling created by
sA8he Performers" Of which Gov.
Rillman was the head, and as a conse-
snepce many Of the militia companies
S1efused to obey the orders. Even the
4 Governor Guard" laid. down their
arms and refused Ito. obey the COM
s5hand. However, several companies
sgere dispatched to Darlington and
4I,o %
Richbourg, and two or three compa-
|igaies were assembled in Columbia for
1ythe protection Of the governor and the
Estate property and to guard the tele-
Eaagraph Offices and exercise a censor
ship over the kilograms filed, the gov
S#sernor having by special manifesto ta-
sSSken charge Of all telegraph lines with
SEin the state and ordered that no in
messages be dispatched.
# There was great excitement
throughout the state and an attempt
upon the life Of Gov. Tillman was
I expected almost any day. At one time
a rumor spread throughout the city
!, that the governor had been killed by
{ n bomb, but it turned out that as the
governors private carriage was cross
4 ing the railroad tracks below the
/; state house the wheels struck torpe-
\ do which had been placed there by
some railroad employe. The excite
\ ment throughout the state was at
fever heat and the people wrc prepar-
ed to give credenc to any rumors cir-
! culatd.
Telegraph Censorship Obnoxious.
Among the companies of the state
. militia stationed in Columbia for the
purpose Of guarding the state house
and telegraph offices was the New
berry Rifles, one of the oldest and
best organizations Of the state, Capt.
Silas j. Mclaughlin commanding. On
April 2, the day after this company
was assigned to duty, the following
letter was addressed to the governor
by Capt. Mclaughlin:
Columbia, S. G., April 2, 1894.
To His Excellency B. R: Tillman.
Governor of South Carolina.
t'. 'SoI oil I0ft tlo uOHoI W liz
form you that we, the Newberry
Rifles, have performed the dtuies as
signed us, that Of guarding the state
house and telegraph offices. The lat
ter duty is exceedingly distasteful to
The entire command, and as the com
pany responded to your order to ap-
kpear here under the belief that they
: were needed for the purpose of pro-
Getting life and property and not for
ne purpose of exercising a scrutiny
yer the private affairs Of the citiz-
IS of South Carolina, n duty not
y distasteful, but, in the Judgment
the company, unnecessary and
- ;ulated to irritate the people all
more under the present state Of
irs, the members of tho company
caring to he subjected to such
- IN the future, beg leave here
ITO, tender their designations and
~ that their arms, etc, arc at
command.
igned) s. J !. 5McC Caughrin,
Captain Newberry Rifles.
Dissmissed Without Honor.
hmed ately upon receipt of this
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