Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-22
FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1907.
SENATOR TItLMAN IN RICHMOND
Newspaper Has Some Fun Over Lee
turer From South Carolina.

Newspaper Has Some Fun Over Lee
turer From South Carolina.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch re-
ports Senator Tillman as having said
in his Richmond lecture:
II am spoken Of in the papers as
a descendant of the crackers Of South
Carolina. l have taken the trouble to
ask my mother who and what she and
my father were. She said my ances-
tors on both sides came from Virginia
and Maryland, and got there before
the Revolutionary war, and fought on
the right side. She said the women
were virtuous and the men not cow
ards, and tell you have got as good
a pedigree as any man who was ever
born on the face Of this earth, l don't
care where he comes from"
Senator Tillman needs no letters Of
introduction even in "the Old Domin-
ion" where nearly everybody is pre-
sumed to have ancestors. We think
that the American people owe him a
fishing his freedom from what he
seems to regard the taint Of descent
from South Carolina crackers" THE
crackers" will probably take notice
and govern themselves accordingly.
Meantime, with the Grand Old
Gardener and his wife," it is to
smile"
Senator Tillman thus opened his lee
ture Ito a large audience.)
The management of the Young
Mems Christian association owes you
an apology. 1 owe you only an expla-
nation. / have travelled all over the
country and lectured in some 200
towns, and this is the first time no one
came to show me where / was to
speak. l went driving with Govern
or Swanson and returned and sat in
my room an hour and a half waiting
for some one to show me the Y. M. G.
A. building"
With this explanation the senator
drew his pitchfolk and went after" all
forms of combinations, trusts and
monopolies," upon which subject he
spoke for more than two hours to the
great delight of his hearers.
Nevertheless, II the circuit was COM
pleted with the box Office receipts, all
will be forgiven.
The Times-Dispatch's report closes
as follows:
THE senator drew q vivid picture of
the break between himself and the
president, growing out Of the with
drawal of an invitation to him to dine
at the White House, and proceeding.
said:
81 don't go to the White House. be-
cause he insulted me grossly and out
rageously.'"
"The Withdrawal grew out of per-
sonal encounter between Senator Till
man and former Senator McLaurin, on
the floor Of the senate.
HE (meaning McLaurin) had call
ed me a liar!' he shouted, and l bang
ed him one on the nose. ! come from
a state where the lie is the first blow,
and If you don't do something you had
Just as we'll get out of society. / don't
care to go to the White House, I'd
rather take a meal at home with my
wife and children on hog jowl and
turnip green's and cornbread, than to
dine at the White House every day!
Senator Tillman closed his address
at 11.30 o'clock, and had been often
urged to go on.
Referring to the delay in starting,
Manager Mckee said after the speech
that there was a misunderstanding,
and the senator could not be found
when sent for"
If the lecture was half as funny as
the Times-Dispatch's report Of 1t, the
large audience got double their mon
ey's worth. Hurrah for "turnip green's!
Three cheers for hog jowli" Hoch der
corn bread" Who would dwell In
the tents of iniquity" anyhow? Bravo!
senator, bravo "On with the dance,
let Joy be unconfined" and bang 'em"
againi-News and Courier.