Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-04
MIXED ON THE TARIFF.
Looks Like Democratic Party Is Be-
coming HopelessIy Divided.

coming Hopelessly Divided.
Writing to his paper under date of
Sunday, H. E. Bryant, the Washington
yer, describes the tariff situation in the
house as follows:
. The Democratic party, as represent
ed in congress, senate and house, Is
hopelessly divided into hostile camps.
Those who deny that such state OF
affairs exists see the truth but will
not admit it, not even to themselves.
In the house, Champ Clark, Henry
Clayton and Ollie James and others
represent one faction, and John L.
Fitzgerald, James Griggs, William
Howard, William Brantley and others,
the other. In the senate, Senator Sim
mons of North Carolina, Is leading the
Progressive Democrats" and Tiliman
the Radicals" Every day widens the
breach. Before the tariff bill passes the
gulf between the two schools will be
so great that the hope Of ever getting
them together will be very remote.
The caustic tongue Of the South Car
olina fire eater used to have influence,
but since the exposure Of his indiscre-
ton in connection with the Oregon
land agent his colleagues hear him but
heed not his advice and scorn his
claims of perfection. Save me nine
of the best quarter sections" has be-
come a famous phrase at the Capitol.
When Mr.. Tillman hints Of dark-laid
plots, as he often does, some one will
whisper to his neighbor: Save me nine
of the best quarter sections" and the
word passes from one to another until
it goes round. Therefore, the speech
of the great senate censor availeth not.
The following colloquy between Sem
ators Tillman and McCumber, in the
senate, will serve to illustrate the Sit
uation. Interrupting the senator from
North Dakota the senator from South
Carolina declared: II was just saying
that the senator from Minnesota (Mr.
Nelson) gave us very fine Democra-
tic speech, yesterday, on the LUMBER
schedule and the Sc lator from North
Carolina (Mr. Simmons), 1 thought,
gave us a very good Republican speech
on the same schedule, and we have lis
tened to the senator from Florida (Mr.
Fletcher) make a very thorough Re
publication speech from every stand
point"
Continuing, he shouted: "As I have
said we are getting very badly mixed,
and l am afraid, before we get through,
there will not be trough enough for all
the hogs to get their snouts into"
This is a very serious charge and 1t
is believed here that Senator Simmons,
who is a man Of courage, and daring,
will call Mr.. Tillman to answer. Fri
day, when the remarks were made, the
North Carolinian was not in the senate,
and did not know of them until that
night For fifteen years Mr.. Simmons
has led the Democratic forces of his
state to victory after victory and he
is like bull terrier in fight. Two of
his speeches, one favoring small duty
on cotton seed oil and the other on
lumber, have rled the Tillman school
Of partisans.
Tillman did not stop here but went
on: Il have noted the desire of the
senator from Rhode Island (Mr. AL
drich) to.inveigle, bambooZle, or whee-
die. or persuade, or whatever other in
strumentality he may use, enough
southern Democrats, so-called or ac-
tual, to clamor for protection on some
little item in the bill, which will give
them some little part of this swill.'
Here the worm turned. Mr. McCum-
Der, who, although a Republican, had
tired of these insinuations, said: Again
and again the senator from South Car
olina has from his seat challenged the
integrity Of every senator who dis
agreed with him upon any subject.
do wish that for once in his life he
would get it out of his mind that the
Lord Almighty has tied up all the sin
cerity and honesty in the world in his
hide. There are others who can be sim
cere and disagree with the senator from
South Carolina"
In the language of the vaudeville
man that was the blow that killed
father"
Those who figure ahead on such
things say that the following named
southern senators will stand with Sim
mons when the vote on the lumber
amendment is taken: Smith Of Mary
land; Martin and Daniel Of Virginia:
Bacon and Clay Of Georgia.; Johnston
and Bankhead of Alabama: Foster and
McEnery of Louisiana: Clark of Ne
hraska: Taliaferro and Fletcher of
Florida; Money Of Mississippi: Bailey
of Texas.