The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-09-26
',TILLMAN HANDS OFF
IN GOVERNORS RACE
SENATOR SAYS TIE WON'T HELP a
DAMN SOUL"
Tells augusta Chronicle Reporter He
Will Run for Senator Even II
Dead.

at his home IN Trenton, Senator Till
MAJ, on Thursday said he was hands
of in the contest for governor. The
Chronicle publishes the following:
81 will be a candidate for reelection
to the United States senate. ii | am
alive and nc: in artjculo nlortis. Yes,
By God, l believe il I an dead III lei
en- vote for me little anyhow.
IN this emphatic language Senator
BENJAMIN Ryan Tillman sets forever
at rest the cherished hopes of some,
and the doubts Of others, as to whether
he will be in the EnlIed States sena-
torial race next year.
Active on the Farm.
cat his farm near Trenton yester-
day, Senator Tillman talked the mat
ter over with a staff representative of
the Chronicle, and in language more
or less Tillmanesque, as the various
phases demanded, stated that he be-
lieved he would be elected again with
out trouble.
cit has been said often that could
sit On my back porch and be reelected,
said he. I don't know why they al
ways mention my back porch for the
front porch is much more cheerful and
T use it the more, but suppose they
mean to imply that 7 need not even
show myself in the campaign and that
my friends in South Carolina will see
that I go back, if I want to-
Senator Tillman was busy OF his
farm, but he took time % sly this
much.
"To those who are familiac with the
oft repeated statements as to his IA l.
ing health it may come as surprise
to know that he sleeps we'll, eats hear
tily, gives the whole farm his personal
supervision by walking and riding
over it every day, in fact many times
a day, dictates his private and oflcia4
letters to his secretary, and that his
mind is as clear as a bell, and his old
time fire of speech and manner blazes
out at opportune times. The only
real reminder of his past affictiOn is
the cane he carries-and he sometimes
forgets that and gets along seemingly
as well as with it.
Death the Only Bar.
~'Barring death, he will be in the race
and ne will make speeches too, and he
says he doesn't care who or how many
enter the field. Any one has a right
70 offer who wishes to.
Entirely Hands Oil.
Senator, it has been more than
limited by some that you are encourag-
ing, and will back Governor Blease
for reelection as governor, next sum-
mer. The Chronicle wants to know
directly from you, if you will give it,
how much truth ther is in these hints
and rumors?' was the direct question
asked Senator Tillnlan by the. repre-
sentative of the Chronicle.
4':I am not going to help a damn
soul in that race. I am going to be
strictly hands off and neutral, and
Furthermore 7 have not give any one
any authority to say that I was for
or against either Of the candidates who
have announced. 3 am not going
to mix in it or have anything to do
with it.
The senator's attention was called
20 the story in yesterday mornings
= Chronicle, written by Col. Leon Green,
=. a former newspaper man in South
Carolina, in which it was stated that
:. Senator Tillman woa1d be factor in
the race, and he said that he did not
see much in the story, but that !: was
: probably written to draw me out He
sajd that he die not know who in
spired the story, but so far as the ref
erences to his being a factor was con-
cerned he could only repeat what he
had Just said: That he was mot going
to be mixed up in it,
"senator Tillmapp, from his talk is!
evidently of the opinion that neither
Governor Blease nor Mr. Justice Jones
will win in walk over the other"