Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-24
CONDITION OF j. II. TILLMAN.
Story That He Is Dying In Poverty Is
Not True.

Spartanburg, January Ex-senator
Tillman can go to hell" -,
When James H. Tillman who is Ill
at Asheville, N. c., saw the statement
made by Senator Tillman he called his
sister. Mrs. George A. Bunch of this
CITY up over the phone and made the
foregoing remark to her. After reading
this statement, "he is reaping what he
has sown, and whether he realizes 1t or
not, Nemesis Is dogging his footsteps
and will dog them to the grave" James
Tillman told his sister that Senator
Tillman has not as yet reaped what
he has sown and when he has he Will
be worse off than James H. Tillman.
He thinks that he is fooling his jesus,
but he is not"
Mrs. Bunch, in speaking Of the af-
fair tonight said, "it is a poor kind OF
gratitude that Senator Tillman is
showing. He seems to have forgotten
that James Tillman, Is his own nephew
and that the father of James and my
self was like a father to him. He was
an older brother, twenty-five years
older than Uncle Bennie. He seems to
have forgotten that James father loan
ed him money when he first entered
the race for the governorship or South
Carolina and helped him both In a
political and financial manner and also
helped to educate him.
IF this branch of the Tillman fam
ily were as anxious to get their names
before the public and place themselves
in the lime light as much as Senator
Tillman, some startling revelations
could be made and some facts would
be made public that have never been
dreamed of before" continued Mrs.
Bunch in telling of the condition of her
brother and expressing her opinion
about the remark made by Senator
Tillman as carried in Saturdays pa
pers.
James Tillman does not need any
money nor has he asked anything from
the senator. 1t was on account OF the
senator that he first got into trouble
and he was assisting Benjamin Till
man when he made mistake. III II
had not been for the senator, James
would never have shot Gonzales. He
did it when he followed Ben's advice
against the own advice Of his father
and now this is the kind Of gratitude
that is being shown for 1t. Yes, 1t is
hard to believe that Ben Tillman made
such a statement as that"
"I have Just returned from Ashe-
ville," Mrs. Bunch went on to say,
where I've spent some days with
nv brother. His health is much i'm
proved and we are very hopeful about
him. have never noted such marked
Improvement in all of my life. Why
when he was carried there in Septem-
ber, he was almost at the point OF
death and had to be carried to and
from the train on a stretcher. He
could not raise his head and now, why
he is able to be up in a rolling chair
and sit on the porch of his attractive
little cottage in the mountains of North
Carolina, and he can also write some
as will be noted in his reply to the
statements that he was dying poverty
stricken and friendless in Asheville.
Why, James has every thing he wants
A nice little cottage, a good physician,
a trained nurse, all of the fruit and
delicacies and any other kind of food
that his physician will allow him to
eat"
"The first statement about this mat
ter bore an Edgefield, S. c., date line,
but James nor 1 either believe that II
was written in Edgefield."
Mrs Bunch was leaving AsheVille
and had already boarded the train
when the afternoon paper brought
this news to James H. Tillman who
Immediately sent to the station and
asked his sister to return. She stayed
several days longer with him and saw
dispatch after dispatch regarding his
condition.
In fact that family has money
Mrs. Bunch owns a valuable planta-
ton at Clarks Hill, S. c., and is per-
fectly devoted to her brother and could
not see him suffer for anything. She
will go back to his bedside at any time
he wants her and will return to Ashe-
vile next week where she will spend
a day or two with James-Greenville
News.