The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-03-28

French.
On Booker T. and Teddy.
Senator Tillnan said today that he
had recently heard attributed to Book
! er T. Washington the statement that
Ti1lman and Vardeman were passing
and that the negro was gaining a
stronger footho1d in the South. The
senator, in a letter, replied that he
had heard that Booker was making
'*goo-goo eyes" at a German lady and
got into trouble Also, that as long
as the water flowed the Caucasians
would rule over the Southland.
The mention of the name "Roosc-
velt" caused Senator Tillman to smile
and recall some of their battles. In
connection with the Washington Incl
dent, Senator Tillman said that Roose-
velt might run too, if placed in such
a position.
Senator Tillman carried here today
for the first time q gold headed cane,
presented to him by the Democratic
league in Delaware, in 1907. 1t is a
beautiful cane and the senator is
proud Of it. Maybe il I had carried
it before, some Of you fellows might
say: Look there, how he is coming
out"
One cannot fail to notice that, al
though Senator Tillman looks we'll,
his old fire is gone. His step is halt
ing and the same is true of his talk.
On Tariff Situation.
Senator Tillman, speaking on the
tariff, dictated the following state
ment to newspaper men:
''I think the last election hinged on,
and that the Democrats were commits
stoned by the people to revise the tar
if, because the Republicans had fail
ed to reduce it as they promised.
FFIf the house of representatives
doesn't carry out this policy it will
be great disappointment to the peo-
pie. They will miss the first oppor-
tunity the party has had since the war
to restore themselves in the conf
dence of the country:
'The idea Of a tariff for revenue on
ly is preposterous in the light of the
magnitude of our expenditures. We
have a billion-dollar congress every
session and, while there is much ex-
travagance and any number of use
less Offices, the country will not take
kindly to any radical or ultra chang
eS.
Keep in the Middle.
s'The party ought to follow the old
Latin maxim, In dedio tutissimus ibis.
(you will walk safest in the middle of
the road.) Which means that we must
have a tariff sufficiently large to get
the money for the expenditures re-
quired by the government, and yet not
interfere with the business intersrs
of the country.
'F'ree trade is a dream that will
never be realized, and any one ac-
quainted with Washington at all
knows how hard it is to abolish any
Office at all. 1t is, therefore, diff
cult role the Democrats have to play,
and it will require wisdom and good
judgment to keep clear of the rocks.
'1f the house of Representatives
which is Democratic for the first time
in a long while, passes a tariff law,
and the senate rejects that tariff law,
this bill will become the issue on
which the next presidential election
will turn.
Hits Mult-MillionarieS.
"Any deficit ought to be made up
by levying a graduated income tax,
and thus make the multi -miiI1onaires,
who have been multiplied and manu-
factured by the iniquitious Republi-
can tariff legislation, bear their just
share of the burdens of the govern
ment
II am tired and sick unto death or
having Andy Carnegie boast of having
made forty-three millionaires and
having John D. Rockefeller scatter
millions around as though they were
dimes, when I know that but for the