The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-09-27
TAKE NO PART
Senator Tillnan Says He Is Rauds OF
inlhe Race for Gsverpar.
run FOR SENATE AGAIN

Barring Death, the Senator Says, He
Will Be In the Race, He VIII Make
Speeches Too, and Does Not Care
Who or How Many Enter the
Field.
In an interview with J. l.. Nc
Whorter Of the Augusta Chronicle,
printed in that newspaper on Friday,
Senator B. R. Tillman definitely an
bounced in most emphatic way that
he would run for the Senate again.
The Senator ountlined his position
u regard to the guebrnatc-1al cam
oaign In that race the Senator said
he would be hands og, and let Blease
and Jones fight it out.
He said<tke would be candidate
or reelection to the United States
Ienate if he was alive and not in ar
iculo r:ortis. He went on 10 say: I
e'ieve If I an dead I'll let 'em vote
or re a little anyhow"
In most emphatic language Sena-
r BENJAMIN Ry-n Tillman sets for
er at rest the cherished hopes OF
'noe ard TIE dc bis of others, as to
he:aer he viii be in the United
.!a:e~ senatorial race next year.
AS his farm rear Trenton Thurs
'ay Senator Tillman talked the mat
er over, with a staff representative
IT The Chronicle, and in language
more or less Tilmanesque, as the
various phases demanded, stated that
re believed he would be elected again
without trouble.
Tt has been said often, that I
could sit on my back porch and be.
'e-elcted," said he. ''I don't know
Why they almays mention my back.
,creh, for the front porch is much
7ore cheerful and I use it the more,
,ut suppose they mean to imply
hat need not even show myself in
he campaign and that my friends in
.outh Carolina will see that I go
pack, if 1 want to- Senator Till
nan was Eusy on his farm, but he
ook time 20 say this much.
To those who are familiar with
he oft-repeated statements as to his
'alling health it may come as a sur
rise to know that ne sleeps well,
ats heartily, gives the whole farm
| lis personal supervisor by walking
| md riding over it every day-iI
act, many times day-dictates his
| ,rivate and official letters to his sec
etary, and that his mind is as clear
IS a bell, and his old-time fire Of
:peech and manner blazes out of op-
fortune times.
The only real reminder of this
,ast affMction is the cane he carries
and he sometimes forgets that and
-ets along seemingly as well as with
t.. Barring death, he will be in the
ace, and he will mae speeches too,
md he says he doesn't care who or
how many enter the field. Any one
las a right to oyer who wishes to.
Senator, it has been more than
tinted by some, that you are encour-
| aging, and will back, Gov. Blease for
-e-elction as governor next summer.
The Chronicle wants to know directly
:rom you if you will give it, how
much truth there is IN these hints
md rumors?' was the direct ques-
ion asked Senator Tillman by the
representative Of The Chronicle.
II am not going to help q soul in
hat race I am going to be strictly
1ands-off and neutral, and, further
more, have not given any one any
| authority to say that ! was for or
,gainst either of the candidates who
have announced. l am not going to
nix in it or have anything to do with
it,
The Senator's attention was called
the story in Thursday mornings
chronicle, written by Col. Leon
4reen, former newspaper man in
Iouth Carolina, in which it was stat
| ID that Senator Tillman would be a
actor in the race, and he said that he
lid not see much in the story, but
hat it was "proba bly, written odraw
ne out
He said that he did not know who
Inspired the story, but so far as the
.eferences to his being factor was
orncerned he could only repeat what
e had Just said: That he was "not
-oing to be mixed up in it. SENATOR
-illman, from his talk, is evidently
Vi the opinion that neither Gov.
3lease nor Justice Jones will win in
walk over the other.