Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-01
Senator Tillman shows a surprising

Senator Tillman shows a surprising
when his own record is 80 vulnerable
For instance, has he forgotten that in
1891 he constantly threatened to lead
his followers out Of the Democratic
party unless they adopted the meas
ures he advocated, and helped carry the
party to the verge Of destruction on the
impracticable free silver chimera? In
those days The senior senator, his soul
afire with love Of liberty. initiated in
reverse the order Of the famous Greek
philosopher Diogenes, who, with a
light in the broad daytime, sought for
an honest man. Only Tillman crouched
in the darkness of night, knife in hand,
ready to drive 1t to the hilt into the
vitals Of his now beloved Democratic
party and waited for a light in the
west
Dictates Morals.
"The senator now condemns the vot-
ers who refuse to give up their man.
hood by allowing he and his satellites
to not only dictate a code Of morals to
them which they themselves do not OBJ
serve, but by specious sophistry try
and convince them that their silly
proposition Of an implied pledge is
more binding upon Democrats who
wish to vote the Progressive ticket
than upon national Republicans.
"The Democratic party Of South
Carolina arranged the primary oath as
It is at present for the express benefit
Of the national Republicans who desir-
ed to participate in state affairs while
ut the same time voting on principle in
the general election as to national af-
fairs. Now we claim the same right
that has for years been conceded to
Republicans and it raises a storm of
slander and vituperation from the
practiced pen of Tillman. Yet, grant
ing for arguments sake, that his prem
ises are correct, is he the one to launch
this bolt?
Record in Senate.
Did he not, in defiance Of the party
platform and caucus, vote for a pro-
tective tariff on tea and lumber? Did
he not force the dispensary upon an
unwilling people, who had registered
popular majority for statewide prohibi-
ton? And he seems to fear so much
the 'colonel's unscrupulous ambitious
designs I will jog his memory along
that line and ask about his own. Did
he not, while governor, endorse the
then new dispensary law in 80 crude
and drastic a manner as to bring this
state to the verge Of civil war? Has he
forgotten the dark stain Of the OAR
lington war that was placed upon the
fair escutcheon Of South Carolina,
when the proud Palmetto state hung its
noble head in shame, while at the au-
tocratic mandate of Senator Tillman
and his satellites, John Gary Evans ct
al, the dropping leaves dropped inno-
cent blood?
"And yet he speaks Of honor and
honesty, with the bleaching bones of
his political friends affording the rungs
Of the ladder by which he climbed to
place and power. Bah! the PROPOSE
tion coming from the source 1t does Is
nauseating. I am unable to make a
properly just reply, restrained by the
thought that perhaps, after all, his
lurid fulminations emenate from
mind perhaps impaired by physical
ills.
Il and our faction accept the SEN
ators challenge and assure him and
his conferes that 1t is to be expected
that there will be a death grapple In
the next state convention between the
two opposing political factions that
have existed ever since this same Till.
mans pyrotechnical fulminations
brought it into existence, and that in
the course Of human events fight will
develop there which 1 expect to lead
against the senior senator and his
friends that will go down in political
history as some fight and make the
recent lurid campaign pale into insig-
nificance by comparison. I agree with
the senator that eternal vigilance Is
the price of liberty and confidently
declare that had that course Of action
been strictly adhered to by our people
twenty years ago that B. r. Tillman
would have remained in obscure retire.
ment, where his talents for mar-plot-
ting and lack Of constructive genius
naturally places him.
1T is easy to locate the cause of the
honorable senior senator's venom to-
wards the leader at Armageddon'
when one recalls the Prince Henry of
Prussia incident, along with the Ore
gon land DEAL coupled with the fact
that when placed hors de combat by
the then president, Theodore Roose-
Welt, he was forced to seek line of
retreat that was ignominious on the
floor Of the senate and forced to admit
that he was perhaps little disingen-
ious' in respect to the Oregon land
fraud investigation.
LEST we forget it. it Is also recalled
that the eminent senior senator from
South Carolina, in defiance Of decency
and regard for clean politics, voted to
seat that arch corrupter Of public
morals, Lorimer of Illinois, who was
afterwards unseated because Of the
proven scandal attached to his elec-
ton to the United States senate. We
Progressives can tolerate reasonable
and proper opposition, but we object to
men who have habitually used the "liv-
cry of heaven to serve the devir In
taking US to task on a question of po-
litlcal honor, with which their whole
life furnishes proof that they are un-
acquainted"
Travels of Two Casks Of Wine.-If
wine could talk there are two casks Of
n u,bicb passad through Houston re-