The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-09-06
SENATOR TILLMAN SCORES DIAL.
He makes a Caustic Reply to the No
tice of Protest.

trenton, Sept. o.-SeHdIOl 1lAl1iie1iA
issued a statement dealing at length
with the protest against his election
filed by n. B. Dial No notice of pro-
test by Col. Talbert has been received
by the senator. The statement deals
at length with the fact that protest is
based on purest technicality and al
leges that Mr.. Dial is ungrateful for
many considerations shown him. The
senator's part in protecting Haskell
Dial, son of his opponent, from the
courts and having him reinstated in
the army are told, and other circum-
stances related which tend to show Mr..
Dials obligations to Senator Tlllman.
Senator Tillman on yesterday receiv
ed by registered mail notice from Mr..
N. B. Dial, of Laurens, that he had
entered protest with the State Demo
cratic executive committee against
Senator Tillman being declared the
nominee of the party.
When asked if he had anything to
say, Senator Tillman replied:
81 am surprised Mr.. Dial shows so
little appreciation and has so little
comprehension of the ethics which
obtain among gentlemen. I have not
spent a dollar On this election and
have not paid out any money at all,
except the $3.50 assessed by the State
Democratic executive committee.
81 do not know the exact grounds
upon whcin Mr.. Dial and Mr.. Talbert
are contesting my being declared the
nominee, but presume it is some film
sy technicality too trifing to be no.
ticed by sensible men.
'I am now willing to let
the people of South Carolina
know what manner of man
Mr.. Dial is. I have not made the
facts known heretofore, because 1 do
not fight that way and was content
to let the people of South Carolina
Judge us on our merits.
''Mr. Dial's son, Haskell, was given
the appointment by me to the United
States naval academy some six or
seven years ago, after competitive
examination in Columbia This was
quite a surprise to MI. Dial because
having been a Haskellite and anti
Tillmanite he did not think was lib
eral enough to give his boy cadet
ship. I never made inquiry as to the
boys politics or those of his father,
as that is not my way of doing things.
He won it and I gave it to him and
he entered upon his duties to be edu-
Gated by the government for career
as a naval officer. At Annapolis he
got into trouble for some reasons un-
necessary to mention, but 1 had to
exert my influence with the navy de-
partment to keep him from being sum-
marily dropped from the rolls, which
I did very cheerfully A little later
on, for another offense, he was drop
ped.
young Dial's training at the Naval
academy was such as made it easy for
him to stand the competitive exam
ination for assistant paymaster in the
navy, which 1 obtained permission for
him to do and helped him get the ap-
pointment to that position. A year
or two after he had been in the SER
vice as assistant paymaster he again
got into trouble on account of short
age in his accounts and laid himself
liable to court-martial, dishonorable
discharge and Imprisonment for en-
bezzlement. 1 interceded again and
exerted all my influence I could COM
mand to. prevent his dishonorable dis
charge and allow him to resign.
Again and again l plead with the
secretary of the navy to look over the
shortcomings of the young man and
not to disgrace the family by giving
him dishonorable discharge. I sue
ceeded in getting him permission to
resign after his father had paid up all
the money he had misappropriated,
amounting to several thousand dollars.
''My friends who knew these things
have felt aggrieved that Mr.. Dial
should have offered to oppose me at
all for the senate. The people have
passed on that to my entire satisfac-
ton and l hope to his. aBut I do not