The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-09-20
LARRY CAN'T ASSAILS
OUR SENIOR SENATOR
DECLARES TILLMAN Is UNTRUE E
TO HIS PEOPLE.
One of Former Leudest Tiilman Cfam-
pions Severely Arraigns His
Former Leader.
News and Courier

Would anybody have believed twenty
years ago that the time would ever
come when T. Larry Can't would turn
on Ben Tfllman and bitterly assail
him as a traitor? Capt. Tillnan in
those days had no louder champion.
Through the Columbia Register and
in other newspapers Larry, to quote
his own words, tried to do with his
pen. what Ben did with his tongue
1t was Larry, so it has always been
understood, who first suggested to
Tfllman, then governor, the estab-
lishment of the State dispensary sys-
tenn, Larry having gotten the idea
from the county dispensary which
was then in operation in Athens, Ga.
Larry is now running weekly
newspaper, the News-Reporter, in
Whitevil1e, N. c., just across the line
from Horny county, and in his last
issue he devotes nearly four columns
to a review of Mr. Tillman's career in
the endeavor to prove that by his let
ter urging the election of Jones prov
ed himself a traitor to the common
people," who put him into Office. Lar
~ being now as enthusiastically for
Governor Blease as ever he was for
Capt Tillman. His disaffection for
the latter is not, it appears, of recent
origin. He says:
How Tillman Was Nominated.
eve have seen for years that the
environments of Washington city and
new associations had wrought COM
plete change in Tillman's policy, if
not his views, and when he voted for
Lorimer, we knew that the day had
come when the masses of South Car
olina, if not the Democrats of that
State, must search out another leader
who was in closer touch with them
and their interests. But we did not
criticise Tillman, for, we disliked to
help pull down popular idol, but
quietly waited for that idol, of its own
free will, to tumble from the pedestal
upon which admiring constituents had
placed it,
Larry has good many interesting
things to say in the article which fol-
lows this remarkable statement. Per-
haps the most interesting is his dec
larat7en that the Reform movement"
never profted in the slightest degree
the ~one-gallus wool hat boys" who
formed its backbone But his article
speaks for ITSELF He declares his pur-
pose to write defense of '|the COM
mon people of the Palmetto State
from which 'it will be seen that the
charge Tillman makes of ingratitude
is laid at the wrong door," and with
this professed purpose in view he pro-
-ceeds as follows:
when John L. NJ Irby, in the ia
nous March convention that gave
birth to the Reform movement,
brought about the nomination of Till
man 1--WE believe by one vote) after he
(Tillman) had given up the fight and
was found sitting on the banks Of the
river ready to go back home to his
farm. Ben Tillman was a small dairy
farmer in Edgefeld county, and report
said he was in the same fix as thou
sands Of other farmers at that time,
losing money, if not practical bank
rupt.
"No one can deny that Tillman made
magnificent fight for the release of
his people from practical political
servitude, and taught them their
rights and their power. He triumph
ed, and in their love and gratitude the
farmers continued to heap honors and
rewards upon his head. Ever since
1890 he has been holding lucrative
Offices and drawing large salaries. 1t
is believed that today Tillman is 4
rich man. Any way, he and his fam
lily have for more than twenty years
been living On the fat of the land. as
it were, and enjoying all the pleasures
and luxuries of life.
The Charge of Ingratitude.
CAS- it was the votes of the men
whom Ben Tillman denounced as in
CRATES, and so severely criticised, that
gave him those high offices, and it was
the men to whom Tillman rightfully
says he owes his scant majority oyer
Talbert and Dial, who saved him from
a crushing and ignominious defeat, af-
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