Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-11-14

We wish we had time to 60 back
through the files Of some South Caro-
lima papers so that we might quote
from some Of the articles written by
some Of the people who fought iSena-
tor THlman about twenty years ago
They said some very ugly things about
him. Something the like OF which he
Is now saying about Gov. Blease, that
1T would be an awful thing to have q
man like Gov. Tillman in, the senate OF
the United States. taking the seat OF
Hayne and Calhoun: and all that sort
Of thing. And 1t seems to US that Mr.
Tilfman. was saying some mighty ug-
ly things about one Grover Cleveland
who was the DEMOCRATIC president
along about that time. !, He abused
those Washington representatives
from South Carolina and the presi-
dent according to his own vernaculaI
and you, know what that is Now, II
seems that he has got In the same boat
that they were riding in. It makes q
mighty great difference-the view
point. Gov. Blease is doing the right
thing to sit steady in the boat and
seems to be taking Mr.. Tillman's ad-
vice to Let the heather rage."-New.
berry Herald and News. .',r-> 81
h It has sbeen said that history pro-
crosses In cycles, and to the truth OF
the saying many Of us who still con.
slider ourselves comparatively youthful
can bear eye witness testimony. 1t Il
less than twenty years since the daily
papers Of South Carolina were saying
just as hard things about Senator Till.
man as that gentleman. is now saying
about Governor Blease, and some OF
the things that Senator Tillman Ia
saying, sound so familiar as to sugges
that he must have been digging into
the files Of the old papers. There are
many people who remember how TILL
man used to denouhce Cleveland as 6
traitor to his party, and boast how he
was going to stick his pitchfork into
that old bag Of beef in the White
House but that is not all. Wher
Tillman, McLaurin, Irby, Strait ant
the others ousted the old crowd by
means Of the South Carolina primaries
they went to Washington to find them.
selves blacklisted as Populists The
late John ]. Hemphill continued tc
control the Democratic patronage oi
his district long after he had giver
place to Dr. Strait. AS matter OF
fact DR.. Strait was never admitted
into the full fellowship of Democratic
privilege during the whole of his stay
in congress, and Senator Tillman him.
self was as close to Republicans and
Populists as ne was to Democrats dur
ing the first several years Of his stay
in the senate. He had a long hard time
Of it to get full recognition. But II
would be very we'll for him to remem-
Der now that the treatment he and
others received in Washington only
made the home people more determin-
ed, and they remained firm all the
while that Tillman stood on the brink
announcing that he was waiting fol
light in the west" Had he left the
party in those days, a majority Of the
white people of South Carolina would
have gone with him. The leadership
that he had then Is now in the hands
Of others who are fully as capable as
he was, and If he thinks that South
Carolina is to be held in line by the
hope Of patronage which the majority
element Of the whites has never yet
gotten fair show at, he Is making the
same mistake that was made by the
people formerly, who tried to hold out
against him. We are mentioning these
things not from standpoint Of parti-
san interest; but solely from the
standpoint of the truth of political his
tory. :.