The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-01-22

we'll to know by this time, will
multiply a millionfold in an infn-
iitesimal period of time. This let
ter of course, was written "pri-
vately," ''and. Of course" said
Honorable Senator Tillman. "you
will not use in the newspapers or
otherwise - And when he was
sending forth this charge from
Washington into South Carolina,
he knew thatin the May conven-
ton every Southern Railway at
torney who was member of it
was a bitter opponent of mine, as
I directed attention to it IN my
opening speech at Sumter: and
all the Southern Railroad attor-
neys throughout the State, with
the exception of three or four,
fought me in my campaign, as
the records will clearly show
and I have been.informed that all
the higher officials were against
me, and I have also been inform.
ed that officials of said railroad
contributed money to be used IN
the campaign against me. This l
do not charge, but I stated from
the stump that I had been so in
formed, and it has never been de-
MED and l,illman knew it. AS to
those friends it was hauling, pos
sibly you will later be asked to
Investigate.
On the day of the State cam
paign meeting in Greenvllle,
August %, 1912, Notwithstanding
Senator Ti]lman had written the
secret letters from which I have
quoted above, and many others,
to parties in different parts of the
State. I received a telegram
from him under date of August
2Ist, saying:
"About letter to Sullivan.
Wrote letter something like you
sent, but without seeing sigma
ture cannot identify it. His letter
to me was threatening, HENCE
MY TART ANSWER. HAVE
WRITTEN NO LETTERS Sc,
! CRETLY. Have written many
personal and confidential" And
another telegram under letters
only. in reply to your friends. -
Did be regard Sims, for instance,
as my ''friend?"
Between the time of the letters
from which I have quoted and
; the kilograms quoted above, Sen
ator Tillman had given out IN
Washington an interview 10 the
}. Washington correspondent of the
| Columbia State. published in the
Columbia State of August Goth,
announcing that he was hands
Off" That interview appeared
under the name Of P. Il. Nc
Gowan, and under the date Of
August 10th, ard 1t stated, among
other things: "Senator B. r.
Tillman announced today that he
was hands of" in the South
Carolina gubernatorlal election.
He further announced that the
statement that he gave the press,
which was printed last week,
would be his last utterance on
this subject. He is still receiving
letters, he said, from friends in
South Carolina, some begging
him to come out for Blease and
some asking his support for
Jones, but he declares that he
has had his last say on the sub
ject and that he is now s'hands
Off" This in the face of the let
tiers from which I have quoted.
and in startling contradiction OF
Tillman's subsequent action.
But in the darkness of the
night conspirators work, and
; through all this time, as is pro.
vided by later events, one OF the
foulest conspiracies ever hatch
ed in the politics of any State
was brewing. The conspirators
had not met yet, because they
we're personal and political enc
mics of twenty-one years stand,
ling. The jealousy of me in the
heart of one, however, and the
deep malice against me in the
heart of the other. at last brought
them together, over the wires,
and for the time being. and for
their then purposes, Lieutenant
Governor James H. Tillman and
Editor N. G. Gonzales were for
gotten. and the echo of the mag
azine gun was temporarily silenc-
ed. The conspiracy was hatched,
and it lived long enough to direct
the infamous eleventh-hour stab.
But, thank God, the people OF
ISouth Carolina, remembering
their many bitter experiences as
the result of such infamous poll
tics in the past, refused to bow
to dictation from Tillman or any
other man. They rallied round
about me, closer than ever be.
fore, in the face of the attack of
these strange companions Con
zales and Tlllman-in the vile
politics they we're playing. The
people of my State proved true
rillman's former statement, that
they needed no dictator; they re
pudiated Tillman's attempted die
tation, and they gave him a stern
reOuke.
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