The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1913-08-08
''PITCHFORK Ben"
RAPS new YORKER

ton About New York Bank
ers Tillman Produces the
Goods in His Singing Reply.
WASHINGTON, August 3.-Sena
tor Tillman was very much aroused
yesterday by the receipt of lette.
from a New Yorker charging him
with making statements without
foundation in facts about the bank
ers of the metropolis. The Senator
answered with old-time warmth, and
then gave the correspondence to the
press. The letters are as follows:
Brooklyn, N. Y, August 1, 1913.
| THE Hon. B. R. Tillman-Dear
Sir: If you would only get some in
formation. as to the condition of the
money markets of the world, which
almost any Office boy in any banking
house in Washington can give you,
you would never make the remarks
you are credited as having made
against the banks of New York CITY.
1t only hurts the Democratic party
and makes the average voter asham-
ed to see those in the Senate so lit
tie informed. New York city can
stand almost all the stuff uttered in
the Senate by those that do not seem
to know what they are talking about.
| suppose New York city is response
BILE for crop failures, floods, etc. If
Secretary McAdoo cannot prove the
charges he has made, he should be
tarred and feathered and driven out
of Washington. I fear he is indulp-
ing too freely in grape juice to do
this country much good. 1 am a
Democrat and ashamed of Henry and
others who introduce resolutions for
political effect, being the means of
making trouble, but never expect
my party to be in power again for
the next twenty years to come. It
was our Republican opponents that
elected Wilson, and they, like all con-
servative Democrats, have got their
full.
"Very respectfully, etc,
(Signed) Charles Hart,
1908 Lincoln Place."
Tillman's Reply.
august 2, 1913.
"Charles Hart, Esq, 9O8 Lincoln
Place, Brooklyn, N. Y-My Dear Sir:
l have your letter of August 1, and
am really surprised that you should
be so insolent to stranger. I am not
the cross ignoramus you think me to
be. You New Workers are the most
egotistical asses I have ever seen or
heard of. You thing the sun, moon
and stars revolve around New York
you alone are entitled to any consid-
Grafton. You forget the farmers
of the United States grow the great
crops which have produced the COM
merce which makes New York the
imperial city it is. You also know, or
you can find out if you do not know,
that the Republican party, ever since
the war, has Systematically robbed
the people. to enrich the favored
classes, and that New York city it.
self through Wall street manipula
tions and favoritism to national
banks has grown fat and wealthy at
the expense of the South and West.
Ready to Take Advantage.
"You flippantly say: 4 suppose
New York city is responsible for
crop failures, hoods, etc. Of course,
New York city is not responsible for
crop failures or floods; but New York
city is on the watch to take advan-
tage of everything that occurs to de-
press the price of farm products
when 1T is to her advantage to buy
them; and manipulates the cottoA
market by selling hundreds of mil
lions of bales of futures a prices be-
low the cost of production in ord,.
that her scoundrelly brokers sha,
wax fat. New York, under the Re
publicans, has been the favored seat
of the money power. Her bankers
have manipulated and managed the
United States treasury in Washing
ton. Millions and millions of dollars
OF Government funds have been de.
posted there without interest. And
when the panic of 1907 was manufac-
tured-created as it were-by j.
Pierpont Morgan for a purpose and
the business of the country was par
alyzed because of the lack of money
to do business with, j. Pierpon.
Morgan got forty or fifty millions O!
dollars by the treasury depositing il
with his banks and tbrau - ;n+o