The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-08-30
GRACE ATTACKS TILLMAN
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L say this with great many things I'm
mind now that the issue Is made. nm.
less you come out like a man and say
that If Whaley committed perjury il
shall be made the means of unseatine
him. Nobody puts any store in your
idea against washing our linen in
public" at least nobody but those few
who wish Whaley to keep his seat.
Even most Of those who voted for
Whaley now want the facts to come
out The idea of South Carolina not
wishing to wash her linen in public
south Carolina, whose politics Is a
Missing and byword!" (Do you re-
call using these words last summer?)
There Is hardly serious or comic
paper that doesn't gibe at South Caro-
lima every day and hold her up to the
soon of the universe because of her
civlc depravity. Why shouldn't they,
when the senior senator from CAL
nouns State temporizes over the un-
seating of a man who brazenly bought
her people like cattle and then per-
Jured his way into congress? Our
state with a glorious history behind
her has fallen upon evil times. She
now has the proud distinction of lead
ing the sisterhood of States in lynch
Ing and illiteracy. and her governor,
VINO says ito hell With the constitu-
tion,' boasts that he is needed in
washington, because sh. has nobody
there to represent" her; and he looks
to constituency made up of such
corrnptionists as Ben Storthart and
his very dear friend. and your very
dear friend, Captain Martin, to send
him there. Unless you at once take
a genuine part in bringing Whaley
to justice, 1 will be compelled to be-
heve that your talk about Biease and
corruption is but "tinkling cymbals
and sounding Brass" and so will the
people of South Carolina; and thus
believing, they will elect Blease and
he will be your colleague in the SEN
ate. And IL you live long enough,
some other Blease will defeat you, be-
cause YOU have been weighed in the
balance and found wanting"
IT Is not case of washing our
linen In public anyhow. The public is
already scandallzed at South Carolina,
and knows exactly what kind of linen
she wears. Was there ever a mass of
corruption equaling the last days of
che dispensary? It's rottenness, as
advertised to the world, was unexam-
pied; but was anybody punished? Not
only did the world read OF those in
famies and thieveries. but it read also
that out of the whole mess the only
one man who was convicted was par
doned! Also the horrors of last sum.
mer. when our sad situation was
photographed to the universe; and all
the guilty parties were not only not
punished but elected, She has shown
therefore. that she is too rotten to
right her own wrongs. Even the
criminals of past times have been
turned loose" from the penitcntiary
on the open theory that they are no
worse than most Of the judges who
sentenced and the juries who con-
victed them. Her courts have failed:
her elections have failed; and our
chief executive. with serene con-
tempt for law and order, has not only
pardoned the most hardened criminals
but when another jurisdiction has sent
here to take one of them away to be
dealt with according to law, he per-
mits the criminal to escape" from
the capital while the federal author
tiles are waiting in the ante room. /
say the only thing left to do is to go
to Washington and wash, if you will
have 1t, our very dirty linen, and let
the world know that there is one laun-
dry left where the stain Of perjury
can be washed even out az the linen of
South Carolina. And it is going to be
d0he! But this Is the last time that 1
am going to ask you to help me do it.
In view of what you said from the be-
ginning, l think you have cost me a
great deal Of unnecessary money and
much loss OF time, and thereby per-
haps prejudiccd the case; for which
| think you should be truly sorry. In
stead OF telling me, as you did, that
| YOU would help me, | think you might
have told me that there were reasons
why you could not help me. / under
stand thcm-yOu don't want to in
volve Martin.
But suppose can prove the
case against Whalcy without ncCcs.
sarily involving Martin. Whalcy uset
far more than cnopGh money In any
one Of the other counties in this dis