The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1913-10-16
CHEERFUL LETTER
FROM Sen TILLMAN.
SENIOR SENATOR TELLS DR. F c
HICKSON THAT HIS HEALTH
IS NOW IMPROVING.

The enclosed letter, just received
from Senator Tillman, | feel sure,
will give pleasure to his many friends
in Cherokee county, and although it
looks immodest in me to publish
what he says of myself and seems a
violation of confidence, | am making
bold to publish it as it is. Of course,
his enemies and my enemies will not
appreciate it, but our friends will.
&c HICKSoN.
REV F C Hickson,
"Gaffney, S C.
MY dear old Friend:
Il have just received yours of Oc-
tober 2, and it does me good be-
cause | know it comes from an hon.
est heart and one whose being is
permeated with sincerity and good
ness. You speak about your sorrow
at hearing me talk about getting
old and being sick You know it
is true, so why be sad about it? We
have all got to die sometime and l
realize very fully that my time to
20 to the Great Beyond is not far
off. The idea is not worrying me
at all, although | have not got that
peace of mind which you seem to
possess in regard to the hereafter.
/ simply have a hope-a very strong
hope-but not much faith.
Il am taking the best of care of
myself as far as know how to do
it, and you will be rejoiced, | know.
to learn that / myself believe that |
am gradually improving. But the
progress is very, very gradual. do
not allow anything to worry me, but
throw it off and 20 on doing my
duty as understand it.
Il am mailing you a copy OF DR.
Bledsoe's The Mission of Woman
and also a copy of my speech on
Woman Suffrage You seem TO
like it so well that you may want to
have it in that form, and it is pos
sible that your name may not have
been on the list of those to whom it
was sent. only had ten thousand
copies of it printed.
Il will reproduce in the Record
tomorrow, and in pamphlet form
the day after, an article wrote for
the New York World in 1896. giving
my view on Wall Street and the
deviltry these scoundrels perpetrat-
ed on the farmers the South and
West. know you will enjoy it.
am sending you also a little
poem which l came across last sum-
mer in an old newspaper. 1t has
afforded me a great deal of comfort,
as it gives a most cheerful view of
death and the grave. | know you
will enjoy reading it.
Il note your tone of unhappiness
about the moral condition of our
people, and you lament at what l
said about SouthC Carolina. lsnot true?
They are becoming more demoraliz-
ed every day in a political way, it
seems to me, and Governor Blease
appears to be aggravating condi-
tions in every way possible. The
blind tigers gamblers and whore
mongers appear to be running the
State, in a way ,and now they are try
ing to buy votes in the primary. But
we cannot afford to despair OF the
old State, and all of US who are old
enough to remember the better
ideals of the past ought to hold fast
to those ideals and try to teach the
younger generation to rise to them,
rather than drag down the State
from the customs of their fore
fathers.
81 will be glad if you will write
me fully and frankly just what you
think of the political condition in
Cherokee county, and the probable
outcome of the race for the Senate.
with assurances Of my highest
esteem and respect, | am.