The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-03-26

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mor-plate people for an ever-increas-
ing navy. My strength is limited as
you know; my will is equal to any
task. I realize every day more and
more that for the purposes OF this
world live jackass is better than a
dead Senator.
"Please think this over and give
me your advice in the same spirit I
have written you.
every sincerely, yours,
"B. R. Tillman."
Estate of New Jersey, Executive De-
partment,
"Jan 80, 1913.
"Brief absence from my Office and
constant absorption with the busi-
ness connected with the opening of
our legislative session here have pre-
vented my replying sooner to your
most interesting and important let
ter of the 21st. want you to know
with what deep and genuine appre-
citation I have read it. thank you
for it very warmly, indeed.
"Confdentially, the appropriations
committee is the committee on which
you would have the hardest work,
but your letter convinced me that it
is also the committee in which your
interest chiefly lies and where you
can certainly be of the greatest and
most constant service.
"Eyer since I was a youngster
have been deeply interested in our
methods of financial legislation. ET-
er since then l have insisted upon
the absolute necessity Of carefully
considered and wisely planned bud
get, and one Of the objects l shall
have most in mind when I get to
washington will be conferences with
nv legislative colleagues there with
a view to bringing some budget sys.
tenn into existence. This business OF
building up the expenses of the ma
ton, piece by piece, will certainly
lead up to error and perhaps embar,
rassment.
Il was very much pleased by your
reelection and shall look forward
with the greatest interest to being
associated with you in council.
again thanking you for youl
splendid letter.
Cordially yours"
"Woodrow Wilson.
"The Hon. Benjamin R. Tillman
Washington, D. c."
Contrast my services and work fol
the party with Senator Martins. Las1
summer at Baltimore I led the Soutt
Carolina delegation. South Caro-
linas is votes were cast first, las
and all the time for Woodrow VIII
son, while Virginia, led by Martin
never did give Wilson any votes un
til he no longer needed them.
In June, while the Convention wa:
still balloting and the question as tt
who would receive the nomination
hung in the balance, Mr.. Martin gave
out an interview and here is what
he had to say. about the political sit
| uation, and his feelings and his ad
vice to the Virginians as to Wha'
candidate they ought to support. Il
speaks for itself, too, and I have ne
| comments 70 make:
"Virginians support Oscar W. Under
wood-They will vote for him a!
long as he has chance for nomina
tion-Martin is strong for him
Men from Old Dominion will be
classed among the Conservatives.
"The great majority of the Vir
ginia delegation" said Senator Thos
| S. Martin this afternoon, will, I an
sure, vote for Underwood. I believe
that after the first ballot the uni
rule will be voted by the necessar!
| two-thirds majority. 1t ought to be
| There is every reason why Under
wood should be the nominee; none
why he should not be. He Is mar
of pronounced ability, of clean life
of unblemished record. He has beer
highly successful as the party leader
in the House. Doubt as to his avail
ability because he is Southern mar
| is heard only from our own people
I have yet to hear of such objection
from the North.
81 hope all the Virginia delegates
will vote for Judge Parker for tenn
porary chairman. He has been al
ways loyal party worker, and II
| would be an outrage to defeat him
merely on the ipse dixit Of Mr.. Bryan
who chooses to call him reaction,
ary.
"Of course, I do not mean thai
Virginia should keep on voting fol
Underwood if it turns out there Is nc
chance for him. She would then &C
to some one else, perhaps Clark, per-
haps Harmonic any one rather
than to Woodrow Wilson, who has
done nothing to deserve party hoaors
unless to help wreck it n his own
State"
Is there any progressiveness about
this?
Another phase of this subject and
1 am through. I have been on the
rack, as it were, ever since the eau
Gus met on Monday, last, and have
persistently refused to consider get
ting off the committee on appropria'
tions or of giving up its chairman
shin Il saonad that this demand