The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-08-05
SEN. TILLMAN PLAIN
ON WALL STREET
ANSWERS GOTHAMITE'S CHARGE
WITH OLD.TIME WARMTH.
Charels Hart, ESQ, Charges Senior
Senator With Making Statements
Without Foundation About
New York Bankers.

day by the receipt of letter from
New Yorker charging him with max
ing statements without foundation in
fact about the bankers of the metro
polls. The senator answered with old
! time warmth, and then gave the cor
respondence to the press. The let
ters are as follows:
Brooklyn, n. Y, Aug. 1, 1913.
'The Hon. B. R. Tillman-Dear Sir:
If you would only get some informa-
ton, 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 max
es the average voter ashamed to see
those in the senate so little 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 responsible for crop
| failures, floods, etc. If Secretary Nc
Adoo cannot prove the charges he has
made, he should be tarred and feath-
cred and driven out of Washington.
fear he is indulging too freshly in
grape juice to do this country much
good l am Democrat and ashamed
Of Henry and others who introduce
resolutions for political effect, being
tie means of making trouble, but l
never expect my party to be in power
again for the next twenty years to
come 1t was our Republican oppo-
nents that elected Wilson, and they,
like all conservative Democrats, have
got their full.
Very respectfully, etc.,
(Signed) ''Charles Hart,
1908 Lincoln Place"
Tillman's Reply
"Charles Hart, Esq, 90S Lincoln
Place, Brooklyn, n. My Dear Sir:
l have your letter of August 1, and /
am really surprised that you should
be so insolent to a stranger. l an not
the Grass ignoramus you think me to
be. You New Workers are the most
egotistical asses l have ever seen or
heard of. You think the sun, moon
and stars revolve around New York
and you alone are entitled II any
consideration You forget that the
farmers of the United States grow the
great crops which have produced the
commerce which makes New York the
imperial city it is. You also know,
you can find out if you do no know,
that the Republican party, ever since
the war, has systematically robbed
the people to enrich the favored class
es: and that New York city itself
through Wall street manipulations
and favoritism to national banks has
grown fat and wealthy at the expense
of the South and West.
Ready to Take Advantage.
"You fippantly say: L suppose New
oYrk city is responsible for crop fall
ures. floods, etc. Of course, New
York city is not responsible for crop
failures or floods; but New York city
is on the watch to take advantage OF
everything that occurs to depress the
price of farm products when it is to
her advantage to buy them; and ma
nipulates the cotton market by SELL
ing hundreds of millions of bales o.
futures at prices below the cost OF
production in order that her scoun-
drelly brokers shall wax fat. New
York, under the Republicans, has beer
the favored seat of the money power.
Her bankers have manipulated and
managed the United States treasur?
in Washington. Millions and NIL
lions of dollars of government funds
have been deposited there without IN
terest. And when the panic OF 1901
was manufactured-creat as it were
by J. Pirpont Morgan for a purpose
and the business of the country was
paralyzed because of the lack CT
money to do business with, ]. Pier
pont Morgan got forty of fifty mil
lions of dollars by the treasury depos-
iting it with his banks, and threw IT
into New York, ostensibly as his own,
lending it to men who were threaten
ed with bankruptcy
Not a Good Democrat.
"You claim to be a Democrat. You