Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-11-19
LET TILLMAN KEEP OUT.
Says Senator Set Bad Example and
Should Not Interfere.

To the Editor OF The State: A
few days ago there appeared an ar
ttC!e from Senator b. r. Tillman
bearing on the political status OF
measures and men in South Carolina.
| Be he right or wrong is not so much
matter OF importance now as are
the causes which underlie and have
| brought about the political sins as
the Senator sees them. If the pres
ent Governor is unfit for United
States Senator, who was his political
educator? If McLaurin is unfit for
Governor, who was his tutor? Sena-
tor Tillman cOnfesses that he taught
McLaurin how to become a forceful
stump speaker. Was that single at
tainmCnt all that McLaurin learned
in the years and years OF association
with the senior Senator? Who was
it that Shullled and packed the cards
against the venerable Gen. Wade
Hampton? Was it McLaurin alone?
Or was he in company with Senator
Tillman? The Governor is child
born into the political arena in 1890
and has been in faithful obedience to
his political preceptor ever since.
And whatever error these two men
and many others have committed. is
now visible to Senator Tillman as the
growth of the evil seed which he HIM
self has sowed.
Through these men Senator Till
man can see his wrongs as plainly
as he can see his own image before
the mirror. While these men may be
wrong, it comes with bad grace for
Senator Tillman to abuse them be-
fore the public eye when he set the
examples. And the more that Sena-
tor Tillman NEEDLES with our State
politics the worse the situation be-
comes.
In the campaign Of 1S90-92 the
"loud-mouthed howl was "a cam
paign Of political education and To-
cal self-government." And if the
Campaign thunder" has caused the
dark cloud to shadow our once fair
State, who is more to blame than
Senator Tillman? And, on the other
hand, If the campaigns of education
and local self-government have
wrought so little good that the peo-
pie of the State are not now able to
choose their officials by the ballot.
then said campaigns were woful
failure. 1t is now too tedious to go
back and enumerate the sacrifices of
Geo. d. Tillman, the Darlington riot,
the dispensary and penitentiary bust
ness, the Oregon land matter and the
voting in the United States Senate to
sustain Senator Lorimer, a Republi-
can Senator elected through graft
and fraud. All these transactions
are past and gone, but the crimson
stain remains as footprints leading
in the wrong direction. Whose tracks
are they? Senator Tillman has pass-
ed up and out Of the politics Of our
State, and the ablest people in the
State believe that we are capable to
take charge Of the affairs of STATE.
and handle our elections to our best
interest The senior Senator would
be we'll advised to look we'll to his
States interest through the position
given him and let our State politics
dlScreetly alone as he promised to
90. This thing Of continued med
ding causes the political water to
run up hill.
| hold no private grievance against
the Senator. | rather admire some
OF his homely traits. The position is,
that the State of South Carolina does
not need his public advice, for we
are not threshng old straw.
G.. d. Minis.
Clark's Hill, S. c., Nov. 10, 1913.