The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-06-27

Letter" and the letter of Senator Till
man to the Charleston American, It
u nothing but fair to publish The
Americans reply to Senator Tillman.
and the same is reproduced below:
Non. B. r. Tillman.
" U. 8. Senate.
Washington, D. C.
Sir:
beg to acknowledge receipt of
your letter of June IL, Immediately
upon its receipt I wired you:
June IA, 1918.
Hon. B. R. Tillman.
U. 8. Senate.
Washington, D. C..
Your letter June IL received. Will
give me great pleasure to publish
1t on our front page tomorrow morn
ing and OF course will reserve right
to answer and publish my answer at
same time. Meantime I thank you
for it's courteous. gentlemanly. con-
siderate tone. for your characteris-
tic ingenuousness, for your sudden
conversion to the avoidance Of Eric
ton and hot politics." also the quo
tatton Of Manning scripture and for
your kind words about Levqr, not
wtthstanding in your opinion these
worthless were recently Lying like
the devil" about you. It Is to laugh.
Let the heathen rage" Also, in
another aphorism which was once a
favorite of yours, 1.-The CALLED jade
wtnces, my withers are unwrung."
Editor ho ri
You will see by the tone Of this
, telegram that do not take your
scolding seriously. but that rather I
shall turn upon you your own bat
teries, taken from time to time, from
positions which you abandoned in
your general retreat into the land Of
dotage. You are familiar, for instance
with the word "ingenuousness" 1t
was one Of your ready defenses when
with very awkward fumbling you
sought to extricate yourself from
velt left you over the Oregon lots.
vSlt eft you over the Oregon lots.
Perhaps you remember it.
You will also recall your very re-
cent use Of the term Lying like the
devil" and how when you at once
Tried to climb aboard ths Blease
wagon after his first election when it
was still your policy to denounce the
newspapers which were then, as now,
SO savagely upon his back, you wired
him congratulations saying LET the
heather rage" And was it not of
Grover Cleveland that you said: Let
that CALLED jade vince; my withers
are unwrung."
Not only has The American treated
you. as everyone, fairly, but we have
dlsreEarded your own habit of real
uniairness toward us in our effort
70 publish the news, giving you al
ways full credit for whatever in
your public way you have been able
to do of value to your constituents.
We need only To refer to our files
to prove this. However, it must be
said that for u long time back your
net output has been more in the ma
ture of garrulous interviews than
substantial accomplishment. 1t is
well known that you are nothing
more than titular head of the COM
mittee on naval affairs. During the
past few years of tremendous naval
development Norfolk, whose senator
is in reality the chairman of that
committee, has been piling up i'm
proyements. work and appropriations
for that beehive of activity, while
you have put us off with recurrent
investigations" Even today the en-
ployees of the Charleston yard are
holding meetings to devise some
plan to keep enough work here to
prevent a general exodus of an ex-
pert force that may never be replac-
ed. Your craftsmanship of this
committee has become for Charles
ton sardonic joke. Was it also be-
cause of your prestige in this great
post that you recently succeeded in
keeping us from getting a shipyard
even after the contracts had actual
ly been signed to bring it here?
But you should be more than
chairman of the naval committee.
1t is now more than six years since
we read carefully your gratuitous
advice to our then President-e1ect
Wilson on how to run the govern
ment, weaving into this piece of Gus
tomary sycoph-.. your claim by
seniority for the C.-..:"manship of the
senate committee on appropriations.
You were emitted to it, and yours is
the only case on record in which ex-
,ception was made u the established
rule. The presidents attitude, and
that Of your Democratic conferees,
was that while time and precedent
entitled you to it, you were inr ON
petent, and you were shunted off to
the nominal chairmanship of a COM