The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1918-01-24
SENATOR TILLMAN
MAY NOT RETIRE
ASSUMPTIONS OF THE STATES COR
RESPONDENT BASED.ON EVENTS
IN THE CAPITAL CITY.

The Columbia States Washing
ton correspondent furnishes the fol-
lowing speculation on the candidacy
of the senior Senator for reelection
this year:
Washington, January 19:-Benja-
min Ryan Ellman, the pitchfork"
Senator from South Carolina, is not
to retire from the Senate. He has
been here for more than 20 years
and is likely to be here many more
years, from present indications, de-
spite that the woods of the Palmetto
State are full of candidates chewing
on their political bits.
In many respects there has never
been a more unique member in
either house of Congress than the
aforesaid Benjamin Ryan Tillman of
Trenton. S C. and last year when it
became noised around and about
the halls of the capitol in Washing
ton that, having already served his
State both as Governor and as Sen
ator, in the latter place for almost q
quarter of century, he might quit
the hurly-burly OK politics, retiring to
his big acres of cotton and his as
paragus fields at home. there were
many who were speculating who
would succeed him. They reckoned
that this South Carolina Senator
would have a big hole to fill and
that it would take mighty big man
to do it. But they believed he had
seen enough of public life and would
be we'll satisfied with what he had
already done since taking up the
governorship of South Carolina many
years ago.
From present indications the sem
ior Senator from South Carolina is
not going to retire any time soon.
The best indications that there will
be none of this retirement business
with Senator Tillman during the pres
ent year, at which time he must
come again before the people of South
Carolina for reelection, is that no
man with such ideas in his head
would be enlarging his political work
shop as Senator Tillman is now doing
| in Washington.
For the last two or three years,or
since he became chairman of the
Senate committee on naval affairs,
Senator Tillman has occupied two
rather small rooms at one corner of
the Senate end of the capitol. Now.
however, he has secured, in addition
to these, two rooms, one of large size.
which would easily swallow three or
four of the others, this new one be-
| ing handsomely equipped with bevel
edge mirrors, chandeliers that fairly
sparkle with brilliance, and furni-
ture, the equal of which no commit
tee room in Congress can boast. In
word, the new addition to the Sen
ator's quarters is most magnificent
in appointment.
Proud as he is, however, Of the
beveledge mirrors, the sparkling chan
deliers or the magnificent furniture
that go to make up the equipment
of this new committee room. Senator
Tillman's real new pleasure comes
when he makes his visitors acquaint-
ed with two young ladies from South
Carolina, Miss Rembert and Miss
Weikert. These young ladies, the
Senator explained today, will not
supplant the man power force al
ready in his office. but they will fill
a much needed want in helping to
work off the big daily mail that &C.
cumulates on the Senator's desk.
"Yes, SIR" Senator Tillman said
today with all of his old time fire.
these young ladies just insisted
that they had to have all these new
things if they were to work for me,
so knowing they would get them in
the end set about to have more
room and now you see all these fine
new things, the girls have put in.
reckon it will be small sized palace
when they get done fixing it up,and
then it would be none too good for
them. They are fine girls and need
fine things"
All of these evidences of renewed
activity on Senator Tillman's part
leave no room to doubt that in his
ouvn mind he has sattIed the onestion