The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-01-24
TILLMAN WILL NOT RETIRE.
Assumption Based on Events in
Washington.-Has New Offices.

Washington, Jan. 19.-Benjamin
Ryan Tillman, 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 for many
more years, from present indications,
despite that the woods of the Pal
metto State are full of candidates
chewing on their political bits.
In many respects there has never
either house of congress than the
aforesaid Benjmain 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
senator, in the latter place for almost
a quarter of a century, he might
quit the hurly burly of politics and ,
retire to his big acres of cotton and
his asparagus fields at home, there
we're many who were speculating
W, would succeed him. They
-sckoned that this South Carolina
senator would leave a big hole to
fill and that it would take a mighty
big man to do it. But they believed
he had seen enough of public life
and would be sat fsfed with what he
had already done since taking up
the governorship of South Carolina
many years ago.
From present indications the
senior senator from South Carolina
is not going to retire any time soon.
The best indication that there will
be none of this retirement business,
with Senator Tillman during the
present 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
workmanship 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 cor
ner of the senate end of the
capitol. Now, hiwever, he has
secured, in addition to these,
two rooms, one large size which
would easily swallow three or
four of the others, this new one
being handsomely equipped with
bevel edge mirrors, chandeliers that
fairly sparkle with brilliance, and
furniture, the equal of which no
committee room in congress can
boast. In a word, the new addition
to the senator's quarters is most
magnificent in appointment.
Proud as he is, however, OF the
bevel edge mirrors, the, sparkling
chandeliers 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 acquainted 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 already in his Office, but
they will fill a much needed want
| in helping to work off the daily
mail that accumulates on hesenator's
desk.
Eyes, sir" Senator Tillman said
today with all of his old time fire,
these young ladies just insisted that
| the had to have all the new things
| if. they were to work for me, know
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set about to have more room and
now you see all these fine new things,
the girls will have put in. reckon
it will be a small sized palace when
they get done fixing up, and the 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
leaves no room to doubt that in his
own mind he has settled the question
as to whether or not he will retire
from the political arena of South