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f Tillman's "Funny" Sj which he afterwards, ogized for?Cam Stinging Reply tothe i -- ? uarolinaSenator. The following is an e from the Associated Pres count, of the spectacular 8 of Senator Tilman in the i this week and the replies tt referred to in Wednesday^ of The News: When the mony" testimonials were Senator Tillman took thi and delivered a speech iu to the recent criticism of h by Senator Spooner. Thise began with a satirical pict the Senate as a "minstrel s which Mr. Tillman late was his fir9t and last atter be "funny," an attempt, at its conclusion brought a lug denunciation from Si Carmack in resentment of sions to him. This was pre by a serious reply from S? Spooner on the attitude tak Mr.Tillman on the race pre all finally resulting in a s of nearly two hours behinc ed doors. The secret session wa9 f'< by a brief open one, in whi< Tillman made a profuse ap to Mr. Carmack, to all Se whom ho had brought int< "first essay in the line of hi and finally to the whole Sei "1 very much regret that undertook to be funny and never do so any more." M man then withdrew all he in his "funny essay" and it would not appear in the cord. This apology was at one cepted by Mr. Carmack, w gretted he had questione< motives ot his friend, and h< .......I ??.J,. Senator Culberson \va signated as performing a "on the bones." Senutor 1 was called 4>the brilliani courtly Senator from Vir whose specialty is oratory who works his rhetoric ovei "Next" said Mr. Tillr we have the dying swan, sn Tom of Colorado, the Stat cently bought at auction b; Guggenheim,and the swan'i is a dirge for the dyiug Den cy of the North, stabbed vitals by Ben's pitchfork, act is very pathetic indeed always brings tears int eyes of the audience. "Next" we have the red able Tennesseean, who wat a knight, a very Hotspur i lists, whose spear has ruu| and clear upon the u? at the White House and wl made the sparks tly in ma onset; but his spearhead is en off; he has been unh< % jecch, but before retiring fro A.pol- ^8t8 8e*ze9 a P?rlaQd ol lack's er8' aD(* P'ac*n8 'l on lens weapon (now, alas, no south er 0[ aQy ug0j he lay8 it feet of the victorious Roo xtract 8,8 a Peace offering and joi _> rainistrels to sing a last sc ipeech victor of Brownsville, Senate w^^st'es Democrats to coi lereto W^ite House and lich . ice*L ha^dwhich so often smote > i89U" t "liar- specialty is a song, Re all in na,e our *^ol, or K*ve bad B floor Ple,f0I,mreply "Next as the negro pr< imself an(* te'eP'10ne artist in the ipeech W,l? 0U 01,6 occa8i?n 8ets in ure ot mun'caHon with the ihow" U9? on w,re and acts as r said ceiver aud a repeater, ver npt to chameleon in his accurac which reProducing White House sting- W0 have Senator hailing 5natcr MaS8achusetts, the home allu 8acre(1 cod, where the A seeded Tote tor Doug'ad and Lodge ?nator with the Almighty, en by 1 *le middleman we blem, l,le Pompadour artist from ession gia' whose specialty is to 1 clos- an8Wer any question and depends upon his voice to allow- convictiou to his audience. 3h Mr. comes the star ol >ology trouPe? Humshoe Bill froi nators Missouri. He can danc< j his hi?hlan<i fling on top of iroor" fence and never touf nate. G"OUQd, but his greatest I I ever wa'^in8 ?n eggs without 1 I will ing the 8hells_ ni'ii uLast W0 have tlio artiat withdrew words he had u iu protest. Senator Tillman, in that tion of his speech containic offensive remarks which he withdrew, with an apolc Senate, said the press hac nominated him the "burnl artist of the Senate," an added if he were entitled t appellation or to that of "] fork Beri,*'at one end of th? strel line, certainly ''Fire 1 Joe" (Senator Foraker) not to be ignored at the ? "We both do the Orlandt P. 1 h J- ?- ? v mb vauv ' said the BadSer State, an acrobi said iu8Klerof international" r< 3 Re- lio11, Be *8 8UPple, and and haying once been a la e ac- is noted throughout the Ian ho re- hi8 abiIity t0 maintain th d the ga,)ve or affirmative in any , too raeut? Wltb Sreat force and tiered He sinK8 1)3801 alto? eoPri enor, and is suburb in , por- role-" ig the ^r* Tillman declared th later Senator Spooner's recent sj >gy to 11)8 manner wa8 insulting ? j (je_ possible for a Senator to ass t cork and *bati ftttack on hi d he waa unPara'eled, intention; o this in cold bl00dPitch 11 wa8 actinS worthy of " J miu- Heap." Mr. Tillman asked Vlarm w'ien d,d Senator Spoonc ought come t,ie censor of Senator jther Explaining the conditio l> and 'l'9 ^ta'e Coring the4<carpe government in justifyinj riot and "ballot stuffing," s de- _... ^ lillman 9aid: >aui 1 '*^e bave not shot any n< in Soutli Carolina on accou ( Oil.) " """ politics since '76? we hi ginia, found it necessary." r and jje 8ajd jie would not cal rtiino. negro a, baboon. ,4I believe nan>" are men." he Baid : "Yet niling ftre so akin (0 monkeys ,e re- ggientists are looking fc y one missing link yet." i song j^jr< Tillman declared tli nocra gouth had nothing to fear in its an investigation of the llin ~ race question in the South I and Tillman wanted the 0 r'ie to have equality under the a right to acquire propert loubt protection in its possessioi 1 once t|)6 right to the pursuit of n the piness?"provided his hap < true does no' interfere with mil urper Tlie South, he said, was 10 has injj Up anywhere from loi ny an one hundred maidens ?n< brok- trons to this "modern 1 ^rsed, annually. Race hatred, he THE LANCASTER NEWS, JANUj m the f flOW MM yy the aevelt ?? a UO tut? )ng to f ?.t Great the V -- ab^ol them. - ' \ T D?m* j! >acher tiable f the T?hde The Great Maj a ten - *+ ?h the Teat is :>reak? from :s: Aiso a iwyer, id for ie neK Hardware, Tinv *n?n?r Furniture. An iat in and we will mal >eech, > Don't foreret tl ume," imself ter than anythii al and Uriah lsince >r bear' ns in mr j : Lancaster Mr. ?groes nit of waa growing. The North today won't *lac* 14 pillion dollars of capital invested in the South,and self-inII the ^ere8t' made it the duty of the they North to move, to do something they to r0beve the situation. At his that conclU8i?n Senator Tillman was ,e the *PPl?uded. Mr. Spooner said that he had at the no doubt Mr. lillman would refrom Sret ?ome of hia expressions of today when hia ancer had ?nL m nwio " w sided. He declared himself withnegro out ma^,ce or without any deliblaw eratie PurP?8e to offend Mr. Til 1y and mai1 wlien he spoko the otlier day, i and a8 ^ie ^()Ut'1 ^>ftrolina Senator hap- 'ia<^ ehrtr^r^d pine-s "The Senator from South Car? olitia saw Ut to include me in ne. oiler Per8?naf remarks without any provocation whatever so far as I ty t0 can judge. L have no feeling of 1 ma- resentment toward the Sonator aeast" from South Carolina, for without said, making any personal application ?B,Y 26,1907. E SEI Majestic R ^ ^MAJESTIC ^ festic Rande^?^ no equal! Complete Lii rare, Woodenware ything you need < k.e the price right. he MAJESTIC Ra tig you can buy. Respectfi Mercantile I 11 wish to say that with respect to lo some men it is a misfortune this rather than a fault that they do beli not know how to speak the lan- upo guage of courtesy and good feel- ber ing. * * * tha 4<The Senator from South Carolina saw fit to allude to the fact ^ei W 6 that I had been defeated for re- , election. It was a retort so ob froi viou?, so easily within the reach my of the most grovelling controver ha\ sial faculty that I am not 9iir- UP< prised that it should have been suggested to the intelligence of ^ee the Senator from South Oaro ^U( hna. thu "The Senator from South Carwit olina did not need to lift his belly from the dust to attain to the height of that great retort. I believe it to be true, Mr. Presi ciei dent, and I say it with pride, that the tact that my seivice Hise - repo terminate is a matter of regret uecc I I ^anttes ne of , Crockery and come to see us inge. It is betiiiy? Comnanv. Jt " nearly every Senator upon i side of the chamber, and I ieve to uiost of the Senators in the other side of the cham. I doubt very much whether t could be truthfully said h respect to either side it the tator from South Carolina re in my position. Mr President, the Senator m South Carolina says that spear is broken, and that I re taken a garland of flowers in that broken spear to the tite House. Broken or unken, that spear has never J : 1 i . t - " ii uijjpwu hi ine nun 01 the ter. I am glad to say that t shattered spear will be hdrawn from here unstained ,h dishonor or umtained by ' act ol mine with anything t approaches that name." fir tip the complexion, cleanse the liver tone the at stem. Yon can host do this a dose or two of I)e Witt's Little Early rs. fttfe, reliable little pills with a tation The pills that everyone knows, immended by Crawford Bros.