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I C, trilan VOL XLIII. NO. (2NEWBERRt"nY.' S. 0. TURSDAY. JULY 31. 19013.TWCAWEK$10AYR Tillman Talk People at Ie Defended the Nothing High About th Senator B. R. Tillman addressei three thousand people at Young Grove on Saturday. There were man; ladies in the audience,, the ,voter: numbering about twenty-three hun - lred. There was nothing highly sensa tional in Senatoi Tillman's speeet It was vigorous, as Senator Tilhman' speeches always are, and it was intei esting. Mr. Tillman when he speak always has something interesting t say, and he always holds his audienet The crowd caie to hear Tillain because it, was Tilnian. A stiat campaign Ineeting o1 a counity Can paigii meeting in Newberry count: would not have dritwii three thousaiii people. It was a Tillman meeting. Many of the political opponents o Senat.or Tillman and of the state dis p'elsary and of the dispensary syste were present, but one would be saf in saying that after Senator Tiill nian's speech 'two-thiris of those pres ent were with him. He is a inagneti, talker. He has that personal ivagne tism which attracts an audience, an even his bitterest political opponent can not but admire the manner it w*%hich he handles those to whom Ii is talking. Senator T_'man defended the stati dispeiisary.- He went for the investi gating committee with gloves off, tell ing of the thiings which they ha4 done which they ought not to hiv%, done and of the things which the: oughlt to have done which they ha left undone. IIe criticised the con mit tee for not making Mr. Parke tell lie name tif Lanahan's agent it tis state, alter tl .had used so nme. lear-say testimoniy. le ahs refrriled to the testimony of4 Mr. C (0 Davis bo,fore the c.1u1ommittee. 11m1 It Mr. Evan's denial c he.11rutih o that t'stiAoy. The pialno incideli came iI, for its shin-e of Iis speech Mir. Tillman ,aying that it wa strange. that lie should be accused o aeeepting simch a pitiful bribe as three. hiudrel dollar piano, as sooi as Ie was leeted governor', af't c fmi-tv-furm'l yars of livin'- which hum not., heen cinestionled. lie dipped int().hothl Stel( anid c( it elveted allvernor,and oi who wa noIt11 a traid ito t ake a posit ion all( stand bY it. As to ounity polities. I wamtd tte people to make tihe ean dhiaes Ifor the( le-_iSlaI(ure. State thwi po1,i1imits 4n tiht whiskv(y' ( questioll 1peaii iOwre than a2 hour and halfI. Wheni his :nhdress -wa's c'oneull4 nalid iili21 ter diummer thle (coni-fressloilli al 0and1i datIes, Solicito Juli.111us lF Roggs anid C'ongressmanu WVyatt Aik ('I, spok(e. Au exclleint harbeene digmner'w served. Thel cro'(wd was immense ani liere was a i'ushi foi' the tables, hu tihose wholi had( thle p)atienice to wa'i were' satisfied. County Chairman F. II. D)ominici enlled thI le meeting to order'i and1( pr'ay er' was offered by R1ev. 1. S. Caldwel 1Ali'. D omimnick thlen priesented Drm. ( TI. WYyche, wh'lo initriodneed'( Seinato Till man. Senator TiImman's Speech.. Senator Tillman beg~an ais follows ''Mr. Chiaiirman, Ladies and Fel low~ Citizens: It .is customary in thi NoirthI, where I liave donme'a'good dei ofI speaiir for' the dliemocatie com1 mit tees to have all meetings inside e a house. They never have thir meet inugs on thir hands in the summec time, beeduse they have inothing lik liur system of government. The peI othige airc priieti.cally all whlimI they are dlivided -into I wo paricw e P pati(es make thir fight ~ga i oither' for' the mnaster y.in th aber election so that the politi ed to 3,000 Young's Grovt State DispensarY ly Sensational e Address. :1 dal speaking usually begins about ti s first of' October or some time abou v the latter part of September, anh lasts up to the election. We have i - peculiar condition in South Caroliia resulting from our environment. Wi - have but one political party. That i: . known as the democratie party, bn s in reality it is the white man.'s party .. And having but one party, and 1no di s vision along national political line a among white men, we have hit upol te priiary system for noiination i instead of conlvent ionls, ilder wliel e those who wish oflices in the state an - in the counties must go among thi I neople and show their fitness tor th 1 ofies to',which they aspire. Sixtee years ago we had a hot family fighi r 'wtween what was known as the re . torm iovemenlt, or the Tiliaii move lient., all( the old Cholumbil rilng * That fight, which all th.e older peophi - here remember, was very bitter, am . it br6ught out the strongest sort o1 , feeling. The reformers were victori - Is, and they elected their candidati for governor. Two years later thel a re-elected him. A few years afte1 i that they sent him to the senate. Si3 a years later, after his first term in th< senate, lie was returned to that .body 3 and now, twelve ydars after, lie is i - "andildate for re-election and has i - *pposition; and I am the man. Lo "Now this year, as every year sine we adopted the primary law, the stat i committee met and fixed a schiedule o 1 ieetings, county by county, for tih - people to appear at their respectiv r ourt houses, and for tlie eandidate: i to be there and let the people se Shem and hear theiml. Our politic have cooled down very much, s nuch that two years'ago tilere vasiln I iv tire arounid the kitchen at all, ani h but for the'issue that is belore til it people today I expect tihre would h< t. raetically little interest inl tlie stat, c amipaign." ilSenator Tillimanl sdke f, tle fri lint the ciipai.ign leeill"tings 111 uniiti the last week halld been very sliil attt.en1ded. Whenl fihey started in ti lImw vouitry llost of tle firmers w.er* in the grass, lie spid, and, as tar a - he knew-- eertlly in his country Ilie faramers were inl the g1ass yet, Ihe e (ise it had eoliiienied iainin u Trenlton earlyv inl .1un1k. "vinator Till 1 n1i spoke of the Coilitimn of til - crops whvIicl he hall obseruveld ing1-ii t his t iovels.(:t 'railhted the 114 ple d, Newbrl-Py coutilh m ti1),t1 (he ex - vellelit oo le ition olf k th ,I crops ili ti:l ' i thier illiers, aind of thie shuurt tiii: *a alloite ((El(4 aOch for nimking. speeches - and z'id liat it lie wanit'd to say aniy - th:in this yeari worithi .hlile lie w.'u* - hav'' to gewt up a little (carens of ht' -4 own, for1 whtile hle was not a long t a lk - er', as talikers go, lie always Itried I< have somel(thinug (o say wh'en hei S)po':s and wheii he got throng-l he quit . J :1 -couldnie't mnake a speech which w~ouk Isat isfy hiimself or. .those who igh. iliste i!n I w~enty' minttes, and he Ih fore *annouiheed that lie w~ould( not at i tend( th.state campaign meetinigs, hui -dress the peole. lie exp)ressedI regre~ -* flant there was nuobody against him I< r ieet him wa rmed up- nobody( t< ''thirow rocks at him,'' as he ekpr'ess ed it. lie tendlered his iregards to thli 'newspapers, speaking of the' 01pposi -tioii of the State andj the New~s am o Cloui.er. '' But t.hose of you wIll .I want me to go to the senate arme goi n - to have your way,' ' he said, ''ant I those of you who don 't. can 't help it.' - HIe p)aid his respects to thiose ivhoe sai< r' he ought not. to mneddle in state pohi e ties, expressing regret that they hiar nobody else to votlefor this year -fol a seinatIor. In his last race, ho. said] -wheni bie had 1n0 oppo)sit ion, eighteei tthousnd( scitc hed- him, but his bacd n ieedled that to stop) the .itching. . those gentlemen didn't like what hi was going to say, they could scrateh again. Ill beginning his discussion of the h whiskey question Senator Tillman wondered why we couldn't get ridof the whiskey question once for all. "Is it the fickleness of the people, that they don't know their own iminds?'' he asked. Senator Tillinan referred to the fact that the prohibitionists had Re cuissed hii of cheating them out of a victory in 1892. lin that. election, he said, 35,000 voted against whiskey and 25,000 against prohibition. The prohibtionists had 10,000 more than tle other crowd, but there were 30,000 who didn't vote on the whiskey ques tion at all. Of a total vote of 90,000, 35,000 had voted for prolibition,- but 55,000 voted against it, or did not. vote at all, and therefore prolibitioll never did have a majority in the state. Senator Tillmani ridivuled the idea of having souglit at political machine t( re-elect him "'O'overnor at this tile. He had1( goiie filo tlin matter of prolhibi tioll l i1 Ma11ie and elsewh1ere, and he levided that prolibition,. so fa.r as lie cold- ude,b th'e reeord, wvas a hum1 bu; that men would drink, and if prohibited from driikii". it law fully they would drink iA un1lawfully. Some oie in the audietice interiupt ed Senator Tillman to say that it was I a huibu in Newberry county. Sen ator 'Tillman replied that if it was - ever a humbug anywhere it was a hium111blig in Newberry county and lie was there to point out why it was a humbug. Sellator Tillan said that he de eided pwohibition was a humbug, and haviing examined into the dispensary system then being tried at. Atheis, I leorgia, lie decided that was a better ,ysteil of m1alnaginig the liquor prob lemt thain prohibition. He was Op posed to bar roolis. and le contrived r ti lie dispeiisarv as a substitute for )prohibition. le snid to Nettles anid Childs that if they voild necept this voiwollise he would close every Ilh r00111 inl South lCarolina, and so hel) him God, le would keep it shut up. 1and he did. too. ".mSomlehiody had to i he killed,' ie said. " A few fools, vou know, will always o against the law. We had to haovi, a little blood Shed.'' The wenator wenlt 4)n 14to sY that lie did not think nearly So1 num1v lives were lost as wouild lalvt been lost il i the naina coulrse of events unlJor f tle ol bar rooml) systee. le spoke o f ilt-hibition inl Maitic, wiler.q a 1manC tIlId ae whiskev Irom 411ug stores whi le hI :l h a prSevri)1til. 41r a verlificate swolrnl if, l) v tOhe ain wlit .- urchased it. thai Ile wantl it For . medivinial imurises. The reeords,1 show Sed lte law 11141iot o(been eil'vnilrtm d ili - ainfe. anld I1lt dirnkenniiess was a. f're(Iuent, Ihee :), 4.S%l lvwher. ''That certificate.'' he i l, "llas bet'n tlw ..FV idr, o prodlicinl. the worst breod - f ho11 r ithh (at 1 l1as evi la W. k at ov 1 an11t. - num21 wi<' whliskeyi' hie is alw2v I med;iinaV u p ss' w~i'wn abo4 ut twentyit years in21o his oEwi I tEwni 4)f Ilit.ehI"n vted a dry' ticke'i o4thter. t,aitii ph1rase4 [or meWdtiin.' He Itne4ver exp ected' to get over Ihis I inIt eredt for hypjocrisy ail1nd mbuggery. he saidl. Tf' anytIhin1 ini him stuick deep''I and dhiedl in the wool it wias'ha2 - r ed a11tnd m heuiery. The .prohii Itinists ini thle state who we're hoiiest we'(re of1 thle bes't peopile we had14, if we' I114 il had any be tlop)le. Tni oilier ,words, lhe said, they live uip to4 their > pro fession; t hey don 't t,al k one wayl . and1( act aniother, " and I have got iinothinii 'bult irespeet for -them, and if .. t.hey could( sho0w tie how to enlforrce 2 SprohiitIion law I wold stand for' it , tomotrrow. Anid I would hnve'( stood( 1(for it ill lq2, for 1 know whiskey is 'misery anid sin thani ainythling. else at Si ost wit,hi which we have to deal, but1 .. I niever' hav bt Ieenl able to bie c'f oninced I lhat you caini en force sneh a law' pointe(d toi Maineu an'l rinwa and K ani 5215. where lie said hats w~ere openi, and all .von could do was to hautl them up once a month1 and f1( ine them. I.At this juntuire iln Senator Till 1111111's speech lie was interrupte(d by M'. J. I. Chappoll, who said, "That is the way they do in Newberry now." Senator Tillman: ''Wht? In Newberry?" Mr. Chappell: "There was more drunkenness in the town of Newberry last Saturday than I have ever seen before, and I have been there for thirty years, and one prohi bit ioiist who spoke against the dis pensary in the eamyafgn last summer two years ago is selling the ciler now that makes many of these drunks." Senator Tilnman turned to the re ptle^s, wio were oi the platform just behind him, and asked them to take this down. It was taken down just as Mr. Chappell said it, before Mr. Tilman's request. Senator Tillinan said that the rich pv,ple (ol1d order their whiskey, but how could the poor people get it, even whenl they vaited it fori medi eilial purposes-only by patronizing blind tie H.le wanited those who prcailed, the good imen inl Ole pul piIs, who undertook to dietate t1hat it was wronl.41 to sell whiskey, an1d to drink it, (t) explainl to him whatl dhey wenre4roilg" to do with this participa timn inl thevir. em)ngre-ations by mlem bers of' Ili. th' i hurelbes inl violatiori of tihe law bv those members who were lied-ged abl;out by conditions which would iot allowi a man to get whiskey uiless lie broke the- law. If a man was allowed to break one law, how was he to be stopped from breaking other laws? lie asked. Ie spoke of the evil done by those who buy from blind tigers helping the blind tigers to violate the ilaw. "If you teach one(- man to help another iman to do .an1 illega1l net, are you not doing sole thilg.. dan1l1gerouls to tle m1or'als of a coiuintlit? You are worse inl this than the people of' Maine, although the Iwo 1hings ilre( nearly oin a par, vNeeplft that Ilie fellow Who has to hty from a blind tig-eri is not, inl my j1dIgent. Its 1reprwelelsible as thIli I'vllow who swN'ears to 1 lie to get it. I deispise yilur liar. any oldI'howv. 11ut these m-e (lte woi sYstems tof proAihi lion. The \lainie systei is to Iavc yol si..-in a .citificate. The Soulth (Car 'dlna selheme is toI have yo mlIo( to ;I bflinld tige andi mlak<e him brealk (lt, l.mw inl 4,n.er I() get it.''p Senator Tillmn isad he( (din'l wxanlt t() gi into disoission 4)f the sin] 1i,111ess oft dr-inking.". whiske'. lIe re I'vi'red to the(.fa,c(t thtat some time a4r Iht' ha( liad a row wlien he said tiert was lot inl-5 1th O l se ihle al-ainsl inkig. lie aromde a sme h-1i,0 that it was ot tht lise tof w isk which Iwas w eVli,, biut tie ahnsv li it. Simimr THilmi.11a is prwlica lly it 11r,0hibitioni-ts ill pr6leth-e. Ile i J!i t he evils o whiskvy, a' ' ni st tO ahse oif, wholiskey, mnd this as,I w.hat In-( tor(ie 1o .h rimw'. md e it wa n11 wrn ( it u it, buit ( iatI Hi I n fri1a m ite abseo. it I as i lw ial ae inld the otws woul lkev haesi that it (was gtoind toi gt'u aout the w oing t a dvi!~'aeisei ttpt ishti h * l'C lon iiil he eefu iia l-i 'Tihis staeent" said3 Sntor aill iianr, "wa lst cOd hiv y asstteratinx had inuta mify-in yenars w ae not~' &rnkfi~ mir hani' lifnine botu atilins n~ul' the News3 ham.' Coir wliiiants 81 aire mle th1 fle ixiythl kep muIiis conecon l(rSitor illmoan 'saitd then' wer soime people who woult d lifo ''hmto iis prne,''ty s, bu hea udidnt fidIa i souh eCaroituna andain. But w0hiskey was here then, it is here wi now, and it will be here after every Ci man here is under the sod, and a TI tlhousttitd years' from now inen will in not have forgot how to make it and lit how to drink it. Therefore, deal with po it in a eommon sense way. In other TI words, wten you come to deal with an im evil you can't entirely cure, do the pe best you can with it. * * * * Keep your Cv eyes on the stars, and life up youmr if ideal as ashigh, aS you blo l ut a 't 11n watch the stars. walking alom 1 the an road, N.1Ihout onc1e in a while elstiig gli your eye down, for it you do, by the he holy gods, y'.s Itre roing t0 rall it 4o a ditch ad break your neck.'' a Seniator Tillmatn (thenl spok!e of the th old liceise voem, where thv slate to sold to tfil. i-dividual tle riv it to sell I" wliskey, tia 1u1cer, which ,y.e1I the e individual sold the cheapest whiskey si lie could for tle price, night or day. g lIe took up1) tle, har romll svei, siay ing' it wis not wortlh whlile to go in11ro as t. dotalils o.f it, or to tell of the hi beaultifull pietinres, or lthe obscenle p)ii- Jil 11res thalt graedtt tle walls ou the old 84 bar. 1le-told of thlie costly hars lie of k tew ot il Wislingto l else-- t where. lie spolke of* the evils oft he *1 (ld -barI' 1o-11m sYstem1, 1hietn frieids h congegaedit lthe court hioukses, an1d every man ini the par1-y tiholglit it his Al dilty to "'set 'em uy oelle, an041W.'' eo Aid if they lived in l'lgefiehl, Sahida Ill oi Lau1reiis, he said, it Was a tmiracle he if they (iln't -% to fighting b)-&tb they got thro1u-lgh. Seiator Tillman spoke ot' the re- vi strictiotns under the dispeisary law. to Under thq new constitution whiskey be .was not allowed to bel sold in Sotth ini Carolina lawfully exeept itn the day v( time, in scaled packages, and niot to ie be opeied on the pre,'!i ses. Uidetr of these restrictions if high license were di testored, whoi was going to Awath tht thIl back rooll of the m11n11 wvho wits sellin tu Ile whiskey u1nder tle hith licenise Ill Iiw? The dispenlser nlo1tw didn't openl ti itiless le had an mnler. Uinler tlie h: Iigi) livense litie those w1o knew he way to thle back loor coll easily S1 eniun admitai(e. "aui I say." i ( r Selator. Tillimami, "to hell with it ! I h, wanlt nonle ot i* l mtiystlf.'' " Bilt tlese t. newspatpers wh-Ito aire lvadliti this fiOlt 11 !4in 1vhe stlate (dispell.sm-Y anit that and d l'otilill'., e1sq-. het-nilso they tell von*I 4 ]rankly t1lut prol ibitilo is a lu1aunb u. aii.1 not inl els , anid Yet you ai- or (raized 1al pullin'u withi thl em . Vo it aire payihn lide and seek wilth .-;mr ail hioest mnli- . You t o' lit 81pwnly m1a1l fai rly.'' if wilited a m:mwhorelgioslyhelitved it wa:s Wr7oll.. Ito Sell whiSKt1y ;1nd( sinfuil to) drink it to taml ilt to li:- proi.ssi n. I liv wa te 1 pr-fihibitioilt whlwi n I'to lie le'gislaturei to st an I lilthe 1* 0 11he plrohiblitimn :Iack. t pv; i w im11 : Nf man2 y 1 ft i hi l I i. Said: ''In 1 4.tmi F" ! i t41 ('40111h i ' an d shi linw!1 t hi 1h 10 he I oe 11he1re ilid \vIluw h thiese 141e llws twh4., want i liud t malI) m-ies up I tm,nse uuit pal- IIi belitsel l it iv t, (ie ll t i -e.' t Ve ref tll'n Mteiiocal pionbl, w htaei b mke n to )'i tillthiiti te i'spen' dsry, mv aal on seor i laitite aWe h:lt ltIf th'uat hise j4lat witer Tilhe swte in Inen :etd it-ye etither(11( to ditty. lta isn ll i'urt notin a'di This pste the11 Mor(gtt'' anillI byie t s hismbinatn nat sielit14 nt rth sT de iba-asr formI in'5'ii' the t lt dis enur m'aulIi 41 (revent ste12 44al k toI le hitllts wlnutf noti ditty 1it Tey ln ae wa frt tomi t lilbi allt 1' le t dt'ty h't,o414 ltueiwhoiitetht toa' Tohe nhi tat late is the servant of the people of South rolina, he said, and not their master. iey were there to vote for the best erests of the people of South Caro a, and not to make bargains with liticians and newspaper editors. to responsibility for sending such m11 to the legislature was with the ople. ''You are the masters in South trolina, thank God,'' he said, ''and you don't get good, honest govern mit you owe it to your own ignor ev. When the people voted for a ib fellow who told them how much loved them and what lihe was going <10, an<l who did not make them fit representative, they had only eniselves to blame. They shoul< look see whether a man was reliable, nest mnd clean. You get such gov iineit as you are fit to have, he il. because if you are ign1ora,1nt, you t had governilent. Th'le disipiensary system, which came a sibstitiute for the license system, siiill, was lesi-ne<l and emld be l4 to gi e tl( people pire Iwhiskey. colldy, all flthe whiskey was solu by fiCer1S Wilhoult anly inventive t) puish I. sale of it. It eomul only be sold inl y time Ile law woulhin' allow it to opene<d inl the <dispenisar-. Senilator Tillbinnl spoke of being in )eville anld 1111aur'ens, lispensat-y It ties, where Ie adiessetl large <liences. In Laurens and A bheville, saii., le Iever saw a 1ru1nk mani. Over here in salimda, lie said-lie t home in thlie rain to go to Fair c.w. aiid it raiined until after 10. 'lock, and lie expected there would 2110 i-ple there, beentise he didn't Agile .2u it would go ont in such 'ather to liear anybodNy yet wholi tit here le founid three hn14red foi uli 1drell latdies aiid eight Ihu1n ei or i ti.Isaifl white m)tel, 1nal ilt v 41i.v * NountY of Saliidit he saw -enty-five ir- thirty drunk men anl ey 1()tlhl him 114here was eiough blind .er liqlilr it lite bushes til make tihe inlle lftiruik. h'le liiqulor sold iuiler the elispeni ry sYstevil pit as n1i1-h re.triction ie4ple. as tIhey wuIhttq bear. Y41ur1 vi hm.kle il i lte cheekt reiiail hi114114.( the 4.rupper1m up 1f) the limlit, 1n iet. Whei u vmtn tl :inv tiher mt i l- ,v is u ine to hIkiik. 'This pn*41i1 nm Il- whlisker. sold Ile li sl ieltisalt'y 'i<'s ilit(i Ille town i4i viii Y i'easi i'v. Now whiei' .iocs .Ill VMlF (-,m(v li i t n sax' , ti ui< i U--' \11 i4 na' it I t I l i cv i r h t ' ri't I li i r il ii Wilhe iir iCili j rs('fl lni usei' -*411. 1 1r alo ! t e fr lil t irof*it stays irt. . tll vot \.4i 1t .1vo. I 4l.1e t,e ti V l tiin (' Illt iV' $ll*' i'tilty lit( \ ;id v inl'A Ie I ,h I. 1tI'(I, i i t lh lie i i'I.il fit' New IT e 114l -'I. llift b Ie 11 lh i lt ile, 4l t ) i t, li i . ,i5 6 It i t v fu ie Itel S t al teis u rc I ' l i l) w th 1 htftf.1 ive)rl ftilv iill a ' tfi l b. ii CA,4 on fai in vi11e n it ion hawlf. i'yThoe have0( ike ~C5t he l te in uswah' uri. i ti's jion ii in New-:,'o N 1ribt Iff3 t'r in herd Ti Il ii t- -Ie SI ill, 011 iiishti'm a e xt.1 itiftt (hul. eo tebnei So I df Vtinii Vf'N W iy shou til \' S i it1311 'f 3 WH ('l t so (1I will 33(5u Iti f it briough~lt he lvxre t ess.d lin ier a'u ong to ((be outmed r sofIl Ifd let pr,fits Youy - rIthr aflyadhv ,the mey tayhereto ncrese he shoo