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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
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