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TILLMANS SPEECH. $ynopsis of His Remarks at the Red Shirt Reunion in Anderson on Last Wednesday. The Anderson correspondent of the News and Courier gives the fol lowing synopsis of Senator Tillman's speech at the Red Shirt reunion in Anderson o Wednesday: Tilman Denounces Newspapers. Senator Tillman was the last speak er. He opened by hurling compliments at the newspapers and ridiculed their editorials about his leaving Washing ton during the tariff session and go ing out West to make addresses. He sarcastically raked the newspapers over the country about their "bark ing at my heels just because I have made arangements to leave my lec turing tour to come to South Carolina to make five or six speeches." He then jumped on the negro ques tion and made those remarks so often spoken by him about this country go ing to rack and ruin if compulsory education is adopted. He said Presi dent Taft is playing to split the Solid - South, and that he is dispensing a few census jobs here and there, hoping that it will help him in the job. He repeated that story about how he, Tillman, blocked the Senate in the Crum matter, and said that nothing pleased him better than getting money from the Republicans for making two hour lectures in which he would tell them they were fools and idiots. He rapped the News and Courier and the State. He said that Deacon Hemp hill was advocating the organization of a commercial party, which is noth ~ing short of Republican. A voice in the audience said that the r nwspapers did not amount to mue and Tillman replied: "No, they don't, but a mosquito can make it mighty unpleasant sometimes." Tells What He Has Done. After giving Tillman considerable advertising, telling what he had done and what he took special delight in and relating how he accomplished this and that in the Senate, although op pQsed by Republican Senators, and inassisted by Democratic Senators. and, after rapping the newspapers good -and hard and those persons dif fering from him in opinion, Senator Tillman branched off to Red Shirt days. He recited personal experiences and told of the awful condition in which the State was at the time. He told4 of the brave deeds of the Red Shirt organization and the balloting in the Hampton campaign. Senator Tillman was given an ova tion when introduced and throughout his speech there was considerable ap plause. The audience was with him from start to finish and every utter ance, especially when sarcasm was used or when an attack was made, brought forth yells .upon yells. He spoke for nearly two hours. When Senator Tillman coneiuded, a pienic dinner tas'served .in the grove to the immense crowd. The day pass ed off pleasantly. Good weather prevailed and few arrests resulted. There were no appreciable delays in carrying out the programme of events and the first Red Shirt Reunion has gone into history as a grand success. Red Shirt Drill at Aiken. Senator Tillman, speaking of the bloody shirt drill in Aiken, August 9, 1876. said-: ''There has been more or less dis cussion in t'he papers of the State re eently about the origin of the red snirt as the Democratic unif:rm in 1876. I .shall leave it to others to sift the evidence and determine, if it can be done, just where the credit lies. I want to tell what I kcnowv about the bloody 5hirt and its effective use in that momentous crisis. In my story of the Hamburg riot I have mentioned -the drum-head Court-martial, which condemned and executed prisoners efter the fighting or firing had ceased. ''The last man selected to be shot was a notorious thief by the name of Pomp Curry. whom I had known from boyhood. He had furnished the names of all whom he recognized to District Attorney Stone and is evi dlence caused warr.ants to be issued against practically all the members of the Sweetwater Sabre Club and a Wewr chre w~it> unu der and vonspiracy\ t ' nord&er. anid t he ,herii of Aiken county wvas ordered to make the arrests. Like a wise and prudent man he did not attempt to execute the warrants, but communicated with Col. Butler. our captain, and by common understanding all of the men thus r-hai med assembled at Lower Cherokee Pond. a. place near Col1. Bntler's home. and started for Aiken. The nrocession was led by the sheriff in h 1uggy, followed by the so-called prisonmers, armed to the teth, anId we oc.npied. had kindly offered it .for Roll of THERE are twelve in the United Sta number of banks on] the Roll of' Honor, o two hundred have s excess of their capita WE ARE ON THIS and every cent of ou has been earned. 1 from the top in this S of this distinction ai paired to serve our f than ever before. A a limited supply of t nies, come in and gel all gone. 4 6 Paid in Our Sg The COMMi 0f Newvvb4 .J'NO. M. KINARD, J. Y. President. Ca our use. We reached this place some time before sundown and took up our quarters for the night. Court was to convene two days later and we were thus early on the ground in order to give the lawyers, who had our case in hand, opportunity to draw up the pa pers and prepare for obtaining bail if we were to be allowed to return home. Gen. Butler, who was under indictment, the Hon. George W. Croft, the Hon. D. S. Henderson, of the Aiken Bar, and Major William T. Gary wer acting as our attorneys. "Among those whose interest had induced them to accompany us was my brother, the Hon. George D. Tili man, who had been niominated as a candidate for Congress in our Con gressional district. He had been 'in corespondence with General, after wards Senator J. Z. George, of Mis sissippi, the man whose constructive s':atesmanship in devising means to safeguard Southern civilization by the eimination of the negro vote will eause his name to shine for all time as a grea.t constitutional lawyer and benefactor of 'the South. It wa un der him that Mississippi led off in disfranchising the negro and practi ally every Southern State has follow ed suit. Mississippi had thrown off the arpet-bag yoke two years before th at, and Gen. George advrised my brother to have the South Carolinians impress the negroes both as to ouir strength and the purpose of the whites by using e spectacular uni form and .urged the parade of long processions of armed white men through the eountry. The Shirts Secured. '"The Hamburg riot had caused such a furore throughout the North and the Republican press of that sec tion was waving the bloody shirt with such, frantic energy that Mr. Till man suggested to Col. Butler that we, though then assembled as prisoners, should wave the bloody shirt in real itv as a token of defiance. The idea wa seized upon by all of us and Luther Ransom and myself were ap ponted a committee to visit Aiken, confer with the Democratic authori ties, and see if we could induce them to help us in securing shirts to be donned as uniforms. Col. George W. Croft. then county chairman,-entered into the scheme with great zeal, and gave us an order for the necessary yellow homespun. Havig obtained this. Ransom. who knew 'nearly all of the ladies of Aiken. accompanied me in my' b)uggyt and1 we distributed the boils of (elotl among the ladies with le re(quest that th1ey make us forty *ributed ..ne aft ernoonti andl Ihe nlext campl~ z and gathee upI'( t~Ihe 1darments, obtaini'ng a good supply of turpentmie andl Venetian red at the same time. I had telegraphed to a frienil in Au g usta. Tom Henry, to send me with out fail t wo negro paper masks or~ diolg-taces anid a kinky ch ignon. I Ihad ordered a carpenter to make a larte fb 5]tf ini the shape oft acos andc I o; one it' the ladies to make an enoLrmouils shirt. biger than Go thesd a nd the chignon was nailed Honor thousand State Banks tes; out of this large ly six hundred are on r only one in every urplus and profits in L ROLL OF HONOR r surplus and profits We stand fourteentn itate. We are proud id we are better pre riends and customers le have just received he new Lincoln Pen : one before they are tvings Department. ,rcial Bank, arry,,-S. C. McFALL, 0. B. MAYER, shier. V. President. on top of these. "Satan's appeal to the fallen an gels: "Awake, arise or be forever fallen" had been emblazoned in large black letters on one side and my brother suggested the motto for the other side: "None but the guilty need fear." "The shirt was made bloody with the marks of bullet wounds in red, and when the work of making t-he unique banner was completed, Ransom and others making suggestions, it was surely a most ghastly object. " The yel-low homespun shirts had been put on and every wearer stained his shirt with artificial blood accord 'ing to his own fancy. Some used poke heeries to make the color more fiery than the Venetian red and turpen tine, and vary the tint. Advanced to Aiken. "Everything in readiness, about 4 o'clock -thdabeoeCutwso -cneethe Hamburg rioters to t.he nubrof forty, uniformed as no men have ever been before or since, rode into the town of Aiken in col umn of twos. The flag, which was in itself not very heavy required a very strong and muscular man to handle it when we began to gallop, and Milledge Horn was selected as flag-bearer. He was six feet high, weighed over 200 pounds and was cor Lrespondingly muscular, and had lost five brothers in t,he Confederate army, a sure guarantee of his courag'e and daring. As soon as we reached Aiken we rode quietly by every house where the ladies had' been at wvork on our shirts, so as to let them see us. Then stringing out in column file, making a line nearly a quarter of a mile long, the order wvas given to gallop, and for half an hour. at break-neck speed, we paraded throughi every street. It be ing dry we soon kicked up a great eloud' of dust, while all the men in town as well as the women and chil dIren lined the space in front of their houses and waved handkerchiefs and cheered us. Not a negro did we see. "'Having shown how little terrified we were to thus beard the lion in his den, we proceeded in column of twos to Coker Spring. where we consumed an hour or more in washing the dirt o0f our faces and out of our eyes and ears, and watering our horses. ''At that time t.here was stationed at Aiken a company of United States regula.rs. These were camped on the bluff overhanging ( oker Spring. The strange and uniqjue appearance of this nlew unliform andl ie mnen in jt caus;ed all tf tlhe soldiers Io lille H}p oH !ie I \ a1nd literest . W\hen all our mien had tinished washing,ii and we were again in ousr places ( everythingu hay ing been (lone in military styie, one~ man holdingr three horses with linked bridles while the other three wvashed at the horse trough) Col. 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