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LARRY GANTT ASSAILS OUR SENIOR SENATOR 7 DECLARES TILLMAN IS UXTRl'E TO HIS PEOPLE. One of Former Loudest Tillman Cliam pions Severely Arraigns His Former Leader. News and Courier. t Would anybody have believed twenty | years ago that the time would ever! ' come w"hen T. Larry Gantt would turn ; ni Tten Tillman and bitterly assail, him as a traitor? Capt. Tillman in j those days had no louder champion, j "Through the Columbia Register and j in other newspapers Larry, to quote j his own words, "'tried to do with his j pen" "what Ben did with his tongue." j It was Larry, so it has always been I understood, wno nrst - suggested 10 j Tillman, then governor, the estab- i lishment of the State dispensary sys- ! tern, Larry having gotten the idea * from the county dispensary which was then in operation in Athens, Ga. Larry is now running a weekly newspaper, _thfe News-Reporter, in j Whiteville, N. C., just across the line j * from Horry county, and in" his last Via /larfttoc nflo-r-l it fnnr if?n1limnS lie UC! UIW li^ai IT 1VU1 ; to a review of Mr. Tillman's career in the endeavor to prove that by his letter urging the election of "Jones prov-: . ed himself a traitor to the "common people," who put him into office. Larry being now as enthusiastically for Governor Blease as ever h^ was for ** Capt Tillman. His disaffection for the latter is not, it appears, of recent | origin. He says: How Tillman tVas dominated. "We have seen for years that the environments of Washington citv and L ? t new associations naa wrougui a comk > plete change in Tillman's policy, if not his views, and when he voted for Lorimer, we knew that the day had j come when the masses of South Car- i olina, if not the Democrats of that | State, must search out another leader i H who was in closer touch with them i H and their interests. But we did not criticise Tillman, for, we disliked to W help pull down a popular idol, but quietly waited for that idol, of its own free will, to tumble from the pedestal J upon which admiring constituents had ; f placed it." i Larry has a good many interesting; things to say in the article which fol- j lows this remarkable statement. Per- \ haps the most interesting is his dec-! (S laratffcn that the "Reform movement" J never profited in the slightest degree the "one-gallus wool hat boys" who j formed its backbone. But his article speaks for itself. He declares his pur-! pose to "write a defense of "the com- 1 mon people of the Palmetto State" j from which "it will be seen that the, charge Tillman makes of ingratitude j is laid at the wrong door," and with j this professed purpose in view he pro- ; ceeds as follows: "When John L. M. Irby, in the fa-, mous March convention that gave | birth to the Reform movement,; v brought about the nomination of Tillman (we believe by one vote) after he (Tillman) had given up the fight and "was found sitting on the banks of the river ready to go back home to his farm. Ben Tillman was a small dairy farmer in Edgefield countv, and report said he was in the same fix as thou sands of other farmers at that time, losing money, if not a practical bankrupt. T "Xo one can deny that Tillman made a magnificent fight for the release of his people from practicaf polifica! servitude, and taught tfiem their rights and their power. He triumphed, and in their love and gratitude the farmers continued to heap honors and rnnroVilr? Vl OQ 'I TTvt7or> ciTina ax UO upuil Uld UVUU* JUTVA OAUW | 1890 he has been holding lucrative offices $nd drawing large salaries. It r. is believed that today Tillman is a rich man. Any way, he and his family have for more than twenty years ^ ( been living on the fat of the land, as j Lit were, and enjoying all the pleasures and luxuries of life. The Charge of Ingratitude. i B "As it was the votes of the men whom Ben Tillman denounced as ingrates, and so severely criticised, that gave him those high offices, and it was the men to whom Tillman rightfully says he owes his scant majority oyer Talbert and Dial, who saved him from ; a crushing and ignominious defeat, aftav rvritintr that eleventh hour letter attacking Governor Blease. No one j denies the good work Tillman did for | the masses in South Carolina, but no man who ever battled for his people was so long and richly rewarded. "Without intending to make any invidious comparison, we would ask, what general among the struggling American colonists did better or more valJ * iant service for his country than Benedict Arnold the hero of Saratoga? But Arnold betrayed his country in its darkest hour, and went over to the enemy, and his name will ever be us ed to express the blackest treachery. Now, we do not intend to convey the impression that there is any connection whatever between the career of jieiieaici AIUUIU iiiiu u^mcLJuuixi n.v, Tillman, but we simply cite this case to show that tfhen a person goes over to the enemy, when the cause for which he has so valiantly fought seems lost?as in the fight between the Blease and Jones factions in South Carolina, when every newspa J onUcrod yer ana gxcui iiiiiuciiLt ? against Blease and pulling for Jcnes ?the humble masses are wide awake and silently watching the line-ups. To our mind, it was Tillman who deserted the wool-hat, one-gallus hoys, and not they who deserted Tillman. The people judge a man by the company he keeps, and when Tillman gave his once-powerful aid to an element that had so vindictively, yea venomously, fought him in the past, and left, as he thought and every outsider believed, his former adherents and. their gallant young standard-bearer^ they had chosen to go down in defeat, he that .moment lost the confidence and support of the common people in his S'a'e. ?r?d whom he owed much? in fact the lifting up of Tillman from poverty and obscurity into distinction a :d affluence, if not into great riches for a Southerner. A Profitless Movement. "Now, let us look upon the other side of the shield and see what the wool-hat, one-gailus farmers, who had made Tillman what he now is. have gained by the bitter political warfare and strife that has oeen wised in their Slate for some two ?iecnftea' Jt ;s / true that they nave been educate ! as to tneir political power ana ngnts, but Tillman does not deserve all credit for this, for with the establishment cf the rural postal system the farmers have made wonderful strides'of late. In other States than South Carolina they have thrown off the shackles of political servitude and are now settling their differences at the ballot rural voters are getting better informed and better educated every year, and they would have broken the chains nf bondaee. nlaced unon them by ring-fule politicians, had Ben Tillman never been born. *Bnt for the sake of argument, we will srive Tillman credit for all that he claims. Is there jUMtfcer man South Carolina who has reaped a richer harvest from the political crop he planted than Tillman himself? And what has those wool-hat one-gallus hoys gained? Did that reform move, inenf nut one red copper into a single e. a lailUCl S pVl'ACl i I.'IU ill lane VHC 3CV" ond's work from his daily toll? *Did It rejieye his poor, hard-working wife of one of the thousands of tasks that she must discharge during the day? Did it put another crumb upon his tabic or add one fagot to the kitchen fire? Did it enable him to buy one speek more of flour for his money or extend for one instant the day of gracft on that crop lien or note? What j!j MOAfiivA l* mfnm fny U1U 'Ifli Zll^l lCVVlI^ MMK ad'K&a i VJL quitting his fields to repair to the ballot box and Tote for Tillman, and the other reform candidates, save the empty privilege of hurrahing over his victory when the returns were received! "The farmer then returned to his field and ploughed on, ploughed on, while Ben Tillman and the politicians proceeded to reap every grain of the political harvest Tillman's arraignment of his people for ingrafitude is like a farmer abusing the faithful mr that made his crop. The only difference is the farmer did feed and stable that mule, while those Tillman voters worked for nothing and boarded themselves. The Farmers' Alliance. "When Ben Tillman first started Ms political career, there was a movement organized that did more than ail else for the relief and uplifting of farmers ?the Alliance. Did Tillman join in this work and lend his aid and talent to make it a success? /No, indeed. When the Alliance was in its swaddling clothes, as it were, and its existence like the life of an infant hung in the balance, it was Tillman who joined its enemies to crush this great IllUVeiliCUl lUi Lilt; cuiauvi^auuu \jl uui Southern farmers, and it was only when convinced that his (Tillman's) political elevation hinged upon the success of the Alliance that he gave it his aid. There is not an old Allianceman in South Carolina but knows this to be true. "But in their forgiving kindness and gratitude, the one-gallus boys overlooked this and for years blindly fol lowed Tillman. Does not every one who has watched that Alliance movement know that it saved our farmers from serfdom, for their lands were fast passing into the control of the merchants and others with whom they traded, and had not the tillers of the soil been groused to the danger that menaced them, you would.today see a. few large landed proprietors in the South and men who now own the faring be but serfs renting fields that were once their own. But at a criticaf moment it was Tillman's voice that was lifted against the grandest and noblest movement ever organized for the relief of the man behind the plow. A Reaper Always. "Ben Tillman has ever enjoyed the happy faculty of always reaping crops planted and tilled by others. He waits until the grain is ready to gather, will vp a harvest home! V? MVK ** V, .? 0- - w v. J among the laborers of his State and' gather the entire crop into hi*? ow?v garners. "Tillman refers to the establishment' of Clemson and Winthrop colleges as 2?nong the great works h^ had done for the farmers, and for which they. are so ungrateful. It was upon Clemson that Tillman first rode into office and power, so it really seems that he has been by far its greatest beneficiary. The Colleges. "We admit that Clemson and Winthrop colleges are noble iifstitutions; but we have always contended that it would have been so much better were the vast sums of money expended in those costly buildings, and the maintenance of these institutions been divided among the common schools of the State. The entire receipts from the fertilizer tax goes to Clemson, and yet not one farmer's boy in 500 ever will ho cppri inside its walls. Ul nii* il/V> A Chinaman, when he starts to build a house, is said to first nail on the singles and his last task is to lay the ground sills. That fertilizer tax money is taken from the humblest and poorest as well as the richest farmer, and we do assert that it would have been the right thing to divide it among the rural schools so that all could get ; back their share. In the State estabVijcrVior institutions of lismiig iucjc learning, we think that South Carolina is emulating the Chinaman, and from an educational standpoint, nailing on the shingles, when it ought first to be Building a firm foundation in rural schools. There are plenty of splendid denominational colleges in South* Carolina for the education of the sons of rich farmers, and the State ha'd better look after the little boy o! 1 ?irl now living out in tne country, uu the farm a?d thousands of whom are growing up in ignorance. i "So we doubt if the genuine Onega llus wool-hat farmer in his State, when he puts on his thinking cap, will feel that he owes Ben Tillman such a great debt of gratitude for.taking fertilizer tax money and using it to pile up brick and mortar that he or his children will never see, and em ploy high salaried educators that the average farmer's children will never hear. He will conclude that were his and his neighboring farmers' share cf that fertilizer tax money given to the little log school house that their children attend, and thus lengthen the term, it would have been ever so much better. , "We have no desire to harshly cri ticise Senator Tillman, or indulge in personalities. Otherwise we might refer to the defeat of his own brother, the pon. George D. Tillman,1 for congress by Col. Talbert, and our last j talk with the late Senator John L. M. mill ? >_ ? A Irby, who did more ior i mumu s advancement than any hundred men in his State. But we do n?t intend to remain silent and hear our old South Carolina Reform friends, and with whom we so long and hardly battled .for the success of Tillmfenism, unjustly accused of 'ingratitude.' - They shall Inot be misrepresented before the ? i world so long as T. Larry Gantt can i raise his voice or handle a pen. The Fraud Charges. "We endorse every word the Senator Isays about his noble wife. When a tfoy in Elbert county, Georgia, we knew Mrs Tillman as a young lady, and she is one of the truest and finest 1 Onnfhlon/1 oiror nrndnfprl I JVU.'IlCil uui OUUUuauu v? Vi ? i Tillman made the mistake of his lift? iwhen he refused to heed her advice land co'itf^i e n^airal in the Plensfj Jones race, instead of writing that j 11th-hour letter, waiting until Cole. ! Blease had left the rostrum and had ino chance to reply. He either should ihave penned that missive earlier in 1 " + TXTA fna 1 me campaign ux acpi, sucm.. >< ^ that Tillman has written another letter warning the Jones followers to go slow in their threat to count Blease out. Tillman knows that you can not i throw out the ballots of more than J 70,000 white Democrats, and should I the attempt be made you would see I such an uprising of public indignation as would overturn the rulings of that partisan Jones committee, sweep Cole. Blease into the executive chair by an | overwhelming majority and Tillman j and every other nominee who symipathized with that outrage committed in the name of Democracy, be crushj ingly defeated. It would endanger the rational Democratic ticket in South i j Carolina ?nd bring ten thousand times imore political wreck ..and ruin upon I South Carolina than Cole. Blease could j possibly do even were he to carry out * / , - ; - . \ Mp Wl&W mmm ^ i IIP|B 1 I! It is so FR I I YOU USE I 1 than with otl: jj 1 money. You t I ETa/*i r IL? I is packed right1 soda factory in you in sealed, cartons?fresh ? 16 Full Oil And no higl I SPI For a Li I Cut out the t packages and shown below a expense, and w( * all charges pri i n no-rotifpprl UUlUJULtWu. h Plated Teaspoon These spoons are I tiful in design and b advertising*. Retail I $2.00 per dozen. All good grocers carry oar i iHHnn those threats put in his mouth by opposing papers. The Jones men con- S M trolled all the primary election ma- i JL \ chinery, and if any fraud was commit- j ted it was with their knowledge and i . through their cognizance. "We have no j II idea that any such foolish attempt as J j j counting out Blease will be made; but [ Q-Jj the steps taken by - that State Demo- j fgy? 1 cratic committee are only to give the j ?$ /_ Jones faction a breathing spell after j their humiliating and crushing de- : ?-/ feat. "Ben Tillman has committed politi- Jf* cal suicide in South Carolina. Hence- j forth the cry with the 'wool-hat, onegallus boys,' as Tillman designates them in his letter, will be, 'Kin^ Ben ~A is dead. Long live King Co'e.' "Were it necessary, we could recount much more ancient political his tory, but will await further develop- -py ments." LJlSt Woi Not An Experiment of d Over a million of Cole's Original Hot Blast Heating Stores used in America today. They have been proven superior to all other beating stoves by years of use by hundreds of * thousands of nsers. 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