The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, January 24, 1913, Page TWO, Image 2
SENATOR TILLMAN
REPLIES TO GOVERNOR
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SEN. CLAIMS RMJIIT TO WHITE
"COXFIDENTIAI/" JLETTE1 iS.
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Says Inlluenct oi Mrs. Tillman Kept
Him oil Fence?Did .\<>t Mean
to be Dumb.
To The General Assembly of South'
Carolina:
Gentlemen:
I have just read Governor Blease's j
muceogp sPnr to vonr honorable body I
yesterday, and have been informed that!
both houses did me the justice to order
publication in its Journal to be
c-uspend?d until my reply could go
along with it. For this consideration, j
please accept my thanks.
What Governor Blease's motives are |
very evident in the message. He desires
to continue the bitterness en-'
gendered last summer; and wishes to;
be revenged 011 me; but the primary,
object he has in view is to keep the
minds of the people stirred up and;
r.ot allow the waters to clear sufficient-1
lv to let them see what sort of man he!
really is. Catiline among the Romans, j
and Aaron Burr among the Americans, j
are the only other men I have read of i
who were equal to Blease in bam-'
boozling the people. He has persuaded
thousands of good South Carolinians, J
honorable clean patroictic citizens, in-;
to believing tfcat he is their bo;-t j
friend and that Tillman's mantle has1
fallen 011 his shoulders. He is a past!
master in the arts of a doaiagogue. |
He knows full well that when the an- \
gry passions of the masses are arous-!
ed, they lose their reason. He desires ;
to come to the senate-, as he boasted
he would do at Richmond in December j
last, and feels it obligatory on him to
aggravate conditions in South Caroli- j
na as much as possible. Whether this j
is the right way to -electioneer or not!
will be shown by the result of the j
:next senatorial, primary. If the South '
Carolina newspapers do not help him |
hv ahnfip and misrepresentation, he j
will never get here.
His charges against me boiled downj
are:
1st. With writing "Secrlet tetters
stabbing him in the back." <
2nd. Hypocrisy. <
3rd. With conspiring with W. E.
Gonzales. . " ]
4th. Jealousy. j 1
5th. Feebleness of mind. 1
6th. Having lent myself, which could 1
only be expected of an imbecile, to 1
sign my name to an article dictated ::
by someone else whom he designates (
as "A statesman without a job," and 1 1
"This astut<? big Ex." j 1
I will take these charges up seria-: 1
tim: i 1
If ever a man wanted to be hands j
off in a political contest, I was that: 1
man last summer. Time and again I j 1
was importuned to take a hand and ; 1
for Iqw 3tiH order and t 1
IU tuaic uui. >u >
decency. But I steadfastly refused. I ! 1
received hundreds of letters first and -1
last urging me with intense earnest-1
ness to come out and announce my j
preference as between the candidates ,
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who were running for governor. But i I
was unwilling to do so. j t
After Mr. Sims wrote me and maJO .
the appeal that I should answer cer- ^
tain inquiries which he propounded in c
defense of Tillmanism, I wrote him the! n
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letter I did. Immediately a phrase v ' f
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It was S61ZCQ Oil l)y uiie ncttspaptij , |]>rcclaim
that I had come out for Judge c
Jones. The headlines mainly x were ^
used to deceive the people an'd mis-1 a
represent me. I felt called on to take j ^
notice of this and wrote the article of j
August 12, which Governor Blease'c
quotes. I y
Right hfcr-e I desire to call attention j a
to the evidence going to show thatj a
Governor Blease and certain of his ft
friends were in a conspiracy; the j r
' friends to write me protending to be t
my friends, draw me out as to my Y,
attitude towards him, and then ,showi c
him the letters. Otherwise, how did; t
he come into possession of so many of! a
my letters marked "personal and con- j.
fidential?" \
I have the original letters at Trenton 1"
to show that perhaps one hundred t
m^n wrote me along the same lines, a
These letters came thick and fast and,c
my answers were always marked "per-i i
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sonal." It is very evident uiai x>ie<is*r has
seen many of my letters which "1
were marked personal and the reci- j i
pient asked not to show them to any-, 1
;ne. Thus it can be seen wheth-r they 11
were secret or not. Some of those: 1
correspondents who were Blease's
friends hastened to show them or to. 1
send him copies. They were in no j *
way the "secret letters" he would have j i
the people believe, but letters which j j
ought to have been secret as far as j i
the public was concerned and as far!1
as Blease himself was concerned. ' i
But I am not concerned about the
Blease conspiracy with his friends as! <
much as I am about clearing myself \
of the charge of hypocrisy, and of i
writing secret letters for the purpose ;
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of .slabbing him in the back.
i ik charge of hypocrisy can be.-1 ?' j
an-\vt red by pointing to my public and
private life. If there is any vice in
human beings that I despise, it s hypo- j
crisy and double-dealing, it is next;
to cowardice, the most despicable of
human traits. !
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Governor Blease stresses the point;
of secret letters, and, with great cun-;
ning, picks out sentences from pri-1
vate letters which' I had written to j
my friends, or men who represented !
themselves as my friends, to prove j
that I was not frank. He stresses the
fact that Mr. Sims was not his friend
and si delighted to find I had writ- j
ten one letter to a man not a Blease-j
ite. I do ?ot believ? many people in j
South Carolina will accept his theory I
-that 1 am a hypocrite and a doubledealer
because, in writing personal
letters and marking them "confidential,"
I explained to these men who
were Blease's friends and who claim- j
ed to be my friends what my real opin- j
ions were. Because I said I would be j
"hands off" did not mean, nor is it'
reasonable to claim that it meant I
would be dumb.
3rd. The conspiracy with W. E. Gon- j
zales is not conceivable or believable
by anyone except a man who in iiis
desperation, made that charge in order
to fire the hearts of his followers.!
The people of South Carolina well understand
the relations between the
Gonzales brothers and the Tillmans.!
The feud is of long standing and all:
well informed people know what pro-!
vocation the Tillmans have had and \
with wliat relentless energy and with
what ability the Gonzales brothers
have prosecuted their side of it. I do
not wish to stir the embers of this |
feud anew, and I have no such purpose
in calling attention to this long I
standing quarrel. Governor Blease j
knowcthat he did not believe, when h-ej
hir. i-lnHoor lnct Allfllst that T I
had entered into any conspiracy what-1
ever with W. E. Gonzaks. I have been I
told that the Gonzales brothers voted.
for me in the primary last August.
* l, t-r this is so or not, I do n >.
know and do not care. But I know
that I never that I never saw Pat
McGowan or read Gonzales' private j1
telegrams to him which some of i
Blease's friends stole off the wires;]
ind if I had it would not have influenc-, '
?d me at all. N |
Right ller-e, f will ask Governor
Blease to answer point blank; how did
tie get copies of Gonzales' telegrams !
to McGowan? He is such a stickler'
For the forms of honesty in others, j'
cvi 11 he honor bright and tell us who'.
stole them?
I know and assert on my honor that
[ alone wrote the Ferguson letter and
:hat no one else had anything to do 1
a*ith it, or anything else 1 have writ:en
or sig.:ed.
The following statement has just i
:>een handed me by Mr. A. M. Cai']>?n;er,
of Anderson, South Carolina, telirtfr
hnw Fereuson letter came to
De given out and how the statement cvhich
accompanied it was made up
'or the press. <
Carpenter's Statement.
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About 6 o'clock m the afternoon of
August 23, 1912, I met Senator and
Mrs. Tillman at the Xorth entrance to
he Capitol building. They had istart- ]
>d for home, and had stopped and j ^
vere talking t(^ Mr. J. M. B^ker, one i
)f the officers of the senate. Senator (
rillman stopped me and said he want>d
to ask my advice. He stated that at
he beginning of the gubernatorial .
campaign in South Carolina he had ,
lec-lared he would take no part in it, ,
md had tried to follow that coursv, j ,
oit ttiat /liirinp- thp f\vr> Or thrPp Wpeks I
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ust previous he had received a number ^
if letters from people in the State t
^hom he thought to be his fri(k;ds, ,
sking his opinion of Jones and Blease,
.nd that he had replied to these let- i
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?rs frankly, that in each case he had
nade it plain to his correspondent j
hat he was writing in confidence, but
ie-had found tnat in some cases msi ,
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onfidence had been betrayed, that [ v
he letters were being misrepresented, j..
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.nd that he had been placed in the j
losition of doing secretly things he 1 p
\ as afraid to do openly. He said he!
lad b-een placed in a false position ^
>efore his friends and his enemies, ^
md that he felt that he ought to give
>ut a newspaper statement -explainng
his position fully. Mrs. Tillman i ,
;aid she did not want him to give out!
;he statement, and lie said lie wouici i ,
lot do anything against her vhaies but j
i-e felt very strongly that he should j',
liake a public statement, in justice to
limself and to his friends in the State.
We discussed the matter for some lit:le
time, and Senator Tillman finally ,
said he would not decide at the mo
nent what-he would do, but invited j?
Mr. Baker and myself to come to his;
roo.ms at the Dewey Hotel that night, |
ivhen he would have his mind fully j
nade up. ! j
I went to the Dewey Hotel about 8
>'clock that night, and found in Senaor
Tillman's room Mr. I.ak -r, Mr. T. 1
1. Daniel, of The Spartanburg Herald, c
md Mr. W'vche, Senator Tillman's }
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stenographer. Mr. Murray of the News !
1 Courier e-.'ine in a little while la- I
ter. After a few minutes of general j
conversation Senator Tillman told us J
he had decided to give out a statement., j
and began dictating it to his steyo- ,
graplK r. The dietaries occupied p r- j
haps fifteen or twenty minutes. During
the time of it Senator Tillman
stopped once or twice to weigh a
sentence, but he finished it without
' interruption and without suggestion j
I from anyone present. After taking;
< the statement in shorthand, Mr. "Wyche
wrote it out on' a typewriter and gave
it to Senator Tillman, who read it aloud
to us. He made, as I remember,
but one change in the draft, and
that was a minor one, in the phrasing;
of a sentence. He then told his
stenographer to give copies of it to the
anrerent newspaper men.
A ft or o-PtHnpr tbrnn^h with thic So- I
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nator Tillman drew a long breath and !
then laughed. "I feel that I have sim- \
ply discharged a duty," he said, "and i
now I feel better. I am off the fence." :
I walked from the Dewey Hotel to I
F. street in company with Mr. Daniel I
and Mr. Murray. They had been im- j
pressed, as I had been, with Senator j]
Tillman's force in dictating the state- II
ment, One of us remarked that while I
Senator Till.nan had had a severe ill- j I
ness it had not impaired the vigor ||
of his intellect, and this was heartily j*
agreed to bv the others. Senator Till*
man's statement was filed in the telegraph
office on F. street for transmis- !
sion to the South Carolina papers that I
night. I know that Senator Tillman jl
gave out the statement against the : I
advice of Mrs. Tillman and some of11
his closest friends, and certainly itil
was dictated when nobody was- present H
except those mentioned above, and |
\w.auiit .suggestions of any kind fromjfl
any of them.
(Signed) A. M. Carpenter.
Washington, D. C. January 17, 1913. S
The South Carolina newspapers had!I
hounded Governor Blease so continu-jl
ously during the campaign, had been i
so unfair in their opposition,-that the
people of the State had lost absolute-!
Iv all faith in their honesty, or truth- j
fulness. When the statement appear- j
ea in the newspapers Saturday morn- j
ing, I received a number of telegrams1 j
asking if it was authentic. Many )fj
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my irienas naa Deen misieu u> wvfi- n
nor Blease to that point where they jl
uoubted not only the newspapers, but 11
also doubted me.
The 4th charge of jealously is soil
ridiculous that I cannot bring myself I
to consider it seriously. Ben Tillman I
jealous of Col-3 Blease! It is unthink- H
able and, were 1 to answer it seriously jg
I would be convicted in the minds ofiB
all sen-.ibl-e people in South Carolina |J
of the next charge:
5. Feebleness of mind. Whether my H
mind is feeble or not the people will I
judge for themselves. I am willing If
to leave it to any jury in South Caro- |
lina, Bleaseites or others, whether Ben a
Tillman is feeble-minded or Cole I
Blease is crazy. B
The Bleaie circular issued on Au- J
gust 2r>th, which he republishes in the j
message, says?and he prints it in i ?
capitals?"I have never seen the Fer- 8
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gUSOU anu uiu xivjl iviivyv tvnaij ?
was in it until I saw it in the news- \
papers, and when Gonzales says [did j
and that 'Blease will fight Tillman' I
ie wired what was wilfully untrjfv' I
Notwithstanding Governor Blease's S
leniai i K.;ow that he did fight in n-ore I
counties than one and that his trust- gj
ed lieutenants were very, active in I
marshaling his followers, many of
them once my best friends, to voie
igainst me on the day of the nrimary.
s'ews to this effect came to me i<*o.m
all over the State, and the vote shows
t. I have no doubt whatever that
he Ferguson letter caused me to lose
000 votes, while it gained me about
10,000. This was what.I expected when 1
gave it out, but I could not remain
luiet after :ny confidence had bee;i so
>etrayed. The "midnight staj" of j
>1^ nnmnlaine nipaninpr +] >< latP- i
UUlV/ll lie f
less in the campaign when the letter i
^*as given out?was attributable *o my j
fife's influence. She beggerl me to
stand by my oft-repeated promise to
emain fyands off.
I was elected in spite of him, and he
ras elected in spite of me. I got more
\oi-*s than lie did and feel that i am:
?n??/\BAntotivo r\ t* tllA 1 !
ri ueiltri irpicncumin^ kji v??<_ __
than will ever be; was a better | g
governor than he has made: and have '
made a better senator than he can j/js- 1 "
sibly make. . j 7
While what he says about the May j
Convention and the Southern Railway'
lawyers may be true, he could not I
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wriggle away from the fact that Den ?
Kir^n +v>n T7YO/?IIHV? M^nsini i
tiUHC) 11VC5 Ml tiiv JJAVVUW4. v .
although it is the people's house and jtn
not a hotel. I am informed that "'lis \
I -if
salary is greater than all other Suti-!'
thern Raihvav lawyers in the Stale.: 111
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He is1 the real octopus which stran-j
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?les the legislature and persuades if i
i/-w fir* iiic? hidriinpr nrtd has confprences i ^
with Blease whenever he sees fit
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Governor Blease asks nie speeifica y
to say why I "dragged in the narr. s ^1
>f Colonel Abney and Hon. Sar.i .f. j
uc-holls, and if I did so voluntary," 1-:
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Carload Just Received.
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I have just received a carload of
good, first-class Horses and Mules
4-Vtof- T iamII c^ll roeli /*vorlif av
111UI X VT111 Owi 1U1 VI ^Ullj l/l
will trade.
Come and inspect the stock if
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see what I have to offer you.
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The House of a Thousand Things. j
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Call and see |
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For fresh meats, fish and oysters,
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fancy and staple groceries.
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Phone orders receive prompt at
tention. Phone 261, Coward &
Company's old stand,
1309 Main Street.
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NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. ('ojiJd Sliout for Joj".
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Notice IS nereDV given luui uic un- j j. nam iu LiiaiiA. >vu 11 uiu tuc uuijrsigned
will ma?-e a final settle- j tom ]ny }ieart? wrote C. B. Racier, of
ent as Administrator of the personal j Lewis?urg> w .,for the won(lerM
tate of Carrie Lyles, deceased, in I
e Probate Court of Newberry Cpun-1 double b.eliefit 1 S<" trom Elect Bit?
>--- -">1 ion? I ters. in r-iirinsr me of both a severe ease
, S. C., on ti'iaay, reuruai.y _i, i^?o, ^ _
11 o clock in the forenoon, tind will of st.OM2.cli trouble und of rhounuitism I
imediately thereafter ask for Letters trjm which , had been an a,mos(. ^1
smissory as such administrator. All ,ess sufferer for ten years u sl5jte(J j
rsons indebted to the said estate will j my case ag ,hough made just for mg ?j
ake immediate settlement, and aIljFor dyspepsia, indigestion, jaundice.)
rsons holding claims against the said I and (o rj(J (he svgtem of kldnw. poiso,|s'
t ue will file The same, duly attested,. thal cause rheumattsm> Klectric n(i.
th the undersigned. ,ers have no superior. Try them. Evr;eo.
I). F. Lyles, jerv bottle is guaranteed to satisfy. Only
>i_4t ltaw. Administrator. ? 50 cents at W. E. Pelham & Son's.
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Take Notice!
AI! municipal Licenses for
the Town of Newberry, S. C.,
I?. L_ __?j ? i_r
must oe pam on ur ueiuie
February 1st, 1913. After
that date the penalty pre
a ft 1
scribed by the License Ordinance
will be strictly and
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I ? n am(a^aa<]
prumpiijr cijiuilcu.
By order of Council
J. H SCURRY, ||
Clerk and Treasurer. I
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I I will be in the auditor's office each
. Saturday in January to prepare punj!
si on applications. Will be glad for ^
IJ any one to send in notice of the death
of any of the pensioners.
W. G. Peterson.
Pension Commissioner for Newberry I
County.
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) THE DIAMOND BRAND. * C
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STATE OF ifolJTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF NEWBERRY,
I COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
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George S. Mower, Treasurer of Erskin-e
College, Plaintiff, * %
against
Emma Mahon, Defendant.
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I By virtue of an order of Court herein,
I will sell before the Court House
I at Newberry, South Carolina, Monday,
j the 3rd day of February, 1913, within
; the legal hours of sale, to the highest
[bidder:
All that lot, piece or parcel of land i 4
I lying and situate m tne lown 01 nww!
berry, county and Stale aforesaid, conitaining
one half (1-2) acre, more or I
I less, on the corner of Adams and Cal- ^
| houn street of said town and bounded
i on the north by Calhoun street, on.the
| east and south by land of P. E. Scott
' and M. L. Spearman and on the west
by Adams street.
Terms of sale: One third of the purchase
money to be paid in cash, tha 4
! balance in two equal annual instai- *3
i ments, with interest from day of sale
at the rate of eight per cent, per an- *
num, payable annually until paid ia
| full, the credit portion to be secured
by bond of the purchaser and a mortI
gage of the premises sold, with leave
; to the purchaser to pay all cash?pur- J
chaser to pay for papers and record- M
ing same, and to forthwith insure-the
buildings on the premises in a sum not Ira
less than the credit portion and assign
| the insurance policy to the Master as
additional security.
H. H. Rikard, *
Master. . \
Master's Office, January 13, 1913. 1 j
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FOR SALE. . 3ffB
Unless previously sold at private/
sale, the following property of the
chamber of commerce of Newberry, S.
C.. will bp offered for sale on Friday, 1
11 a. m., January 24, 1913, to wi*-: ?
Two library or office tables, and one
plain.
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