The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, March 21, 1913, Page FIVE, Image 5
SEN AM TILLMAN'S
ANGER IS AROUSED
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TO FIGHT FOR COMMITTEE.
Speaks of Martin's Conduct as
p Despicable and Contrasts their
Services.?Quotes Letter.
Washington, March 18.?"Senator
Martin, after making these voluntary
statements and pledges to me, became'
a member of the steering committee,
which has given him my chairman
ship. Fairness ad decency, it seems'
to me, required him to notify me of!
his change of mind and attitude towards
me. He never, at any time, exit
press-ed any uneasiness about my j
health to me. Had he done so, hisj
conduct would not seem so despica- j
ble."
This is the feature that stands out!
more prominently than anything else!
in a statement issued to th-e press'
I
here today by Senator Tillman, this i
statement being in the speech he j
made before the*senate caucus last:
Saturday on th-e question of committee
assignments and the seniority rule I
when he was refused the chairman-1
ship of the committee on appropriatons.
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Refers to Service.
Senator Tillman then refers to the
fact of his long service for the dem- I
ocratic party and also to the fact that:
he made his first speech in the senate!
which has been designated as "The:
Pitchfork Speech." Deiore tsryau
made his entitled the "Cross of Gold."
Reciting later events in the history
of the party and the part he took in
them, he says he preached the trih?- j
gospel and had as much to do with
*>+ the success of wliat is now called
"progressiveness" as Bryan himself.
That term, properly interpreted in its
essence, he says, is the Chicago plat- i
form and nothing else.
He declared that he did not ask for
sympathy, but for justice, that he
wanted what he was entitled to, and j
nothing more. He then submitted a I
-copy of a letter to Woodrow' Wilson
under date of January 21, 1913, tell- i
ing of the work of the different committees
and asking President Wilson
for his advice as to which chairmanship
he should secure. The reply is
as follows:
January 30, 1913. j
"Brief absence from my office and i
constant absorption with thfe busi- j
ness connected with the opening of
our legislative session here have pre-;
vented my replying sooner to your
most interesting and important letter
of the 21st. I want you to know with
what deep ana genuine aypreciauuii;
I have read it. I thank you for it ;
very warmly, indeed.
"Confidentially, the appropriations
committee is the committee on winch!
you would have the hardest work, but.
your letter convinced me that it is\
also the committee in which your in- j
terest chiefly lies and where you can:
certainly be of the greatest and most
constant service.
"Ever since I was a youngster I
have been deeply interested in our
methods of financial legislation. Ever
since then I have insisted upon the
absolute necessity of a carefully considered
and wisely planned budget,!
and one of the objects I shall have
most in mind when I get to Washing- j
? w-? tt 1 Aflr?C_ I
1011 Will oe CUXiiei^iiccs 1L11 m,y
lative colleagues there with a view tJ ;
bringing some bucget system into ex-j
istence. This business of building up
the expense of the nation, piece by
piece, will certainly lead us to error
and perhaps embarrasment.
"I was very much pleased by your
onH cJiqII Innlr forward with
1 CC1CVHVU C4.J-i.vt. ?w- ?
the greatest interest to being associated
with you in council.
^ "Again thanking you for your
B splendid letter.
"Cordially yours."
This Picture and That.
P "Contrast my service and work for
W the party with Senator Martin's," Sen"
ator Tillman said. "Last summer at1
Baltimore l lea tne souin ^aruxmei
delegation. South Carolina's IS votes \
were cast first, last, and all Lie time i
for Woodrow Wilson, while Virginia, j
led by Martin never did give Wilson !
anv votes until he no longer needed !
them.
"I decided to write another speech
this morning and tell my brother
democrats just how I feel, and then
leave it all to them. I still feel a
great injustice has been done me in
this report. I also feel that Senator
Martin has not acted the noble part I
expected of him as a Virginian, for
not once but twice and even three
times since I came to Washington in j
January ne nas told me ne wanted me i
i
Ito have on the committees whatever
? place I was entitled to and desired;
and he has never notified me.that he
had changed his feelings or purposeSenator
Martin, after making these
voluntary statements and pledges to
me, became a member oi' the steeringj
c*) in in j tt < which has given him my
chairmanship. Fairness and dee licy,
it seems to me, required him to notify
11 1- - on/1 ottitnrlo
lilt! OI HIS cilclllge Ul UUllU auu auivuuv
towards me. He never at any time
expressed any uiuasines about my
health to me. Had he done so, his
conduct would not seem to despicable.
When I talked with him about his
own race for the chairmanship of the
caucus and mentioned to him that
I wanted the committee on appropriations
he advised me to say nothing
about it and keep others guessing,
which I did. It is this phase of the
subject I do not understand.
I would hate to believe there has been
any understanding or any promises or
pledges made. As I have no proof
I must perforce leave any accusations J
unsaid, eui i can not neip me sua-,
picion that there must have been a
deal of some kind or Senator Martin
would not have retired without a show
down.
On the Rack.
"Another phase of this subject and
I am through. I have been on the
rack, as it were, ever since the caucus
met on Monday, last, and have ;
persistently refused to consider getting
up the committee o.i appropriations
or of givir.g up its chairmanship.
It seemed that this demand was
so insistent and so persistent that suspicious
came into my mind, and in
analyzing the situation I grew very
angry. I declared to the gentlemen
of the committee, who came to see
nip about it that if T were turned down
in caucus I would carry the fight into
the senate itself. Yesteraay morning,
when there had been no conclusion
of the case, I went to the capitol and
began writing a speech to be delivered
in caucus and was engaged on it nearly
all day. It was hot enough, I assure
you, so hot it almost burned
the paper it was written on, for I was
angry from the ground up and my
indignation was such that I pulled the
bridle off and gave free rein to my
vitriolic tongue. Some of you who
have heard me ir^days past know that
there are few men who can surpass
me in saying biting and vindictive
things. I was in this frame of mind
last night, but, as is often Xhe case
with men of my temperament, I slept
only two or three hours and tnen
waked up and began to think. All
public men know that some of their
best thoughts and speeches have come
to them in this way. I myself know
that if I could have recollected them
next day, I have made better speeches
in bed than I have -ever made on the
platform or rostrum. When I analyzed
the situation and the conditions here
my anger vanished. I thought how j
mtiful and contemptible in compari- I
son was my fight for my rights and !
the rights of 2ny State as compared j
with the great batle to be fought ' and j
now being fought by democracy forj
the rights of the people. I had
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cn^ugni ana wnueu umtu unuss uui j
my passion was stilled and entirely
disappeared when I remembered
President Wilson's clarion call in the |
last paragraph of his inaugural ad-i
dress:
"I summon all honest men, allj
patriotic, all forward-looking men, to j
my side. God helping me, I will notfail
them, if they will but counsel and ;
sustain me."
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iMfiniiuoiaiiuing v.-- ^ ? ?
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