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m holding two offices is hp a teiv.il ji attku W So Says Senator Tillman?He JT.ide V the oCnstitutlon and Sajs He V Knows Trusteeship >ot An f Offiee Supreme to Contrary. Farmers Tribune. Washington, D. C., March 2, 191f>. Victor B. Cheshire, Esq., /Formers Tribune. An.teison, S. C. "My Dear Sir: Enclose please find my check i:or $3.50, one year's, subscription to The r Anderson FarrDirs Tribune. SomeT l'r?rvn* KoPiinCfi ,Tlo 9 ?OHtJ 1 CIO IIUL rvuv " n av/, WVM.UWV MV / tears his name off before mailing it? r has sent me several copies of it, and 1 like the way you get under people's hides, although you seem to be very unfair and unjust sometimes, espeHff cially to Governor Manning. BfflT I do not have much time to read home papers, but I want to keep in r touch with the State enough to know what is going on and think a good way ?the way perhaps?is to take your paper to learn th<* Blease side of State politics. You, of course, know niv attitude towards Governor t Blease. Politics seem to be getting quite lively in your Congressional district w and I want to keep in touch with them. I always like to read both sides, and from the day it started un^ til a few years ago, I was a subscribl er for The State newspaper, which [ you know was founded by the anti^Tillmanites to abuse and do everyWt thing possible against me. F Very respectfully yours, B. R. TJLLMAX. I Anderson, S. iMiarch 6, 1916. . 1 Hon. B. R. Tillman, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. t Bear Sir: Your letter of Marck 2nd received. A note wt'ii special interest the sentence.. "I like the way you get under people's hides, although you seem to be very unfair cr.o unjust somei'.n.ps ?* pec'? * K'uarJ* -overnor iManmng. inac is raiuei amusing. How do you expect a man who was to the manner born a Tillmanite and v who stood by him s.'aithfully until he forsook bis friends in 1912. to do otherwise than to get under people's liides? I do not admit that I have ever been unfair or unjust to anyone and especially to Governor Manning because those who elected him expected him to bury factionalism and instead of doing that he has been more outer ana more extreme in mis uue than ever was yourself or Blease. In fact, we do not think we have yet # given him what is coming to him. As I understand, you are a United States senator and a trustee of Winthrop College and trustees of Clemson College. If you are serving in these poclfirme tiS+Vi rrvmnrnccinnc vnn arp ivio rlating both the letter and the spirit of your 'State constitution; if you are serving them without commission especially the Senatorship and Winthrop College trusteeship, then you most assuredly are violating a criminal Statute of your State, and Governor 'Manning, in my opinion, holding to the governorship and Clemson Gol lege trusteeship, is al6o violating the law? and I cannot see the difference in one man violating the law and another, except that in my opinion it is | more harm for the learned and eduB cated to violate it than the ignorant. I notice another sentence of your ^ Frank R Hi PiiTia In I... Real Estate, Loar Old Court House HPT The Best Companies A. letter, "You, of-course, know my attitude to*varls Governor Blease.' I i do, and that attitude has been quite a puzzle to me. I happen to know that *? - - ? ?? V* i?- X n xio man nas cvei ueeu uuw iu a iauj. ' i?y than Cole Blease was to the Till: mans. I have heard him speak of the Helena meeting when your life was in imminent danger and he had you carried to his father-in-law's home. I know of his devotion to the princi, ves which vol advocate and I know personal!.-; cl the great service renuerfccl bv nim io your newhew,, my be . loved frier;!, the late lamented Col. Jas. H T.lanan, and it has always Kppn nnite -a surprise to nie that you cnuld have treated him as ungratefully as you did; for, o: all men, it seems to me that you should have been true to him. This sentence makes interesting reading to me for another reason. Your son is a candidate for congress from this District. You will find that the majority of the voters of this district, (and when I say majority I mean by many hundred votes, are Bleaseites and will record their votes for Ble^s? this summer. And I know it will be interesting to them to know that Henry Tillman's father is fighting Cole Blease. it- is certainly mieresung tu me because I am for Mr. Horton for that position. In reference to politics, I beg to advise you that !n my f opinion, from news received from many different parts of the State, that t> t ^ Vi nlnnf Afl cnromrvr thi"? JDiCitSC. ? 111 UC citvibu gv. I J year just as he was in 1912, despite the efforts c yourself, the cotton mill, bank, the railroad and other corporation votes which you have aligned with yourself. Respectfully, VICTOR B. CHHBSHIRE. ^Washington, D. March 14, 1915. Mr. V. B. Cheshire, Anderson, S. C. My Dear Sir: j Your letter of March 6th came in du-j ' course of mail, but pressure of work f work here has prevented an earlier reply. ^*19 I have been rather amused and ! somewhat interested too, in your ac quirements <is an ct 1 hmxv^ opcv-*a.i leader. You say things you want to believe, however unjust or untrue, and then try to convince yourself they are true; and the rest is easy. You go ahead as though it were the truth and argue with that as the foundation '.or your utterances. t am nnt rmitp snro thp matter has been tested in a law-suit, but I am fully satisfied I am breaking no law in being a trustee of Clemson and Winthrop at the time I am holding the position of United, States < senator, i This is such a trival matter that I brush it a6ide as not worth my con sideration, or anyone's serious thought. I know in holding these positions there is no element of illegality or fraud "whatever. I was a life trustee of Clemson and a trustee of Winthrop before the present constitution was made. I helped make that Din cmuinu tdmidic UHU OIUIflHUlI II1UUULL Yields to Delicious Vinol Shreveport, La.?" I had a bad stomach trouble for years and became so weak I could hardly walk or do any work. My appetite was poor, my food would not digest, I bloatea and was very weak and nervous. I tried many remedies without help. I saw Vinol advertised and tried it, and now my stomach trouble is completely cured and I am well."?E. L. Marshall. Vinol is guaranteed to tone up the tired, over-taxed and weakened nerves jf the stomach and create strength. Gilder & WeeKo, Druggisis. New berry, S. C. .. Hunter tsurance is. Stocks & Bonds , Newbeny, S. C. Immediate Coverage r constitution, and I know when the p;o islon prohibiting the "holding of two offices'' was incoi porated in it. 110 thought was given the trusteeship or State Colleges as being "offices." You are simp.'y obsessed on this mat- j ter and you have convinced yourself t.'.at I am breaking the law and, therefore Governor Manning must 'be breaking the law, too. You h.ite both of us so much that you simply cannot be just to either. If I could talk with you a while, I could convince you, I believe,?though you are very hardheaded and having said "the horse is sixteen feet high." you will stick to it or die. You allow your personal prejudices to 'becloud your reason altogether and make you blind to everything except your own belief and feelings. The main purpose 1 have in writing you though, is to correct one statement you make in particular. You say: "I have heard him (Bleas?') speak of tlie Helena meeting when your life was in imminent danger when he carried you into his father-in-law's home.'' [ did not know Blease was in the crowd. I suspect he was. I rememoer he was a member of the legislature at the time and was on the stand. These are the facts, however: When Dickert ran up the steps and s'.apped Youmans' on the back, shouting, "Stand up to him, Youmans; I am here," a great commotion arose. My > riends who were on the stand jumped to their feet and closed in around me. Everybody in the crowd seemed to rush for the stand, expecting a fig"n.t. I will always believe there liad been a conspiracy to kill me that day. The Sheppard men were on the upper side of the hill and could get on the stand easily, but the Tilimanites, wlio were on tlie ground on the other three sides, had to clamber up by jumping and catching the top of the banister with their hands; and it was this climbing that broke the stand down. When the d tCtll d fell the men around me seized liold and elevated me above their heads in full view of any enemy who wanted to assassinate me by shooting. I protested ana Deggea w be put down but they did not heed me. They went whooping and shouting around through the Sheppardites. Gus White led, brandishing a walking stick. He made for the Sheppar^ banner, a crowning rooster which towered h'>h above the heads of pvery-body, and smashed it to pieces. As only two men could carry me, they grew tired in a little while, and the shrieking Tillmanites who surrounded these two had me carried into, some man's yard, I do not know whose and put me on the piazza. .-I toid them I would not make anv sneech unlesv Sheppard did and insisted on Deing carried back to the wrecked stand where the meeting was held. Sheppard agreed he would not make any speech, if I did not. So the meeting was adjourned. Blease ttiav have helDed them: T do not know. But I do know this: He" did not save my life. The reason I was not sh.ot was. because no man dared ! pull a pistol or shoot, knowing his i own li.e would toe immediately for| feited. If Blease were an honest man, he would not claim to have "saved my life," because he knows it. is not true. ! There were at least 15 or 20 who surrounded me on the platform when. Dickert ran up the stops, because he was known to be a very dangerous man and they thought he intended to shoot me. If the stand had not fallen down, I do not know what would have (happened. The rumor had gotten abroad that they expected to kill me, i that day, and that is the reason so I I many men from Edgefield (now Sa-, luda), were at the meeting. Gus j White was my life-long friend, we having gone to school together at Bethany Academy in '60 and '61. You speak about my having treated him "ungratefully." Any cool-neaaeti j man who will think a little and know J the facts will acknowledge that I did j more '-or Blease than Blease ever did for me. I was true to him as long as he was true to himself, and to the real purposes and principles of Tillmanism; but when he played dema; gogue and showed plainly that his ! own personal ambitions alone governI . . 9 _ J A. _ . _ j ea mm, l ceaseu 10 support mm ur I have anything to do with him, and : fought him for all I was worth. I do not regret it at all. He has made his place in South Carolina and the peo; pie will settle with him Lometime, if j not this year. Having made his bed he must lie in it. You speak about Henry Tillman's candidacy for Congress; and prophesy, or threaten, I don't know which, that the majority of the voters in that district are Bleaseites and will record their votes for Blease this summer." I Vnow they were bleaseites in the last election; but Henry Tillman has nothing to do with that. Having been shorn my sou, he cannot-hefp the-relationship; and I believe he is proud, ' I of it. I know I am proud of him. Any voter who will oppose him because : i thought it my duty to oppose Blease is welcome to do it, or that is the j privilege of all white Democrats. j I have the proud satisfaction of he-! licving I had as much to do with bringing about the present condition of affairs in South Cafolina as any one i else?I mean allowing all white m^n a voice in the government, high, or low, rich or poor. And I believe blinded as you are with prejudice and venom, you will acknowledge this; for there is a good streak in you &fter all. You have simply gone ycraz on that point; that is all. ' If the people of that district pre fer some one else to my son as congressman, it is their right and duty to so vote; and I shall not object. So!1 I say to you, personally, and to those ? who believe as you do, go ahead and do your utmost and vote for whom you please. Throw merit character, i ' abilty and e\erything else, to the dogs and be governed by prejudice only.! You have the right to vote for your man, and Henry Tillman must win his spurs as 1 did, or not wear them. 1 j am not trying to help him, and did not j write to you with that ooject in view, j it is his fight, not mine; I could not: help him if I would?I would not if I could?except in a natural and le^iti- j mate way. No one knows better than I do that there are thousands and tens of thou-! sands of Bleaseites who have been my j friends andaremyfriends still?as good honest citizens and Democrats as we ! have?though they persuaded them-; selves four years ago that they ought to vote against me and did so; all simply because I wrote the Ferguson letter. I knew that letter would cost me many thousands of votes, but I wrote it because I thought it my duty to write it. If you will think about it long enough, and In cold blood you 11 \?, , Ui 1 i 3. I pljjl I! ! ? ! i | * What Splendid I Light j the RAYOGi/es! i It n- TTS glow is so soft and bright that you | can read all evening I L without tiring your eyes. 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We catch cold because our system has become weakened and finds itself unable to throw off the Cold germs. Nature in some cases will effect a cure; but generally, without aid we get worse. How much wiser to help nature fight and expel these cold germs! For Fresh - V i have just i stock of Candy. ? covered dates, p marshmellows, cb chocolate peanut The best for Mayes' Book j The House of a -tmamummmmmmmmmammmmmmmammmmmmmmammmmammmmammmmmmmmmmmaam will realize before death that duty per- omed is a man's greatest asset, and when he comes -to die will yield him most comfort. ] would like to discuss.Tillman and the Reform Movement in South Carolina in ereneral and What Tillman has done for the State for your benefit and to refresh your memory on some things you have fcrgotten;. but this letter is already too long, and I forego that, especially as I am very busy ? ? j V.o 1-/1 Tint tVio fimp lime auu lia t t uuv VVV.1UU.v, Very sincerely yours, B. R. TILLMAiN. 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