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ULLMAN 800RBB "THE AMERICAN." Says Charleston Paper Filched Article He Had Withdrawn from Publication. Washington, June 9?Senator Tillman gave out the following statement in reply to Governor Mannings open letter addressed to him under date of June 1: ! Kfrva nn Haoirn tn n noatinn flnv ernor Manning's personal patriotism hwt there are some features of his attitude in regard ,to the selection of * successor to the office I now hold that I feel compelled to deal with. To quote his own words: "This is a time, however, if I may remark it, which demands self-abnegation and the subordination of selfish or ambitious aims." This patent truth stated with such clearness causes me to wonder how Governor Manning can justify the urging of Mr. Lever to give up the chairmanship of one ot the great committees in the houseto offer for the senate. Mr. Lever had in this crisis an opportunity such as comes to few men to serve the farmers of South Ourolina. This he has thrown away to run for the senate and also attempt to jeopardise the chairmanship of the commit tee on naval arrairs or me senaie. n I am not re?elected the state loses the chairmanship of the committee on naval affairs. If Mr. Lever should win he will go to the foot of all the committees on which he will serve, and so will Blease. Did Governor Manning consider the state's best interests when he advised and persuaded Mr. Lever to throw away the chairmanship of the committee on agriculture of the house to go into a race for the senate? The state had successfully passed through the floating of more than its share of the Liberty loan. This is evidence enough that the state of South Carolina was loyal and true and earnestly behind the President and the war. rr?ui~ f t K_ 1 LI AD Uf CI SU UOt I IU IUC JUi U erty bonds issue and the generous contributions to the lied Cross on the part of the people of South Carolina completely refutes Governor Manning's statement 10 the president and Mr. Lever's assertion in his announcement that the causes of the war and the objects for which our country are fighting will have to be explained in great detail on the stump this summer in every county or Blease will be elected and the people of South Carolina will go on record as disloyal and opposed to the wur T^ni- invnalf T litivp no Hnnht about the patriotism and loyalty of the people of South Carolina and they are just as well informed as some people who set themselves up to be their leaders. 1 have no hesitation in resenting such misrepresentations of their loyalty and patriotism. I fully share the opinion of President Wilson, who in his last address to congress said: "Pontics is adjourned. The elections will go to those who think least of it; to those who go to the constituencies without explanations or excuses, with a plain record of duty faithfully and disinterestedly performed. I, for Qne, am always confident that the people of this country will give a just verdict upon the service of the men who act for them when the facis are such that no man can disguise or conceal them. There is no danger of deceit now." How does this statement of President Wilson's compare with Govern ?? 1 ?_ 1 -Ai o or Aianniiit; h open lener 10 me . Governor Manning says: "My opinion was and is that it is imperaitve for him < Lilease > to be met in debate at every meeting so as to keep the true and vital issues of the war and loyalty to our country und government before the people," also, "That we in South Carolina could not take a chance on this issue; that it was a state and a notional duty to see to it that South Carolina was represented in the United States senate by one who was, and is, loyal to the United States und a strong supporter ct President Wilson and his administration. Biease do--a not fill the requirements." Here is the crux of the situation: Governor Manning was not willing to trust the people with making their own nomination for senator and he, with the aid of a very small coterie of politicians, set to work to make a seuato satisfactory to Governor Manning. Naturally Governor Manning ?s concerned in flip Hpf Pi) I nf Itlpoup Thic i u no new sensation to him; he has called on me in times past to bring about this much desired event and I contributed something to that end, notably when he himself was in the race two years ago for governor, but now he thinks it advisable to get someone else to "bell the cat." What ? transformed and obiquitous statesman h? is when it comes to making it possible to elect a senator from that of two years ago when the issue was on the election of a governor. I want to say in this connection thvif when the second race was on be tween .Manning and Hlease 1 issued over my own signature a letter in which I tied Hlease and McLaurin together; I outlined the iniquities connected with the proposed deal, etc., and had this statement ready for the printer when Mr. Lever came to Trenton in the hot weather in early September in an automobile with the curtains down and returning to Columbia after dark to get this anti-Blease document to the | printers, keeping it a secret as to the j part he was taking in the election. Governor Manning's opinion as well as Mr. Lever's as to mjr ability to defeat Blease by newspaper com. munications and my own plan of campaign bave evidently undergone a considerable change in their minds. The blunt truth about the matter j is: Governor Manning has recently been in the business of making aj senator for the people of South Caro-1 lia to swallow. To carry his plans through he even went to Washington and tried to get the President and Postmaster General Burleson to help. him, making the specious statement that Tillman could not defeat Blease. He was asked who in his Judgment: could defeat Blease in South Carolina and Governor Manning named ' ,Mr. Lever us his candidate. Governor Manning has been instrumental in taking from a place of usefulness a young man whose career was full I of Dromise and noasibilities and of fered hitn as a sacrifice to nothing less than vanity and bullheadness.1 If there are any two persons in South Carolina who have more cause to be1 H ateful to me for service than Gov.' ai .unong and Mr. Lever, I do not remember who they are. Neither will deny what I have done for them nor; attempt to belittle its value. If they j want me to specify I will do so. ! There is one striking feature about l Governor Manning's open letter to' me. In his egotism and vanity he: ; makes no effort to conceal the fact' ihvit he has tried to use President i j Wilson and Mr. Burleson and create ,the impression that Blease is a men-; ace. J ust how far the good people of j the state will resent this 1 am unable ;to $ay, but there is a big difference in re-electing Tillman to the semite and re-electing Man ' .g governor, i iThis statement will find its vindica-1 tion later on. Mr. Lever has stated to me and I 'also to others that he would under no! circumstances run against me but | would aid me in every way he could! ! in my re-election. After my anuouncement I knew that General Burleson advised Mr. Lever to declare for my-reelection. But in spite .if hiu nrniooinllnn. ?? ? 1 1 v/i uio |/* wvobavivuo ui yci ouuai auu political friendship, Mr. Lever has j ' endeavored to create the impression I in the state that he is the candidate' of the administration when he in l'act is Governor Manning's candi- j dale brought about by a deal thatj iiovernor Manning thought he had i i..ude but the terms of which could : not be complied with. 1 am amused at one sentence in! Governor Manning's letter. It is this: j "My views would have been offered to you with equal frankness had you sought them, but I did not feel justified in volunteering advice to you." I Vet the governor did feel justified' I in advising Mr. Lever to run against . me. I will remind the governor that it had been his habit when visiting Washington or merely passing (through to always call at the senate committee on naval affairs to pay i his respects and exchange views with i : me, but when he came on the errand of hunting a champion of the government to defend and explain our entering into the war and the neces- j sity for its vigorous prosecution, he never deigned to call at my office; at all. In this he erred. When he j wine to Washington senator-mak ir.g. I would have listened to all he ' trad to say with respectful attention' and he might have saved his face in this controversy of his own making, a3 his message to me through General Burleson referred to in his letter was never delivered. How exalted he considered his views to be!, Instead, he went about secretly to persuade Piesident Wilson and the cabinet members that Blease would . beat me unless some one would defend the president and meet Blease on the stump. 1 desire to say here that neither the president nor uny member of his cabinet have suggested to uie that 1 should retire from im- senatorial race, i nus me people of South Carolina can see for themselves how Governor Manning has with a few men in Columbia und scat-, tered here and there over the state endeavored to name the officeholders and frame-up a state for the senatorship. I am offering for the senate through a sense of duty to retain for South Carolina the influence and prestige she enjoys today. 1 have a contempt for that kind of judgment and politics which has taken Mr. Lever from the post where duty should have held him. Hlease is not a menace to me and there is not the slightest danger of his election. The recent Democratic state convention consisting of delegates from 44 coun-1 ties contained Blease delegations from only three counties. Seventy five per cent of the delegates to that convention were and are for my re-, election to the senate and the cor-! dial greeting and the interest manifested when 1 appeared before that convention is a sufficient answer to! those who have studiously circulated! the report that I was physically and mentally unfit tb discharge the dut-l les or senator. There are many other South Car- , >olianians just as capable as Mr. Lever to fill the position of senator as acceptably as Mr. Lever could fill! it, and who have been urged to run, but they have declined Liking the po-1 sit Ion that they did not want to jeopardize the chairmanship of the i committee on naval affairs so valuable to the state, and they did not think I should retire at this time in |the nation's crisis. Whether it was selfish ambition or | patriotism that dictated Gov. Man- : j ningg's action in urging Mr. Lever ;to run for the senatorshlp, when Mr. Lever had promised to support nae, and endeavoring to secure the sup port of President Wilson and hit ad- tj ministration in behalf of Mr. Lmr t| by questioning the loyalty and pa- f] triotism of the people of the state, a I will leare to the voters of the b' state to decide. B. R. TILLMAN, u o tl SENATOR TILLMAN tl IN OPEN LETTER P tl How His Reply to Got. Manning s; Was Printed. Full Story T0I4 j It By Senator ' -A Washington, June 13.?Senator J Tillman has given out the following! open letter for publication: E Washington, D. C., June 12, 1918. j Editor The American, Charleston, | tl S. C.: I have Just seen a copy of your e paper of June 10. ! hud already re- * ceived notice that my article answer- S ing Governor Manning was published c in full. c That you have scored one and 8 made a "scoop" is granted, but let 8 me see whether or not you have dealt a honestly and as one gentleman usually deals with another. tl You say "he does not furnish his ll speeches in advance to The Ameri- ^ can." You have a correspondent in e W'nshinptnn anri (ho State anit the f News and Courier have correapon- f dents here. Whenever either of the v newspaper men come to my office * and ask for news it is given them. 1 Your correspondent could if he want- * ed to, get any news item or any ? speech that either of the others get. v There has never been any instrac- * tions against him, and I believe he f will bear me out that he has always J11 received courteous treatment when in iny office. The Manning article vi just published by you was for a The State and The News and Ir Courier, and when I decided to kill 1 the article I notified both that I w wanted it done. You have seen the 0 result. I notice you justify publishing c the article whh the excuse: "Had he a treated The American with any consideration and sent it a copy it would " have held his statement in confi- h dence." Had Cottrell - called at my " otiice he would have gotten a copy, es f the other correspondents did, and been requested by me to kill it, as the others were. Because you have v some subterranean way of getting a news from Columbia you justify this c breach of faith implied by decent ? amenities, and gloat in your wick- a edness with a lame excuse, based v upon a false deduction, if not a false s' premise. Poor vagabond of the news paper world! Representing the anti- e war, anti - Wilson, anti - patriotic ^ view of today's ;tragic conditions a twice debarred from the second clviss mails for former disloyal utterances, you now show the shining yellow of your conglomerate character, gloating over filching to publish ! e a newspaper article I saw fit to with- j draw from publication. y I would not answer you at all were : o it not to expose your purpose. 1 q In the first place, you are happy |g over a controversy between Govern- tl or Manning and myself. Your are B happy that Mr. Lever has been drawn tl into the fight with men for the Sen- ?< ate. Why? Because the patron saint! q of the modern Reform movement I n so-called, is your candidate for the ; jc Senate. I n You fain would create discord I h among the opponents of Blease, with t, a hope of a second primary, and in j order that that worthy may save his i l| apparent leadership and make a feal I 0 contest out of the race this summer. u What care you that an old man, |c, naturally militant, has seen fit to : f j curb his tongue in order that fric- J s, tion and hot politics may be avoided. 11 in the interest of pence at home and|a war on the common enemy? HaveiS we not enough to do in fighting Germany to cause all of us to btand j, steady and wait patiently, and act {] frankly in dealing with one another? f Is there not every reason in the world for peace in South Carolina and j avoidance of factionalism? How avid t and active you grow in sowing seed1 ? of trouble, and how you stoop to t get means of creating more friction i; between Mr. Lever, Governor Man-|v ning and myself is now known of v all men. 0 Mark me, so-called "American." I want to uuote you a line or more from a letter recently signed by the Governor of South Carolina to one of the United States Senators: "This' o rt nine, ii i may reniarK it, which! demands self-abnegation and the sub' ordination of selfish or ambitious j ends." 1 commend this sentence to your earnest consideration. Your aim in filching this article was to get' iilease votes for the Senate. I am' glad to believe that there is so muoh real Americanism in South Carolina at this time you will fall in your; purpose. Since my artice has reached your readers, and 1 am emboldened to believe you will publish my reply ] to you in common decency, let me say to those who are reading your j paper: In a contest between Mr. Lever and Mr. Mease 1 can find virtue in i.evcr's loyalty to the present administration, his soundness in DemocraI1C princinles and his clean nprann. stI ami official habits and conduct. If ho is young and more or less heady, 011 the subject <>I becoming a Senator it is a worthy ambition, because he will make a better, safer, saner,: more active and intelligent Senatorj than Governor Blease has shown by i his record he is capable of doing. | There is little hope of reaching, through the mental darkness and'; Boiled patriotism of The American and stimulating your heart to manly, open, noble purposes, but I want your readers to know at this time 'I believe It to be my'duty to my coun-' hiL. r to lore It; support its Ooostite-; on; so obey its lows; to rospoet its lop and to defend it npainst all eneiles," and I appeal to thorn to foresoar allepiance to that kind of pubcation that will technically commit lieft in order to cause friction amonp lie people of South Carolina. I reeat what I hare already said more lian once: "To hell with all German rmpathisers and God bless Wilson." I is the war cry of all patriotic .mericans. B. R. TILLMAN. . o Card from Mr. Be the*. Editor of The Herald: There seems to be some doubt in be minds of my friends as to whethr I entered into an agreement to rithdraw from the race for the State enate from Dillon County on the ondltion that the other proposed andidates should do likewise. I deire to state that I did enter into uch an agreement an intend to bide by the same. I consented to Mr. Lane's propoeiion 'or two reasons. First I desired o assist in paying to Dr. John H. >avid a compliment which I considred that he deserved. He is my riend and was my fathers life-long riend. I believe that he would rorthily represent Dillon county in he State Senate and I do not believe hat the statement will be disputed hat Dillon county has a more proressive or public-spirited citixen han Dr. David. Secondly I felt that >r. David was a man who had made supreme sacrifice for his country a its hour of great peril. Having the above in mind I laid side my own persoual ambitions ud consented to withdraw from the ace for the State Senate on condiion that the others did the same. It fas my understanding at the time I onsented to this that every proposed anaiame rati entered into tne same greement. Had I known that my announcelent was in The Herald I would ave made this statement last week, ut I thought it had been withdrawn rom publication. As matters now stand 1 am unable o say what my attitude in the future rill be and cannot make a definite nnouncement at this time, as it is ontingent upon whether or not the ther candidates will stand by the greement as 1 understood it and rhether or not Dr. David will conont to run on said conditions. Thanking my friends for their genrous offers of support and their ind expressions of confidence, 1 m. Very truly, P. L. BETHEA. o Card from Mr. Ijane. Iditor of The Herald: Will you please allow mc space in our columns to satisfy the curiosity f a very few people and answer the uestion that has been askd with reard to my motive in suggesting to he prospective candidates that we land aside for Dr. J. H. David and heir motive in agreeing to do so. It eems absurd to have to answer the uestion but of course it is but hulan to ask questions and to wish to now the why and wherefore and if o answer is received it is also but uman nature for each one to try 3 answer it himself. On account of which fact it seems hat some few think that I and the thers, and especially I, had some lterior motive, it not being coneivable that one can do an unselish thing in this world. I want to ay however in the beginning that iiiiujk iuc ifiicsuuu lias utxii Iiuuij , mply, honorably and eloquently anwered by Mr. R. S. Rogers in the ist issue of this paper. His heart eats right for his country and for be boys who are fighting at the ront. The boys in France, at Camp ackson, at Ca.np Sevier, and at all he far flung battle fronts take the iillon Herald and when they read he noble response of R. S. Rogers o my letter, their hearts will fill kith pride and they will feel that /hile they fight on the battle fields f France, the people at home are Tins is the Pi AD Loyal Am 14th to June Signature Pott Office TO THE SECRETARY I, the above signed In addition to those i agree to buy War Ser as shown in margin at I FURTHER PLEDGE SAVE AND EOONOMI WIN THE WAR. Total War 8 tamp* may bo boat behind them and ?|rtdite their deeds, and that if perchance thay fall I and die the daath of martyrs, sacrificing their lives to their country's * honor, that they will not have fallen in ruin and that at every opportuni- ' ty the people at home wHl honor v their memory if they can do nothing ? else. This then was my object and I ^ feel that it was the object of all con- j cverned to see that no opportunity is ' lost to honor true patriotism. " Yet I will say for myself that I was selfish to a certain extant and a|.A hAW maiUa la jdiov UdU flftIK UllVI IVI KUVMTV. 4 U?% ?0 1 wanted the honor of being the one | ! to suggest the plan and to have some I of the credit for putting the plan In I motion and speeding It along to e i certain extent. Now then if this be a wrong motive or an ulterior motive; if it be an offense to desire to see a man elected to the Senate whose every < thought is and will be for the boys e<j in the trenches; if it be sin to desire Qf | to see a man in the Senate who has |or i given his only son for the honor of ]or ' his country; if it be a sin to honor j Qf | patro'itism and devotion to one's j country; if it be a sin to foresee ipja that the next few years will be a crit ical period for this great country of ours and to desire to see able men of the age of Dr. David in office (for younger men may find more arduous and onerous tasks by which they *e may serve their country that older men can not )then I am a sinner of ? . the deepest dye and hod a selfish I motive. |a" As for my political ambitions: Now since withdrawing from the senatorial race I have none. I have ? ks much work as I can do in my of- pe fice and all I covet for myself is the friendship and the good will of the people, and my main interest right now is to press forward the drive for an war savings stamps, for I want none of ou: sodiers to feel downhearted Cll on account of any failure of the people to stand behind them. Very truly, " JOE P. LANE. pa Lacks a Home. U; "De kind of charity dat begins at home," said Uncle Eben, "mos'ly a la' g. got no home." Amfpicav Wavy R j dua/tofrca* arr&rm fSH/f S\ OKIES In the Amtrt| can navy are classed as the best fed body of men In the world. 4 In the ship's galleys I every effort Is made to " eliminate waste. In the upper photo one of the cooks on tha North Dakota Is operating a meat sllcer that cuts bacon with tha least possible wastage. . f'ai i? fuel for fighters. Bacon Is | badly needed In th? allied nrtnles and I navies. The allied needs In pork products ure lfi0.000.000 pounds monthly, ' three times as much as before the war. Anotherwasteellmlnator on the North Dakota Is the potato peeler, shown in ta j the lower photo. Nothing Is lost ex- ev j *ept the actual potato skin. | an There Is a sufficient quantity of po-! let atriotic Pledge That Will I erieans In South Carolina 28th: i No Street Cow H Da NO. a # OF THI UNITED STATES TREASURY: Numb i cemiy mai i now own low owned, 11 JUNE Inge Stamps I Cost $4.17 each right J JULY Coat $4.18 each AUGUST Cost $4.19 each 3 MYSELF TO SEPTEMBER ZE. TO HELP Cost $4.20 each.. OCTOBER Cost $4.21 each NOVEMBER Cost $4.22 each DECEMBER Cost $4.23 each......... tarings Stamps Owned and Pledged Solicitor's Signature Eht from Post Offices, Banks and Authorised i v' 1V < - a'- V;*oKi o More Cotton Bloaaom Cotton blossoms have boon recelvfrom Morris Fass, M. B. Brlgman, Mallory. Luther McDonald, Maiy. Route 1, J. F. Hartley. Maly. and Monday Daniel B. 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