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W ' AMKRCMAJI" BBr PLDBB TO T1LLMM. OhtflutOB Rytr Gives Its Bide of tike Mannlnc^Lever-TtUman Controversy. t Inasmuch as The Herald published last week the "Tillman-Manning Letter" and the letter of Senator Till- ! man to the Charleston American, it la nothing; but fair to publish The |1 American's reply to Senator Tillman, J and the same is reproduced below: j' ton. B. R. Tillman, 1 U. S. Senate, 1 Washington, D. C. Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of';< your letter of June 12, immediately I upon its receipt I wired you: , June 14, 1918.! Hon. B. R. Tillman. U. S. Senate, j Washington, D. C. Tour letter June 12 received. WiU | give me great pleasure to publish it on oar front page tomorrow morning end of course I will reserve right to answer and publish my answer at same time. Meantime I thank you for its courteous, gentlemanly, considerate tone, for your characteristic ingenuousness, for your sudden conversion to the avoidance of "friction and hot politics;" also the quotation of Manning scripture and for , your kind words about Levqr, notwithstanding in your opinion these worthies were recently "lying like the deril" about you. It is to laugh. "Let the heathen rage." Also, in another aphorism wltfch was once a favorite of yours, "the galled jade winces, my withers are unwrung." Editor Charleston American. You will see by the tone of this d telegram that I do not take your ^uiuiiig Heriousiy, dui mai ratn^r i shall turn upon you your own bat- J teries, taken from time to time, from | positions which you abandoned in your general retreat into the land of dotage. You are familiar, for instance * with the word "ingenuousness." It was one of your ready defenses when 1 with very awkward fumbling you 1 sought to extricate yourself from 1 t velt left you over the Oregon lots. J v*t eft you over the Oregon lots., r Perhaps you remember it. You will also recall your very re- ' cent use of the term "lying like the * devil;" and how when you at once * tried to climb aboard th?s Blease 1 wagon after his first election when it ^ was still your policy to denounce the. ^ newspapers which were then, as now, f so savagely upon his back, you wired c him congratulations saying. "Let the H heathen rage." And was it not of f Orover Cleveland that you said:"Let ' that galled jade wince; my withers a are unwrung." ^ Not only has The American treated e you, as everyone, fairly, but we have* 1 disregarded your own habit of real , uniairness toward us in our effort * , to publish the news, giving you al- c ways lull credit for whatever in e your public way you have been abld 5 to do of value to your constituents. a vVe need only to refer to our files r to prove this. However, it must be 1 said that for a long time back your J net output has been more in the na-ja ture of garrulous interviews than 1 substantial accomplishment. It is c well known that you are nothing s more than titular head of the com-J* mittee on naval affairs. During the1 past few years of tremendous naval development Norfolk, whose senator |? is In reality the chairman of that J kvuiuuiKc, 11 art ucrn piling up 1111- j provements, work and appropriations for that beehive of activity, while 1 you have put us off with recurrent ' "investigations." Even today the em-'r ployees of the Charleston yard are |1 holding meetings to devise some j1 plan to keep enough work here to |1 prevent a general exodus of an ex-i^ pert force that may never be replac-1e ,ed. Your "chairmanship" of this *v committee has become for Charles- 1 ton a sardonic joke. Was it also be- 1 .cause of your prestige in this great 1 post that you recently succeeded in v keeping us from getting a shipyard f even after the contracts had actual- j ly been signed to bring it here? But you should be more than ,chairman of the naval committee. 4 It is now more than six years since M we read carefully your gratuitous^ advice to our then President-elect j Wilson on h >w to run the govern- a ment, weaving into this piece of customary sycophc.. y your claim by seniority for the manship of the senate committee on appropriations. You were entiled to it, and yours is the only case on record in which exception was made i > the established rule. The president's ;. titude, and that of your Democratic conferees, was that while time and precedent entitled you to it, you were incompetent, and you were shunted off to the nominal chairmanship of a committee which is those days of pacifism gave you nothing to do and was quite suited to your recognized irresponsibility. Not only is the won- i derful efficiency of our navy due pacity of the personnel of its offipacity of th?| personnel of its officers, who as experts merely tell the senate what to do. hut whon hv i? k advent of war, the senate committee I % grew somewhat important, you were t brushed aside in auctual practice f for Swanson, who is so thoroughly i capable. Nor will it make any differ- ? ence, if, as a matter of "senatorial 1 courtesy," Swanson should disclaim \ this; everybody knows it. c But as to your charge of unfair- i ness. On June 1, at a late night hdur < wq received the following telegram J1 from our Washington correspondent: 1 Washington. D. C.. June 1, 1 1918. The American, Charles- Sr ton, S. C. : Tillman has mailed , be oat a statement which carries an implied indorsement from ; on the administration of his work. ah Says he sent the American a sta copy. 1 don't know whether this ! w< is true. He has no extra copy, ' as he says. COTTRELL. ne This was our first intimation that ce< you were about to launch endorse- dei meats from'Washington rather than acl leave your case to the people of. th? South Carolina, whom for the purpose of getting their votes you be- Pe< lieve in "trusting." You will notice ha that even then, or as the lawyers say, "an: *s a part of the res gestate of the so' :ase, our correspondent doubted i. i l?t you were dealing with him frankly, th? Tor he vh nf -*- * * """ .. jvui siaieiueDi IQ&l i 1 u rou had Bent The American a copy: we 'I do not know whether this is true." 801 Why should he have even then doub-' Th ted you? Could there have been any- lln thing lacking in frankness, some- as thing "disingenuous" in your man- jani ir which left doubt in his mind that wh rou had done in this case what you ar< lever have done?send your effus-1to : ions to The American? All the cir-,wl1 :umstances corroborate his lurking ^n' loubt, for immediately upon the re-! :eipt of his wire, though late at,me light, we made another thorough y?l learch of our malls, and failing to \ oul tind it, we had a staff consultation;e<* >ver its importance, and it was only onl ifter we decided it was too late then (ba< '.o wire you or him that we resolved y?' :o take the chance of being "scoop-1ne, id" by our competitors. We put the 8iv 'acts of the telegram together and jl*01 mplied that as you had "sent" ne] (mailed presumably) the statement; rom Washington that day, we stood ittle chance to be scooped, as infera- hsu >ly you had also "sent" (mailed) aitl0! :opy to our competitors. But it jar-.am Qrl A? uui news nerves when the 1 lext morning we saw the full story. b>" n our competitor, manifestly not sta 'sent" by you from Washington but clr< 'handed" by you to its representa- spr ive there, who wired it in. J Of Naturally we regarded it as news me which our readers should have; sotfec we put our pride in our pocket andou| 'epublished it the following day. 0(^' \nd it was news because even cer .hough it was but the sad, sad story cor >f "an old man naturally militant," wb t was written in a sensational tone;b'u >y him before he decided to "curb afr lis tongue in order tbat friction and an< tot politics may be avoided." It p< vas anything but "peace at home and mo var on the common enemy," and be- 1 ore its author i-ealized th<; timei had lbe oine for "peace in South Carolina Lllfl tlvniHonoo "4{ 1 * ** " * ui launuuausm." It airly bristled with pointed factional wei layonets, shrapnel of crimination .gainst Manning, whose soothing ed vords yoli now quote and with high yot explosives of ridicule against the pre renchery and presumption of Lever ,ai vhose "young and" more or less sus leady" ambitions you now actually j 1 ommend. Therefore, we publish it,' ?'d even though copied, and I can assure 'ou it brought forth comment from prc imazed readers, ghosts of which will an eappear before you while the cam- lia> >aign lasts. Nor did you "send '/he American" ro*' Ti| i copy of your furtuer statement in 1,1 eply to Manning. Again you left us ?ut in the cold. You admit this your- old el!', which luckily makes it unnec- ,llu ssary for our correspondent to ques- ^ni ion your "memory." For you say: jtini "The Manning article just publish- fro >d by you was furnished McGowan tnd Murray, for the State and the lo s'ews and Courier. Had Cottrell call-j[ >d at my office he would have got-' v I Til en a copy, etc." Perhaps he did not mow you had issued it, but at any ? ate, what reason had he to suppose am liat VOU hari nnt oooin "annt"' l? "a - otm. II IU , is? He knows by now that in impor-j ant matters you "send" to us, evi- ear lently by some lame mail that nev;r arrives, whereas, you "give" to ? our new-found friends among our ^ ivals. Unless they are ready to renounce the graves of tbeir dead and he malice of their living I shall be ro rery much mistaken if before this ^n( iummer is over they shall net be ' e 'handing" something to you. I But the principal deceit of your ^on etter is the way you insinuate j*^ra hroughout that it was written be-' ? ore you had any idea that Lever j *7? vas out the race. You say: rea "In a contest between Mr. Liiver i tjje ind Mr. Blease I can find virtue in|Th, over's loyalty to the present admin-1 j stration, his soundness in Democra- j j.ja, ic principles and his clean personal fin. ind official habits and conduct. If ma le is young and more or less heady >n the subject of becoming a sena- kic ?. io a. wunuy amDiuon because le will make a better, safer, saner, Go( nore active and intelligent senator eve h.in Governor Blease has shown by;boa ?is record he is capable of doing." |Gei Every word of this and many oth->to ?r parts of your letter pretend that thi; 'uu contemplate Lever as at the Sor inie a rival where..s the incontrover-; car ibl<\ record is that > ?,'. were morally; the f not actually, sure that he had de-|onc ermined to withdraw. All except the I v ast short letter of the correspond-, be rnce beween Mr. Levor and tho pres- tlia dent were written before you wrote |crii rour letter to me and the public re-|ly iort had gono out in Charleston, | manating it is alleged, from a mes- not lage from you, stating that he had syr vithdrawan before you took up your not vp* writer i,?i ballyrag ??? an.? .Toak yot 'or the first time in many bitter for veeks in praise of Lever, actua'V/ is luoting Manning's virtuous advise, pit vhlch you so lat-*/ savegely denoun- "111 ed. Don't you see, senator, your are to he same old hypocrite, and that your per lypocrisy is as easily penetrable as pai n tho days when you condemned by aft and did business with Habbell we hind the door? ba And now you condemn us for doing he ly what you yourself, solely and cr< >ne originated. You wrote that EL dement which we only published, e admit that wo published it both a matter of highly interesting .s> ws, ar.d also because you had sucided in damning in a moment of ifU operation Lever, Manning and your itic f, pulling down upon your head to } slimy structure which your muil silonce had imposed upon the Au )ple. Very well. Why shouldn't we tl,i ve published it? Were we under <je] y obligation whatsoever not to do ioa ? Those to whom you "gave" the p0i ter may reckon with you upon ne\ } question of honor as they will. sta at is their affair. But you admit r..? -F got it only through what we call jng lie "subterranean way." Granted, he is only proves that you are ming- ing g with friends you cannot trust. ere we have bo often admonished you, wh i that you have deserted friends ino o no longer trust you, and who aea ; ready for the sake of the cause Bnatch the chance to let the rogues pja 0 have fallen out tell what they Wh ow. Por Vou not only wrote that state- oGl nt, but when you first gave it out, d0 1 intended it for publication. If a fi r doing so has raised all the wick- wh; bogies you fear, remember we say y did publish the very words you 1 intended to publish, and which of 1 afterwards did release to the an(j vspapers throughout the state, of ing manifold increase of circula- tj01 u. You are quoted in one of these yy^, wspapers as follows: par 'As the Charleston American, to tlia om it was not Lent or released, s published today my communica- for n of the 6th, it is hereby released G(J| 1 hope you will publish it." 'DOy It, and many others, did so. Thus, rea your own act, you satisfied the,. _ yoil te with copies of this document, cas culated in your own words to An] ead "friction and hot politics." Am course, when you wrote the state- n nt you meant it to have that ef-'yoiJ t. You meant eittor to drive Lever^ w L or make him and Manning ^; f( ous In the race and I am quite w^, tain from the dateB of the Lever Grj' respondent*; that it was only en you were sure you had driven Gir a out that you became suddenly n aid the publication of your abuse . 1 confessions might interfere with net ?ace at home ahd war on the com- j n enemy." the But, at any rate, the first letters, correspondence between you, Mr. rleson, the president and Govern- g Manning, which you did give out, *upc re, if anything, even more bitter t n your "statement." You lambast- t^e Lever, very thinly disguished that s i doubted Mr. Burleson and the j, sident, and branded Manning as ( whose "motives were net ahnvn - J, picion." wjt i'ou say, "What care you that an . man, naturally militant has seen to curb his tongue, etc." and then *" ceed to botray that while you are eran "old man," probably doting, you re not "curbed your tongue," nor ;red by one iota your well known ^ s of slander. God save the mark! " Iman whining over the fact that 1>ar is old, not like an old man, but an 11 woman, forgetting the crown of rns ho plated upon .> the aged w of knightly Hampton; forget- ** 1 g that by his diatribes he tore , ? J in the shoulders of that old hero ' toga his grateful people had left ? him in his old age us a token of ro1 t trust and affection which would jnu e lived in their hearts forever had Iman not violently uprooted it by ** 1 unexampled fury of his tongue e I the ferocity of his envy. But "n mpton went to his tomb without ' imper, while Tillman sickens the a s of those who otherwise might S1jr apamize Dy a mixture of cowardly ws delivered while ho begs also 1:3111 mercy. Wwl fes, senator, well do we know The erican has been twice debarred liev ni the mails, and wall do you i**13 >w it. In charging us you but er* ray your hand. If it is not a case this the wicked fleeing, it is the guilty c)la fessing. Murder will out. But the 1 ni lerican has been twi'O restored the mails, and its circulation w ws by leaps and bounds. Far more WIC1 n ten thousand subst fibers will ^*?r( d your infamy today. Your aim, f refore, has not been achieved. *? 1 i American still lives. a 8 cannot imagine the knightly co'' inpton as having recourse to your can al clap trap. "To hell with all Ger- ,uai n sympathizers and God Bless Ison." If you began your career by s*al king heroes over, must you end it tim calling upon them the blessing of we i? It is not altogether unlike you, wai n as a few ye. rs back you were isting that you were largely of;h's 'man origin but now you are ready send to hell nil those who sympa-'Con ze with tho blood in your veins. ;on netimes when I reflect upon your 1 ?av eer of atrocities, especially among a8? number of those friends who v*c< e took you in and nourished you, "l* fonder if after all this might not w^' but your reversion to the type civi t many say they witnessed on the n,a ??vu own ui Dt'i^ium. i ou certain- ' 1 r have all the attributes. rhere is no German blood in nve; "Wl one drop. And yet there is much fr> upathy in me for the Germans, " . nowever, in the unworthy sense lr cheap shibboleth implies. And res one man of German blood there ('al a peculiar sympathy bordering on ,OT1 y?for he is old, he is decrepit, his' iut iilk of human kindness has turned sa> Limberger cheese," he struts su- ^0| flous on the s? ige, his ruling su< ision is strong in death?he had a rot drophobia only to bite those who or ire in his ? ay when young and he ! rks from his bed of death at those can no longer bite as the shadows ?ep about him. \ IITOR CHARLESTON AMERICAN c o li Mease and tlie Issue. a ws and Courier: la There has rarely been a more pit-la 1 exhibition in South Carolina pol- J tj :s than tin* effort of Cole L. Blease , s wriggle out of and explain the eCh whiell lie innHo L'Oi?. ? _ ul J IIIK"! I (! ( jj gust 2, 1917, four months after s country had been at war with! ^ rmany. Of course, he tries to un-i d on the newspaper man who re- " ted him; but as luck hud it the1 vspaper man in this particular in-j nee did not happen to be the staff ( J resentative of ady paper belongto that section of the press which has long been so fond of denounc. It was James D. Grist who covd the Filbert meeting and no one o knows him will question for a1 meni either his honesty, his fairs or his competency, or will Mr. Blease venture to com- J in th-at the Yorkville Enquirer j ich ntihli?H??H t ...? r *rauico vi riai a re-1 t in full has ever treated him with ' er than fairness. The best he can is to say that the reporterwas not | tenographer and left out part of j at he said. What Mr. Blease now; s he said is that if his soul was j be lost he did not care what kind America we have after he is dead1 I gone. It has taken him upwards' a year to offer even this correca?and what a lame one it is en it is brought forward. Com- J e it with what James Grist at; t time quoted him as saying: '1 still say that there is no need j this country to go to war with' -many and peace could be hadi v. Oh, good . people, you don't lize what it means. Wait until i pick up the paper and read the ualty list. They talk about a free ierica. I don't care what kind of erica it is after I am ? ?uvuu OUU ie, neitlujr does your boy whom j ir ye sending to war." hen one gets down to it the only! [erence which appears between at Coley says he said and what Mr. st reported him c.3 saying is the ilifying class which Coley now ows in about losing his soul. How ch of a difference that is. and , , at effect it should have on the j result, those who are interested I splitting hairs can work out for j niselves. The substantial question i ich th? voters of South Carolina' re to determine is what sort of i iport Mr. Blease could be counted i >n, if sent to Washington to give President Wilson in the waging of I war. That question he has an- j sred pretty completely and most! vincingly. His attitude toward ' Wilson and his opinion of the \ sident's leadership in connection h the war was set forth in his \ ech at Pomaria last July. He will , deny his words as officially reded in his chief newspaper or- j i at the time. Here is what he. i: "it has been published of late in j anti-reform press that I and the j ty to which I belong are outcasts the political world just now. but ant to say to you so far as I sonally concerned that I would her be an outcast in the eyes of odrow Wilson, and a follower of us Christ, than to be a follower Wood row Wilson and an outcast m Jesus Christ, and that I would ch prefer being a waterboy in ven, listening throughout eternito the chant of angels, than to be commander-in-chief of all the; >?s of hell forever, hearing only music of the crackling of coal, i 1 the lashing of the blazes and the ieks of the damned. I was opposto this war. Had I been a United tes Senator or a Congressman I ; lid have voted against it, and bee religiously, as firmly as I bae that there is a God in heaven, t in the final judgment day ev-; American citizen who is killed in i war off American soil will be rged against the President of the ted States and the members of Pnnfrrocc r\P A ?ui iuc uuuvu siaies 1 > voted for it. as an unwarranted ! rifice in the sight of Almighty \ I. of fresh American manhood."; 'he News and Courietr apologizes ts readers for printing so horrible tatement as tl.e foregoing in its linns. Not otherwise, however. it bring before them what this' n. a candidate for the high office L'nited States Senator, really j nds for on this great issue of tho i es and of all time. This was where ! stood four months after America ! at war with Germany. This is are he stands today, for with all talk about "now we are at war | must be pushed to a successful elusion," h<? reaffirmed at York Thursday the belief to which he ; e expression at Pomaria a year i. He declared once more his con-! lion that we should not have taken arms against the bloody aggressor o had become the terror of the ilized world. He said again in so ny words that he believed that >side#)t Wilson and the members Congress who voted for the war ould be held responsible for cvAmerican life that was lost in ' This is the man who seeks to repent the loyal citizenship of South rolina in the Senate at Washingi. Lot the voters of the State lge him otit of his own mouth and r for themselves whether one who Ids such sentiments and occupies ;h an attitude is qualified to rep-; j sent their kind of loyalty by word | vote. 1 NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that John V. McKay. 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