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THE HOFFER COMPANY \ Jeweler* and i r Optometrist* TILLMAN AND I" Jaolden Lawyer Write* on "Principle, ' Poverty and Politic*." In January, 1896, I think 1t was, Evens, who a* governor had been having a rough time with the dispensary, was urging a measure which was introduced iu both houses of the legislature, known as the metropolitan po.lice bill. Its purport was to authorise the governor to take over at once the police force of Charleston, to appoint, remove and direct them at his will. The state dispensaries in Charleston were doing a poor business, owing to the illegal competition which flourished there. It was charged that the police were indifferent or hostile to the dispensary, hence the measure to put them under the governor's absolute control. On arriving in Columbia to attend the session of fhe senate, I was met at the railway station by a senator | who came, he said, to catch me before [ I could get up town and be committed to the police bill. I told him he need not worry on that' score, that I was uguinst it to the last ditch. He escorted me tp A conference of senators opposing the measure. They constituted a majority of the senate. In the conference the aforesaid senator was very pronounced against the bill. While this was pending I received a message to come to the office of Governor Evans. There I found him and Tillman, who was down from Washington. I sat between them on the sofa and they persistently strove to get me to promise to support the police bill. They were not harsh but very pressing. I evaded every effort of theirs to pin me down, by suying repeatedly I would only go to the extent of authorizing the governor to _tako over the police in cases of emerj gency, which was the law as it stoodr This, of course, was very unsatisfac-' tory to them, and they realized that it was merely a method of declining. Tillman then, or possibly it was on some other occasion,) pointing his fore-finger at me, said, "You are ultr$ - conservative," Afetrwards to someone else he said, as reported to me, that I was too rigid for politics. Doubtless he was entirely right. Then came another shock to me. Four of the senators who had been in conference and pledged against the police bill, including the senator who had met me at the train, voted for it, giving it a majority. They had been dragged over by Tillman and Evans. In the fiery ordeals of politics, "The noblest troth dies there to dust." After a brief and hectic trial in practice this police measure was repealed. After my defeat as delegate to the constitutional convention, and my experience of so much duplicity and double-facedness, in despair I resigned my position as senator from Kershaw county in the early part of 1896. I was further driven to v.thi3 act by the difficulty of supporting four children and their mother, who were being sacrificed in my attempt to follow a political career. For nearly ten years after this I never saw nor met Tillman, and had no intercourse or correspondence with him. In July, 1904, I visited the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, Mo., and while there got a seat in the national Democratic convention as an alternate delegate, through kindness of a friend. Alternate badges were freely distributed to Carolinians then in St. Ixiuis. In that convention I witnessed' the complete repudiation j of free silver and the express adoption of the gold standard at the demand of the nominee Parker, as a condition of his acceptance. Here was revenge for those who like mo had once been pilloried as gold bugs, loo late, however, to make amends. | The silver tornado had done the havoc. I lillman addressed the convention. He did not move me as of yore. His , voice cracker! under the strain of such a huge audience and hall. I ran upon him in the railway station while waiting for the train homewards. We conversed for some time. We were not cordial, but courteous, both were tired from being up all night in the convention. I recall his saying that was the greatest railroad junction ir the world. We touched politics but little. Something led to a remark by me to the effect that Wade Hamp ? ton had done great and heroic service to our state. This he admitted rath*) indifferently. I never met him again to exchangi a word. However, in 1912, I got J letter from his private secretary atat I ing that Senator Tillman was pr*par ling his memoirs and greeted him t< write and ask me for loan of the let ters which he had written to me ii former years assuring that the; wopld be returned. I sent him six teen letters, but so far as I know th memoirs were never prepared, no the letters returned, overlooked, n doubt in the press of public affairs. J In the conte^f for the Ujdtad State I**'* Home To Be Bhrioe Fredericksburg Va., July 19.? Stratford, ancestral home of the Lees in Westmoreland county, today, two centuries after it was started by its builder, Thomas Lee, passed from the ownership of the Lee family into the hands of a private group which will hold it in trust as a shrine for the American people. senate jn IP 12, between Tillman and Jasper Talbert, had the election been deferred two or three weeks Tillman would have likely been beaten. He was rapidly losing his former adherents. His understudy, Mease, had loomed up and gained a strong hold upon the old Tillmanites, many of whom savagely resented an attack by him upon lilease which' appeared shortly before the election. In this county, at polling places which had theretofore given him almost solid votes, they met the night before election and sang: "Hang Hen Tillman on u Sour Apple Tree." I had never expected to liv<r to see such as this come to pass. Meeting some of them in town, I reminded them of the time, eighteen years before, when they had turned their backs on mc for refusing to submit to Tillman's dictation. He carried this county by a stingy majority, whereas it had always been his banner stronghold. Towards the latter part of this his last term as senator, Tillman suffered j an attack of cerebral hemorrhage, which produced a partial paralysis and materially impaired his powers. During his long abscence in Washington he had lost much of his grasp upon state affairs, in which he had been largely supplanted by Blease, who after long persistent campaigning throughout the state for the governorship, had at last attained it and, acquiring a fixed majority of from five to ten thousand, had become the champion and idol of the laboring man, the tenant farmers and mill [hands. As occasion required he was audacious and snappy or dignified and the pink of propriety. When in 1917 this country faced the critical decision of entering the World war, or submitting to endless insult and injury, Tillman was zealous for taking up arms in support of the Allies, while Blease denounced such action and all those who favored it, from President Wilson down. For a time this discredited him greatly, but soon after peace was declared be came back strong as ever. In 1918, when all were in breath 4 Europe, the time came for Ailing again Tillman's aaat in the senate. His eourse in Washington in regard to the war was highly gratifying to me, especially as I had three sons in France on the firing line. I do not know how it came about but in the early part of 1918, probably in January, I was invited to meet a group of Tillman's friends at the Jefferson hotel in Columbia. . , ' -- -r * We gathered there one night and considered the advisability qf.hli again offering for the United States senate. ' His physical condition was known to be seriously impaired. Some of his intimates assured us that they regarded him as equal to another term, provided he did not suffer another cerebral attack. I stated to them that I knew nothing of his physical or mental condition as I had met him but once caspally in twenty-three years, and that was fourteen years gone; that while I was once his devoted friend, we had long been as strangers. But that under the conditions that existed I was for him heartily because of his course in regard to the war, and that I thought this , state should indorse him for the senate again as a token of its approval and devotion to the cause. It was decided to ask him to become a candidate, without undergoing the strain of taking the stump. In the following May the usual Democratic state convention was held in Columbia. A few days prior thereto' I received from Tillman (probably through his private secretary) a request to meet him there with other friends, the morning of the convention, hut no place in the city was named. When I reached Columbia somewhere about 10:30 a. m., I could not find him. At the convention which I attended, he appeared on the platform. *** I ?fir became at?once evident to me, that he was totally unfit for the sen-' jute. He was a sad wreck?his utterance was labored and indistinct and his effort to articulate pathetic. His [ mouth was distorted and he could not collect his thoughts. There was but one momentary display of his pristine fire and vigor. With that inimitable thrust of his i long forefinger and a flash of the old I expression on his face, he referred to Germany as: "That She-devil of Euope." After that only more drivel. I did not meet him on that occasion, nor ever afterwards. He died a few weeks later. The panorama has been unrolled. The passionate friendships and ha-, treds have died with the leading actor and the lapse of time. I am now nearly as old as he was when he died. But few Of his first associates survive. As we approach the sunset of life, the East begins to glow again, and from the West proceeds unearthly light. All between is blurred. For us, not far down the road, lies the Garden of Proserpine, where "Pale, beyond porch and portal, Crowned with calm leaves she stands Who gathers all things mortal With cold immortal hands. There go the loves that wither, And all dead years draw thither; And Spring and seed and swallow Take wing for her and follow; Her languid lips are sweeter TharTLo ve's, who fears to greet her. To men that mix and meet her From many times and lands." Perhaps there we may again "see the great Achilles whom we knew." Thomas J. Kirkland Camden, S. 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