The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 26, 1929, Image 2
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' 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.
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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
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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.
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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. C.
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Find Boy's Body
S6uth Whitley, Ind., July 19.body
of Delmar Sheckler, 16,
found today by a searching party Ma
pasture within 4<Trods of his honttH
He apparently had been murder^^R
The boy disappeared Sunday after
tending a childrens' day program
a local church. !
' The body, with a bullet wound
the forehead was flying face upwufl |
and was unclothed. * Part of tlfl 1
clothing had been burned and the
was on some bushes nearby. Ifafl
boy's rifle, which he had left in tii^B
woods near his home before going
church, was near the body. j
verbatim. T. J. K. 1 j
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concluding installment, for this pipefl
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