The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 02, 1913, Page TWO, Image 2
B R TILLMAN'S OPINION
OF JOHN P GRACE,
BELATED BUT INTERESTING LETTER
FROM SENIOR SENATOR PUBLISHED
IN GRACE'S PAPER.
U S Senate. May 12. 1913.
Hon Jno P Grace, Charleston,S C.
My dear Mr Grace: I have just
received your letter of May 9. In
reading it, I am reminded of Talleyrand's
admonition about writing letters:
"Keep all you get and write
none."
While I confess I have not very
much confidence in you, there are so
manv elements of good in you that
I am staggered to know how to
make up my judgment about your
character and personality.
r~ I have heard more that is mean
about you from men that I thought
1 couid trust than almost any man
in Charleston. Among them none
were more outspoken and bitter
? than George LeGare himself. There
seem to be an instinctive aversion
to you on the part of LeGare. He
never hesitated to unbosom himself
t<? ^he fullest in talking with me,
When you speak of my being prejudiced
against you, I will interpret
according to its exact meaning?
prejudged?for I have to confess
most of my knowledge of you is
from hearsay and from the news
papers, never having had the opportunity
to talk with you much
^ until recently. You are an anomaly
and mystery in a way, and I have
not yet fully made up my mind as
to what you really are.
You are very much mistaken if
you think J Elmore Martin alone is
. responsible for my opinion of you. I
long for the time to come when I
shall bring you two face to face|
with a policeman near-by to separate
you and hear you have it out by
word of mouth.
My dear Mr Grace, you have so
much intellectuality and there are
w so many possibilities ahead of you
that it is a pity you have not got
more moral fibre. You may have
the moral fibre, but you succeed
most admirably in making people
believe you have none. You have
so much courage, both moral and
physical, that it is a sin not to have
some love of truth along with it.
*
For instance, you boldly acknowl
edged to me that you had used
money to buy votes and seemed to
think it was no harm in you to do it,
^ but for Whaley and his friends to it
was unspeakably vile and criminal.
Your mental make-up leads you to
judge yourself by another code of
morals than you judge your an*
tagonists. The only true method of
analyzing men and their motives is
to put yourself in their places and
> be entirely honest in the conclusion
you reach.
Almost the last time George Le
Gare and I talked together, he spoke
of his unspeakable disgust and contempt
for you and your methods,
which was just after the last State
convention when your doings in the
Charleston county convention had
Lbeen ventilated in Columbia and the
entire State convention had turned
you and your delegation down and
seated the Barnwell delegation. You |
had used the police who were under
\
you, they charged, to control the
convention; and George Legare was
full of it and described the sensation
caused by the reading of my
letter to Martin after you had read
my old letter about Von Kolnitz
written years ago.
If you had a clearer perception of
the'obligations of honor in politics,
you would not accuse me of "wobbling
and wiggling" in the PetersStoren
case or the Murray case,either.
What you say about the "Charleston
people swallowing Martin because
they were afraid of my wrath
and the loss of the naval station"
is all news to me. I never knew
there was any such apprehension,
and I am bound to believe your hatred
of Captain Martin is such that
ryou absolutely see crosswise, instead
of seeing straight, and are blinded
entirely when you think about him.
Let us pass on to the other part of
your letter where you speak about
my "threatening those who are anjcious
t?> get to the root of corruption
in the Whaley election." You are
very much mistaken if you think I
am either shamming or threatening
anybody. I am in dead cold earnest
and would glory in being the instrument
to put all bribers, and bribetakers.
both those who buy and
those who sell their votes and are
thus polluting our elections, into
stripes. The Mayor of Charleston,
the two candidates for Congress,and
their numerous and sundry friends,
if what you told me in my office is
half true, belong in the penitentiary.
The city and the State,too,would be
better off if you all had on stripes.
You say you "are ready to prove
the facts of bribery and corruption
in the recent primary," and you say,
"you WILL be heard in Washington."
Come on to Washington, Mr
Grace, and I WILL help you in any
way I can be heard. While I am
not a member of the House and
therefore you cannot "appeal to
Caesar" in my person, 1 am a Senator
and have some influence with
both members of the House and
Senate, and will facilitate to the
fullest degree any exposure you are
able to make of corruption and fraud
in the recent primary in our State.
While it would bring the name of
South Carolina into discredit and
disgrace and cause every true South
Carolinian to hang his head in shame,
if it is necessaryto go to that length
in order to "cleanse the Augean
stable," I say let us have it done and
quit blustering.
I would rather you fall in and
help me, as you can most effectively,
to reform State politics through
the State convention next time it
meets, by changing the rules of the
party and fortifying all aiong the
Una ?an incf Qn/^ AArVnnflAn*
1IUC a^aiuoi' AIOUU auu vv* * uj/viv?,
and then go to work when the Legislature
meets again to see that the
statutes are changed in regard to
primary elections so as to preserve
the purity of the ballot among the
white men.
If you feel,however,that you must
do something now in order to discredit
Whaley.do not mistake in loading
your "gun." Be sure the powder
is dry and will explode. Load
the gun with the truth and it will
hurt someone, perhaps yourself
along with others. But shoot, I beg
you, and as soon as you see fit to do
so. I will not "run," because I am
not that kind; and you ought not to
run after all this swagger and blus
ter.'
You can do the State a great service
and your city of Charleston a
great and noble service, too, right
now. You are anything but a swashbuckler
and you occupy a very important
position in this crisis. Consider
well your proposed action.
You are angry and your fighting
blood-is aroused now. Men never
act wisely under such circumstances.
You are young and can "tarry at
Jericho until your beard grows" but
tffe foundation on which you are to
rise to true greatness, higher than
you are, must be honor, patriotism
and truth?not chicanery, trickery
and fraud. If you bide your time
and act wisely and have pure motives
now,you will come to Congress
in due time; and you have brains
enough when you get here to make
your mark. Oh! If you only had the
moral fibre and patriotism and high
character that ought to go with
brains! Very sincerely yours,
B R Tillman'
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