Word: tillman
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...ordinary, not Claghorn, length, and he shuns the string tie and the diamond stickpin. Taciturn and humorless, he has neither the gift nor the inclination for the vivid rhetorical attacks on opponents that were the stock in trade of such old masters as South Carolina's Ben Tillman, who won the voters' hearts by announcing his determination to go to Washington and plunge a pitchfork into the rump of President Grover Cleveland. Where Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo embarrassed respectable Southerners with personal peccadilloes, ranging from a particularly messy divorce to brazen bribe-taking, Eastland is the epitome...
Combined Operations. In Phoenix, Ariz., after he held up the House of Jazz and stuffed $270 in his pocket, John Tillman was slugged with a blackjack by Owner John Giardina, cracked with a baseball bat by Waitress Phyllis Dixon, smacked with a steel chair by another waitress, punched in the jaw by Giardina's brother, bashed on the head with a beer bottle wielded by a patron, arrested when another customer called the cops...
...first, in 1902, was a dual motion, aimed at the two Democratic Senators from South Carolina, Benjamin R. Tillman and John L. McLaurin. "Pitchfork Ben"* Tillman, an ill-mannered, unprincipled demagogue, a master of the unfounded accusation (in a sense, the McCarthy of his day), started a fist fight with McLaurin on the Senate floor. Fellow Senators pulled them apart, later voted to censure both. Tillman survived the dishonor, was later re-elected to the Senate twice, and died in office. McLaurin served out his term, but did not seek reelection. The bad blood between the two men was caused...
Southern states immediately began returning to the "Black Codes," pre-14th turning to the "Black Codes" Amendment laws designed to keep the Negro in a status not far removed from slavery. There came to power in the South politicians such as "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman, governor and later Senator from South Carolina, who publicly proclaimed that the Negro was biologically inferior to the white man. When "inoculated with the virus of equality," said Tillman, the Negro became "a fiend, a wild beast, seeking whom he may devour...
...longer do the Southern defenders of segregation take their stand with Ben Tillman on the flat assertion of racial superiority. Nowadays they stress the "practical" consequences of mixed schools. Last week John W. Davis told the court that Clarendon School District No. 1 in South Carolina has 2,799 Negro and 295 white Children of school age. If these children are mixed, the schoolrooms will contain nine Negro children to each white child. Asked John Davis: "Would that make the children any happier? Would they learn any more quickly? Would their lives be more serene...