...William Alexander Mabry Copyright © 1938 by Duke University Press 1938 BEN TILLMAN DISFRANCHISED THE NEGRO* WILLIAM ALEXANDER MABRY OF ALL THE Southern states, South Carolina probably suffered most from the evils of Reconstruction. For eight years black and tan legislatures squandered...

...Francis B. Simkins Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 The South Carolina Dispensary Francis B. Simkins Emory University In 1885 Ben Tillman, the most notable figure in recent South Carolina history, emerged from the obscurity of twenty years as a hard-working farmer...

... FIFA World Cup victory to his modernist ‘‘white heat of technology’’ mantra in an attempt to bolster sup- port for the Labour government. More recently, the very public death of the ex-NFL player Pat Tillman while serving as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan further exemplified the manner in which sport...

... and 1890 s. Beginning about 1886, when the Pacolet Democratic Club sent him to the Democratic county con­ vention, he became active in the councils of the party. The squire avidly supported Benjamin R. ( Pitchfork Ben ) Tillman in the years after 1890. Often crusading in the name of the farmer, Tillman...

... the arrival of lowerclass whites to political prominence during the last decade of the nineteenth century, then in South Carolina the advent of Tillmanism would surely have started the Jim Crow era. Benjamin Ryan Tillman, with his earthy speech and manner, his dislike of political alliances with black men...

... climax under Benjamin R. Tillman and the doctrine of white suprema­ cy and carried with it discriminatory legislation with respect to segrega­ tion, criminal law, the care of the state s less fortunate citizens, in addition to the virtual disfranchisement of the Negro. This pattern of conduct...

...William B. Hamilton The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558 . By Mackie J. D. . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1952 . Pp. xxii , 699 . $7.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book Reviews 307 its climax under Benjamin R. Tillman and the doctrine of white suprema­ cy...

... telegraphed Governor Benjamin R. Tillman and requested military assistance. Tillman responded im­ mediately by sending the Santee Rifles, a unit of the state militia, into the troubled area. Reinforced by the militia, county sheriff s deputies arrested fourteen of the ring leaders. In addition, one of those...

... of force, many having gathered on the scene, according to B. R. Tillman, for the deliberate purpose of provoking trouble. The result was the reduction of the position by a fusillade of rifle and cannon fire. One white man, McKie Merriweather, was killed, and one was wounded. Seven negroes were killed in 33...

... ties that the insurgents, led by such men as Ben Tillman and Tom Watson, undertook to rescue the one-horse farmer from the evils of the New Order with its urban, industrial, and big business interests. The paternal­ ism of the Redeemers was to be replaced by a people s movement, which would do...

... alarm of those fearful for civil liberty. According to General Conner and Senator Tillman the troops did not in any instance interfere with the voters.55 The Democratic members of the National House of Representatives investigating conditions in South Carolina said that the bearing of the troops...

... as well as benefits. Ellen Glasgow once wrote, Progress has long waited on tradition in Virginia. About ten years ago I was mildly startled when a prominent judge told me that Virginia had long suffered from its failure to have a governor of the type of Ben Tillman of South Carolina. But is a Ben...

... operation reveals its open purpose of excluding the black majority from the suffrage. Governor Tillman, the dictator of this work, frankly admitted the primary purpose of the Constitution of 1895. Constitution or no Constitution, said the South Carolina Governor, Court or no Court, the intelligent white...

... church in Midland but as there was neither pastor nor congregation, it was in a somewhat moribund state. In politics the Demo­ cratic party reigned unchallenged. Colie Blease, Pitchfork Ben Tillman, and the Sage of McDuffie across the river, Tom Watson, were the political mentors. Republicans had...

... of Governor Tillman to head off what appeared to be state prohibition. A state-wide election in 1892 gave a majority of about ten thousand for prohibition, out of a total vote of sixtyeight thousand. Tillman, recently elected governor on a reform ticket, was supported by many voters who were in favor...

... in their programs and purposes. By using homespun language and inexpensive automobiles and by appealing to the emotions and preju­ dices of the underprivileged, especially the poor farmer, the dema­ gogue poses as the champion of the oppressed. As a matter of fact, Vardaman, Tillman, Bilbo, Long, and others did...

... minority of them, perhaps, stayed loyal to the White Man s Party and its stubborn leader until the bitter end; but most people in the rural, poverty-stricken areas of Georgia and the South had shared Ben Tillman s itch for a pitchfork with which to tickle Mr. President s well-padded ribs. Also...

... interested in Reconstruction from his study of the Tillman movement, but I doubt if he had any firm notions about it. We were simply trying to tell what happened, and do it on a broader scope than before. I don t think we were consciously revisionists, only trying to tell the full story. The fact is that I...

... significant orations, but also much medi­ ocrity. In the introduction, it is stated that the selection aims to be representative both as to men and as to subject-matter and style. Even the fire-eating style is not to be omitted. But is it a representative collection which fails to include Senator Tillman...

... particularly vociferous in de­ manding relaxation of a system which, whatever its intrinsic merits, appeared to operate mainly for the benefit of their opponents. The Civil Service, said Senator Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina was rotten, because it was warped by Republican favoritism, with Republicans...