Show TILLMANS COLLAPSE I 1 I Seldom In the history of o tho the capitol r has there b en such occasion oc for or equal I ft excitement at the announcement of 01 a n ii speech as that t at shown early carl Monday morning when Mr Ir Tillman the tho sena senator senat t lj tor tar from South Carolina made his re response response to lo the charges brought against L him by b the president A largo large au audience ID which had no interest In Mr i Tillman Tillma and no interest in the tho presidents I I I dents charges but merely u lL passion 4 I for sensationalism assembled assembled before they had had breakfast and nud by b 10 I the tho galleries were packed and andI I I the doorkeepers wore were all but exhaust exhausted ed od from the effort to keep back the tho crowds When Whon the tho public galleries were thrown open tho crush made It appear for a few moments that an un uncontrollable uncontrollable unI I controllable mob had taken possession possessionS S of the capitol and as women scream screamIng screaming screamIng Ing and fainting with their clothes torn were pushed forward into toe the aisles by b the tho crowd pressing behind p it looked looked for or a short time as though some serious accident were Imminent ifs 0 j Special fal from tho the police i were called In to protect the doors of oC oCi i the galleries which the door l were helpless In holding and it was vas only with difficulty that the crowd was controlled On the tho appear appearance appearance appearance ance of or Mr MI Ir Tillman Tiliman there was a dem dom demonstration demonstration from the thi th galleries and when whon ho arose to speak there was so much applause that the vice Ico president was compelled to suspend his address un until unI n nI I til tho the public hail had been beon warned that I I r such a repetition would result in tho the I Ii galleries galleri s being cleared earod When it was I n t I all ali over and tho the anticipated defense so had hail been beon made a n very orderly and subdued crowd quietly dispersed S Mr fr Tillman was evidently In poor pool form He showed the tho effect of his bli Ill Illness illness illness ness and tho the recent mental strain and justified to an extent the tho rumors that he ho had fond his physicians advice that ho he was on the thc verge of oC collapse His Ills voice was vas broken and weak and his efforts at nt oratory so abortive that ho himself seemed to recognize the tho fu futility futility of Qi making thorn them and tho the latter part of his speech ec 1 was delivered In a n monotone Everyone felt when whon he had finished that ho had succeeded In noth nothing nothIng nothIng ing It was a sort of or school boy bo effort to protest against being convicted dor of stealing Ho appeared to rely r b on the toe smallness of or the tho offense to purge It of gravity The Tho principle of or honesty honest was Ignored by emphatic assertion that the small sum of or 1500 made mado such a prin principle prInciple principle ciple negligible and ho he referred soy sev several se eral oral times as an on unanswerable arsu argument ment In his own favor to then fact that while he had bad attempted to secure only nine nIno and one quarter sections of gov government lands Mr Harriman had bad In his Ills possession more moro than a million I acres of it H The argument was not convincing and the galleries were not convinced What the senators themselves though about it was best shown by bythe b bythe the fact that tho the senate seats scats wore vacated as ns fast as ns possible at its ils con conclusion elusIon andt and though the South Carolina senator remained re at nl desk there were cre only a few of oC his personal friends who nho came forward to congratulate him Every Eer train out of or Washington In Inthe Inthe Inthe the early morning hours carried away awaya awn a batch of senators and members who were desirous of being relieved of o the tho necessity of meeting him or of being called upon to meet the president after aCter afterwards afterwards wards The strain and embarrassment of the tho occasion to the senate generally was apparent Mr Tillman Tiliman admitted all nIl the charges that were brought against him that is ise rne ite e admitted having baring written the tho letters and telegrams that the tho president has had had copied and photographed He Ho de do declares decar dares clares car that he lie did want the lands and that fro he ie tried to Secure S cure them What man want them who Is as poor as a I am he asked with an ef of effort effort fort at which was not without persuasive effort I He lie seemed chiefly concerned in showing that t at in trying to get bel them he had not acted under cover covel or with an effort at concealment lent Everyone might have known all about It ft was his con constant constant constant stant argument but why they the had not known ho made mado no attempt to explain His attack on the president was re restrained restrained strained He Ho was saving that for an another another other day dar he said and his intimation that lie he had a whole bunch of testimony mony mon up uS his sleeve to show snow that the Ule president was a a rascal was far less telling than the production of oC It then and there thore would have been Taken altogether the Ule Impression gathered by a 3 correspondent of the Examiner was that tho the presidents case against Mr 1111 Tillman was not weakened by b Mr rr Tillmans defense That it is a trilling misdemeanor judged by tho the sum slim Involved there can be no doubt and if the majority of oC men holding public offices hao have nothing larger against them than Ulan this they toe must be 10 judged leniently but as a n violation of tho the principle that a public office Is a public trust and that any use uso of an m tn official position to further a private fortune fortuno is an offense against that trust It is as important in the case of Mr Ir Tillman fill man as In that of other senators who 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