The parallel may be extended further.

Tillman, in time, modified some of his extreme opinions, won over many of his opponents, and gained the respect of his colleagues just as Lloyd George has done; and South Carolina grew to have pride in her sturdy fighter whose life ended just as his fourth term in the Senate was almost done.
The election of Tillman as Governor and then as Senator was a real revolution, for South Carolina had been long represented in the United States Senate by Wade Hampton and Matthew C.Butler, both distinguished soldiers and representatives of the old regime.

Hampton, under whose leadership the carpetbag government had been overthrown, had been a popular idol.

Both he and Butler had won the respect of their colleagues in the Senate and had reflected credit upon their State.

But such services now availed nothing.