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- - - -- emr ,- -a 7, - VOL. XXII. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1894. NO, 41 BUTLER AND TILLMAN. THE GREAT 8ENATORIAL RACE BI GUN AT ROCK HILL. Senafor Evau Made a Speech and Hs Some Passes with the Orowd-POpO au Tindal Do Their Pevoir-The 0 li Candtdates Did Not Speak. .Rfoo HILL, June 18.-The gre: Senatorial contest has be gun. Durin the early hours of the day hundreds i people were congregated around Turn er's Hotel, where both Butler and Til man were quartered, and It was a Butie crowd, the followers of the G overne not coming up Into town in large nun bars. Two hundred - Butlerites arrived yet terday. Fifty of them came from Edge field and the remainder from Greenville At 6:30 this morning the train from Col umbla brought 450 more, all wool-hai hardy looking fellows, from Union Fairfleid and stations aloog the C. C & A. road. A good many others came in about 10:30 from the direction o Charlotte. The audience at the meeting numbered about 2,000. One of the noI able passengers from Columbia wa Newbold, the dispensary detective. H had to stand some mild guying from th country boys. Shortly alter 10 o'clock th is morning Senator Butler made a ten minutes talI to 250 of his supporters in Armory lal. He started that a rumor had been Mr culated and telegraphed that Governo Tillman was to be assassinated prompt ly at noon by a prearranged plan. H desired to state that so far as lie knew the rumor was unqualifiedly false. He bad never, he said, done or said a wor< to cause a biench among the white people, nor would he. He hoped his friends would scatter theniselves at thi 'ieeting as they would at any othe meeting. He thanked them for theii presence and hoped they would go to Yorkvllle tomorrow. He had no fen, for himself, and he did not see any rea son why anybody should wish to kil him, but he supposed he could as wel af'ord to die now as ever. The Senator remarked that the State executive committee had passed E rule requiring candidates to announce themselves by June 17, and that In com pliance he had written the following let ter: Edgefield, S. C., June 16, 1894. To Mr. D. H. Tompkins, Secretary o Democratic Exactive Committee Columbia, S. C.: Dear Sir: I hereby announce mvsel as a candidate for the United State: Senste for the term beginning March 4 1895. I presume the canditates for the Legislature, which will elect a United States Senator, will abide the result o the primaries set for the 30th of Augus next. I hereby request that a separate bo3 be provided by the State executive com mittee at each and every voting precin I the State, in which each voter ma3 express by his ballot his preference to United States - Senator, said separate boxes to be managed under the samf rule as other ballot boxes In the prima rie, and I hereby pledge myself to abli the result of the vote thus cast at th said primary. An early reply will oblige Very truly, M. C BUTLERn. The Senator said that if he coili get a fair primary lhe would abide by it and not whine at the result If the peopl preferred the other man. He could re turn to Edgefield and fish for the remain der of his life and spend it free of publi cares, What he wished was to get th people ,to listen to argument. THE REGULAB MEETING. The speaking was at Maori' ierave halt a mile north of the centre 'of th. city. Congressman Strait was giver thIrty minutes, the senatorial candidate -one hour each and ten minutes for rept and the candidates for Governor thirt' minutes each. At precisely two minute past eleven, Senator Butler and Con gressman Stralt arrived on the ground The stand Is an ordinary wooden pint form, built against a majestic whit oak. It stands in the midst of a splendri grove. President White introduced Congress man Strait as the first speaker. No body cheered as lie faced the crowd. I began to sprinkle rain gently, damper ing the spirits of the assemblage, and thi Congressman's remarks appeared -t: have a similar effect. GloV. TILLMAN SPEAKS. At the conclusion of -Congressmai Strait's speech President White, af te cautioning tire crowd not to interrup the speakers, introduced Governo Tillman. The cro wd had waited patiently fo the Senatorial guns to fire and brok into applause when Chairman Whit introduced Governor Tillman and an nlounced the erder of the remainder a the speaking. The Governor advance in the cool, deliberate manner usual t him. He said he was the only man I: South Carolina who had tried to canvas the state three times, county by count3 H~e brought applause and loud laughts when lie said lie was glad to meet tn audience face to face even through man of them came from North Carolina an, all over the globe. He was accused c having a bitter tongue, but he stoo here and said he was not responsibi for all the bitterness. He had bee more perseouted and maligned tha any other man. The people, Tillma said, had elected him to oflice befoi and were going to send him to tr Senate sure as a gun's iron. (Loud aj plause.) 'Jic said he had been Governor fot years and stood ready to defend hi -every act. He made an appeal ft .brotherly love in the comlng campaig and padan eulogy to the farmers the backbone of the country. He sai he was proudi of being a farmer Go' ernor. lie had never run for ofice ti foer 88 yars of age. Then he hado shook it down, Hie was now after bige plum and latended to get I friend antler had been irgoff, eighteen years. The office belonged t< the people not to any man, The Governor next said ho supposed the candidates for the Senate must dis cuss national issues. le would simply take a bird's eye view of the situation There weme only two i)ig questions-th( d tariff and finance. Ile wouldn't touch on the tariff to day and would discuss finances to some extent. lie jumped into the question by showing the ureat contraction of the money of the coun try. In 1865, he said, there was 82.000,. 0 000,000 of money in circulation; now there is only $1,000,000,000. That was Sthe reason the poor farmers of the f country were not getting a reward for their labor. le charged all this to Wall street.. Shylocks, backed by Lom bard street, London. These Shylocks r bad caused this contraction by putting r the Issue power in national banks. The people were continually getting poorer and all the wealth of the country is in the hands of a few thousand million aires. The Governor jumped on the national bank question and defended green backs. He explained the difference be. tween them. Money sharks said green backs were flat money. That flat money, however, had whipped the South in the late war. Purchased Con gressmen and Senators yelled "Flat money" because they h".d been bought. The speaker then began the discus. sion of the silver question. le said gold and silver had been on a parity since the days of Abraham and ought to be now. The Democratic platform a adopted at Chicago had said they were a equal, but Cleveland hadn't carried out the plank. Cleveland was a confessed perjurer and responsible for the present deplorable condition of the Democratic party. He charged Cleveland and Car t ie with hocus-pocus game in issuing $50,000,000 of bonds to replenish the gold reserve, which is again down to $65,000,000. le charged a lot of thiev ing and robbery in Washington, but said some day the people will get to gether and there will be i big shaking up. (Laughter.) le attacked Cleveland as an old bag of beef whom he could not find words to describe. He said John Sherman the people's enemy, was now the trusted advisor of Cleveland, who has betrayed every trust. The country Is in its pres ent condition through the treachery of a Democratic President. The Governor reviewed in a clear manner the demonetization of silver and the bad condition of the country. ie said there are millions of starving workingmen. Money sharks, lie said, have grown so outrageous in their treatment and talk as to wish a stand. ing army to keep a few starving men off the grass. He alluded to Coxy and his ragged men and said poor Coxy had had his head cracked. There might not be any Coxyites in the South, but the people here sympathize with the demands of labor. Resuming discussion of the silver question, the Governor said the people wouldn't be bought and would kill out the dragon encircling them. They would do it with the- votes and could hot be bought with money or free passes. This was his first direct allusion to tne free pass, free excursion of But lerites and brought loud applause from his supporters. The fight, he said, must be for free silver and more greenbacks. The Gov ernor said the South and West must get together and make a light for liberty and bread. le concluded by telling a story of big John Jones and his ox, a story about an ox's tail being tied though the dashboard of a vehicle. The Governor said if sent to the Senate he woul-I promipe not to be bribed and not to sell out., le would chunk rocks a for the people'a interest as long as he could use his tongue and would do all he could.. Just as the Governor was concluding, some man in the audience remarked that Timan would not get to the Senate to chunk rocks. Turning toward the speaker and waying his hand, the Governor said -that sixty-live thousand white men had elected him to his oflice and would send him to the Senate. This elicited loud and prolonged applause. SENATOR nUTLER SP'EAKS. At the conclusion of Gov. Ti.imnan's speech he was heartily cheered and the band played. As the last note of mu sic died away there was a cry for But ler, who was then introduced by the 1 chairman, lie said: m "I'm mighty glad to see you. I am glad to see you in a good humor. I'm .glad that Governor Tillmani was in a .good humor. I shall meet him with Sthe same respectful hearing. The Governor says he has been eccused of having a bitter tougue. WVell, a fish woman can wield a bitter tongue, but it requires courage to speak to an in telligent and well informed audience like this before me. "I have a proposition to make to the Governor, 1f lhe will agree to have a separate ballot box at each voting pre cinct in which the people, I mean the white people, in the primary in Septemi 1 ber may register their choice for Son r ator, without the interference of rings t and caucusses, I shall agree to abide by r it. Will he do that ?" Voices-"No, ne, no." r "Oh, I think he will," said the Sena S tor. "Will lie agree to submit to the n people whether ho or 1 should repre - sent them in the Senate ? I will aoiude f by it." (Cheers.) I "The Governor says that tho Senate doesn't belong to mue; I didn't ask to go i there. I did not ask for the privilege s of accepting the volume of abuse .which the Republicans hurled upon mue r when I was fIghting for my seat. Men a who rode by me in camp and bivouac v called on me for what seemed a for I lorn hope, and I would not refuuse, be f eause I felt it was my duty. I would 1 not go through that experience again e for any office. a "If we are to judge of the Governor a in the Senate by the speech he has n made, what a spectacle he would be, e driving an ox cart with the ox tail in e the dashboard; flinging rocks from the , mountain top). What could he accom plia~h in the Senate makingr such a vern *r itable spectacle of himself ? s "We have hoard a good deal said r about finance, Cleveland being bought n and free passes. I submit th~at that is is a delicate question for the Governor, d (Cheers.) 1 think be had better let the r- subject drop. Hlas it come to tis that 11 a man in South Carolina can't ride on te a train without asking Marse Ben ? .I d have asked for passes for poor~ men a out ofa job. Hlas the Governor ever L. asked a pass for a poor man? (Wild cheering.) ie Voica-"JIe asked for one for him self." "Fierce cheering, which Butl< had to quiet.) Some voices shouted for Tillman. The speaker then compared Tillma to a young mule, who, when workin in double harness, kicked and bit a the other mule and did no pulling. 11 then ridiculed the Governor's love c ofce. Man in the crowd--' I)on't you lov oflice, too ?" "Yee, I de, pretty well,' responde the benator, eyeing the man coolh "Aye God, I tell the truth; I haven gone crazy about ollico, though." The Governor is in his "A, i, 0's about finance. One of his friends call him a "genius of destruction." A con mon tramnp may blow up a house wit dynamite. 'The Governor talks abou monopolies and robberies, but he sug gesta no remedy. lie will get on mountain and throw rocks,drive an ox cart with the ox's tail in the dashboar< I am under the impression that h went to Chicago a supporter of Davi 3. Hill, who at the beginning of hi career, hPs stabbed the party by dE claring against the income tax, th fairest clause in the tariff bill. The should teach you what to expect of th Goverror. I am as far from Clevc land as the poles from each other, an no one is better aware of it than h( but I take no stock in this abuse c him. The tariff bill will be vassec It is the best tariff bill ever befor Congress, because it is not satisfactor to the extremes of each side. Voice-"It does not represent th Democratic party." Butler-"I1t is a bill which the Demo cratic party can stand on ." The Sena tor then defended the bill. fully, assert ing that its duties were 6 per cent lower than the Mills bill. "I predict that the next tepublicai national convention will put in a fre silver plank in their platform. I favo that the Democrats of the South an North and West begin now and organ ize silver leagues. I believe the countr can sustain double the amount of greer backs in circulation without one dolla of gold in the country. The Itepubli can party is responsible for the cond: tion of the South. I believe when th tariff bill is passed that the revenue will be ample for the support of th government. I am as much oppose( to the bond issue as the Governor is. To illustrate a point in silver de monetization, the Senator said: "If th Governor will lend me the dollar h has, I'll show you; (smiling) he's bette off than I am." (The crowd laughe uproariously.) I'll give it back to hin or else play crack-loo for it." The Governor came forWard with smile and handed him the dollar. The Governor says greenbacks whip ped us. I was tbar. It was muskel and bayonets whipped us, or rather vy got tired out whipping the Yankees. 'hen the Senator explained the per sien infamy and said that the reast why it was not checked was becau we hadn't the votes. He incidental paid a tribute to the Confederates, sa ing Oat there never were such soldie as the soldiers of Lee and Jackson. The Senator held up a large yello envelope. "I have plenty of ammun tion here. I want the Governor t understand that when I tackle th State administration I sLll do I frankly, though in perfect good hi mor. When I warm his back he muf take it like a little man. He mus take his punishment. I shall tak mine. I am used to it. I know the farmers are poor. I ur derstood that the Governor promiss when (lected that he would help th farmers. Are they better off ? On th other hand taxes have been increase( I shall stand side by side with my pec pie in their struggle. I challenge Gov ernor Tillman to point to an instant where I have not done my duty. It I wrong to turn a main out of the Sonat only because he has done his duty. would lay down public life forever if could thereby see my people unite and living as brothers as they wei four years ago. I utter a warning an a prediction, that when the white pel pie divide and appeal to the negi vote we shall have a period of degradi tion worse than reconstruction. The: is nothing for me in the Senate. I at a poorer man than when I went ther I have not learned to steal or accil bribes, I can't be captured by gold free passes. (Cheers.) It may be little vain, but i believe I am the mr to bring the people together. Senati Butler was continually cheered, ar had often to atop and quiet his frient before proceeding. GOV. T[ILMAN TN REPLY. At the couclusion of Senator Butler speech, Col. Jones said that Governi Tillman was entitled to a reply. Whe Governor Tillman camne to the front ii was loudly cheered. Tihe Governor begrn his closing ri marks by saying that he just wanted l answer a few little firecrackers shot e by his friend. In regard to the propi sition, if Butler believed that the pei ple ought to have the right to ele< Senators and if the D~emocratic Execi tive Committee is willing t> grant tri proposition he had no objection. "Butler went on to talk about m getting amnong the piow boys. I war to ask you if the farmers did not pu me up to lead a forlorn hope. ''es they did and you won!I" sal nmany voices. "Since that time I have been mer maligned than any man in the State, In response to a question from a ma in the audIence about his chances < election, the Governor said he ha "(lone got the coon skin and was gone About free passes, the Governor tel how he had accepted one and said tin her had rliden on one all his life. 11 then showed up how many in the cro w had come here on free passes. Thesen men did~n't come here from North Carolina and all over the Stat for nothinig. They could yell, he saim but couildnf't vote in York County. Ii caused great cheering when lie said hi had Y'ork County and would thank th people in audvance for the vote< the couuty. The Governor to] what he had done since lhe had been tl Obhief Executive and said he had noth ing to shield. in his life. About Bui ier's story of the oldl mule andl th young mule, lie asked the farmem which they bad raither have, a youn prancing mul, or an old 1101 earei worn-out animal. "We'll take you!I" shuouted many am laughter at Butler's expense as a (lo eared animal. The Governor said ho had not yotU for 11111 but for Boles at Chicago, Bu ler having charged him wIth hbeing supporter of the former. SENATOR JIUTLER IN uEPL.Y. When Senator Butler namo for wam r to reply, both factions cheered vocifer ously for some minutes. The Senator characterized the Governor as an art a ful dodger In fleeing behind the execu. c tive committee in the proposition for a ,t separate box. He bad asked for a cate e gorical answer and had expected ond. f In the charge of ringism he was sus tained by the high authority of no less e a personage than John L. M. Irby, who had charged that there was a State .1 House ring. If the Governor had . given the people the primary, why did t he now permit it to be violated? Why was a convention to be held in August? " Why were not all men allowed to go to s the polls and vote? I The Senator closed by saying that the I assessment on the railroads which t Governor Tillmen "had throttled, had - been reduced." There was again long a continued cheering. IION. JOHN GARY EVANS SPEAKS. - Comptroller General Ellerbe was in e troduced, but said he would not speak as dinner time was on hand and the 8 peoDle were tired; if they would come ' to Yorkville tomorrow he would talk 5 to them. le finished amid applause. t Senator Evans was next introduced e and was warInly received. Ile said he would defend the Reform administra tion, of which he was a part, against Senator Butler and if the Senator r spanked his (Elvans') baby, he would put a mustard plaster under Butler's shirt. (Laughter.) Senator Evans brought down the audience by saying he was glad to see all the anti Tillman B ites of the State present. Every coun ty w as represented and a good deal of North Carolina was on hand. Touch ing on National affairs. Evans said Cleveland was a prostitution of Demo cracy, and if being a follower of Cleve land was a Democrat, he (Evans) could 1 be called anything else. 4 "Didn't you votc for 1ill1?" a man r asked. "No, I did not," was the quick reply. - "and the only ones I know who did are men now supporting Butler for Sena tor. Ben Perry, for instance." Evans made a good many pointed jabs at Butler, tickling his friends im menselv. He continued his attack on Cleveland and defended the Democracy 5 of the Reformers of the State. Senator Evans said it was the old men who had been kicked out of office who were keep ing the political ball open; it was not theyo ung men. e Evans parried in quick and neat man e ner a number of questions asked him. r Ile got in a blow on Butler whenever he could and was asked by a young man named Gus Aiken if he was run ning for Senator or Governor. A col a loquy ensued between them. Evans attacked Butler for his state ment that State taxes have not been 8 reduced and showed this was erroneous, 'e Ile said it the Senator was as ignorant on national affairs as on State, he was in a bad fix. Again defending the State adminis. ie tration, he upheld the Dispensary law, Y His declaration that it was the best law for control of whiskey was hissed by several young men. "I can tell that you fellows are from North Carolina by the color of your - noses," the speake- id to them. Ev 0 ans told how the ....pensary law had e been adopted and said it had reduced crime and drunkonness to the minimum In his own town only one arrest had t been made for drunkenness during the t Dispensary regime. The first night the e law was declared unconstitutional, thir teen arrests were made. He gave flg ures in favor of the Dispensary and d strongly defended it. le said he will e advocate the Dispensary from every e stump in the State and if elected Gov ernor will enforce the law to the letter. "What about the Darlington affair?" - was asked. e "I am glad you mentioned that." he - said. "It was a premeditated affair, brought on by the whiskey element." H thn told of the refusal of the I troops to go to Darlington and the of A fer of thousands of wool hat boys to efigtlh shot guns and bickory sticks. b outh Carolina will never bow to the 'whiskey element. The people will not 0 surrender to the little whiskey sellers and grog shop Keepers. e "Wihy did you turn down Hampton ?" was asked. e- "Because he didn't represent us an l >tw will turn down anybody else who yr does not." a "WVhy haven't you got a Governor .n who knows the law ?" yr "We have a Governor who knows d more law than all your little gang put IS together." Evans concluded by saying that ho would continue his discourse at York 'a vIlle, whore he would be gladl to see all ~r North Carolinians and revenue ofi n cers." (Applause.) e MESSRS. POPE AND TINDAL SPEAKs. Dr. Sampson Pope was introduced 3- and announced himself as a candidate o for Governor and said he would de~no ti his principles, and declared that he -had alwaya been a Reformer and )- would continue one. The Reform ~t movement had done more good than I- any administration. Taxes had not e been greatly reduced, because the State had been forced into litigation at great y expense. Coosaw had been throttled t and the railroads had been made to t come under the law, lie showed that the railroads had not been paying an 1 equal proportion of taxation. Dr. Pope recited all things done by the adminis A tration. lie also defended the Dispeun "sary law and said it was the best law Li ever put on the statute books. If lie 'f could not get the Dispensary lie was d for high license. Dr. Pope favored all "the Alliance demands within the Dem d ocratic party and said the sub-treasury a- was the best of all these demands. H~e e showed the groat benefits of that plan. d lie also attacked Cleveland and said he stood in with Wall street. lHe said n he despised Hill, ie believed Tiliman e would be the next Democratic nominee I, for P.resident. Dr. Pope expressed the e views on national politics enumerated e by him before. e Secretary of State Tiridal, the last if candidate for. Governor introduced, d commended th3 Rock Hill1 people for e their peaceable conduct. lHe told what i- good the Reform movement had ac t- complished. Things in the State be e fore the movement was successful, a were stagnant. Governor Tillman was g not responsible for the strife in the I, State. Turmoil was inevitable and would have resulted had any man been dI elected Governor. Tindal spoke for - peace and unity. Bioth the minority and the majority must use toleration. (d lie wanted his Conservative friends to t- remember that'the Reform movement a would never go backward. Tindal had no good wordsa for Cleveland. lie spoke some on national pifairs. When lhe 'd cnclnded he was applauded. THE YORK MEETING. 3REATEST INTEREST IN THE FIGH FOR THE SENATE. The Crowd Lat gniy in Favor of Tiiman. Butler Makca a Gond Spech-Synops of the .speeohre Mdet by ie'0 DIRcret *0a. d I ator. YORK VILLE, S. 0., J une 19.-Thing warmed up a little at today's campaig meeting. The crowd got somewhti enthusiastic. The best or humor,hou ever, prevailed. Everyone went awa happy and contented, and no, ange was shown. Today's meeting emphi sized one thing strikingly, the and ences do not care three snaps for an] thing except the Senatorial debat The enthusiasm was below zero tint the central ilgues, Butler and Ti] man appeared. Then the voters brace themselv up, and were all interest ai showed their feelings They listene to the others, they laughed and note the argument, but when General Bu ler was announced there was a decide change in the atmosphere. A complet change had come over the scen Chairman J. Steele Brice, in openin the meeting, begged that thi; be mad a repetition of the model meeting he] here two years ago. The Rev. Mr. N G. Neville made the opening prayer. JOHN GARY EVANS was introduced as "from Edgefield, but he promptly corrected the state ment that he was from Aiken. He continued: Whether we be RW formers,[ndependents or Conservative or Republicans our interests are on( That banner can go with the one ut der which we have won, "Equal right to all and special privileges to none. We are not Populists or Communistf but are working for one interest. W now have a ring of entirely new pe( ple. See to it tliat you are not dict: ted to by the bosses. No man has th right to fear for the interests of hi State, of the people. Nearly all of th measures advocated in our platfort have been enacted into law. There is demand for a constitutional conver tion and that has not been acted on. The Constitution you live under wf made by a people who had no intere in you; yet we are told to keep th: dangerous Constitution. I tried I amend it and was voted down. N pay too much to the classes whose i terests are not ours in proportion the taxes paid. That means if th country ever gets into the hands of ti carpet-baggers the negro has equ rights in all your schools. There great danger in this provision. . T] schools should be put under the peoj through the Legislature. Vote for constitutional convention. New Yo: has outgrown her Constitution, at ours was modelled after theirs. Evc Confederate soldier is stigmatized your own Constitution as a rebel. We"Reformers" have started out the platform of the Alliance. Thoj demands are today the only true D mocracy. We have been called a kinds of names because we have ha the boldness to make.the party go bac to old Jeffersonian Democracy. V are lighting for principle and if w keep it up we are bound to win. stand upon every demand in there. I is claimed that we have done nothinj for the people. We refunded your deb with an annual saving of $80,000 year. We actually had men go to Ne York and say the debt would be repu diated. They ran Dr. B..tes and Goi Tillman out of New York by their mi liclous reports. They even wanted t continue the debt at 6 per cent. whei they knew negotiations were pondin! for the settlement of the bonds. Th next year the bill was telegraphed t New York. Why was it done? Fo political purposes. They were tryin to fly-blow the whole debt. We wen over to Baltimore and placed thi whole tiling and they went away lik they had their tail cut. [llurrahs.] patriot of South Caroina& wantea tLh State to fail in placing the bonds. They are all coming over, but iw mnust not baptize too many at ou .Ime. Don't let them all in at one timi They may break the plank. We hav even convertedl the State. Tfho scali on his back are too thick t~o lot himn with one scraping. We have to mar him with a red star aind anoint bli and baptize him before we let him in. About this time a train passed 1 and Evans said: ' Let her rolil" and l wait. The dispensary law is the be! thing you have ever had. We foun South Carolina dirungk as a lord. W~ could not take away the liquor at onel we took it away gradually. We too temptation away from the boys.] daereased drunkenness over 75 pt cent. The audience (lid not seem to b~e the humor to applaud, amnd only did when he made a good point or a laug] able suggestion. (COM~PTRcOLLER1 C)ENERtAL ELLERIH IE was in good trim, ie said that, a though lie had been cussed and dil cussed, he had no intention of apoli gizing for anything he had done. M1 cousin, for lie is my cousin, is sorn what ashamed of me because as a pla1 farmer I can't speak like lie doel When I am elected lie will caull a "cousin", and then i'll give him a tri justiceship. (Laughiter.J When I went into 0111ee 1 found tL: property not fully assessed(. I sent or circulars to my auditors to increas assessments to the full value of' th property. We have increased t he va untion of the railroad pro per ty I about $7,000,000 as it now stands t< day. We raised the South Carolin and Georgia road to $16,000 per mil and that was when tile bonds wer worth on the market about $7,00)0,00( It's the same thing with the othe4 roads. The Columbia and Greenvill bonds were worth on tihe market $17 000 and we assessed it at $ 10,500. Ye they cried we were trying to ruin th State. Recently we got over $200,000 thi escaped taxation, and yet this propert is no higher than any other. You a remember the bank cases. I only oi dered the auditors to tax the p roport according to law. In the N ewberr Bank case the bank showed Sh).000 I stock and surplus. The auditor at sessed them at $230,000, but the Coun fIxed that at $150,000, which is lei than 50 per cent. I am sorry to sa when I came In I fauna shortages. told the sheriffs to enforce execution and we are making better collectioi than they ever did. Mr. Ellerbee told a very laughab story of how a yonn lady tried to ha him stop a tax execution, which occa sioned considerable merriment. He continued: We defeated Coosaw. T We refunded the State debt which eaves you 650,000 a year. We built Clemson College for your sons, where we mossbacks can be educated. Our Penitentiary is now managed as well as any in the country, while now Col. * Neal is turning money over to the , treasury. Yet, wJ are asked what we have done. Yet we have done all this without increasing your taxes, al , though when we went In we found 850,000 debt. We had to raise taxes last year because we had money tied up by the railroads. Then look at the litigation they forced us into. Then we are building your colleges. i I joined the Alliance when it was (irst organized, and I believe in it. I believe it will do us good. It Is an or ganization to help the agricultural classes. They tell you our demands are unconstitutional, and they would d not know the Constitution coining d down the road. [Laughter.] Anything d would do better than what we have. It d Is time to do something for the people. le touched lightly on the banks,pro d tection, free silver, national aid to the railroads and the Alliance demands. Ilie favored national control of the railroads, especially those aided by the Government. The roads can be re d produced for three billion dollars and Sthey re trying to pay interest on nine billion dollars. Ile favored an income tax. Ile wanted some way to send tax perjurers to the Penitentiary. I am in favor of peace and unity myself, but - there is one thing our people will have to understand, and that Is the minority cannot dictate to the majority. Repub 5 I'anism would be a cruel fallacy it - this was the case. - There was not a flutter or a word of , applause as Mr. ElLeibee finished, al though his speech took very well with the audience. e CANDIDATE TINDAL. opened by saying that for eight years he had been working to build up the 0 "Reform" party. Ile did not feel like 8 a stranger. e Ile continued: You were in bygone a days suffering from political lethargy. a You felt an oppression and a wrong, - but you did not know the cause. I then tried to tell you what was your i trouble and that Is why you -are here. 3t What you want to know is what you Is are voting for. Today I am a candi '0 date, not of my own choice, but be. re cause my friends want me to run. The n- great acts of the "Reformers" are the to building of Clemson College, the Win is throp College and the railroad tax de light, which really meant that they al must pay the same taxes as others, and is I venture to say the roads and the peo he ple hereafter will be on more friendly li terms. a You have today an honeat and efli rk clent Government. It is a Govern id ment of white people. No one denies ry that. Why can't we have peace in n South Carolina? Nothing we have done is disputed. Why not come to. Oil gether? All of our people speak for ie peace. I never have been able to be. 9- lieve that any portion of our. people I can be enemies to the State. Nearly d all we suffered during Radical days k was brought about to perpetuate the e party. All we want is a Democratic ' party in this State. We want one uni. I ted force to accomplish our work in t Washington. 9 The "Reform" party has never do. t prived anyone of his rights. I' I can a remove ary prejudices against the Al. V liance 1 would be glad to do so. The politics of the Alliance are as open and - as broad as the noonday. It has no se crets except those connected with its D business, like a merchant's private A mark, of which none complain. When 9 the Alliance went in it went to fight e Itrusts and extortlons. The farmers 0 found they must work together, and r when they opened their eyes they R found their Government giving mil t lions of land to railroads; it found It e giving .$18,000,000 to sugar growers as e a bounty; it found farmers almost do .prived of the use of money with which 0 to raise crops. Then the Alliance got up its demands in order to get you to eC direct your attention to the questions. .0 Jt binds no man's conscience, in L. March, 1890, 1Iintroduced the platform, eC from which I will read extracts. mH Mr. Tindali made a good clear, forei k ~ DR SAMPSON POPE "made an exceedingly clear cut, open, plain speech. ie wanted the Constitu 7 tion overthrowni sio as to insure white Usupremacy. Vote for it, he said, and tthere will be no dlanger of the white Spople separating, lHe favored pro etoction and said: You have not suffer 'ed by the sugar bountry. You have kbern beneilted more than hurt, getting [tyie cents sugar. I~verything is cheap ras dirt. We only need more money. The rarliff does not hurt you. I would have voted for high license, but after I saw the operatIons oftedispensary I now favor the Jaw. If unconstitutional, then as a last resort I'd go for high Ilicense. P rohibition does not prohibit. if the law is passed there ought to be a State board of police commissioners. -There never was andI would never have ybeen an innocent man's house searched 'I wouIld not be a Prohibitionist. Theli n bitterness was not due to "iteformers," Sbut to the newspapers. 0IIe chargedl that all the newspapers iexcept the Greenville News and the Itegister had worked against the State Srefunding its debt. T1he Greenville t Ne ws, lie saidi, dId not even spell reform Scorrectly. Mr Smythe and others had Sgotten $15,000 for defending the rights of the Coosaw Company, frotn which the State gotno money, and it was asaid he was also paid by thie company, and the old Administrations thought eits grips. TheI announcement of e I). E. FINLEY -as candidate for Congress brought ~t about considerable applause. Jie said, e in opening, that he had always been a consistent "Rteformer." ie was bound ~t by their platform. For the last four y years lie had always advocated every 11 measure looking to the curtailment of -expenses. lie thought he had done as y much as anyone In this line. He in y trodluced the bill for the reorganization n of the University and the salary re i. duction bill. The delay in passing 't this bill was not on his account, ie is had no apologies to make, ie was y equally frank to say some measures I passed did not meet with ;his opproba e, tion. ie did not vote for the dispen ms sary law because he did not think it wise. lIe did not vote for the "Black lo district" bill. ie Continuing he aid:. I am here a a candidate because I want office. The financial question deserves attention. The Pensign law has greatly injurea the South. Ten per cent of all money incirculation is paid these pensioners. It amounts to rob bery. Our Representatives have not fought this as they should. A fight must be made. I believe in the free coinage of gold and silver. I do not believe that the repeal of the State bank tax would relieve the situation. Dr. Strait has made no fight for vaper money to be issued direct by the United States Government. I will go to Wash Ington representing you all, not to make a flght for offices. Mr. Bissell will never have any opportunity of pasing on my Democracy. I won't let him do so. [Iurrahs for Finley.) ONGRE8SMAN STRAIT itarted out by talking 'of the snakes ind devils and treachery and horrors of Wall street. The tariff bill is a poor thing without a daddy.. It puts into the hands of the Sugar Trust over $100 000,000 by its provisions. Col Talbert is our leader on pensions. HIe voted for the unconditional repeal of the State bank tax. If the people don't want State banks they need not. State banks would be an experiment, I begged no man for a recognition of my Democracy. Finley: I did not say that, and meant no reflection on you. Dr. Strait: it looked to me that way. I have not gotten any oflices. [Voice: What adout H1emphill?] Strail: He got his package marked patronage and not marked "Congres ilonal." [ iurrahs for Strait and "Say i" DR TIMMERMAN was introduced as a candidate for Lieutenant Governor. As he got up there was a titter, and a few said, "Oh, my, look there!" as they looked at the man with the harelip nose. He said what he wanted about politics and announced that his chief laim for the nomination was his good looks. (This was a joke on its face The crowd yelled and whooped. but Dr Timmerman went on and said that about his only rival on looks was Nor man Elder, of York, and they kept on laughing. The woman, he said. must see something in his looks as he had been married twice. [Laughter and hurrahs ] SENATOR BUTLER was greeted with applause as he walk ed straight up to the end of the plat form. lie spoke right out and was given close attention. He said an of lIce holder was responsible to the peo ple and the officers were not the masters The people here are the rulers and the sovereings. It is not only your right but your duty to demand of every man in oflice an account of the trust. Just here I would like to make a personal explanation. Messrs Shell and Mo Laurin have requested me to say something about an alleged political combine with them. and a statement thatthey had boon traitors to the Reform Movement. There never was any foundation for the report, and I should not have noticed it except for their re quests. .L have always tried to treat the "Reform" Congressmen with respect. [Just at this jucture two men got into a personal fight, but G(en Butler and Chairman Brice quieted the crowd.] Coutinuing Gen Butler said he would criticise Governor Tillman's public re cord as much as he wanted to and he did not want Governor Tillman to get mad about it. Is there any objection to asking for an explanation from Governor Tillman? Fifteen years ago I said we ought to have just such a college as Clemson and I have always favored such colleges. They talk of baptizing me when I advocated measures they are talking of before they were born. In 18801 voted for the free - :oinage of silver and have voted for it 3ver since. lie went on briefly to explain what ~here was in free coinage and said that ~he Government could not, unless it ncreased its mint capacity, give more ~han one dollar pen capita per year. Continuing he said: I never owned m dollar's worth of stock or bonds in rallroads or banks, but ILam in favor of protecting their interests. The fight egan twenty years ago. 'When it comes ~o pensions the soldier vote is so strong that neither side will fight it in the N~orth or E ast. It does look alat ming to see the pensions steadily increasing Ind we, my old soldiers, we who fought l'or four years, have contributed over $i300,000,000 towards it. I would stand t.hat without a murmur if they did us justice in other respects. When the Democratic Convention met it agreed Irst to repeal the election law, second to change the tariff law, and third-to ivle financial help. The election relief las come, and the Wilson Act is now pending. That tariff bill is not all that 1 would like; there were compromises, yet I believe it the best tariff bill almost over passed, in the bill is a tax oin in come, and it is the first opportunity to reach the bondholders, It is fair, it is D~emocratic. I regret to say that the third most vital and more important Llemandi has not been granted, and I t'ear will not be as ion g as Mr. Cleve land is our Presklent. Y ou and I voted for him. Although the people knew Mr, Cleveland was oppose(a to free sil ver the people voted for him.' He was the choice of the Democrats. I2 don't believe him a thief or scoundrel, yet the masses and not the leaders wanted and elected him. My judgment is that the light against corpirations has been en couraged by the Republicans. It will be a death struggle in the next election. It will be a triump~h for Republican in stitutions or it will be the beginning of the end of ;popular government. We ought now to organize silve1' leagues on which to build a financial system on which to give relief to the people. I am not a pessimist, but my experIence is that the struggle must come and will come between the money interests and tne masses. They have found men to shoot down citizens. There are four teen States in insurrection. There is dynamite, death, destruction in the air. I ad vised to let Coxey alone; that is a mere symptoni of the disease that Re publican legislation has brought stbout. lie referred to Governor Tillman'4 throwing rooks jokingly and tielng ox tails up in Washington. I should go to the West for our next President. He is with us and I have my eye on him. if Governor Tillman has gotten any more abuse than I have, Lord help him. I don't mind that, it is the right of the newspapers to comment on my record but I don't get mad about It like he does I don't think the newespapers mean much by abusing us. They have a right to criticise. They talk about my fami ly holding ofice. The fact is I am the [OONTIMITEn ON VA(~ lfain 11 1