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[ yoL. XLVIIL WINNSBOKO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1894. NO. 46. .|S jL^mm AND TILLMAN?" F THE GREAT SENATORIAL RACE BeB GUN AT ROCK HILL. Senator Evans Made a Speech and Had rSome Passes with the Crowd?Pope and I Tindtl Do Their Devoir?The O h??r Candidates Did Not Spaalc. Rock Hill, Jane 18.?The sreat Senatorial ontest has begun. Daring the early hoars of the day hundreds of people were congregated around Turner^ Hotel, where both Butler and Tillman were quartered, and it was a Butler " *""1 f/VPrnu-ara nf th? nvrmfir not coming up into to^a m large lumbers. Two hundred Bullerites arrived yesterJay. Fifty of ihein came from Edgefield and ihe remainder from Greenville. I - At 6:30 this moming the train from Columbia brought 450 more, all wool-hat, hardy looking fellows, from Union, Fairfield and stations along the C. C. & A. road. A good many others cama in about 10:30 from the direction of Charlotte. The audience at the meeting 1 3 o AHA A<i? nf the oumuertru awuo u,vuv. uuv v> H abltf passengers from Columbia was Newbold, the dispensary detective. He f had to stand some mild guying from the i country boys. Shortly after 10o'clock this morning Senator Butler made a ten minutes talk to 250 of his supporters in Armory Hall. mt He started that a rumor had been circulated and telegraphed that Governor Tillman was to be assassinated prompt* Jy at noon by a prearranged plan. He trt Qtot* thai; so far he knew. uuouwx *r%r WIMHV ? ? ?- ?? , tne rumor was unqualifiedly false. He bad never, he said, done or said a word to cause a breach anion? tbe white ^^people, nor would he. He hoped hi3 ^^^Inends would scatter themselves at this meeting as they would at any other meeting. He thanked them for their presence and hoped they would go to Yorkvilie tomorrow. He had no fear for himself, and he did not see any reason why anybody should wish to kill him, but he supposed he could as well afford to die now as ever. The Senator remarked that the State executive committee had passed a rule requiring candidates to announce k' themselves by June 17, and that ia compliance he had written the following let ter: Edgefield, 5. C., June 16, 1894. I To Mr. D. H. Tompkin?, Secretary of Democratic Exactlve Committee, r Columbia, S. C.: Dear Sir: I herebv announce mvself PA* TTriT4Qfof*o f ao a wauuiuaio ?\jl uiv u uh?u Senate tor the term beginning March 4, ! 1895. I presume the canditates for the i Legislature, which will elect a United b States Senator, will abide the result of the primaries setfor thg 30T&.QT j?D?U3iWm~ nest. EL I hereby request that a separate box be provided by ihe State executive committee at each and every voting precinct & in the State, in which each vocer may express by his ballot h>s preference for United' States Senator, said separate boxes to be managed under the same rule as other ballot boxes in the primaries, and I hereby pledge my sell to abide ft* the result ot the vote thus cast at the oniil ninmo?7 A r? ?orlo ranlc will nhliffA r OOiU pu ?LU VWAIT M 44* . Very truly, M. 0 Butler. The Senator said thai; if be could get a fair primary he won d abide by it, and not whine at the reuul: If the people k- preferred the other man. He could return to Edgefield and fish for the remainder cf his life and spend it. free of public cares. What he wished v/as to get the people to listen to argument. the regular meeting. The speaking was at stavs, halt a mile north cf the jtntre of iLe City. V^UU^iCtsuj&u oaau nao guvu thirty minutes, the senatorial candidates one hour each and ten minutes tor repiy and the candidates for Governor thirty minutes each. At precisely two minutes past eleven. Senator Butler and Conr * pressman Strait arrived on the ground. The stand 5s an ordinary wooden plat? form, built against a majestic white I oak. It stands in the midst ot a splendid l grove. As the Senator steps upon the stand, k attired in bluish cambric negligee shirt, scarf, ird black cloibes, some one shouts, "Hurrah for B a tier," and con ^^iderable cheering follows. One voice l fAi* TSllmori raUVUIO iVl ^uiuinui la a moment Governor Tillman, wearing a white helmet and black alpaca coat, low quartered shoes and greenish yellow aocks, follows, snd cheeis, scarcely so generalaa Butler's, sreet him. He takes a seat at the rear of the stand and leans aaainst the oak. John Gary Evacs seats himself at his right elboiv aDd Tmdal directly behind. Samps Pope, Ellerbe. Buchanan, Watts, John Walter Gray and Mayfisld seated themselves around the stand, with Butler holding the lelt flankiDg seat. P President YVbite 01 tne jsock am Democratic Club called the meetiDg to order. Rev. W. G. White prated and the band played. President White introduced CoD2ressman Strait as the first speaker. Nobod? cheeied as he faced the crowd. It began to sprinkle rain gently, dampering the splits of the assemblage, and the Congressman's remarks appeared to have a similar effect. GOT. TILLMAN SPEAKS. At the conclusion of Congressman Strait's speech President White, after cautioning the crowd not to interrupt the speakers, introducc-d Governor Tillman. The crowd had waited patiently for ^ the Senatorial guns to fire and broke I into .ap^use when Chairman White L ^ictroduced Governor Tillman and anK ^nounced the order of the remainder of m- ?~ the speaking. The Governor advanced in the cool, deliberate manner usual to p him. He said he was the only man in South Carolina who had tried to canvass the State three times, county b^ county. He brought applause and loud laughter when he said he was glad to meet the audience face to face even though many of them came from Xorth Carolina and all over the globe. He was accused of aaviDg a oitier [uugue, uui, ue swjuu here and said he was not responsible for all the bitterness. He had been more persecuted and maligned than any other man. The people, Tillman ^ said, had elected him to office before and were going to send him to the Senate sure as a gun's iron. (Loud applause.) ? Ee said he had been Governor four years and stood ready to defend his every act. He made an appeal for ?brotherly love in the coming campaign ^~aM.paid an eulogy to the farmers as the backbone of the country. He said Ine was proua 01 ueiug a xmuia wu?-1 ernor. He had never run for office till nver 38 years of age. Then he had gone for the biggest plum on the tree and shook it down. He was now after a bigger plum and i?tended to get it. (Applause.) His friend Butler had been in office eighteen year3. The office belonged to the people not to any man. The Governor next said he supposed the candidates for the Senate must dis cuss national issues. He would simply take a bird's eye view of the situation. There were only two big questions?the tariff and finance. He wouldn't touch on the tariff to day and would discuss finances to some extent. He jumped into the question by showiDg the ereat contraction of the money of the country. In 1865, he said, there was S2.000,000,000 of money in circulation; now there is only S1.000,000,000. Tear, was the reason tbe poor farmers of the country were not gettiog a reward for their labor. He charged all this to Wall street. Shvloeks. backed bv Lom bard street, London. These Shylocks had caused this contraction by patting 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 millionaires. The Governor jumped on the national bank question and defended greenbacks. He explained the difference between them. Money sharks said greenbacks were fiat money. That fiat money, however, had whipped the South in the late war. Purchased Congressmen and Senators yelled "Fiat money" because they had beea bought. The speaker then began the discussion of the silver question. He said gold and silver had been on a paritv <><?"? tho rtoTs rkf Ahrohom and oncht OiUW VUV V*. 0 to be now. The Democratic platform adopted at Chicago had said they were 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 Carlisle with hocus-pocus game in issuing $50,000,000 of bond3 to replenish the gold reserve, which is again down to S65,000,000. He charged a lot of thieving and robbery in Washington, but said some day the people will get together and there will be a big shaking up. (Laughter.) He attacked Cleveland as an old bag nf hppf whom he nould 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 present 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. He said there are millions of starving workingmea. Money sharks, he said, have grown so outrageous in their treatment and talk as to wish a standing 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. Roan mint* riisrmsainn of the Silver question, *ve Governor said the people wouldn't jt> bought and would kill out the dragon encircling them. They woakldu 111 tUUlii au'J CUuXT hoTTTje "bought with money or free passes. This was hi3 first direct allusion to tne free pass, free excursion of Butlerites and brought loud applause from his supporters. The fight, he said, must be for free silver and more greenbacks. The Governor said the South and West must get together and make a fight for liberty and bread. He concluded by telling a story of big John Jones and bis ox, a story abous an ox's tail being tied though the dashboard of a vehicle. The Governor said if sent to the Senate he woull promise not to be bribed and not to seli out. He would chunk rocks for the people's Interest as long as he could use ms tongue auu wuuju uu an he could. Just as the Governor was concluding, some man. ia the audience remarked that; Tillman would not get to the Senate to chunk rocks. Turning toward the speaker and waving his hand, the Governor said that sixty-live thousand white men had elected him to his office and would send hi m to the Senate. This elicited loud and prolonged applause. ? m a ? * T?rrmrT??T> c?T> p A ITCJ iV. I'JIi ox ?<aiw. At the conclusion of Gov. Tillman's speech he was heartily cheered and the band played. As the last note of music died away there was a cry for Butler, who wa3 then introduced by the chairman. He said: "I'm mighty glad to see you. I am glad to see you in a good humor. I'm glad that Governor Tillman was in a good humor. I shall meet him with the same respectful bearing. The Governor says he has been accused of having a bitter toLgue. Well, a Ssh woman can wield a bitter tongue, but n- ./"."iMo "ftimxra tr? snpat t.n an in 10 WV telligent anc. well informed audience like this before me. "I have a proposition to make to th6 Governor. If he will agree to have a separate ballDt box at each voting precinct in which the people, I mean the white people, in the primary in September may register their choice for Senator, without the interference of rings and caucusses, I shall agree to abide by it. Will he do that?" Voices?"No, no, no." "Ob, I think ho wil'," said the Senator. "Will he agree to submit to the people whether he or I should represent them in the Senate? Iwiilaoide by it." (Cheers.) "The Governor says that the Senate doesn't belocg to me; I didn't ask to go there. I did not asK for the privilege of accepting the volume of abuse which the Republicans hurled upon me when I was righting for my seat. Men who rode by me in"camp and bivouac called on me for what seemed a forlorn hope, and I would not refuse, because I felt it was my duty. I would not go tbrcugh that experience again for any office. "If we are to judge of the Governor m the Senate by the speech he has made, what a spectacle be would be, driving an ox cart with the ox tail in the dashboard; flinging rocks from the mountain top. What could he accompli, 3h in the Senate making sucn a veritable spectacle of himself V "We have heard a good deal said about fiaance, Cleveland being bought and free passes. I submit that that is a delicate question for the Governor. (Cheers.) 1 think he had better Jet the subject drop. Has it come to this that a man in South Carolina can't ride on a train without asking Marse JBen ? I have asked for passes for poor men out of a job. Has the Governor ever asked a pass for a poor man? (Wild cheering.) Voice?"He asked for one for himself." 'Tierce cheering, which Butler; had to quiet.) Some voices shouted for Tillman. The speaker then compared Tillccan to a youner mule, who, when working in double harness, kicked and bit at the other mule and did no pulling. He then ridiculed the Governor's love of office. Man in the crowd?' Don't you love office, too ?'r ''Yes, I do, pretty well," responded 1 the senator, eyeing the man coolly.1 * 4 "Aye God, I tell the truth; I haven't gone crazy about cflle?, thoue&." Tho fiovcrr.nr in his "A. B. O's" about ilnance. One of bis friends calls him a "genius of destruction." A common tramp may blow up a house with dynamite.* The Governor taiks about monopolies and robberies, but he suggests no remedy, lie will get on a mountain and throw rock?,drive an oxcart with the ox's tail in the dashboard. I am under the impression lhat be went to Chicago a supporter of Pavid 1>. Kill, who at the beginning of his career, nps stabbed the party by de daring against the Income tax, the fairest clause in the tarill bill. That should teach you what to expect of the Goverror. I am as far from Cleveland as the poles from each other, and no one is better aware of it than he, but I fake no stack in this abuse of him. The tariff bill will be Dassed. It is the best tariff bill ever before Congress, because it is not satisfactory to the extremes of each side. Voice?"It does not represent the Democratic party." Butler?'"It is a bill which the Democratic party can stand on." The Senator then defended the bill fully, asserting that its duties were 0 per cent, lower than the Mills bill. "I predict that the next Bepublicaa nationai convention will put in a free silver plank in their platform. I favor that the Democrats of tfce soutn ana North and West begin now and organize silver leagues. I believe the country ca;i sustain double the amount of greenbacks in circulation without one dollar of gold in the country. The Republican party is responsible for the condition of the Soutb. I believe when the tairifE bill is passed tbat the revenues will be ample for the support of the government. I am as much opposed to the bond issue as the Governor is. To illustrate a point in silver demonetization, the Senator said: "If the Governor will lend me the dollar he ha?, I'll show you; (smiling) he's better ofl: than I am." (The crowd laughed uproariously.) I'll give it back to him or else play crack-loo for it." The Governor came forward with a smile and handed him the dollar. The Governor says greenbacks whip ped us. I wa3 tnar. ic was muszets and bayonets whipped us, or rather we got tired out whipping the Tankees. Then the Senator explained the pension Infamy and said that the reason why it was not checked was because we hadn't the votes. He incidentally paid a tribute to the Confederate?, say in5 that there never were such soldiers as the soldiers of Lee and Jackson. The Senator held up a large yellow envelope. "I have plenty of ammunition here, I want the Governor to understand that when I tackle the State administration I shall do it frankly, though in perfect good humor. When I warm his back he must take it like a little man. He must take his punishment. I shall take mine. I am used to it. I know the farmers are poor. I understood that the Governor promissd when elected that he would help the farmers. Are they better off? On the other hand taxes have been increased. I shall stand side by side with my people in their struggle. I challenge Governor Tillman to pojnt to_ an Instancet ^.ig-g-Tniuaa myufuty. It is "wrong to turn a man out of the Senate only because he has done his duty. I would lay down public life forever if I could thereby see my people united and living a3 brothers as they were four years ago. I utter a warniug and a prediction, that when the white people divide and appeal to the negro vote we shall have a period of degradation worse than reconstruction. There is nothing for me in the Senate. I am a poorer man than when I went there. I nave not learned to steal or accept bribe?, I can'o be captured by gold or free passes. (Cheers.) It may be a little vain, but 1 believe 1 am the man to bring tbe people together. Senator Butler was continually cheered, and had often to stop and quiet his friends before proceeding:. GOV. TILLJIAN IN REPLY. At the couclusion of Senator Butler's speech, Col. Jones said that Governor Tillman was entitled to a reply. When Governor Tillman came to the front he was loudly cheered. The Governor ke^an his closing remarks by saying that he just wanted to answer a few little firecrackers shot off by hi3 friend. In regard to the proposition, if Butler believed that the people ought to have the right to elect oenators ana n tuc jLrcuiv^iauiw uacuutive Commiitee is willing t") grant the proposition he had no objection. "Butler went on to talk about my geltlDg among the plow boys. I want to ask you if the farmers did not put me up to lead a forlorn hope. ' Yes, they did you won!" said many voices. "Since that time I have been more maligned than any man in the State." In response to a question from a man in the audience about his chances of election, the Governor said he had "done got the coon skin and was gone." About free passes, the Governor told how he had accepted one and said Butler had ridden on one all his life. He then showed up how many in the crowd Liciu ""'juie uerc uu ncc ycoocij. These men didn't come here from North Carolina and all over the State for nothiug. They could yell, he said, bat couldn't vote in York County. He caused great cheering when he said he had York County and would thank the people in advance for the vote of the county. The Governor told what he had done since he had been the 'Jhlef Executive and said he had nothing to shield, in his life. About Butler's story of the old mule and the young mule, he asked the farmers which they bad rather have, a young prancing mule or an eld flop eared, worn-cut animal. "We'll take you I" shouted many amid laugbter at Butlers expense as a flopeared animal. The Governor said he had not voted for Hill but for Boies at Chicago, But jer uisviii^ uiw >?iiu t. supporter of the former. SENATOR BUTLER IN REPLY. When Senator Butler came forward to reply, both factions cheered vociferously for some minutes. The Senator characterized the Governor as an artful dodger in ileeing behind the executive committee in the proposition for a separate box. He had asked for a categorical answer and had expected one. In the charge of ringism he was sustained by the high authority of no less a personage than John L. M. Irbv, who had charged that there was a State House ring. If the Governor had given the people the primary, why did he now permit it to be violated? "Why wa3 a convention to be held in August? Why were not all men allowed to go to tne polls and vote? The Senator closed by saying that the assessment on the railroads, which Governor Ti'lmen "had throttled, had been reduced." There was again long continued cheering:. HON. fOUN OAKY EVANS SrEAKS. Comptroller General Eilerbe was introduced, but said he would not speak as dinner time was cn hand and the I 1 if thar nmnlri peupie ivac mcu, j.i mwj to Yorkvilie tomorrow he would talk to them. Ke finished amid applause. Senator Evans was next introdaced and was warmly received. He said he would defend the Reform administra% tion, of which he was a part, against Senator Uutler and if the Senator spanked his (Evans') baby, he would put a mustard plaster under BaUer's ( shirt (Laughter.) Senator Evans brought down the audience by sayiDg he was glad to see all the anti Tillmanites of the State present. Every coun- . tv was represented and a good deal of North Carolina was on hand. Touching on National affairs. Evans said v^ieveiana was a pruautuuuu ui i^cuueracy, and if being a follower of Cleveland was a Democrat, he (Evans) could be called anything else. ''Didn't yon vote for Ilill?" a man 1 asked. i "No, I did n'ot," was the quick reply, ( 4,and the only ones I know who did are men now supporting Butler for Senator. Ben Perry, for instance." Evans made a good many pointed 1 jabs at Butler, tickling bis friends im- ? menselv. He continued bis attack on < Cleveland and defended the Democra rj J of the Reformers of t&e State. Senawi Evans said it was the old men who bad t been kicked out of oflice who were keep- i im* iso nrtiiHnal hall nr?ftn*ifc WAS not t 1JU*^ ^'VliUWUi VJWV" y ?. m _.-r theyo ung men. ? Evaos parried in quick and neat man- t ner a number of questions asked him. 1 lie got in a blow on Butler whenever 1 he could and was asked bv a young < man named Gus Aiken if he was run- < ning for Senator or Governor. A col- < loquy ensued between them. t Evans attacked Butler for his state- '< ment that State taxes have not besn 1 reduced and showed this was erroneous, < He said if the Senator wa3 as ignorant rm notional affairs as on State, he was , in a bad fix. { Again defending the State administration, he upheld the Dispensary law. His declaration that it was the best law for control of whiskey was hissed by several young men. "I can tell tnat you fellows are from North Carolina by the color of yofcr noses," the speaker said to them. EVans told how the Dispensary law had been adopted and said it had reduced crime and drunkenness to the minimum In his own town only one arrest had been made for drunkenness during the Dispensary regime. The first night the law was declared unconstitutional, thir teen arrests were made. He gave figures in favor of the Dispensary and strongly defended it. He said he will advocate the Dispensary from every stump in the State and if elected Governor will enforce the law to the letter. "What about the Darlington affair?" was asked. "I am glad you mentioned, that," he said. "It was a premeditated affair, brought on by the whiskey element." He then told of the refusal of the troops to go to Darlington and the offer of thousands of wool hat boys to ^ ^ % * ?T- ? - ? a* J UiaIvawtt of i/ilra ngat wan suui guua auu uiwuij ouwo. . South Carolina will never bow to the | whiskey element. The people will not t surrender to the little whiskey sellers c and grog shop Keepers. t " Why did you turn down Hampton T f was asked, c , ".Because he didn't represent us and , we will turn down anybody else who J does not." t "Why haven't you got a Governor J who knows the law?" J "We have a Governor who knows j ?^h?r"?tbaM"TtrarIIOTe Evans concluded by saying that he ; would continue his discourse at York- t ville, wher8 he would be glad to see all North Carolinians and revenue ofli cers." (Applause.) \ MESSRS. TOFE AND TINDAL SPEAKS. Dr. Sampson Pope was introduced and announced himself as a candidate s for Governor and said he would define ; his principles, and declared that he had always been a Reformer and would continue one. The Reform movement had done more good than any administration. Taxe3 had not been greatly reduced, because the State had been forced into litigation at great expense. Coosaw had been throttled and the railroads had Jjeen made to come under the law. He showed that : the railroads had not been paying an equal proportion of taxation. Dr. Pope J recited all things done by the adminis- ; tration. He also defended the Dispen- J sary law and said it was the best law k ever put on the statute books. If he could not get the Dispensary he was 1 for high license. Dr. Pope favored all I the Alliance demands within the Dem ocratic party and said the sub-treasury * wa3 the* best of all these demands. He \ showed the great benefits of that plan. ? He also attacked Cleveland and said f lie stood in with Wall street. He said f h9 despised Hill. He believed Tillman would be the next Democratic nominee ' for President. Dr. Pope expressed the : views on national politics enumerated J by him before. ); of State Tindal. the last ? candidate for Governor introduced, } commended th3 Rock Hill people for * their peaceable conduct. He told what c good the Reform movement had ac- ( complished. Things in the State be- . fore the movement was successful, 1 were stagnant. Governor Tillman was ] not responsible for the strife in the ? State. Turmoil was inevitable and would have resulted had any man been \ elected Governor. Tindal spoke for t peace and unity. Both the minority c and the majority must use toleration, g He wanted nis Conservative friends to c remember that the Reform movement ^ would never go backward. Tindal had f nn crnrui wnrriq for Cleveland. He SDOke 1 some on national affairs. Whec he " concluded he was applauded. j W. D. Majfield was announced as a candidate for Superintendent of educrv j tion; J. Gary Watts for Adjutant and 'c Inspector General; 0. W. Buchanan, for i Attorney General and James Norton \ for Comptroller General. They made i no speeches. 2 Ac the close Col. Iredell Jones, pre- c siding instead of Mr. White, who had g been forced to leave on account of sick- 1 ness, dismissed the crowd which had ^ already thinned to a few hundred, rap- J idly dispersed. i - l Killed Before tbe Family. f Jacksonville, JTla., Jane 18.?a i special to the Times-Union from Tampa ? Fla., says: Tillett Whiddea killed Tom Swain yesterday at the dinner Table. ? S ^am was an escaped convict who had 1 been sentenced for life for marder. and * for whom a large reward was ofFsred. ? Whidden met SwaiD, and profession j friendliness, invited him to his (Whid- g den's) house to dinner. Swaia accepted, g and while eating Widden ordered him to f throw up his bands. Swain reached for t his gun and Whidden shot him dead. \ Mrs. Whidden ard seyeral child t rp.n were at the table when the tragedy i occurred. Whidden put Swam's corpse l in a bugs? acrl brought it to Tampa. He drove about fifteen mile3 overa lonely ? road with the body of his victim, reach* 1 Id? Tampa about midnight. ? During a thunderstorm last Wed- c nesday afternoon the lightning struck < ths signal pole of the weather observ- i er's office at ?V ilmington, if. C, which ] was raised on the top ot the Govern- f ment building. The pole was shat- 3 tered and the halliards parted when t the flags came down with a rutts The 1 building was not damaged at all, al- i though the shock was felt all over it, j t especially on the upper floor occupied % by the weather observer and the Unit- 1 ted States engineer officials. 11 THE YORK MEETIKG. GREATEST INTEREST IN.THE FIGHT FOR THE SENATE. rhe Crowd I*a??e!y la F?yor of T11! m. n? Butler Makes a Good Sp?ech-Sinopsls RtthA sr?apc'h?H M?de bv tie DJft^r^nt Candidate?. Yorkville, S. C-, June 19.?Tnings warmed up a little at today's campaign neetmg. The crowd got somewhat jnthusiastic. The best of humor.howiver, prevailed. Everyone went away lappy and contented, and no anger was shown. Today's meeting empbailzed ene thing strikiDgly,' the audiences do not care three snaps for aay;hinff except the Senatorial debate. Pha onthnoioom rraa halrtTZT 70rA Until *. UC VUbUUO^UOU.-. ? um WV.V ?T ^ ;he central. flgui es, Sutler and TiilnaD appeared. Then the voters braced ;nemselv up, and were all interest and showed their feelings They listened ;o the others, they laughed and noted ;he argument, but when General Buter was announced there was a decided ihange in the atmosphere. A complete jhange had come over the scene. Chairman J. Steele Brice, in opening ;he meeting, begged that this be made i repetition of the model meetiDg held iere two years ago. The Bev. Mr. W. x. Neville made the opening prayer. JOHN GARY EVANS vas introduced as "fro>n Edgefield," rut he promptly corrected the statenent that he was from Aiken. He continued: "Whether we be lie brmers,Independents or conservatives >r Kepublicans our interests are one. That banner can go with the one unler which we have won, "Equal rights o all and special privileges to none." IVe are not Populists or Communists, mt are working for one interest. We low have a ring of entirely new peo)Ie. See to it that you are not dictaed to by the bosses. No man has the ight to fear for the interests of his >tate, of the people. Nearly all of the neasures advocated in our platform iave been enacted into law. Tnere is a lemand for a constitutional convener! on/1 that Vifta nut: on. ivu auu UUMU The Constitution you live under was nade by a people who had no Interest n you; yet we are told to keep tbis langerous Constitution. I tried to imend it and was voted down. We )ay too much to tbe classes whose invests are not ours in proportion to he taxes paid. That means if this :ountry ever gets into the hands of the arpet-baggers the negro has equal ights in all your schools. There is jreat danger in tbis provision. The ichools should -be put under tbe people iirough the Legislature. Vote for a :onstitutional convention. Ne w York las outgrown her Coostitution. and >ur& was modelled after theirs. Every Confederate soldier is stigmatized in raur own Constitution as a rebel. We "Reformers" have started out on ;be platform of the Alliance. Those lemands are today the only true Denocracy. We have been called all $4n{lS of names because we have had L-tr boiuness-to^mage the paYtj^goD'agTT o old Jeffersonian Democracy. We ire fighting for principle and if we ceep it up we are bound to win. 1 itand upon every demand in there. It s claimed that we have done nothing 'or the people. We refunded your debt cith an annual savins of S80,000 a 'ear. We actually had men go to New fork and say the debt would be repuliated. They ran Dr. Bates and Gov. Tillman out of New York by their ma. icious reports. Thev even waated to :ontinue the debt at 6 per cent, when .hey 'knew negotiations were pending 'or the settlement of the bonds. The lext year the bill was telegraphed to tfewYork. Why was it done? For political purposes. They were trying io fly-blow the whole debt. Y?e went >ver to Baltimore and placed the vhole thing and they went away like ;hey naa ineir iau cut. Lnurraus.j jatriot of South Carolina wanted the State to fail in placing the bonds. They are all coming over, but we nust not baptize too many at one ;ime. Don't let them all in at one time. Chey may break the plank. We have sven converted the State. The scales >n his back are too thick to let him in vith one scraping. We have to mark lim with a red star*and anoint him md baptize him before we let him in. About this time a train passed by iQd Evans said: '"Let her roll!"and I'll paif- Tho rilsnensarv law is the best ;ning you have ever had. We found South Carolina drunk as a lord. We :ould not take a^ay the liquor at once, ve took it away gradually. We tooK emptation away from the boys. It lacreased drunkenness oyer 75 per jentThe audience did not seem to be in he humor to applaud, and only did so vhen he made a good point or a laughible suggestion. comptroller general ellerbee ?as in good trim. He said that, alhough he had been cussed and dismissed, heiiad no intention of apolofizing for anything he had done. My iousId, for he is mv cousin, i3 somewhat ashamed of me because as a plain armer I can't speak like he does. iVhen I am elected be will call me 'cousin", and then I'll give him a trial usticeship. [Laughter.] When I went into office I found the )roperty nor fully assessed. I sent out lirculars to my auditors to increase i3sessments to the full value o'f the jroperty. We have increased Ihe vallation of the railroad property to icout S7,000,000 as it now stands tolay. We raised the South Carolina md Georgia road to S16,000 per mile ind that was when the bonds were vorth on the market about S7,000,UUU. Lt's the same thing with the other oads. The Columbia and Greenville )onds were worth on the market S17,)00 and we assessed it at S10.500. Yet ,hey cried we were trying to ruin the State. Recently we got over ?200,000 that scaped taxation, and yet this property s no higher than any other. You all inmnmW tho hont f?a<JpS3 \ OfllV Or CLUCLU UGJ. UUU I^JUU vwww. ? y lered the auditors to tax the property iccording to law. In the Newberry 3ank case the bank showed SC09.000 in ttock and surplus. The auditor assessed them at $230,000, but the Court ixed that at S150,000, which is less ;ban 50 per cent. I am sorry to say vhen I came in I found shortages. I ,old the sheriff to enforce execution0, md we are making better collections han they ever did. Mr. Eilerbee told a very laughable ~ c n r/Mi n rr Iq/Itt t r I Pel fr> fl 9.VP HUiJ *->! JLlV/yy CM jfuuu^ JL\A\AJ i**vvi ? ? . lim stop a tax execution, which occalioned considerable merriment. He continued: We defeated Coosa w. tVe refunded the Stxte debt, which saves you $50,000 a yc-ar. We built Venison College for your sons, where ive mossbacks can be educated. Our Penitentiary is now managed as well " /1/MintrTT TTrhi lo r>r>w P.ol W OiiJ 1U tuc VUUUK1J, *t UA4V MW .? STeal is turning money over to the -reasury. Yet we are asked what we lave done. Yet we have done all this without increasing your taxes, al,hough when we went in we lound >50,000 debt. We had to raise taxes ast year because we had money tied lp by the railroads. Then look at the litigation they forced us into. Then we are building your colleges. I joined the Alliance vrhen it was Grst organized, and I believe in it. 1 believe it will do us good. It is an organization to help the agricultural classes. They tell you our demands are unconstitutional, and they would A /lArwinff UUO KLiUtV LUC Vjuuaiaaunu WU1IU( down the road. [Laughter.] Anything would do better ihan what we have. It is time to do something for the people. He touched lightly on the banfcs.pro tection, free silver, national aid to the railroads and the Alliance demandsHe favored national control of the railroads, especially those aided by the Government. The roads can be reproduced for three billion dollars and they are trying to pay interest on nine billion dollars. He favored an income tax. He wanted some way to send tax perjurers to uie jremienuary. jl am iu favor of peace and unity myself, but there is one thing out people will have to understan<?fcnd that is the minority cannot dictate to "the majority. Republicanism would be a cru^l fallacy it this was the case. * There was nos a Hatter or a word of applause a* Mr. Ellerbee finished, although bis. speech took very well with tbeau&efice.. . ^^?Ka>iPATE TTNDAL. opeiteftM^saying-that for eight years he haoneen working to build up the "Keform" party. He did not feel like a stranger. He continued: You were in bygone days suffering from political lethargy. You felt an oppression and a wrong, but you did not know the cause. I then tried to tell you what was your trouble and that is why you are here. tXTw^ti f/s Trv-i/xnrr 4 a mKof TTAll W LLdb JUU wauu IU ry iq nuau jvu are voting for. Tcday I am a candidate, not of my own choice, bat because my friends want me to run. The great acts of the "Reformers" are the building of Clemson College, the Winthrop College and the railroad tax fight, which really meant that they inust pay the same taxes as others, and I venture to say the roads and the people hereafter will be on more friendly terms. You have today an honest and efficient Government. It i3 a Government of white people. No one denies that. Why can't we have peace in South Carolina? Nothing we have done is disputed. Why not come to getaerr ,uai oi our jyeuyje ayxsaa. iui neace. I never have been able to believe that any portion of our people can be enemies to the State. Nearly all we suffered during Radical days was brought about to perpetuate the party. All we want is a Democratic party in this State. We want one united force to accomplish our work in Washington. The "Reform" party ha3 never deprived anyone of his rights. If I can remove any prejudices against the Alliance 1 would be glad to do so. The politics of the Alliance are as open and as broad as the noonday. It has no secrets except those connected with its business, like a merchant's private mark, of which none complain. When * -A. ? A- 4.^ H 4. ine Alliance went in u weuti tu u^uu trusts and extortions. The farmers found they must work together, and when they opened their eyes they found then (iuveinment giving: millions oTland to railroads; it found it giving 518,000,000 to sugar growers as a bounty; it found farmers almost deprived ot the use of money with which to raise crops. Then theAliiance got up its demands in order to get you to direct your attention to the questions. It binds no man's conscience. In alarcb, 1890,1 introduced the platform, from which I will read extracts. Mr. Tindali made a good, clear, forcible speech. DR. SAMPSON TOPE ? ?Anon lil'dUt; an CAt't3 = Ulligl^ UICOI V>uv, vsyeu, plain speech. He wanted the Constitution overthrown so as to insure white supremacy. Vote for it, he said, and there will be no danger of the white peopl9 separating. He favored protection and said: You have not suffered by the sugar bountry. You have betn benefited more than hurt, getting five cents sugar. Everything is cheap as dirt. We only need more money. The rariff does not hurt you. I would have voted for hijjh license, but after I saw the operations of the dispensary I now favor the law. If unconstitutional, then as a last resort I'd go for high license. Prohibition does not prohibit. If the law is passed there ought to be a State board of police commissioners. There never was and would never have 1? ? ~ mon'o kaiioa cftornhflh tili lUUUUCUb Luau o uuu^v UWW1.WUVVA i I would not be a Prohibitionist. The bitterness was not due to "Reformers," but to the newspapers. He charged that all the newspapers except the Greenville News and the Register had worked against the State refunding its debt. The Greenville STews, he said, did not even spell reform correctly. Mr Smythe and others had gotten ?15.000 for defending the rights of the Coo3aw Company, from which the State got no money, and it was said he was also paid by the company, and the old Administrations thought Ccosaw could not be made to loosen its grips. Tne announcement of D. E. FINLEY nnnriiVoio +'/ir r?r?n<yrps<3 hrnnofht. as uouuiuaig xvi v.v?n.. about considerable applause. He said, in openiog, that he had always been a consistent "Reformer." He was bound by their platform. For the Ja3t four years he bad always advocated every measure looking to the curtailment of expenses. He thought he had done as much as anyone in this line. He introduced the bill for the reorganization of tbe Uniyersity and the salary reduction bill. The delay in passing this bill was not on his account. He bad no apologies to make. He was equally frank to say some measures passed did not meet with ;bis opprobation. He did not vote for the dispensary law because be did not think it wise. He did not vote for the "Black district" bill. Continuing he said: I am here as a candidate because 1 want office. The financial question deserves attention. The pension law has greatly iDjurea the South. Ten p<>r cent of all money incirculation is paid these pensioners. It amounts to rob1 ^ hotra riAf oery. uur xxs^icscuoattvco uu?^ j fought tbis as they should. A fight must be made. 1 believe in the free coinage of gold and silver. I do not beiieve that the repeal of the State bank tax -would relieve the situation. Dr. Strait has made uo Utfht for paper money to be issued direct by the United States Government. I will go to Washington representing you all, not to make a fight for offices. Mr. Bissell will never have any opportunity of passing oil my uamGcracy. j. wou i let bim do so. [Hurrahs for Finley.J CONGRESSMAN STRAIT started out by talking of the snakes and 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 'i'albert is our leader on pensions. He 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. i'inley: I did not s^v that, and meant no reflection on you. Dr. Strait: It looked to me that way.. I have not gotten any offices. [Voice: What adout Hemphill?] Strait: He got his package marked patronage and not marked "Congressional." [Hurrahs for Strait and "Say !"| DR TIM3IEKMAN was introduced as a candidate for Lieutenant Governor. 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 wbat he wanted abaut politics and announced that his ch'ef claim for the nomination was hi3 good looks. (Tbls was a joke on its face The crowd yellfd and whooped, but Dr Tim merman went on and said that about his only rival on looks was Norman Elder, of York, and they kept on laughing. The woman, he said, must 4U1 n- Ua I Set! SULUWLLUllg 1U 11155 IUU&3 OS JiO uau been mirried twice. [Laughter and hurrahs ] SENATOR BUTLER . wa3 greeted with applause as he walked straight up to the end of the platform. He spoke right out aad was given close attention. lie said an office holder was responsible to the people and the officers were not the masters The people here are the rulers and the soyereings. It is not oaly your right but your duty to demand of every man in AM AAnAimf A? 4-UA fwneif Tncf* umuu au ov;wuub m our uuou< uuov here I would like to make a personal explanation. Messrs Shell aod McLaurin have requested me to say something about an alleged political combine with them, and a statement thaithey had been traitors to the Reform Movement. There never was any foundation for tbe report, and I should not have noticed it except for their requests. lhave always tried to treat the '\Reform" Congressmen with respect. [Just at this jucture two men got into a personal fight, but Gen Butler aad Chairman Brics quieted the crowd.] CoutinuiDg Gen Batler said he would criticise Governor Tillman's public record as much as he want-fd to and he did not want Governor Tillman to get mad about it. Is there any objection to asking far an explanation from Governor Tillman? Fifteen years ago I said we ongtit to have j Jisfc such agcollege as Clemson and I have always favored such colleges. They talk of baptizing me when ,1 advocated measures they are talking of before they were born, la 18801 voted for the free coinage of silver and have voted for it ever since. He went on briefly to explain what there was in free coinage and said that the.Government could not, unless it increased its mint capacity, give more than one dollar pen capita per year. Continuing he said: I never owned a dollar's worth of stock or bonds in railroads or banks, but I am in favor of protecting their interests. The fight began twenty years ago. When it come3 to pensions the soldier vote is so strong that neither side will fight it in the North or East. It does look alaiming to see the pensions steadily increasing and we, my old soldiers, we who fought for four years, have contributed over 8300,000,000 towards it I would stand that without a murmur if they did us justice in other respects. When the Democratic Convention met it agreed first to repeal the election law, second llie-TSfrUT law, and -third to give financial help. The election relief has come, and the Wilson Act is now pending. That tariff bill is not all that I would like; there were compromises, yet I believe it the beat tariff bill almost ever passed, in the bill is aJ5ax on income, and it is the first opportunity to reach the Donaaoiaers, it, is xair, it, is Democratic. I regret to say that the third most vital and more important demand has not been granted, and I fear will not be as lone as Mr. Cleveland Is onr President. irou and I voted for him. Althongh the people knew Mr. Cleveland was opposed to free silver the people voted for him. He was the choice of the Democrats. I don't believe him a thief or scoundrel, yet the masses and not the leaders wanted and elected him. My judgment is that the fight against corp rations has been encouraged by the Republicans. It will be a death struggle in the next election. It will be a triumph for Republican institutions or it will be the beginning of the end of popular government. We ought now to organize silver leagues on whi>h to hnild a fiaancial svstem 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 \ shoofe dowa citizens. There are fourteen States in insurrection. There is dynamite, death, destruction in the air. I advised to letCoxey alone; that is a mere symptom of the disease that Republican legislation has brought about. He referred to Governor Tillman's throwing rocks jokingly and tieing ox tails up in fVashington. 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 oa my recora 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 family holding office. The fact is 1 am the only man in my family who has had an office in the forty years. I went through the storm of abuse in 1876,1 stood it for your sake. Everyone thought 1 was a fool to make the fi^ht, but I did get my seat. What have I done ? Amon? my first acts was to get 3200,000 for Charleston harbor; that was the first of a So ,000,000 appropriation. I got the first appropria- j tion for Winyah Bay; I helped get a survey of the rivers of the State; I got an appropriation of half a million for the dry docks at Port Koyel; I got the di-1 rect taxes reimbursed to the State; I Ko/i nm noiri then fnr their lands: uau yvwjvw f 7 I have participated in all the debates to my best ability; I helped make the agricultural department what it is. I do not feel 1 have neglected my duty. It is not common sense to turn a man down because he has done his duty. The secret of New England's influence is that she keeps her good men in Washington. If I had devoted the same time and devotion to any other business I would" have made my fortune. I do net agree with Mr. Tmdal that the oJfice holders have uever until now addressed you. We have always done so since 1874.. I have begged for a constitutional convention. We ought to have called a convention ia 1880. 1 am, however u^*- AIH? ?\QAnla mi/rKf ] SiJinewLiai, anoiu vui uii^uu gvu into a fi*ht and not get the best men at the convention. 1 have always been in favor of such a convention. I want the people to vote at a direct(primary for the United States Senator and I will abide the result. If the Governor will agree, and get the executive committee to let the people say who they want, I abide the result. All I want is a fair fight in an opeD field. If they want to jump on me, let them do so one at a A - - on/? T liUitf. .?1.3 a lOAua/CJ. t*uu buuu.uv.ww J. | have a right to 'criticise what public acts I want, and I will exercise that right. Gen. Butler was given great applause on concluding. GOYERNOP. TILLJIAN was given greater applause than the other speakers. He said he did not know where to start, as everything bas already been very fully and ably cov H ered. I presume you have staid here to \ hear me. \ Voices: "That's right." | The candidates yesterday told us that ' - we ought to revise the order, so I made tbis suggestion to- let us ccme last. While my friend has not pitched rocks today he threatened to throw some. He is holding it possibly for Charleston, for I see he has a bundle of papers. "When he shoots you will jast hear me limber up. Everybody acknowledges bis ability and his rharflpfw Tf T have h&m on r'&Sk any bed of roses I am sorry for my successor. I want to go to Washington because you want me to go there. -"viarea Voice: "mat's so!" "Hurrah for Tillman!" * ~ *<>&<??? Tillman: The General, has told you about Coxey's army beiag out to repress disorder among the laboring .classes. Yesterday we saw a spectacle Lthat was a disgrace to anyone. . iW UBU. X>ubicr: JXJV. vJUU Ut <U.tJ Jruu - , net conducting your campaign ? I see by the papers you are. I mean are you 1 bossing it? ;. Gen. Butler: I don't boss anybody. I leave that to you. Tillman: iiTow what did you?ee yes- iftj terday in Rock Hill ? When I got to Rock Hill I saw a crowd of strangers. There were at least eight hundred who were brought there on free passes* ["Hurrah forTillman! Put it to him," from the crowd.] -38 i>uw >uu ii<?vc ucaiu vxcu. jjuulca aay that he is running Ms own campaign, <> M yet out of the 1.500 people here 800 were hauled on free passes to hurrah for ? I Butler. [Hurrahs.] Keep quiet gentleman, 1 don'c want to arouse your passions. It was a kind of Coxej's army that is to be feared. 1 shall not attempt to locate the responsibility. They did not holler mucb, X tell you. [Hurrahs for Tillman. "We'll vote for you."] I have been through a good many hills and I have always counted on the freemen to help me. I know where you are. I know how you look :jSB upon Ben Tillman. Possibly some of Gen. Butler's over-zealous friends may _ ; ' 1m have engineered this. If Bunch Mc? Bee, as superintendent of the Blchmond and Danville Bailroad, is prostituting his authority by hauling people free, we ought to know it. if there is a corruption fund raised in New York then we ougat to know it, for it i* talked about. "No, no." Hurrahs for Butler and ' Tillman. * -n^iS We can't be bought. Mr. McBee and I are good personal friends. I took his > free pass and rode on It It was mighty nice riding, I have never been pic ay- g? tmish about such things. Several ot those "boomers" came to my room and told me they came on free passasand were f8r me. When I went on to Washington I even slept in-one of Mr. McBee's berths, although'I had oae in the sleeping car. I have taken ail the cussing, and if there is anyone entitled toasofc place I ought to get it, bat I expect to work. If I went to the Senate, though, I would be the first Simon pure farmer there. -JS Then Tillman reviewed tbe railroad tax cases and attacked J udge Simon con. w e are sail ngHtmg me receiverships, and oar bill to limit their aa- thority was unanimously favorably re- . ^ ported by the committee and we will get the redress for which we fought. Judge Simonton seeing what Congress would likely do, said he had no right to consider the matter. I put dyna- . mite and jnustard on his brck for he outstretched his authority. Voice: "We North Carolinians read t >llg Now I promisai not to talk long, as every one else has covered the ground. , Vniftps* "ftn nil lAfc's t.alt." "'jgjjSl Governor Tillman: What would I f. - ^ do? Why I would vote against a Judge that usurps his power. Gan. Butler is not in smpathy with you. He has been in Washington so long that hehaB lost touch with the people or he never would have had the Coxey army at Rock HilL [Hurrah.] You never siw your candidates face to face 1 until you saw me. When the oldtime leaders, Gen. Butler and Gen. Hampton ,'3|i were asked to work for the regular nominees in 1890, Gen. Butler gave out an interview. I quote from Thd News onrJ f./virior niaa his frlfinrt an! I believe it is now. Look here, if It comes over to me, don't think I've changed. God knows I have not. He read from the interview. In 18S2 Butler said he thought Sheppard would be elected, whiie todsy the Oonsem- ;~|1 tive3 are at outs with him because of the patronage, and The News and Courier and The State and the Greenville News are indifferent; he is not with you and never has been. Ton want some one who will fight for you and work for you and that's my work. [Hurrah for Tillman.) The ^ primary is none of my business. It is ' .7p the business of the Democratic executive committee of the people. He never had any belief la your capacity to rule. I don't know what he want's with the separate box. We have had J| an experienee with the prohibition boxes. What will become of that cor- ,'iJB ruDtion fund about which I hear? , . Voices: "They can't bay me, and Tillman: "I want you to show him where you stand." Up to this time Governor Tillman .. Jj had in his brief talk been working his audience up to a good pitch of enthusiasm. He himself was much worked ^ up. Show mm wnere you stana, na cried out. Show him who has this 1 crowd. ISTow, up with your hands, and ~? then up went about two thirds of the hands in the audience, amidst wild hurrahs for Tillman; Tillman had the crowd. He saw it. His friends Jj saw that. Then to add to the victory he said: Now those of you for Batter raise your hands. A few did so, othees . . perhaps did not care to participate at all, and others were not inclined to do Governor Tillman's bidding. That about broke up the meeting. The candidates for other offices were dnnAiinocul?fnr A fianoral fi W. Bachanun; for Snperinteadeat of -'M Edacatioa, W. D. Mryfisld aad G. Walfc Whitman; for railroad commissioner, J. C. Wilbora and J." Walter Gray; Secretary of State, J. R. Hanisoa. About half-pa3t 3 o'clock every one went to dinner. Murder in D-irUngton. Charleston, Juas 17.?A special from Darlington says: An atrocious murder was committed last nU;ht at Mandviile, on the Charleston, Sumter :53s* acd Northern ro'lroad, nineteen miles from Da:lingtou. This morning the body of Mr. J. P. A^dermau, depot and express agent at Maudville, was lying on the track with his skull crashed in and badly mutilated. Mr. Alderman was seen last niaht at 10 o'clocfc and s, when bis body was found he had a different suit from the one he was last seen in. Theory is that he heard robbers breaking in fbe depot, and they murdered him when he came out. The Jar.rit r?<v"ira wAr? hrr.tpn in. hilt nOthlDJ? was erasing except the dead man's watch. There 13 no clue to indicate who commit-.ed the murder, eaieptthe tact that a darkey was arrested at Gibson. today who said he was fcuyiDg cartridges because the sheriff wa3 afver bam. Mr. -*z Alderman was a reliab'e business man,. highly esteemed by his employers. He wa3 from North Corolina', was 30 years eld and was to have been married soon 5. ^