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V. VOL. XXIV. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27. 18l?4. NO. 32. BUTLER AND TILLMAN. J s THE GREAT SENATORIAL RACE be- t GUN AT ROCK HILL. Senator Kvauo Made a Speech and Had * Some Paese3 with the Crowd?Pope and { k Tlodal Do Their Devoir?The O her ? Candidates Did Not Speak. 1 t Rock Hill, Jane 18.?Tbe great c Senatorial on test has begun. During t the early hours t>f the day hundreds of i people were congregated around Turn- ^ er's Hotel, where both Butler and Till- C man were quartered, and it was a Batler 1 crowd, the follower* of the Governor ? not coming up into town m large turn- t . hers. ^ Two hundred Butlerites arrived yes- ? terday. Fifty of them came from Edge- t field and the remainder from Greenville. I At 6:30 this morning the train irom Col- f umbia brongbt 450 more, all wool-hat, a hardy looking fellows, from Union, Fairfield and stations along the C. C. & A. road. A good many others came ? in about 10:30 from the direction of t Charlotte. The audience at the meeting * numbered about 2,000. One of the not ^ able passengers from Columbia was r Vftwhnld. the disnensarv detective. He had to stand some mild guying from the ? country boys. s Shortly atter 10o'clock this mornihg t Senator Butler made a ten minutes talk ^ to 250 of his supporters in Armory Hall, t He started that a rumor had been cir- I culated and telegraphed that Governor d Tillman was to be assassinated prompt- I Jy at noon by a prearranged plan. He !, desired to slate that so far as tie knew, ? the rumor was unqualifiedly false. He 5 had never, he said, done or said a word \ to cause a breach among tbe white s people, nor would he. He hoped his g friends would scatter themselves at this c meeting as they would at anv other meeting. He thanked them for their c nresence and hoped they would go to t Yorkville tomorrow. He had no fear t for himself, and he did not see any rea- 3 son why anybody should wish to kill him, but he supposed he could as well e afford to die now &3 ever. a The Senator remarked that the State executive committee had passed a E rule requiring candidates to announce ^ themselves by Jane 17, and that in com- J pllance he had written the following let y ter: t Edgefield, S. C? June 16, 1894. j To Mr. D. H. Tompkins, Secretary of c Democratic Exactive Committee, fc Columbia, S. C.: t Dear Sir: I herebv announce myself r a3 a candidate for the United States t Senate for the term beginning March 4, d 1895. I presume the canditates ior the 9 Legislature, which will elect a United J States Senator, will abide the result of ^ the primaries set for the 30th of August t next. I hereby request that a separate box t be provided by the State executive com- j, mittee at each and every votiDg precinct fe in the State, in which each voter may express by his ballot his prelerence fcr s United States Senator, said separate e boxes to be managed uncer the same g rule as other ballot boxes in the prima- a ries, and I hereby pledge my sell to abide s the result ot the vote thus cast at the s said primary. An early reply will oblige, t Very truly, M. C Butler. 1 The Senator said that it be could get a fair primary he would abide by it, ~ and not whine at the result If the people _ preferred the other man. He could re- ? turn to Edgefield and fish for the remainder of bis life and spend it free of public s carea. What he wished was to get the t people to listen to argument. g the regular meeting. The speaking was at Moore's grove, v half a mile north of the centre of the 1 city. Congressman Strait wa3 given e thirty minutes, the senatorial candidates * one hour each and ten minutes for repiy c and the cand;dates for Governor thirty minutes each. At precisely two minutes past eleven, Senator Butler aDd Con- a gressman Strait arrived on the ground. * The stand is an ordinary wooden plat- s form, built against _a majestic while * oak. It stands in the midst ot a splendid c grove. As the Senator steps upon the stand, * attired in bluish cambric negligee shirt, , scan, ?cd black clothes, some one \ shouts, "Hurrah for Butler," and con- ( siderable cheering follows. One voice t shouts for Tillman. t In a moment Governor Tillman, wear- i ing a while helmet and black alpaca t coat, low quartered shoes and greenish 1 Yellow socks, follows, and cbeeis, scarcely so general as Butler's, greet him. He ' takes a seat at the rear of the stand aDd s leans against the oak. John Gary Evans * seats himself at his right elbowjwd Tin- i dal directly behind. Samps rope, JKi- ,( lerbe, Bacbanan, Watts, John Walter \ Gray and Majfisld seated themselves j around the stand, with Butler holding the lelt flanking seat. President White ot the Rock Hill t Democratic Club called the meeting to 3 order. Rev. W. G. White prated and 5 the band played. 1 President White intrcduced Congressman Strait as the first speaker. No- ( body chee'ed as he faced the crowd. It ; began to sprinkle rain gently, damper- \ iDg the spirits ot the assemblage, and the , Congressman's remarks appeared to , have a similar effect. , GOY. TILLMAN SPEAKS. ] At the conclusion of Congressman < Strait's speech President White, after i cautioniDg the crowd not to interrupt : the speakers, introduced Governor Tillman. The crowd had waited patiently for the Senatorial guns to tire and broke 1 into applause when Chairman White introduced Governor Tillman and announced the erder of the remainder of the speaking. The Governor advanced in the cool, deliberate manner usual to him. He said he was the only man In South Carolina who had tried to canvass the State three times, county bv county. He brought applause and loud laughter when he said he was glad to meet the andience face to face even though many of them came from North Carolina and all oyer the globe. He was accused of having a bitter toDgue, but he stood here and said he was not responsible for all the bitterness. He had been more persecuted and maligned than (inv 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.) He 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 and paid an eulogy to the farmers as the backbone of the country. He said he was proud of being a farmer Governor. He had never run for office till >ver 38 years of age. Then he had gone or the biggest plum on the tree and hook it down. lie was now after a >igger plum and i*.tended to get it. Applause.) His friend Butler had been in cGiee (ighteen years. The office belonged to he people not to any man. The Governor next said he supposed he candidates for the Senate must dis:uss national issues. He would simply &ke a bird's eye view of the situation. There were only two big questions?the ariff and finance. He wouldn't touch n the tariff to day and would discuss inances to some extent. He jumped nto the question by showing the great :ontraction of the money of the counry. In 1865, he said, there was S2.000,>00,000 of money in circulation; now hara i<i nniv lino 000 000. Tnat was te reason the poor farmers of the :ountry were Dot getting a reward for heir labor. He charged all this to iVall3treet. Shy locks, backed by Lom>ard street, London. These Shylocks lad caused this contraction by putting he issue power in national banks. The >eople were continually gettiDg poorer md all the wealth of the country is in he hand3 of a few thousand millionlires. The Governor jumped on the national jank question and defended greenjacks. He explained the difference beween them. Money sharks said greenjacks were fiat money. That fiat noney, however, had whipped the louth in the late war. Purchased Con;res3men and Senators yelled "Fiat noney" because they had been bought. The speaker then began the discusion of the silver question. lie said ;old and silver had been on a paritv ince the days of Abraham and ought o be now. The Democratic platform adopted at Chicago had said they were qual, but Cleveland hadn't carried out he plank. Cleveland was a confessed >erjurer and responsible for the present leplorable condition of the Democratic arty. He charged Cleveland and Carisle with hccus-pocus game in issuing >50.000.000 of bonds to replenish the rold. reserve, which is again down to >65,000.000. He charged a lot of tbievng and robbery in Washington, but aid some day the people will get to;ether and there will be a big shaking ip. (Laughter.) He attacked Cleveland as an old bag if beef whom he could not find words 0 describe. He said John Sherman he people's enemy, was now the trusted idvisor of Cleveland, who has betrayed ivery trust. The country is in its pi esnt condition through the treachery of 1 Democratic President. The Governor reviewed in a clear nanner the demonetization of silver md the bad condition of the country, le said there are millions of starving eorkingmea, Money sharks, he said, lave grown so outrageous in their reatment and talk as to wish a standDg army to keep a few starving men iff the grass. He alluded to Coxy and ns ragged men and said poor Coxy had tad his head cracked. There might tot be any Coxyites in the South, but he people here sympathize with the lemands of labor. Resuming discussion of the silver [uestion, the Governor said the people wouldn't be bought and would kill out he dragon encircling them. They rould do it with their votes and could lot be bought with money or free asses. This was his first direct allusion o tne free pass, free excursion of Buterites and brought loud applause from lis supporters. The fight, he said, must be for free liver and more greenbacks. The Govrnor said the South and West must ;et together and make a fight for liberty nd bread. He concluded by telling a tory of big John Jones aod his ox, a tory about an ox's tail being tied hough the dashboard of a vehicle. Dhe Governor said if sent to the Senate le would promiee not to be bribed and lot to sell out. He would chunk rocks or the people's interest as long as he nnirt n5P his t.oncue and would do all te could. Just as the Governor was concluding, ome man in the audience remarked hat Tillman would not get to the Senate to chunk rocks. Turning toward the speaker and raving his hand, the Governor said hat sixty live thousand white men had lected him to his oflice and would send li hi to the Senate. This elicited loud md prolooged applause. SENATOR BUTLER SPEAKS. At the conclusion of Gov. Tillman's ipeech he was heartily cheered and the ; >and played. As the last note of muiic died away there was a cry for Buter, who wa.s then introduced by the :hairman. He said: "I'm mighty glad to see you. I am Bad to see you in a good humor. I'm Bad that Governor Tillman was in a rood humor. 1 shall meet him with he same respectful beariDg. The lovernor says he has been Lccused of " Vvitt-QT" tr\i orna Wall a fish JaYiUg Ck UAVViV/l uvu^MV* IT v.i, vvoman can wield a bitter tongue, but t requires courage to speak to an in- \ -elligent and well informed audience ike this before me. "I have a proposition to make to the jovernor. If he will agree to have a separate ballot box at each voting pre- ; :inct in which the people, 1 mean the white people, in the primary in September may register their choice for Senator, without the interference of rings md caucusses, I shall agree to abide bv t. Will he do that ?" Voices?"No, no, no." "Ob, I think he will," said the Sena;or. "Will he agree to submit to the beople whether he or 1 should represent them in the Senate? I will aoide by it." (Cheers.) "The Governor says that the Senate icesn't belong to me; I didn't ask to go ;here. I did not ask for the privilege bf accepting the volume of abuse which the Republicans hurled upon me when I was lighting for my seat. Men who rode by me in camp and bivouac sailed on me for what seemed a for lorn hope, and I would not refuse, because I felt it was my duty. I would not go through 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 he would be, driving an ox cart with the ox tall in the dashboard; llioging rock3 from the mountain top. "What could he accomplish in the Senate making such a veritable spectacle of himself? "We have heard a good deal said about finance, Cle/eiand being bought and free passes. I submit that that is a delicate question for the Governor. (Cheers.) 1 think he had better let the subject drop. Has it come to this that a man in South Carolina can't ride on a train without asking Marse Ben ? I have asked for passes for poor men r\f n -irtK TToo tho OfipomAr pv?r UUU U1 & J kj m i A o vu'w \>(VTV.*V4Vi v t v? j asked a pass for a poor man? (Wild cbeeriDg.) Voice?"He asked for one for himself." "Fierce cheering, which Hutler had to quiet.) Somevoices shouted for Tillman. The speaker then compared Tillman to a young 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 cftlee. Man in the crowd?* Don't you love ofiicp, too ?" "Yes, I do, pretty well," responded the senator, eyeing the man coolly. "Aye God. i tell the truth; I haven't t gone crazy about onic?>, though." t The Governor is in his "A, 13. C's" s about llnance. One of his friends calls \ him a "genius of destruction." A com- s mon tramp may blow up a house with I dynamite. The Governor talks about I monopolies and robberies but he sug- i gests no remedy, iie will get on a t mountain and throw rocks,drive an ox- I cart with the ox's tail in the dashboard, i I am under the impression that he ( went, to Chicago a supporter of Oavid c 13. Hill, who at the beginning of his i career, n?s stabbed the party by de t claring against the income tax, the fairest clause ia the tariff bill. That a should teach you what to expect of the r.nvprrnr I ?m far from Cleve- '' land as the poles from each other, and r no one is better aware of it than he, t but 1 take no stock in this abuse or him. The tariff bill will be passed, j It is the best tariff bill ever before i Congress, because it is not satisfactory C to the extremes of each side. c Voice?'"It does not represent the 1 Democratic party." t liutler?"It is a bill which the Demo- i cratic party can stand on." The Sena- t tor then defended the bill fully, asserting that its duties were (5 per cent, r lower than the Mills bill. I "1 predict that the next Republican t nationai convention will put in a free r silver plaDk in their platform. I favor r that the Democrats of the South and I North and West begin now and organize silver leagues. I believe the country i can sustain double the amount of green- r backs in circulation without one dollar I of gold in the country. The Republi- c can party is responsible for the condi- i tion of the South. I believe when the tariff bill is passed that the revenues t will be ample for the support of the I government. I am a3 much opposed f to the bond issue as the Governor is. s To illustrate a point in silver monetization, the Senator S3id: "If e 2 Governor will lend me the doli? ne r has, I'll show you;_(smiling) he's b-tter a off than I air." (The crowa laugnea c uproariously.) I'll give it back to him c or else play crack-loo for it." I The Governor came forward with a t smile and handed him the dollar. I The Governor says greenbacks whip- 1; ped us. I was thar. It was muskets t and bayonets whipped us, or rather we i got tired out whipping the Yankees. s Then the Senator explained the pen- a sion infamy and said that the reason s why it was not checked was because e we hadn't the votes. He incidentally paid a tribute to the Confederates, say v ing that there never were such soldiers as the soldiers of Lee and Jackson. s The Senator held up a large yellow t envelope. "I have plenty of ammuni- I tion here. I want the Governor to t understand that when I tackle the f State administration I shall do it ? frankly, though in perfect good humor. When 1 warm his back he must v take it like a little man. He must s take his punishment. I shali take a mine. I am used to it. I know the farmers are poor. I un- \ derstood that the Governor promissd when elected that he would help the v farmers. Are they better off? On the c other hand taxes have been increased. I shall stand side by side with my peo- \ nle in their struggle. I challenge Gov emor Tillman to point to an instance r where 1 have not done my duty. It is t wroDg to turn a man out of the Senate only because he has done his duty. I v would lay down public life forever if I ^ could thereby see my people united 2 and living as brothers as they were c four years ago. I utter a warniug and a prediction, that when the white people divide and appeal to the negro a vote we shall have a period of degrada- f tion worse than reconstruction. There t is nothing for me in the Senate. I am 1 a poorer man than when I went there. \ I have not learned to steal or accept r bribes, I can't be captured by gold or ? free passes. (Cheers.) It may be a 1 little vain, but I believe 1 am the man 1 to bring the people together. Senator t Butler was continually cheered, and i had often to stop and quiet his friends c before proceeding. t GOV. TILLMAN IN REPLY. At the couclusion of Senator Butler's i speech, Co'. Jones said that Governor t Tillman was entitled to a reply. When s Governor Tillman came to the front he e was lmidlv cheered. C The Governor began his closing- remarks by saying that he just wanted to answer a few little hrecrackers shot off by his friend. In regard to the proposition, if Butler believed that the people ought to have the right to-elect Senators and if the Democratic Executive Commlitee is willing t") grant the proposition he had no objection. "Butler went on to talk about my getting among the plow boys. 1 want to ask you if the farmers did not put me up to lead a forlorn hope. ' Yes, they did and you won!" said many voices. "Since that time 1 have been more maligned than any man in the State." I q 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 cn one all his life. He then showed up how many in the crowd had come here on free passes. These men didn't come here from North Carolina and all over the State tor nothiug. They could yell, he said, but couldn't vote in l orK county, ne i caused great cheering when he said he s 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 I Chief Executive and said h9 had nothins: to shield, in his life. About But- . ler's story of the old muie and the J young mule, he asked the farmers i which they had rather have, a young prancing mule or an old Hop eared, j worn-out animal. ! "We'll take you 1" shouted many amid i laughter at Butler's expense as a Hop- f earea animal. i The Governor said he had not voted for Ilill but for Boies at Chicago, Butler having charged him with being a supporter of the former. ? SENATOR BUTLER IN REPLY. When Senator Butler came forward j to reply, both factions cheered vociferously for some minutes. The Senator ] characterized the Governor as an art- , ful dodger in ileeing behind the executive committee in the proposition for a , separate box. He had asked ior a categorical answer and had expected one. ( In the charge of ringism he was sus- ! tained by the high authority of no less a personage than John L. M. Irby, 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 V Why was a convention to be held in August ? ( Why were not all men allowed to go to the polls and vote? The Senator closed by saying that the assessment on the railroads, which Rnvpmnr Tillmen "had throttled, had been reduced." There was again long continued cheering. IION. JOHN OAKY EVANS SPEAKS. Comptroller General Ellerbe was introduced, but said he would not speak as dinner time was on hand and the people were tired; if they would corne to Yorkville tomorrow he would talk to them. ITe finished amid applause. Senator Evans was next introduced and was warmly received, lie said he would defend the Reform administra ion, of which he was r, part, against Senator Butler and if the Senator ipanked his (Evans') baby, he would jut a mustard plaster under Butler's < ihirt. (Laughter.) Senator Evans wrought down the audience by saying le was glad to see all the anti Tillmantes of the State present. Every coun- ^ y was represented and a good deal of S'ortb Carolina was on hand. Touchr,g on National affairs. Evans said Cleveland was a prostitution of Democracy, and if being a follower of Cleveand was a Democrat, he (Evans) could )e called anything else. "Didn't you vote for Ilill?" a man v isked. ' r "No, I did not," was the quick reply, e and the only ones I know who did are nen now supporting Butler for Senaor. Ben Perry, for instance." Evans made a good many pointed ? abs at Butler, tickling his friends im- 9 nensely. lie continued nis atiac* on <= Cleveland and defended the Democracy } >f the Beformers of the State. Senator rJ Svans said it was the old men who had t >een kicked out of office who were keep- t ng the political ball opeDjit was not t heyo ung men. s Evans parried in quick and neat man- t ier a number of questions a3ked him. t ie got in a blow on Butler whenever 1< te could and was asked bv a young c uan named Gus Aiken if he was run- c ling for Senator or Governor. A col- < cquy ensued between them. t Evans attacked Butler for his state- a Dent that State taxes have not been t educed and showed this was erroneous, C Ie said if the Senator was as ignorant ?n national affairs as on State, he was ^ n a bad fix. ^ Again defending the State adminis- E ration, he upheld the Dispensary law. lis declaration that it was the best law f or control of whiskey was hissed by c everal young men. ^ "I can tell that you fellows are from d ^orth Carolina by the color of your t loses," the speaker said to them. Ev- ^ ins told how the Dispensary law had ^ >een adopted and said it had reduced c :rime and drunkenness to the minimum E n his own town only one arrest had [ >een made for drunkenness during tne r )ispensary regime. The first night the c aw was declared unconstitutional, thir- ^ een arrests were made. He gave fig- ^ ires in favor of the Dispensary and ^ trongly defended it. 119 said ne will t dvocate the Dispensary from every tump in the State and if elected Gov- r rnor will enforce the law to the letter. ?. "What about the Darlington affair?" d vas asked. a "I am glad you mentioned that." he l aid. "It was a premeditated affair, f irought on by the whiskey element." t le then toid of the refusal of the c roops to go to Darlington and the of- ? er of thousands of wool hat boys to " ight with shot guns and hickory sticks. , louth Carolina will never bow to the | whiskey element. The people will not t urrender to the little whiskey sellers ;nd grog shop Keepers. t "Why did you turn down Hampton?" vas asked. r "Hanonea ho rtirin'r. rftnrPHPllt. US and ~r- . ?e will turn down anybody else who J loes not." * "Why haven't you got a Governor ^ vho knows the law?" _ "We have a Governor who knows v nore law than all your little gang put t ogether." t Evans concluded by saying that he g vould continue his discourse at York- y dlle, where he would be glad to see all sTorth Carolinians and revenue ofli- j :ers." (Applause.) x MESSRS. rorE AND TINDAL SPEAKS. : Dr. Sampson Tope was introduced tnd announced himself as a candidate s or Governor and said he would define ; ?is principles, and declared that he lad always been a Reformer and vould continue one. The Reform novement had done more good than my administration. Taxes had not )een greatly reduced, because the State lad been forced into litigation at great :xpense. Coosaw had been throttled tnd the railroads had been made to :ome under the law. He showed that 1 "' u ^ r\nm'n/T Qf"l ,ne rauruaua unu uu u uccu ^ajiug c*u qual proportion of taxation. Dr. Tope ] ecited ali things done by tbe adminis- J sration. He also defended the Dispen- J >ary law and said it was the best law k sver put on the statute books. If he ;ouid not get the Dispensary die was : :or high license. Dr. Pope favored all ; ;he Alliance demands within the Dem- J icratic party and said the sub-treasury J vas the" best of all these demands. He showed the great benefits of that plan. . [Ie also attacked Cleveland and said ie stood in with Wall street. He said 1 is despised Hill. He believed Tillman , vould be the next Democratic nominee c ,'cr President. Dr. Pope expressed the : riews on national politics enumerated * >y him before. J Secretary of State TindaJ, the last c sandidate for Governor introduced, :ommended the Hock Hill people for 1 .heir peaceable conduct. He told what 1 food the Reform movement had ac- ( scmplished. Things in the State be- f ore the movement was_ successful, 1 vera stagnant. Governor Tillman was ; sot responsible for the strife in the 1 >taie. Turmoil was inevitable and vould have resulted, had any man been i ;lected Governor. Tindal spoke for t leace and unity. Both the minority ( ind the majority must use toleration, $ [le wanted his Conservative friends to ( emember that the Keform movement y vould never go backward. Tindal had 1 10 good words for Cleveland. lie spoke ' some on national affairs. Whet- he 4 concluded he was applauded. j W. D. Mayfield was announced as a candidate for ,Superintendent of educn- j :ion; J. Gary Watts for Adjutant and < Inspector General; O. W. Buchanao, for j Attorney General and James Norton j for Comptroller General. They made i 10 speeches. i Ac the close Col. Iredell Jones, pre- < siding instead of Mr. White, who had t tieen forced to leave on account of sick- ; less, dismissed the crowd which had < > " J l?nnjr/id rorv. iireaay cmuncu tu a iew nuuui^u, iayidly dispersed. ] ! Killed Before tbe Family. ) Jacksonville, Fia., June 18.?A ' jpecialto the Times-Union from Tampa ' Fia., says: Tiltett Whidden killed Tom Swain yesterday at the dinner Table. J S vain was an escaped convict who had ] been sentenced for life for murder, and 1 for whom a larce reward was cfl'sred. ! Whidden met SwaiD, and professing friendliness, invited him to his (Whid- , den's) house to dinner. Swain accepted, 1 and while eating Widden ordered him to - 1 i throw up tils hands. h>waia reacueu itu his sun and Whidden shot him dead. Mrs. Whidden ai d several child reu were at the table when the tragedy occurred. Whidden put Swain's corpse iu a buggy and brought it to Tampa. He drove about Ir'teea miles overa lonely 1 road with the body of his victim, reaching Tampa about midnight. Duking a thunderstorm last Wednesday afternoon the lightning struck the signal poie 01 me weauiei uuocner's office at Wilmington, N. C, which was raised or. the top of the Government building. The pole was shattered and the halliards parted when the Hags came down with a rum The building was not damaged at all, although the shock was felt all over it, especially on the upper lioor occuDied by the weather observer and the Unitted States engineer officials. THE YORK MEETING. GREATEST INTEREST IN THE FIGHT FOR THE SENATE. Che Crowd I.a'K?'yln FaVor of TjlMuac? Butler Makes a Good Ppcerh-Sjnrpslg of the M>eechr? Made l>y ire D:ft?r?;nl Candidates. Yorkville, 8. C., June l(.h?Things warmed up a little at today's campaign neeting. The crowd got somewhat nthusiastic. The best of bumor.hov/ver, prevailed. Everyone went away tappy and contented, and no anger pas shown. Today's meeting empbaized one thing strikingly, the audinces do not care three snaps l'or anyhing except the Senatorial debate. [Mie enthusiasm was below zero until he central llguies, Jiutier and TillnaD appeared. Then the voters braced hemsefv up, and were all interest and bowed their feelings They listened 0 the others, they laughed and noted he argument, but when General Buter was announced there was a decided hange in the atmosphere. A complete hauge had come over the scene. Chairman J. Steele Brice, in opening he meetiDg, begged that this be made 1 repetition of the model meeting held tere two years ago. The Rev. Mr. W. }. Neville made the opening prayer. JOIIN GARY EVANS vas introduced as "from Edgeiield," iut he promptly corrected the stateuent that he was from Aiken. He continued: Whether we be Reormers,Independents or Conservatives ir Republicans 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." Ve are not I'opulists or Communists, iut are working for one interest. We tow have a ring of entirely new peo>le. See to it that you are not dictaed to by the bosses. No man has the ight to fear for the interests of his itate, of the people. Nearly all of the neasures advocated in our platform tave been enacted into law. There is a iemand for a constitutional convenion and that has not been acted on. The Constitution you live uDder was nade' by a people who had no interest nvnu-vet we are told to keep thi3 langerous Constitution. I trie! to imend it and was voted down. We >ay too much to the classes whoss inerests 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 ;reat danger in this provision. The chools should be put under the people hrough the Legislature. Vote for a onstitutionalconvention. New York las outgrown her Constitution, and iurs was modelled after theirs. Every Confederate soldier is stigmatized in rour own Constitution as a rebel. We "Reformers" have started out on he platform of the Alliance. Those iemands are today the only true Denocracy. We have been called all tinds of names because we have had he boldness to make the party go back o old Jeffersonian Democracy. We ire fighting for principle and if we teep it up we are bound to win. 1 ,tand upon every demand in there. It s claimed that we have done nothing or the people. We refunded your debt ?ith an annual saving of 580,000 a 'ear. We actually had men go to New fork and say the debt would be repuliated. They ran Dr. Rites and Gov. fillman out of New York by their ma. icious reports. Thev even wanted to :ontinue the debt at G per cent, when hey knew negotiations were penuiug or the settlement of the bonds. The lext year the bill was telegraphed to Sew York. Why was it done? For political purposes. They were trying o ily-blow the whole debt. We went >ver to Baltimore and placed the vhole thing and they went away like ,hev had their tail cut. [Hurrahs.] A 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. They may break the plank. We have iven 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*anoict him md baptize him before we let him in. About this time a train passed by md Evans said: ' Let her roll!"and I'll vait. The dispensary law is the best ihing you have ever had. We found south Carolina drunk as a lord. We ;ould not take away the liquor at once, we took it away gradually. We tooa ;emptation away from the boys, it iacreased drunkenness oyer 75 per ?ont The audience did not seem to be in ,he humor to applaud, and only did so yhen he made a good point or a laughibie suggestion. COMPTROLLER GENERAL ELLERBEE vas in good trim. lie said that, although he had been cussed and dis jussed, he had no intention ot apolofizing for anything he had done. My loustr, for he is my cousin, is someivhat ashamed of me because as a plain 'armer I can't speak like he does. When I am elected he will cali me 'cousin", and then I'll give him a trial justiceship. [Laughter.] When I went into cilice I found the property not fully assessed. 1 sent out jirculars to my auditors to increase assessments to the full value of the property. We have increased the valuation of the railroad property to iDout 37,000,000 as it now stands tolay. We raised the South Carolina md Georgia road to 5iu,uou per mne and mat was when the bonds were worth on the market about 87,000,000. it's the same thing with the other roads. The Columbia and Greenville bonds were worth on the market 817,300 and we assessed it at S10,500. Vet they cried we were trying to ruin the State. Recently we got over 8200,000 that Fscaped taxation, and yet this property is no higher than any other. You all remember the bank cases. I only ordered the auditors to tax the property according to law. In the Newberry Bank case the bank showed 8300.000 in stock and surplus. The auditor assessed them at 8230,000. but the Court " ia 1qo3 fixed that at >vaiiuli id jtku than 50 per cent. 1 am sorry to say when I came in i founa shortages. 1 told the ohenffs to enforce execution8, and we are making better collections than they ever did. Mr. Ellerbee told a very laughable story of how a young lady tried to have him stop a tax execution, which occasioned considerable merriment. lie continued: We defeated Coosaw. We refunded the iStxte debt, which ? xt,.or- Wo hili It SBVCS you C'JU,uuu c? jv-t*i. iv w >/?.., Clemson College for your son?, where we mcssback3 can be educated. Our Penitentiary is now managed as well as any in the country, while now Col Xeal is turning money over to the treasury. Yet we are asked what we have done. Yet we have done all this without increasing your taxes, although when we went in we iound 350,000 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 I we are building your colleges. \ I joined the Alliance when it wa3 first organized, and I believe in It. 1 p believe it will do us good. It is an or- s ganization to help the agricultural classes. They tell you our demands v are unconstitutional, and they would f not know the Constitution coming h down the road, [Laughter.] Anything f would do better man what 'we have It 1< is time to do something for the people, n He touched lightly on the banks.pro p rrction, free silver, national aid to the c railroads and the Alliance demands. Is He favored national control of the I railroad*, especially those aided by the I Government. The roads can be re- a n.n/lndiiH fr?r (hrco hillinn dnlliirs ri ^lUUUl.W XVI ~ ? they are tryiDg to pay interest on nine i: billion dollars. lie favored an income s tax. lie wanted some way to seud tax b perjurers to the Penitentiary. I am in b favor of peace and unity myself, but there is cDe thing our people will nave to understand, and that is the minority ^ cannot dictate to the majority. Jlepub- j; licanism would be a cruel fallacy it ? tbis was the case. There wa3 not a tlutter or a word of " applause as Mr. Ellerbee finished, al- 5 though his speech took very well with * the audience. J CANDIDATE TINDAL. J opened by saying that for eight years P he had been working to build up the ? "lleform" p.irty. lie did not feel like r a stranger. ' ^ He continued: You were in bygone ^ days suffering from political lethargy. P You felt an oppression and a wrong, \ but you did not know the cause. I f then tried to tell you what was your ' trouble and that is why you are here. " What you want to know is what you Jj are voting for. Today I am a candi- r date, not of my own choice, but be- 1 cause my friends want me to run. The j great acts of the "Ileformers" are the building of Clemson College, the Wintbrop College and the railroad tax ^ hghr, which really meant that they ^ must pay the same taxes as others, and ^ I venture to say the roads and the peo- . pie hereafter witl be on more friendly terras. ~ You have today an honest and efficient Government. It is a Govern- f ment of white people. No one denies _ that. Why can'c we have peace in ? South Carolina? Nothing we have done is disputed. Why not come to- * gether? All of our people speak for ? Deace. 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 has never de- F prived anyone of his rights. If I can f remove any prejudices against the A1 ? liance 1 would be glad to do so. The \ politics of the Alliance are as open and fas broad as the noonday. It has no secrets except those connected with its ! business, like a merchant's private * mark, of which none complain, wnen the Alliance went in it went to light trusts and extortions. The farmers found they must work together, and when they opened their eyes they found their Government giving millions of land to railroads; it found it giving 818,000,000 to sugar growers as a bounty; it found farmers almost deprived ot the use of money with which to raise crops. Then the Alliance got up its demands in order to get you to direct your attention to the questions. It binds no man's conscience. In March, 1890,1 Introduced the platform, from which I will read extracts. Mr. Tindall made a good, clear, forcible speech. DR SAMPSON POPE made an exceedingly clear cut, open, plain speech. He wanted the Constitution overthrown so as to insure white supremacy. Vote for it, he said, and there wiil be no danger of the white people separating. He favored protection and said; You have not suffered by the sugar bountry. You have been benefited more than hurt, getting live cents sugar. Everything is cheap as dirt. We only need more money. The rariff does not hurt you. I would : Vti/yl* linanca hilt OftGV T UCtVU YULCU iUi i-Llc^U iiociaov, vuw vv*.vv.?. 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 13 passed there ought to be a State board of police commissioners. There never was and would never have been an innocent man's house searched I would not be a Prohibitionist. The bitterness was not ~ue to "Reformers," but to the newspapers. lie charged that all the newspapers except the Greenville News and the Register had worked against the State refunding its debt. The Greenville News, he said, did not even spell reform correctiv. 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 Coosaw could not be made to loosen its grips Tne announcement of D. E. FINLEY as candidate for Congress brought about considerable applause. lie said, in opening, that he had always been a consistent "Reformer." He was bound by their platform. ? or me iasi iuur years he had always advocated every , measure looking: to the curtailment of 1 expenses. lie thought he had done as much as anyone in this line. He in- ' troduced the bill for the reorganization [ of the University and the salary re- ! duction bill. The delay in passing 1 this bill was not on his accounr. He , had no apologies to make. He was 2 equally frank to say some measures c passed did not meet with ;his opproba- J tion. He did not vote for the dispen- * sary law because he did not think it I wise. He did not vote for the "Biack ; district" bill. ' Continuing he said: I am here as a ^ candidate because i waat office. The linancial question deserves attention. cr The pension iaw has greatly : injured the South. Ten per cent 1 of all money incirculation is paid these pensioners. It amounts to rob- ' bery. Our Representatives have not } fought this as they should. A light must be made. 1 believe in the free ; coinage of gold and silver. I do not ' beiieve that the repeal of the State 2 . bank tax would relieve the situation. ! Dr. Strait has made no tight for paper money to be issued direct by the United ] States Government. I will "go to Wash- J iogtcn representing you all, not to } i make a light for offices. Mr. Bissell : will never have any opportunity of j passing on my Democracy. I won't i let him do so. [Hurrahs for Finley.J ; CONGRESSMAN STRAIT started out by talking of the snakes ! , and devils and treacherv and horrors of ; Wall street. The tariff bill is a poor j thiDg without a daddy. It puts into 1 i the hands of the Sugar Trust over J 3100,000,000 by its provisions. ".llx/.v.f irt rknr loo/^or An nflr.Cl'nna I \^U1 IrtlUClt IO KJX.IL it/avAtl v/ij jyvusJiViiw. t . lie voted for the unconditional repeal 1 ! of the State b;mk tax. If the people 1 don't want State banks they need not. i State banks would bean experiment, ' L becked no man for a recognition of I my Democracy. ; Finley: I did not s;iy that, and meant < i no reilection on you. I i J Dr. Strait: It looked to me that way.ii have not gotten any oinces. ; Voice: Vhat adout Hemphill?! Strait: He got his package marked ialronage and not marked' "Congresional." 1 Hurrahs for Strait and "Sav!"j 1)R TIM MERMAN i?as introduced as a candidate or Lieutenaut Givernor. As e got up there was a titter, and a ewsaid/'Oh, my, look there!" as they joked at the man with the harelip ose. lie said what he wanted about >olitic3 and announced that hi3 clref laim for the nomination was lii3 good joks. (This was a joke on its face 'he crowd yelled and whooped. but I)r .'im merman went on and said that bout his only rival on looks was Xoroan Elder, of York, and they kept on mghing. The woman, he said, must ee something in his looks as he had een married twice. {Laughter aDd urrahs 1 SENATOR BUTLER -as greeted with applause as he waikd straight up to the end of the platorm. He spoke right out and was iven close attention. He said an ofce holder was responsible to the peole a nd the officers were not the masters 'be people here are the ruler3 and the overturns. It is not onlv vour right but our duly to demand of every man in flice an account of the trust. Just ere I would like to make a personal xplanation. Messrs Shell and Mcziurin Lave requested me to say ometbiug about an alleged politic-*! ombiue with them, and a statement hatthey had been traitors to the Reform lovement. There never wa3 any oundation for the report, ancl I should ,ot have noticed it except for their reuests. lhave always tried to treat the Reform" Congressmen with respect. Just at this jucture two mengotiato personal fight, but Gen Butler and Jhairman Brice quieted the crowd.] Continuing Gen Butler said he wuuld nticis^ Governor Tillman's public reord as much as he wanted to and he id not want Governor Tillman to get aad about it. Is there any objection I o asking for an explanation from rovernor Tillman? Fifteen years go I said we ougdt to have just such college as Clemson and I have al ways avored such colleges. They talk of aptizing me when I advocated oeasures they are talking of before they ?ere Lorn. In 18801 voted for the free oinage of silver and have voted for it ver since. He went on briefly to explain what here was in free coinage and said that he Government could not, unles? it ncreased its mint capacity, give more han one dollar pen capita per year. Continuing he said: I never owned .dollar's worth of stock or bonds-111 ailroads or banks, but Iain in favor of >rotecting their interests. The light iegan twenty years ago. "When it comes o pensions the soldier vote is so strong hat neither side will light it in the forth or East. It does look alaiming o see the pensions steadily increasing .nd we, my old soldiers, we who fought or four years, have contributed over 5300,000,000 towards it. I would stand hat without a murmur if they did us astice in other respects. When the democratic Convention met it agreed irst to repeal the election law, second o change the tariff law, and third to ;ive financial help. The election relief ias come, and the Wilson Act is now >ending. That tariff bill is not all that . would like; there were compromises, 'et I believe it the best tariff bill almost iver passed, in the bill Is a tax on in:ome, and it is the first opportunity to each the bondholders, It ;3 fair, it is democratic. I regret to say that the bird most vital and more important lemand has not been granted, and I ear will not be as long as Mr. Cleveand is our President. l"ou and I voted or him. Although the people knew ffr, Cleveland was opposed to free silver the people voted for him. He was he choice of the Democrats. I don't him a thief or se.onndreL vet the fV/iAV ? V UAUA OT w* ^ nassesand not the leaders wanted and ilected him. My judgment is that the ight against corporations has been ensouraged by the Republicans. It will ie a death struggle in the next election, [t will be a triumph for Republican initiations or it will be the beginning of ;he end of popular government. We jught now to organize silver leagues on which to build a lioancial system on which to give relief to the people. I am lot a pessimist, but my experience is ;hat the struggle must come and will ;ome between the money interests and :ne masses. They have found men to ihoot down citizens. There are fourteen States in insurrection. There is iynamite, death, destruction in the air. [advised to letCoxey alone; that is a nere symptom of the disease that Republican legislation has brought about. He referred to Governor Tillman's :hrowiDg rocks jokingly and tieing ox ;aiis up in Washington. I should go to die West for our next President. lie is '11 5 1 An him Tf tVltn US ciliU 1 iitlVC lujt cjc vu xuui. jl-. Xovernor Tillman has gotten any more ibuse than I have, Lord help him. I lon't mind that, it is the right of the lewspapers to comment on my record 3ut I don't get mad about it like he does [ don't think the newespapers mean nuch by abusing us. They have a right :o criticise. They talk about my famiy holding office. The fact is 1 am the )nly man in my family who has had an )ffice in the forty years. X went ,hrough the storm of abuse in 1?76,1 itocd it for your sake. Everyone hought I was a fool to make the fight, jut I did get my seat. What have I done ? Among my first icts was to get ?200,000 for Charleston larbor; that was the first of a ?5,000,000 ippropriation. I got the first appropria,ion for WiDyahI3ay;I helped get a surrey of the rivers of the State; I got an LDDroDriation of half a million for the Iry docks at Tort Koyel; I got the direct taxes reimbursed to the State; I lad 6500,000 paid them for their lands; L have participated in all the debates :o my best ability; I helped make the igricultural department what it is. I Jo not feel 1 have neglected my duty. :t is not common sense to turn a man Jown because he has done his duty. The secret of New England's influence s that she keeps her good men in Washngton. If I had devoted the same time ind devotion to any other business I vould have made my fortune. I do not agree with Mr. Tindal that ;he ohiee holders have never until now iddressed you. We have always done io since 1874. I have begged :or a constitutional convention. We ought to have called a contention in 1880. 1 am, however jomewhat afraid our people might get urn a and not eet the best men at ;he convention. 1 have always been n favor of such a convention. I want :he people to vote at a direetiprimary for ;he United States Senator and I will ibide the result. If the Governor will igree, and get the executive committee ;o let the people say who they want, I iblde the result. All I want is a fair ight in an open iield. If they want to ? ~ ^ l*\t- r\ q r\ nnu q f q I limp UUL IUU) 1CU ILl^LU UV/ OV vliv, urv :ime. A3 a taxpayer and candidate I aave a right to criticise what public icts 1 want, and I will exercise that right. Gen. liut.er was given great applause dh concluding. GOVERNOR TILLMAN was given greater applause than the Dther speakers, lie said he did not know where to start, as everything has already been very fully and ably cov? [ ered. l presume you have staid here to hear me. Voices: "That's right." The candidates jesterday told us that we ought to revise the order, so I made this suggestion to let us come last. w nue my menu nas 110c pitcnea rocks today he threatened to tnrow some. He is hoidmg it possibly for Charleston, for I see he has a bundle of papers. When he shoots you will just hear me limber up. Everybody acknowledges his ability and bis character If I have been cn 3uv bed of roses I am sorry for my successor. I want fo go to Washington because you want me to go there. Voice: "That's sol" "Hurrah for Tillman!" Tillman: The General has told you about Coxey's army being out to re- , press disorder among the laboring classes. Yesterday we saw a spectacle that was a disgrace to anyone. To Gen. Butler: Are you or are you not conducting your campaign ? I see by the papers you are. I mean are you bossing it? Gen. Butler: I don't boss anybody. I leave that to you. TillmaD: Now what did you see yesterday in ltock 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 for Tillman! Put it to him," from the crowd.] Now you have heard Gen. Butler say that he is runnine his own campaign, yet cut of the 1500 people here 300 were hauled on free passes to hurrah for Butler. [Hurrahs.J Keep quiet gentleman, i don't want to arouse your passions. It was a kind of Coxey's army that is to be feared. I shall not attempt to locate the responsibility. They did not holler much, I 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 kaow how you look upon Ben Tillman. Possibly some of Gen. Butler's over-zealous friends may have engineered this. If Bunch McBee, as superintendent of the Blchmond and Danville Railroad, is prostituting his authority by hauliDg people free, we ought to know it. If there is a corruption fund raised iu Xew York then we ougnt to know it, for it is talked about. ".No, no." Hurrahs for Butler and Tillman. We can't be bought. Mr. McBeeand 1 are good personal friends. I took his frnn n joc? onH An If Tf nrja mifthfu lice paco 4UU 1UUQ vu AC. IU TICM UA15UV; nice riding. I have never been picayuni3h about such things. Several of those "bcomers" came to my room and told me they came on free passes and were for me. When 1 went on to Washington I even slept in one of Mr. McBee's berths, although I had one in the sleeping car. I have taken all the cussing, and if there is anyone entitled to a soft place I ought to get it, but I expect to work. If I went to the Senate, though, I would be the first Simon pure farmer there. Then Tillman reviewed the railroad tax cases and attacked Judge Simonton. We are still lighting the receiverships, and our bill to limit their authority was unanimously favorably reported by the committee and we will get the redress for which we fought. Judge Simonton seeing what Congress would likely do, said hr, had no right to consider the matter. I put dyaamite and mustard on his brck for he outstretched his authority. Voice: "We North Carolinians read it." Now I promisad not to talk long, as , every one else has covered the grouad. Voices: "Go on, let's talk." Governor Tillman: What would I do? Why I would vote against a Judge that usurps his power. Gsn. Butler is not in smpathy with you. He *- ? - ? J ? X TT U I _ ? t ~ MA 1 4-li r, f aas oeeii in yyaauiu^iuu au iuuy wib he ha3 iost touch with the people or he never would have had the Coxey army at Bock HilL [Hurrah.] You never saw your candidates face to face until you saw me. When the oldtime leaders, Gen. Butler and Gen. Hampton were asked to work for the regular nominees in 1890, Gen. Butler gave out an interview. I quote from The News and Courier, vhich was his friend and I believe it is now. Look here, if it comes over to me, don't thiok I've changed. God knows I have not. He read from the interview. In 1892 R.ifjor ooirl fco thrniorhy SUionnard won Id be 9l8cted, whiie today the Conservatives are at out3 with him because of the patronage, and The News and Courier and The S:ate and the Greenville News are indifferent; he is not with you and never has been, l'ou want some one who will light for you and work for you and that's my work. [Hurrah for Tillman.] The primary is none of my business. It is the business of the Democratic executive committee of the people. He never had any belief In your capacity to rule. 1 don't know what he want's with the separate box. We have had an experience with the prohibition boxes. What will become ofthatcorruDtion fund about which I hear? Voices: "Tney can't buv me, and U1C. Tillman: "I want you to show him where you stand." Up to this time Governor Tiilman had in his brief talk been working his audience up to a good pitch of enthusiasm. He himself was much worked up. Show him where you stand, he cried out. Show him who has this crowd. Xow, up with your hands, and then up went about two thirds of the hands in the audience, amidst wild i?--av,,-, fA. Tillman TMllman hart uuxiaus iui .l niiuui.> xiniMuu the crowd. lie saw it. His friends saw that. Then to add to the victory he said: Now those of you for Butler raise your hands. A few did so, others 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 announced?for Attorney General, 0. W. Buchanan; for Superintendent of Education, W. D. Mryfield and G. Wall", WhitmaD;tor railroad commissioner, J. C. Wilborn and J. Walter Gray; Secretary of State, J. R. Harrison. About half-pa3t 3 o'clock every one went to dinner. Marderin DArlington. Charleston, June 17.?A special from Darlington says: An atrocious murder wa3 committed last night at Mandville, on the Charleston, Sumter and Northern rod road, niQetecn miles from DarliDgtou. This morning the body of Mr. J. P. Alderman, depot aud express agent at Mandville, wapffying on the track with his skull cr#ned iu and badly mutilated. Mr. Alderman was seen last night at 10 o'clock and when his body was found he had a different -uit from the one he was last seen m. Theory is that he heard robbers breaking in the depot, and they murdered him when he came out. The depot doors were broken in, but nothing was missing ex:ept the dead man's watch. There is no clue to indicate who rorn.mt'cd the murder, except the fact that a darkey was arrested at Gibson today who said he was buying cartridges because the sheriff was after bitn. Mr. Alderman was a reliab e business mau, highly esteemed by his employers. He wa3 from North Carolina, was 30 years ortii woi tr> iiova h*en married 8003 j vw--4 nwo ?v w ? *- ?