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VOL. XXI PICKIENS, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL ' 1892- 2 TiE iFIRST MEETING. SPEECHES MADE BY TILLMAN, SHEP PARD, G %RY AND ORR. Four rimilxa Peams Attnacid tle ~JolnE Disc sm,un~at. O( (0re011vilo--A ui tall Account of te Slamkhig--Tho Sicakurs Louu*-' 'Chcemcd. GREEN V I LLE, 5. C., April 16.-The first meeting o t0 e tU calipail Wias held here toda%, at which speeches were made by Gov. Tillman, Ex-Gov Sliep pard, Lieutenant, Gov. Gary and Col. ,. L. Orr. Tihe part,ies were carried F'rom the hotel in two carriages. The first of these containled (4,overnorl Tillinan, x Governor Sheppard, Mayor Gireath and Gen. .1. V. (Gray. II tho secondl were -ieutenant Governior GVary. Col. ,J. 1'. Orr, ex-i;eutenant Governor W. L. Mauldin aud Attorney Geieral Mc Laurin. The stnid was reacied about 11 o'clock, whicre about four thousand people were found awaiting the spak ers. A :Iew mintes alterwardi the meeting was valled to oider by Gen. .J. W. Gr'ay, Who ann11ouniced til the pro (Ccedilgs V1U!d hik Opulld w%itli prayer by the 11ev. .1. 1". 1'ate. A, the concli slon of' L.he unaer G en. Gray said: ''We are asseI1bled on this Occasion to hear a joint discussion of tie momentous polit. ical issues which are agitatiog the State lrom the mountains to the sea. Dis tinguishl d gentlemen are here at the in. vitation of the Democracy of Greenville to speak upon matters which concern us all. llehig our guests, I know they will receive the utmost courtesv and respelt, From this intelli.'enlt, asse~iblagre. The reputation of Greenville county for civility and conselvatisi is too widely kr;own, to %Nell establsh to permit a I thiniii ( e..' 1,e thell anounced the order of speak ing, and as clair'nn h11e bespoke a )aielit ed re0jutspltit hearing for vach speaker. IlIe thwil In tro(hiced Governor loan in a flattcrintg pecch), reterring to hin the Ureat hero of IS90 who Moses-1l ha i ued his followers through many vn'isilde5 who had 'planted heir baitte eS on the citadel of the State olkpital a 'I had held them there to this day ulS lIlied. (Loud applause.) lie waq a m 11 wl1.j.Le language of' the Mipsim p)C-6gislature, had ie',er comn pmromi.,* principle, avoided a foe, le sT4-.iefilt trust or a friend or lost a battle. UOV. ''I I.IlAN oPENS. covernor Tillimnti promptly calme to the front dressed in a new, well (iting suit ol dark clothes with a Prince b lberl coat buttoned closely about him and looked w( 1i kept, well groomed ind prosperous. As lie rose to pull oll iis overcoat the cheering was prolona(d. Mingled with the cheers were cries of "Down in front" and a variety ol o'.ber demands and ccls. This contitnue.l for seaveral seconds. Just as silence was restored at boy necat t * front called out shrilly "Ilu-rah fr Shieppard nd Qrr!' Uhe sudden interruption anld the treble voice evoked a roar of laughter, followed by cheering, hooting aid a confused variety o' opposing cries. "Mr. Chairman, ladies and fellow Democrats-"began Governor Tiliman. For a few minutes the cheering and cries were ieneweil. When the noise had partially subsided Governor Till inan said it, afforded him great pleasure alter an absence of nearly two years to again stand face to face with the meion oi Greenville and the .'iedinont escarp ment. "When I last addressed you on this spot," he said, "I appearedi as a puan put forward by the people to lead .the fight for . fersonuia Iemocracy." .A voice-"youi done1 it.") I thank y ou lirst for the gallant manner in which you supported me, both at the con ven Eton antd in the genleral election in No ember. .For eighteen months I have .en governor by ycour scuffrages. 1 ipear here for the first time as a can ~ioate and ask you to re-elect me. .Cries of "We'll (to it.") I am here to .tvye an account, atf my itewards5hip and eet my traducers fac.) to face. (Ap. ~plause.) The issue of 18ttO was whether hbe people of South Carolina should rule or the ring. tCheers.) We broke th.e 01(1 ring t o atomns (cheers) and have formed a new ring, a hian(ds-all rotuad ring. .(Loud1 applaucse.) Thew old ring, like a jointh d sinakec, has wr iggled and wvriggledl until it has got, to)gth er again. (Lauighter.) 'The issue now is, in a f ew words, is whether the people of South Carolina shall govern or the monlopolies andi ('orpor'ations. In all free governmients two puarties are nVc essairy. \\ e hiave, but one dIcenOlt party mSouth Ca('irolina-t,he I )emiocratie 4,arty. I Teretof ore we have had to sub mit withiou t dcI rrimnationi. We had Rnot t he Utcnc fir, of a f ree anti f ul dlis cussion. "Some1( of IRs invented the Alarch coni .Lfenition,'' continulti It the governor, "bfy which a po)rtioni of the lIRmocrate par.11 .ty met afid( laRd (out its grievances, put, (lut candilidfates andl inivitedc opposition. Oh, no! Ti1'llman andl his methods wereC ridhicuIltd( and denot0inceod by the news papeRs ar:d by ever.y ring stump LII rat.or in t,Oe State. Our i rlenus, thle ene1my, niow come f or wmd andic sav, 'tic3 5, 301' 111 el prtty sharp andI we~ are going LI) liit ate, you,' (Loud cheers and laugh ter ) \\ (Iidum't patent, the Alaren coni vention a1r 1 therefo)re can't elaimu a royalty (Iu eti. 1 (d0 say that tihe fact. that they acknoulthdged there was~ vir-. tile.in that, conventii aRnd that it was legitimate, is a confiessjin I hat I arid ths lO with ine werel t wo y ears in ad vance of them in statesmlaniship. I congratuilate 3yon that we can come there nintrmaR umei'ld, I relt and ot.en to discuss everything andI that t.he danger whIch confii onted 1ts is over, it the gen tlemien (poiniting to Shieppal dI anid Orr) moan what they say and11 1 believe thiey do. (Cries of 'they dion't inean it.') believe It, because an appeal to the negro was mradle and failett. Th'lerefore, 1 congratulate you that we have ar rive d at a point where those in power can be criticise'd atnd watched wit.itu danger of a split. The gentilee conie to us as8 caind1iates for peace and uinily (winding up with a sneer, followed by applause.) What I can't ufIderstand is why there has not always beenpee and unity. Thcey love peace aind unit (snei ring) and the cfhiccs above all elsd' (loud0 applause.) Now listen one min ute anRd i ave 3cour hnurrahfs for my lat 51101 eh. I have saved the best till the last." (A pplause and cries of 'sit down in front.') When the crowd had ciutetm down and some had found seats Governor Tillman resumed. IIe saia that just a9s soon as the last legislature adjourn ed the newspapers of South Carolina, except a few, turned loose an ava lanche of misrepresentation, abuse, slander and falsehood on him,the worst that had ever been seen. It was lead, he said, by an organ started to keep alive the embers of Ilaskelism. The men who got up the last convention wero N. G. Gonzales and the editor of the Greenville News. (Confusion and applatise.) Governor Tillman then read an editorial from The State of March 14th, written after Editor William's resolutions in the March Convention in this county, critiOizing the endorse ment of the farmers' movement. "It is not Tillman they are after, " he said "but the farmers." lie alluded to the last peace and 11nity convention as an abortion. "Although the March Con vention swallowed ,he farmers' move ment w hole," he contrnued, "except the best part, that's me, (laughter) it is nothing but the old ring under a new naine and laskelismn in disguise." The governor read an article from The State of February 20th, dissenting from the claim of The Greenville News that the chief demands of the farmers' muoveient were safe, and declared that Thei News woald have a high old time conducting an anti-Tillman campaign on a I'llman platform. 1le thought it would have a parrot and monkey time. (Laughter ) "Tell us about Edgefield," called out a voice. "Edgeield went three to one for the goat candidate," said Tillman. "Tihe boys there are too wise to be caught by a sheep in a wolf's clothing." "Iere's proof," resumed he, "that The State is father of the March Con vention, and not A. B. Williams." lie then read an editorial from The State claiming that the convention was the result of letters to it, and that it was the flirst to demand the convention. N. G. Gonzales had demanded of A. B. Williams to "Shoot, Luke, or give up your gun." Luke shot (A voice, "yes lie dW.!.") Another voice-("But he did not hit anything.") The address of the thirteen had said H1askell and Haskell ism were to take a back seat in the c(onvention, but it was soon found that wit,hout, the help of the iaskell ele inent there could be no convention. Telegrams were sent out to the thir teen signers, and they agreed that the convention was sovereign; but when they said Ilaskelism was out they did not mean it. (Voice: "ihe.y ought to put Ensor in, too.") Governor Tillmanl said.he wanted to show his hearets something of the Marcn Convention platform and what it is. "It is Till. manism diluted," he said. "But it is like imountain coffee, too weak to run down hill. It is a confession that these men never had the ability to originate anything for the good of the masses of the people. They took a good platform but tried to throw Tillman overboard." lie read the following plank of the re cent March Convention: "We accept and respect the will of the people as expressed in the election of 1890, as meaning the larger participation and our agricultural population in the con trol and management of our putlic af fairs." Commenting on this he said: "Have we taught these Bourbons one lesson-that the farmers have some rights? If you will throw Tillman overboard they will give you the agri cultural college or agricultural any thing else." Some of those that are now clamoring for the farmers' move ment were against it; some men on the ticket had voted against Clemson and fought it to the bitter end. They now come forward and tell the farmers that they would give them a voice in mat ters. "I know you ain't going to give up what you've got," "that you won't take these men you have tried and found wanting. I stand here and say that these men are my followers, my students in statesmanship. (Voice: "They ain't old enough to graduate.") My time is nearly out. The op posit ion wviil put up two distinguished lawyers to prosecute the case of the ring against B.1it. Tiliman. You are the jury. I can say without egotism that but, for B. It. Tillman you would never have had the opportunity to try the case. .I am ready for trial. You are the jury. I say: 'Lay on, AlcDuff; And dam'd be lie that crie4, llold, enough!" This w as the conclusion of the speech anid Governor Tiillman took his seat amid wild cheering. Th'le crowd had not been orderuy and did not seem dis posed to be so. TIhe~ mingled cries and confusion did not, cease while the band was playing. A sin.gle bouquet ini which a hand some calla lily was proinineint, was handed through the crowd to tihe stand. General Gray then introduced Gov ernor Sheppard, speaking against a cyclone of confused cries, Hie said: "It is nowv my pleasing duty to introduce to you an old1 schoolmate and a life long f rioe, a aman who was a colleague with me in the Wallace house, who so (1is tinguishe dI himself as to be made the presiding ohlcer of the body and who dlischarged his ditties there so well that i romn th e house lie w as called to preside over the senat,u andl won the enconium of being the pleer of any presiding oflicer the Sl ate has ever known, lie became governor on the resignation of Gover nor Th'lomplson and during his short ter m his ad minist ration was so able and conservative that his name was put be fore thet con ventbon of 1884i for re-elec tion. Oni thait occ,ision his excellency Governor Tlill'nan paid a high tribute to his persmonal wVort h and otilal merits anid (lechitred that to eulogize them further would be to giild r'eined gold and paint ihe lily." (Long cheers for Sheppard rising and falling and re newed, followed hby yelhls for Tillmnan.) EX- (OV,'ERiNOR SniEPPIARlD'S SPEECHi. As Governor Sheppard stepped to the front cheers mingled for him and Till man. .The noise and confusion lasted fully live minutes, during which timme the rpeaker stood calmly looking over the audlience, which jammed against the stand. Some of the most rowdy ones seemed to desire to keep the speaker from beginning. Governor Sheppard began by saying that he was very much gratihied to be permitted to address the fellow citizens of a country that from the InceptIon of the farmers' nI;ovement hand beena lirmnly devoted to the prInciples or that movement. "While inot the originator of the farm er's movemient," said Governor Shep pard,"ca prove by my people that I hae bena friend to it and am to this day. (applause and a voice: 'You are rIrht!') I re .as deepl,devt-.. o t. farmer's movement as any farmer in South Carolina. My friefid told the simple truth when he said the conven tion swallowed all but him. I am here to-day.-(At this point the confusion became so great that Tillman stepped forward and appealed for fair play. Ile said he did not want a repetit.ion of the unseemly howling down of two years ago. lie asked the crowd to re collect that this was only a family quarrel and reguested them to be quiet and listen.) "Now, fellow citizens," be gan Governor Sheppard when there was something like silence, "I ask you to hear argument and make up your ver dict like sworn jurors. So tar as I am concerned, my friend (pointing to Till man) knows, and ought to have said, that I took the stump in support of his election against laskell. I say here and will say everywhere I go that if lie gets more Democratic votes than I do in the primary no man will exert him self more than I will for him. (Loud applause.) I say that the man never lived in bouth Carolina and do.s not live who is more deeply aevoted to the interests of the Democratic party than I am. (Loud applause.) Never by word, action or thought have I proved myself unfaithful to it. I earnestly de sire that the principles of the farmers' movement shall be carried out. The reason we oppose Governor Tillman is because lie has not fullilled his prom ises." Somebody asked if the present move ment was not a chip from the same Iaskell b,ock. "It is not," was the prompt reply, "You might as well say that a chip can come from a chunk of rock." "One charge that Governor Tillman made was that the previous govern ments were extravagant and one promise that he made was that there should be economy with a reduction of taxation." Ile said that the charge of extravagance had not been proved by Tillman and that the promise of econo my had not been kept. Taxes are iot lower, The first thing lie did was to erect a platform on which lie should be inaugurated at a cost of $300 or $400. (A voice: 'We paid it' and confusion.' "Nobody paid it but the tax payers.) Governor Sheppard said, as soon as he could be heard. IIe added: "The only way you can keep me from convincing you is by keeping me from talking. (Loud cheers for Sheppard, with cheers for Tillman.) If you are reasonable nien I will convince you." "Did you vote for Tillman ?' yelled a mai. "Yes," said Governor Sheppard, "and I call on Governor Tillman to ask him if lie has any doubts of it." "None in the world," said Governor Tillman. "We don't breed any other kind of cats in Edgefleld but Demo cratic cats." (Cheers for Sheppard.) "Now what next?" resumed Gover nor Sheppard. "Governor Tillman re commended that the poll tax be in creased to $3. (A voice: 'That's right.') That was to raise more money to edit cate negro children. That was not the way to tax. The rich people here and all over South Carolina would pay $3 puit Lax easily, but it would fall heavily on;poor the man. The Farmers' Alliance is right,' lie said, "when it demanded a tax on income. I will show you some thing," Governor Sheppard said. (Here there was much noise and confusion and counter-cheering. After a con siderable time a voice sounded out from the crowd: 'Did you ever plow any ? "I plowed two years and made enough money to attend Furman uni versity tor three years," was the prompt response. There was a hearty cheer at this, followed by another series of op posing cheers, and deri3ive and en couraging cries. "Is there anything more you want to know about me?" shot in the speaker in an interval of compiarative quiet. "1 have a wife and six of the prettiest children in Edge lield." (A voice-'They don't take after their daddy.") "No, they take after their mother. Every time I go to tell you something against Governor Till man you interrupt ine." Here there was a long wait, caused by the yells and confusion and by some ladies wanting to get ntear the stand and( misunderstood men trying to make way a place for them. At least lifteen minutes was thus conisumedl and the time was allowed the speaker by the comnmittee. Governor Sheppard proceeded by stating that he wantedl to make a fair proposition. le wanted every mnani who was williing to be coniviniced to raise his hand. l'robably one-tenth of the crowd raised their hands. "Now, I will tell you whlat paper I am going to readl from," (The speaker had been attempting to read an article for half an hour.) Governor Sheppard then read a letter ofT'illman in the Columi bla lRegister, in which he said that the tax paying power had not been in creased at all while cotton was hover lng about the cost of production; that the salariesq were lower in North Caro lina and Georgia than here and that ours should be reduced to meet them. Governor Sheppard said there had been no reduction of expenses since Gover nor Tiliman securedl power but on the other hand t.hey had increased. Th'le appropriations for expenses in Gover nor Richardson's last year were $115,900. Tfhe first legislature uinder Governor Tillman's administration appropriated $120,935 for the same ex penses. $1,000 more than under Gov ernor Richardson's administration. TIhe second session hadl appropriated $123,085--9,000 more than Governor! Richardson. While Governor Shep 4 pardi was trying to present these 11g ures lie was frequently interrupted by some one who wanted to know abont Trilliman's cows. Governor Sheppard told his piersistent friend that the cow matter was a small one and nothing in comparison with the other great! questions. Tilhmnan, lie contended, had( gone around the State in 1890 inIlam ing the minds of the people with his stories of extravagance. There was more extravaganice in the administra tion today than there had been since 1876. 1118 heare-s had said they were willing to be convinced. IIe~asked what more did they want. "You are all taxpayers," he said, "and every dol lar spent extravagantly is taking clothes off of your children's baicks and bread out of their tuouths. In Gover nor Richardson's time the expenditures In the executive department-the gov ernor's special department-were $43, 820. For the executive departmen't uinder Governor Tillman's administra Lien $53,385 has been appropriated, nearly $9,000 more. Where, then is his promise of economy ? (A voice: 'bidn't. the Legislature do that ?') I like a good suare (lltiSlni, said Govaenor Sheppard. "I will answer it. Wily did Governor 'Tillimat complain of other Legislatures and other adminis. trations when his own has not done anything?" (Loud cheers for Shep. pard.) "Are you president of a bank ?" asked .J. A]. Whitmire. W. V. Burgess: "I Iove that Jerry Whitmire take the stand. lie has more mouth than anybody else." (Loud laughter.) "Yes, I am president of a hank," said Governor Sheppard, "and there are thousands of poor farmers in Edgefield who thanke: God this last year that I was. (Applause) When crops were short and prices were low I tided them over the winter and never sold a mule, art ox, a piece of property or a farn. (Loud cheers) Thousands of farmers whos farms were ruin thankeid their Lord that a good man was a iuk president." A dozen questions were here lired at the speaker and he responded bvy saying that he was treading on the toes of the audience. Among the 11ue'stions was a1s to how Edgelield had gone and why the farmers there had gone back on him. "Wait till the time comes," answered Governor Sheppard, "and you will ste( whether it goes three to one for him. In bny friend's own township he only beat me,eight votes and as certain as the Lord miale Moses I will beat him. I will beat him suro in his own township." There was another long interruption. Some boys had crawled on top of the stand and the chairman had to run them down. The confusion had been so great in front that those in tihe rear could not hear anything. The lion. Al. L. Donaldson appeared on the stand and appealed for order. lie said that some men had come here for information and a large numbr of them in the rear could not hear any thing. After another ten minutes delay for the row to quiet.,Governor Sheppard resumed by saying that the audience gave him lair attention until he hegan telling them of Tillnanl's faults. I, the crowd wwild keep quiet he w aild con vince them. lie had shown figurcs which could not be doubted. ''he Iar miner's convention w hich nominated Till man demanded rigid econoiny, the abo lition of useless otlices and the reduction of salariC and fees of both State and county ollicers. (A voice. "And a pri mary.") The speaker referred to Till man's speech hero two years ago, in which he spoke of wanting a legislature in sympathy with him and in which he mentioned kid glove clerks employed around the State house, the time they work and the large salaries paid them. IIe had a legislature in sympathy with him. "When the governor commences his speech," said(l Governor Sheppard, 'ask him what time the State house clerks now goes to work, how many of them wear kid gloves, and how many ollict(s have been abolished or salaries reduced. I say that not an oflice has been abolished or a salary reduced." "What do you charge for fixing up papers on loans?" was the question ask ed by some one. "Nothing, sir," wits the answer; "all I ask you i- to go to the farmers of Edge fleld." "Vhat do other banks charge ? was the next question. "I do not know. It is as much as I can do to tote my own skillet," was the retort. "You fellows remind me," said the speaker, "of the joint debates in the times of 1876. We never had more uproarous times than now. I know you don't want to be compared with the radicals of those times." "What per cent do you charge on money?" wias asked. "Ten per cent," replied the governor. "Before that bank was established tie farmers got money from commission merchants and factors and pait them from 25 to 40 per cent, for it. You have got to get nore than the bank business before y'ou can hurt me before lhe farmers. Most of the stock holders ire farmers who made their dollars be hrveen the plow handles. They con luct business on business principles md that's what you haven't got now in your State government andI what you ieed. (Apnlause ) I grew uip (during ~he war and was the right hand and left nandl of my widowed mother. WVhen you alk of farmers and laboring meni being nt tirounble you touc'r me to iny heart. No mani in Sout,h Carolina grew rup nore in sy nipathy with the farmers han I (lid. I worked at the plo0w and( madIe money enough to conme to F"ur man university and wvhnen my money cave out I went, home. I never had tny trouble in being electedi by thre fart miers of tmy own county. All this talk ibout factory presidents and banik pres dents is the merest bosh. But I amn aiot here to dlefend mnyself' from that kind of stuiff. i am iher to show you where the promise of ret renchtment and( eform have not, beein carried out. Not rime dlollar has been saved in taxes. On hte other hand they have iincreasedh. r'be taxes this year are 83t0400 more ~hani last." "lIow about Coosaw ?" was aske (d several times. "1 never doubted that the charter of U'oosaw expiredl ini 1891," saidt the speaker. "1 had a long talk with Gen 3ral Connor b)efore his (deatIh, andi hue ,old me that thre charter would expire ini 891. Governor Tlillman took thre ce f his~ light from Gieneral Con nor. It was ir.kind of the governor to Ignore AtLtor icy General P'ope andi take the advice of mn attornecy general of a former adm in stration, I was in fuill sym pathy with he State's litigat ion, but it, was riot, wis loim to stop work arid lose money to the Rtate." ( Voice: "It wasi li human na ,ire.") ''It wa.s hinnan folly,'' retorted Gov anRor Sheppard. "I repeat it, wats hutmoan olly to stop work aind lose 810,000 or unore of an income to the State." No iood business, ho said, was done that gay. It wasI proper for the State to as ert her rights. 'Thiere were some edi ors whto said then Stat.e hadn't lost any hing, as the pnroperty is still there. li'0 hen Illustrated by sayiing that if two armors had a farmi in dispute and one mues the other while the case is pending n couirt, would it compensate them to tay the land is there, let it lie idle ? 'When yourr business atfairs," he urged, 'are that way they needI a change. Y'ou ieedl to follow Tillmarn's advice of two years ago to s9weep ottjyourr barn every wo years. There may be no rats there, out a cleaning out is needed." (Ap plause for Sheppard.) "hlere at Greenville two ye'ars ago, right where I now sLtnd, Tlillman dhe. notimced thet Past administrertion for naving tine litigation conductedl by >thners than its ow'n oilicers and for pay .ng ouit tire State's money to themi. sine Trillman went Into po..e. more extra lawyers have been employed by the State than from 1876 to I890." "Was ever a inan so bemeaned and run down ?" was asked. "I say that there has been to much of that thing done." Turning to A. 6, Scruggs, who had asked a similiar ques tion, Governor Sheppard said: " You au e an old and venerable man and no man will show more veneration to an old man than I will, but you have never in all your sixty odd years of life seen a man who abused as many people and hurt as many hearts as Governor Till. man." (Loud and prolonged cheers for *heppard, which the Tillmanites did not have sheart to counter) Governor Sheppard was informed that his time was up and said he was sorry for it, Ile said he didn't feel the slightest un kindness to those who had asked him questions. "Good-bye fellow citiZIIn4, he col,icluded. "I hopo to s-eni you agaill." (ARY AND OURH SPEAKS, Lieutenant Gov. Gary followed in an address of threequarters of an hour, in which he denounced the old ring and coMpared Governor Tillman to Andrew Jackson. Ile deled the oppoucnts of the Administration to find a flaw in the State's management, defendcd Tillman in the Coosaw ztvic, condenined the banks for taking advantagesof technica litics to escape proper taxation, tind t( CuseI the railroads of trying to injure Tllman by bringing about a scarcity of money in the State treasury. Ile de nounced various newspapers and accused Mr. Sheppard of political inconsistency. "l11it Orr a lick," an admirer shouted, but AMr. Gary refrained. L,)ud calls for Orr caused Air. Gary to suspen for a little while. Aloderate applause was bestowed upon his ell'ort. Mr. Orr was introduced as the pride 01' the Piedmont lIit, who was too well known to need introduction. As he rose lie w is greeted with at grand denun stration of Ialpplause of the m1iost entlhusi astic character and made, considering the surroundings, at magnificent addres s of'an hour's duration. Mr. Orr said this contest would be settled within the party, for which thank the ConservatIve Convention. The assertion that his ticket was the out-growth of lIaskellismn was too Fl1se to discuss, and lie did not itlend to be bulldozed from expreising his convictions. The meople of Green ville knew him and lie did not believe their friendship would be affected be cause of his frankness nor because ci the scoundrels in Greenville who, hyena iike, had gone into the grave of his dead lather for political caDital. [Loud ap plause.j Ile appealed to judgment, and would quoLe facts to show why Tillman should be removed I rom the oflice lie oc cupies. Judge hii by is recor.1 of fials promises, dictatorial tendencies and misleading assertions. Ile referred to Tillnian's denunciation of the biank and fiactories, and said that the Piedmont Mills paid to its operatives more than a million dollars a vear and schooled al the children free, proving its existence not, an evil, but a blessing. Tillman has declared himislf greater than the plat. form of his movement. Without him il does not amout to a row of pins, Ile is the big Ike, the high cockalorum, whc amounts to all of you pot together. Since the Alliance meeting at Spartan burg lie is g-entle as a suckling (love and dare not state his position on the Ocala demands. Ile scored the Governor for his bad management in the Coosaw case; his advocacy of three dollar poll tax; his extravagance with the State's money; his insult to the judiciary of the State; his disposition to remove sherifl's and thus nullfy the expressed will of the peoleC; his veto and( defeat of the blls to regulate railroadq, andl closedl the list with a seating criticisai in t,he free pass mat,ter, which, though a miistake, wvas one ini his lavor andh against, the people, Ph e pzople had been fooled badly, but they were now awaking. C2ol. Orr handled his p)oii?ts ably andh received al amost, continuous applause. At the conclusion of Col. Orr's speech Gov. Tillnman was introduced and closed the meeting with the following speech: (it TI. 'l,lMa N's( 1CI Nt XI-:1-:ri. In t,he last Camnpaign a great deal was said about l 'iter's wifIe's mother, I aughter.|I Some of you don't kiiow what that meant, but I'll tell you, l and here TJillmnan told the story of the( iinno ceiit abroad in New York who heard a ser~nmn three times on the subject of I'eter's wife's mother andl wvho inferred that the ringing of the bells was in: hioiior of the 01(1 lady's funeral. I A p) plying the story the Goveinor said, Now, I have at last discovered the an cestors of P'eter's wife's mot,ber on the padternal side. I [ere is what the JIas. kellite organ in Colunmbla .said of' the speees of Colonel Orr In Lurens id other p)laces--a speech that. had been printed, hut which lie would iiot speak today. I The speaker here read an edli torial from The State, the 1)o it of which was that its editor claimned the credit for suggesting the points anade b)y Colonieh Orr in his speeches.l Now, here you s(e, gentlemen, that Colonel Orr was only the mouthpiece of N. G. Gonzales. j Applause and laughter.] At this p)oiaat in the Govenior's speech a great howl was raised on the left of the tandl which was long conti nuedh, andI as soon as the Governor could be heard he said1: Now, my friends, you all uinderstanid what t hat means, and( t hat I cannot get along with that bois terouis crowdi over there, but it, is ai small crowdi--scarcely more than fift y. Now I prop)ose to teach them somethuing. My I riends, all of you who are g oinig toi vote for me hold( up your huands.|h crowd obeyed, fully nine-tenths of those present holdhing up their hands arid cheering for Tlill man. J Tlurnineg to the boisterous fifty he said: "NowV you youmig gentlemen can either hush and1( so (declare yourselves to be gentle menl or conutinjue to be rowdyish. ( Cheering andi( applause. I "Now, those of you who are going to vote for Shep. p'ard hold imp you hands." I A very In. linitely small portion of the crowd obeyed.J "Now," said t,he Governor, "'if you nave any decency at all I sup. pose you will hush now." Tlhe noise contlinuing, Orr endleavored to secure silence bult failed, andi Tlillman contin uing said: I suppose that Is what you peop0le un:deiatand by peace and liar. mony. | Laught er and ag.plaulse.j lhut I tell you: that I came here to speak, andt I am going to speak If it takes till to-miorrow. I telh you, young men, that yen wvill have to vote for me or ap. peal to the nigger juist as lIaskell did, I A pplause, jeers and cheers. 1 You mnay out holler me, bhtt you can't omt-ot that grand army out there. Sheppard has alluded to the farmers' movement and said that every feeling, every mo tion, of his heart was loyal to our agri cultural people. Ile grew so eloquent that he almost made me believe that he had discovered the movement Instead of myself. [Laughter and applause.] Well, I tell you that in 1886 in conven tion 1 voted for Sheppard for Govern or and tried to elect him. Why ? First because at that time I knew none of the public men of the State, and second because we had been school-mates and were then and are now personal f riends. There were then three candidates in the liehl-Senator Coker of Darlingtoa, .John Peter Richardson and Sheppard, who had received the oflice at the hands of lughS.Thompson. The movement then had two principal demands-the reorganization of the agricultural bu reait and the estahiSlhment of an agri cultural college. I wrote to Coker and asked hiu if he would support these demands. lie wrote me back that he would not, and I had Richardson ap proached and found that he was the ring candidate. I Voice: "Tell us about that free pass."] Yes, I'll tell you about it it you'll hush, because I am not here to dodge anything. JCheers for Till man. I then went to Sheppard, and we had a conference. iIe told me he was in favor of everything the farmers' association had demanded except the abolition of the Citadel Academy-the dude factory. I was then left in this conditio: with Sheppard, who had been my school fellow. I N voice: "And Judge Wallace's son-in-law."i Well, yes, but that had nothing to do with it; and why shouldn't I vote for him, and especially after lie cane over and joined us ? Hut what was the result? Col. Lawrence Orr and W. L. Mauldin headed the delegation fron Greenville, went to Columbia and were responsi ble for Sheppard's defeat in 18811. John C. Sheppard had beaten Orr for Speak er and lie hates him for it to this day. LColonel Orr: "Didn't you vote for llitson, who was c pposed to the Agri cultural College" ? I' Tillman -yes, and Mauldin was opposed to it. IC olonel Orr: "No, sir; he cast the vot.e that saved the college." I Tillinan -in 1888 1 again isked Shep pard to oppose Richardson. lie said: "I will go to Columbia next week and see about it." It was two or three days before the meeting at Ilodges. lie went down there and was converted to the other side, and Lawrence Orr pre sided over the convention that deleat ed Earle in favor of Richardson. Now, these are the men who say "we are in favor of the farmers' movement. Oh ! we do love our farmers so well that we could take you in our arms and em brace you." ILaughter and applause.] But now let us see what they have done with our platform. The speaker here compared the two platforms and made points that the f'hirteen had oimitt,ed the dciands for railroad control and a constitutional convention. lie then denied the charges of extravagance, alluding to the building of the inauguration plat form, which he said was suggested by the committees of the H[ouse and Sen ate. lie then acknowledged that he had alluded to some of the legislators as driftwood, and showed that the fail tire to carry out economies was not due to his want of suggestion, but the blocking of legislation in the Legisla ture. lie quoted from his inaugural and from his speeches to show that he had been consistently in favor of re form. lie denied that lie had act,ed as a dictator. Ile quoted a letter of las kell to The State which he said ex plained how the members of the Legis lature had been bamboozled and also how that newspaper had twitted the legislators with being under his coin trol and causing them to vote other wise than had beein expected. iIe ad mitted that a good deal of time had been spent in the election of a United States Senator; that, nothing was being (lone, and that lie therefore called upon two Solicitors to assist in what adnino istration measures embodied the views of the farimers' platform, lIe thieni went on to show how t hese measures were defeat.ed, biut contended that he had carried out his pledges and that, the Legislature had failed to carry out thi tfrs. As a p)art of the arguiment here lie <jiuoted extensively from the p)arty plat form, stat,ing in wvhat respects he had enideavered to carry out his declara tions, lie also entered into an elabo rate discussion of the cauises which led to the (defeat of severaul of his mecas ur's, andu especially the ranilro ad bill, thme Sheriff bill, and others. iIe then replied to sonme of the statemuents that lie lost ground in thme State, anid coni tinuied thus: Sheppat d has claimted that lhe will tarry my township as sure as fate. WVell, Glen. M. C. Butler, who has had a finger in this pie, has had a heap to (do with stirring lup this town ship, and so has A . jP. Butler, wvho was sent home by the Legislature, anid who lives ou the edge of the township. 'Thev have been distributing Tlhe State ir'e gratis. I have beeni at home but sel dom, becauise I have stayed ini CoIlum bia attending to your business; bit I wvill say that I will go home, iake three speeches, and ii I camn't beat him in the primuaries I will withdraw from the race. Governor Sheppard, will you say as inuch ? I have gone, my fiends, through h---l to get this ollice, and I. have been told that no other main could have 1led the miovemnent to success. Sinice my election I have dlischtarged miy duty as faithfully as I knew, and I am think I have don it or no.t.Pae living before I got inito the Governor's oflice, andl whenlever the majority of t he people say "we don't want, you any longer'' I will retire wit hiout a mnurmnur, The Governor recurre'd to his posi ttoni as dlefined ini his inaugural on the three dlollar po011 tax, giving his reasons for the recoinmmendation. Speaking of the Judge Wallace inci dlenthc said: One of the tilnpardon able slins, the unwashable sin, which it is chiargedh I have committed, is that in mmy message I took issue with Jud(ge Wallace becausehe had decided that the Governor had no right to,remove Cant well, tIhe Supervisor of Registration, while the Senate was not in session. I have shown the law under which I acted, and no lawyer has yet answered it. They don't dare to take issues with that law, although I am no lawyer. Now, wvhat were my riotives? ''l'he people of Charleston were under ring rule. Tlhey had the most outrageous tyrranny practiced upon them, iind tantwell was one of the instrumenits which the ring used to keep itself In power b)y issuinig l' guas tickets and allowing them to be voted. The reform movument there begoed that this man, be removed. I looked at hlef law a had the right to sitspeind 111111 nt), Senate met. I sinply desird to rel the shackles from the hands of friends in the City by the Sea. .Judge Wallace by his decision had locked again. Now, what is tho se ofourgovernment? L ishs three d, monts-the legislative, the exec. and the judical-and they are co ered coequal. Now, it looks t0 im if it is proper to criticise the Gove especially as I have been criticIs, mean criticisn of my ollice-and i oice is not enough to insure I criticised decently, in God's name it. is the impropriety in my criticisin other branch of the government? besides, are these judges always in ble' y. Let ine show you: iI ere is a list tho Supreio Court reord:s. I :! tihe! citadel now, you see, anmi c -n the records. I ai not 11o)llgef usLd to be, to have to chunk ai for things, as belore I was el This list shows that during thei live years, or from siit- to 1690. were 657 appeals taken from dec of the Circuit .1 tdges, and that 250 of them were overruled or aio That is, that over one-third ot opinions delivered by thesc J.d the Saihedriin, tho priesthood iinner tenple-men too holy to be cised by the Governor --weR ove; by the Supretne Court. And as I Sipreine Cotrt, haven't you in titue heard the lawyecs curse and it as being a set of jAcka-iei. laughter and applauie.) You% w derstand, ol course, that this is li language. 'n this issue the Selna. sustained ie and the Suprei, has not decided the point rais ludge Wallace, and I will do it and if any other Supervisor sl_; inl the way that Canitwell did 1 not hesitate to take him by the ani put himiii out to-inorrow. (I ter.) I am told that, my timue out. Colonel Orr ha) harrieid souls by charging that I in auo view declared that the f.ters' iim iment could whip tih A llaiice. 1 absolutely that I ever thilioughit s thing, wrote stenl a th ig or sal! a tiling. Can youi belleve that I seC the relorm movement split and taking em,ch ot.her by 11f. and like two dogs quareling bone, destroy their combined p I)o you Supposo that, I would v this means let that gang of she' there seize this governmuent (Applause and cheers.) Aly fr would have been not only a p'' idiot but a doutibled dyed t raitor . anni1ou1nced such a se-ntilnlil1. plaise and cieers ) Last year I said that I belie%l: tho sub-treasury bill was unmi. went to Spartanbuirg and in a inc of the State Alliance gave IIIy n for saying t hat. I opposed it. I a yolu to-day that at that time lighting what I supposed wasa party moveieit, and not, the .\ (A pplatise and cheers.) I was to it, aid 1 believe that all 1 opposed to it now, because it, 1, withidrawin by the Ailiaice1 say to you here now as a loyal > erat, as a loyal AlliaMIc-em,an1, L .I farmers' ioveiuent, inan, t, botind by t he rlOe of .lie mjo:V that if a majority of the ? 'O, these demands I shali iot att dictate to you. ('rolonged l' ani applause ) I have been accused of tryii: tate to the Alliance, but I ha% you imy reasons for my opiw. my position. I aiii on lecor! posed to the sib-trea-siry, anti posed to it now, but the rult Alliflice and ot the )eiio(r:( abide the will of the inajority, am not going to light, my (Chieers and applause ) ,1list [: Spartaniburg meietinig, don't, miemiber how sweet, anid smiil iiewspapers were to me? Th? ly slobbered over me. Thelie N ew', (voices: "Oh !ohi!") and 1 andt Courier- (voices: "Ohl yes mary or split/) arid that, e:ata Coluembia (The State) (deriisi ve anrd cheers) were trylRng to se TIhey wanted to get ino away, had choseni to go w1ith themo have beenl king among the F a t.raito-r to the Goats. (App cheIers.) I want to say to you1 that i one( parzty Rn South C'arolina,m I cratic p)arty, and( wIe w.Vill ha andi( iRmlty it these ;.;mnt['inet; 11s. 1I1 we ar-eii~ beteniiI thi will niot do as the IIl ask(elite 01ut, of tile p)art.y andi bolt. control of thed )leinIceratic p cani(Ri e iniat.e any lat for-n Please, anid on that l)lat foi-i miake our light. 'The unmJ ruile in t,his SL,ate and I woe to follow 3011 to li--Il than these men to heaven. - 'I cheerIing.) O f course Iiimen imerely typ)ical language, a s ouit inteniding to be irrever (lees mea~n that I am now larmerms of South Carlina,s thiemi I expect to dIie. ( ApI I0 I. did Riot, run1 oin the Al form, or a sub-tireasury p tied tiy best to make thel t.hat the Allianice should i an Alliance. I objected to itidgeway. I have riot het: gle vledge I everi maide. I failed to keep a priomise, ani mani to prove it.- I madelI corruption, arid 1 foun md ti, cer of t,he goyerrnmint ha:c $5,000 wVit hini a Rmonith at ter t,o iiy ollice; that thbree Cc iurers hlave taken sonie the Rmore, andl that the-re wem (and that is an euiphoniouls abuoiit 820,000i. Yi our endorsemen t, my fr: Rue that you realize the objs men who are tryinig to pi platform which I formle . trying to ridle in on the liut don't you know that! sign on the door of this c; must not ride on thi. plat! plause and cheers.) These0 trying to ride on iL, but I .. will switch thenm off in Sur inl tile electioni I 'will vourbl: Orr and Sheppar-d will.: si raight D)emocrmatic ticket. . The speaker- Rnext took upih how it, was begunii by (,he co;. saidi there had1( beeni a lot ti '.he peoplei having to pay th. assistant, counsel but leie : Coosaw wvould eventually b - pay. lie said that if ho h.; the light the newepapersw charged him with nn.,c ima, '