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VOL. XXI PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE THE BARNWELL MEETING. A MOST AUSPICIOUS BEGINNING OF " THE CAMPAIGN. e C Speeches Hlade by Tlimnan. Sheppard. Orr y and DcLaurli-ood Oader Prevailed i and all the Speakern Given Clone Att en tIoD--There Were Few Interruptlobs. V BARNNWELL. S. C., June 7.-Under a clear sky, with the bright sun throw Ing its mellow light through the inter lacing branches oi the tall oaks that P grace the pretty little plaza of this smil iug town, the initial meeting of the State Democratic campaign was held today. 1 The good people of Barnwell county were on their best behavior, and a stran. ; or would have looked in vain for the P turbulent scenes that outsiders are ac customed to hear of as characterizing political meetings in South Carolina. V It was an orderly meeting throughout. There wcre sow interruptions and a ( number of questions were put to the r speakers, but these were in good tem. per, and there was no attempt to howl w anj body down. The audience was numerically small. e Predictions had been made that there would be oeveral thousand persons pres- e ent, but the crowd did not number over a 600 or 700 at the most. The crowd p seen.et' be about two to one for Till- at man. There w.re a number of ladies in w the audience. h On the stand were candidates Shop- v pard, Tiliman, Orr, Gary, McLauriu, t( Maylield, Ilumbcrt, Youman, Talbert b and Aldrich, Mayor Christie and the Rev. P. L. Kirton. There were also it staff representatives of several daily 'I newspapErs. The proceediug were s openedl with prayer by the Rev. P. L. c Kirton. The meeting Nas presided over by S County Chairnian G. Duncan Bellinger, who was thoroughly impartial in deal- c A ing with the speakers. He made a few b remaiks, stating that the executive com. o mittee had tecided that there should be e two speeches from each side, the candi. t: datet for Governor to be allowed one C hour and a quarter each and the others s a half hour each. Owing to the fact I that Lieutenant Governor Gary had not fe intendcd to be present, it had been de- hi cided that Attorney General McLaurin b should take his place. Col. James L. Orr, the Conservative candidate for e Lieutenant Governor would be the first G speaker. a COL. OIRI'S SPEECH. C le introduced Col. Orr as a worthy d son of a distinguished s;re. Col. Orr h isaid that while he already knew of the it bravery aid gallatry of Barnwell's citi- fLi zens, of the fei tility of the soil of this a county, on coming here his high opinion had been Increased. He begged the au. ia dience to hear each side, and then decide e calmly, on their consciences, according I to the law and the evidence, which tick- ( et. ' more cal,:ulated to give peace and it prosperity to the 8tats Considering the financial policy of the t Administration he said that when it t came into power State bonds were worth c 104 and now they bring only 93 or 94. n This was a numiliating fact. This was l mainly what brought him to take an in- s terest in the campaign. le was not a t politician and did not like the business. If they he.d years to run the State might j< regain wLat she had lost, but in a year g they will have to be refunded at possibly h 6 per cent. interest, which loss is saddle o upon us during our whole lives and those 11 of our chl.dten. V What South Carolina wants today is less politics in the management of'her o affairs and more business principle. The tI policy of this Administration was such ti as to drive away capital from the State. ii The only way to get cheap money is the E way we get cheap cotton-by competi tion among the banks which must be en- s< couraged. The rmnation policy was used in the ti management ot the Coosaw case. The p net result of the litigation brought about o: by the Administration's management had been a loss of over $130,000, which al each one of us hadi to assist in making ei up. b The Administration claimed that they , were reformers, but they had increased ti taxes and had not abolished any oflices t1 or decreased salaries. Discordl and dis- 11 trust has been stirred tup in South Caro lina. There is no chance for our salva- ci tion except by the white people stand- n ing toge .her. The man who severs the d friendly relations which the white men ,2 feel toward each other is an ene my to fi 4 his race. t1 iIe objtceted to the present Adinmis- g tion becau~se of their (desire and formed c< intention to accumulate all po wer in one ft hand. The (Con stitution says the power fc must be divided among threc co-oirdi nate branches, iIe charged that the Ic Admninistration has sought to put all y' power in the hands of the Executive. iIe supported this by reference to the n attacks of Governor Tillman on Judze n Wallace---a grIevous mistake when he li held up to scorn the action of one of the iz .Judlges. There was a means of redress, 'I but he did not take it, but preferred to hold the .Judgre up to scorn-,t Col. Orr referred to Governor Till- if man's much-talked-ot appointments to w the Supreme Bench In the case of' the si disability of' one of its members. iIe appointed the Lieutenant Governor, it thus attemp)ting to put one department pl of the Governmentii in control of' another. -m To the credit of Ira B.,Jones, lhe refused iT the appointment, because lie was Speak-. tla er of the IIouse and said the Govem nor| m had made a mistake. :tii When the Legfislature had relused to rn cringe and do his bidding he called thesu ai "drihlwocdl." He said lie wanted "rep- ti: reetaie m~en, and at Greenville he said he was going to write a platfornm ai and have them sworn on a Jlille. [Ap- Si plause J The 1,yrant power should il nesver exist in South Carolina. I don't -believe the people of South Carolina will y ever swear to carry out the dictates of ' ay one mian. g The Gcvei nor wants the power to ap I point sheriffs. Then he may as well 13 have power to do anything he wants to. tI The Governor is said to be the poor e3 man's Governor. If his recommenda- a tions were carried out the poor man t would fare worse than lie ever has fared. cc The fundamental principle of taxatin If 'as to tax according to a nan's prop ity, yet Governor Tillman recommend, I that the poll tax be made $3. 1 'as the most Iniquitous thing that waw ver proposed to burden the State with Voice; Tes, you are right.) In respect to the lien law, Tillmat 'as not the puor man's friend. Ile ii k favor of abolishing the lien law Uries of "right."] Yes, right for yot rho own the land, but wrong for thos< ,ho hire to you for $5 and $6 pei konth. [Loud applause ] The question for us to determine is VhIch Is the representative of our pea le and will give us the greatest peact nd prospetity. Voice-Tell us who you are, so w( rill know whether to vote for you. Col. Orr --1 am a tree white and twen, y-one, and under the tongue of good re ort in my county. (Loud applause. Ile asked, wasa mau who was so par san as to say that he would rather gc ) hell with one crowd than to heaven rith the other, a fit mau to vote for: No, no, nol) Such a man did not have )spect for the community. ATTORNEY GENERAL MOLAURIN as then introduced as "the youngesi ,ttorney General south Carolina haj ver had." [A veice: Trot him out. Mr. McLaurin claimed that the pres it condition of affairs was the direct re ilt of the intolerance of the forme: arty leaders. He said Sheppard wa tcrificed by these people and now hi as trying to kiss the rod that smot4 im. Gen. McLaurin's speech wai ahement, and was filled with referenci > "disappointed office-seekers," "em ittered politicians," etc. He attacked The State, saying tha had reared its Gorean head to:dowi 'illman. Other weak-kneed and.time -rving papers had jumped into th, base and added their ieeble yelps t4 ie savage growls of the Cerebus, tb tate newspaper. IIe referred to dhe Conservativi :nven ion as having beei called y "the thirteen chief rulers o Id" and said their efforts were as pow rless as those of King Canute to make ie wa ices roll back, Ile called Col Irr the Goliath behind whom the Antij )eltered themselves. The Edgeflek lavid ol' the tribe of Benjame with i w phosphate rocks would demolibsh in. Sheppard had, like Saul, fallen on is sword and killed himself. lie said that soon after Attorney Gen. -al Pope had gone into 0111ce N. G onzales had sworn out a warran galnst him becau4e he had discharged i erk named Butler from the engrossin Bpartment. le had never befor eard of a State officer being dragge4 ito a "miserable little trial justice of ce," not by the party himself, but b newspaper editor: Col. Haskell had attacked the Admin tration because it had employed asso late counsel in conducting litigation [e would remind him that the Attorne, leneral had employed eight associate i 1878 and 1879. Youmans had em loyed six and Miles eleven in 1883, an ie next year the lattec was given $1,001 ) pay them and John C. Haskell wai halrman of the ways and means com nitee at the time. He charged tha ie real backbone of this socalled Con .rvative movement was in Iaskell an< [onzales. The speaker then told the well-knowt )ke about Mahone riding up to th4 ates of heaven with a negro behin< im, which caused some one to sing at, "Oh, Moses told that to the Israe tes when he was leading them out o gypt." lie said there was an organized effor ai the p)art of the opposition to injure 1s Administration, and said that such ilk as Col. Orr had indulged in tende< that direction. x-GOVERNOR SHEPPARD'S SPEECH Chairman Bellinger said that it wa' ~arcely necessar.y to introduce to thosi ho remembered the trying days of 187( es next speaker, 'ex-Governor Shep. ~rd, who was a candidate for the o flice Governor. cre Governor8Sheppard walkst firle froni nuid cheers and cries of "ourL-aJxt Gov. -nor." He said: I have not appeared afore a Baurnwell audience since 1876 hen I came to see ii I could do any. iing, by act or word, to help redeemr uis grand old County of Barnweli fron adicalism. I have enjoyed a big share of your >ntidence, 1 can truly say that I havE ever uttered a word of' disloyalty or infl. slty to the State of South Carolina. .lthough like Saul of old I may have llen upon my sword and killed myself, ii Att.orney General will find before ] at through that I'm the liveliest littk >rpse he ever saw. [A few hurrahe r Shepp ard, drowned by loud cheeri r Tillman.] Voice-Thiat noise is only made by w.lambs; there's nothing but boyi albung for Sheppard. Sheppard-If' there is any place thai sedls a business man it is t,he Gover >r's chair of8outh Carolina, and I be wve I will show you that we haven'l t it. [Loud yells for Sheppard and illiman,] Chairman Bellinger-Mr. Sheppard Ia speak for an hour and a quarter and1 you take upl his time by howling it ill only be added on. The noise sub ded. Sheppard- I come as a candidate for e othice of Governor of South Carolina it forward by as honorable a botdy 01 en as was ever gathered in this State, hey talk about my kissing the rod at smote me. I intend so to conduct yself' in the future as in the past, that e farmners,will.resent any blow struck e. The men on the conservative side e as much devoted to the welfare of e State as any of the adnrrastration. A lot of small boys were sitting 'ound the edge of the stand and Mr. eppardl came eiar stepping on one of em. A voice-Dodn't mash the lamb, or u'll have one less in your small flock. Sheppard-You t,ake care of your >ats and we'll take care ol our lambs. will not say one wordl t,hat is not itust applicable and will not go outsidle of e public record and it, will sust.ain rery allegation I make. When Till an came out It w' as on a platform, and at reminds me of the joke about the bored man being ordered ofl' a plat rm by a Conuto. "Why, what's the platfo.m for, if it isn't to ride on." "You mussed fool, a platform's some thing to get in on." And that's what Tilman's platform is for. It is simply something for him to get in ofll.e on. No man will sustain him more faith fully if be gets in on a majority ol the votes of the State than I will. When the Governor spoke here two years ago i he said salaries were too high. After he got a taste they ain't too high. Voice-They'l make you pay the some taxes. Sheppard-The bank of Eegefield, of which I am president, pays taxes on every dollar of its property, and that's more than you do. The Governor says money now has a geater purchasing power than formerly. lie says you all pay less taxes. Any man who believes he pays less taxes hold up his hand. A large number of hands went up and there in answer to a call for a vote on the other side only a few hands wentup. Sheppard remarked that he could prove those mistaken who thought their taxes had been reduced. Voice-How many pay imore? Sheppard--No one, unless he has more property, Cotton is lower. Voice-Do you blame Tillmau for that? Not at all. I will put no blame save on him who is entitled to blame. Two years ago he said that the ap propriation for certain departments was too high, and that there was no reason for It being $116,9350, yet the first year he was In power the appropriation for those same departments was $126,930, and in 1891 $123.735. If I convince t you that these figures are all right will you accept them? Voice-Yes, they're all right. Go ahead. Sbeppard-ls it just to denounce one and accept the other? Voice-What brought about .t at in crease? Sheppard-Every time I hit you in a soft spot you flinch. The Legi:lature appropriated it. I do not blame him lor it but I blame him for blaming other people, who had as little to (10 with up proptiation of funds as he did. "'Mary had a little lamb, With fleece as white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went That lamb was sure to go." A fellow once recited that poetry as follows: "Mary had a little lamb, With fleas as white as snow, And every time they bit She did just so." And the orator scratched one leg with the other toot. And that's the way with these fellows; they begin to scratch a? soon as the fleas bite. I did say at Greenville that my bank loaned money at 10 per cent. and that the fainers were glad to get it at that. Voicd-Ain't that against the law? Sheppard-No. The Governux's leading charges against former adainistrations were that the appropriations wkre too ex. travagant and the taxes too - h1gb. I have proven that the appropriations were higher under his administration and I will now prove that the taxes are higher. They say that the tax levy is one-fourth of a mill lower. Do you pay your taxes In mills or in dollars? Doe~s the Treasurer say how many mills or how maay dollars you owe when you go to settle up? The assessment under the 41 mill tax was $150,602,45J, while un der the 4.} mile tax it was $168,262,669, making the collection on the latter $36, 405 greater than on the former. That's reform wIth a vengeance. The Governor said many unkind things about men In subordinate posi. [ ions, clerks at the State HIouse. Hie said that they would come down at 9 or 9.30 o'clock, with kid gloves on, lounge around until 3 o'clock and then go to the club for a snift,er and lounge the balance of the aft,ernoon, drawing a salary of~ *1,200 or * 1,300. There are just as many clerks now and they do just the same. The Governor ought to wear gloves, but he ought not to b)lame others for wearing them and then go and'do it himself. IIis opposition to the judiciary, the bulwark of the best mastitutions of the State, was wrong. IIe charged other Legislatures with perjury and corrup tion, lie said there was inbecility in the executive department, and now he derides the judiciary, who will boar fav orable camp)arison with any judges that ever graced the bench in South Caro lina. The Governor is bound to respect all judges as a citizen and as a sworn oflicial, lie says 40 per cent, of judg ments appealedl are dlecided by the Su preme Court to be erroneous and are set aside or abridged. I have written to lawyers in every circuit and the concensus of their opin ions is that about 10 per cent of the cases decided by lower court dJudges are appealedl. Forty per Cent, of 10 per cent. Is 4 per cent., and that is the num ber of cases dlecided by the Circuit Judges, which are afterwards declared to be wrong. That is a record of which all South Carolinians ought to be proud. When the Chief Executive of the State travels about proclaiming and having it published In the papers that the Executive Department is uinbecile and extravagant, that the legislative is perjured and corrupt and that the courts are ignorant and corrupt, what inducement Is there for money and capital to come to South Carolina. No, sir, Mr. Attorney General, the attack on the credit of our State comes not from our side. Voice-You'll never be Governor. Sheppard-If I don't you'll suifer more than I. Voice-We'll tough It out. 8heppard-You'll look power ful lean when I get through. Don't interrupt me so often for I have only an hour and a quarter and there are lots of things that I want to say. I realize that there are circumstances under which it would be impossible for the Attorney General to do the work of his oflce and he] would be obliged to call in other coun sel to help hinm but I do blame them for condemning it when they do It themselves.1 If they hiad been able to raise the bank assessments, who knows but what they woula have next tried It on personal property? Voice-Hurry up rain's coming. Another voice-It'll wash those tleai off of him. The May convention refuse to frown down the third party. That was a blow on us all. Talking about kissing the rod, why convention had been smiting Tillman hip and thigh for his opposi tion to the sub-treasury. le, after op posing the sub-treasury, swallowed it for the purpose of allLying the Alliance feeling of opposition to himself. Voices-We are all South Carolinians and Tillman men. Sheppard-We will stick shoulder to shoulder, whether we like our medicine or not. I'he supremacy of the Anglo Saxon race is of more importance than the rate of taxation or any other ques tion now before us. The closing of Sheppard's speech was one of the great est efforts of his life; it was a nagnifil cent tide of purest words that charmed all into silence. The reporters all paused to listen. We must press this war against the methods now prevailing in the admin istration. That is what Ilagood in vites you to do, and he will lead faith fully. The sun of his life is fast sink ing in splendor in the West. May its last rays of glorious splendor not rest upon a divided country. May the dying splendor of this grand life rest on the banner of South Carolina and not be hold upon it any moth that will array the rich against the poor or cause class to light class. May it behold em blazoned upon the banner of conserva tive Democracy, that labor without capital is starvation and that capital without labor is stagnation. May its last radiance behold South Carolina the land of the free and the home of the brave, the home of liberal laws and the patron of equal justice. Much applause greeted the conclusion which occurred forty-five minutes after the speaker commenced. MOV. TILLMAN'S SPEECH. Chairman Bellinger then introduced Gov. Tillman, who was grected with applause as he stepped to the front. Ile said: This is the fourth time that I have had the pleasure of addressing the people of Barnwell County, and I be lieve every time I come hero you liko me better, for I like you better. I came here first in 1887, an unknown farmer to battle against the cohorts of the Charleston and Columbia ring for the rights of the people. I stand here your Governor and next November I will again be your Governor, [applausei because you recognize and appreeiate truth and honesty. [Applause.J This ought to be a campaign of edu cation. I believe 1 could stay in Co. lunbia and not make a speech and yet be re-elected. But t he Constitution de mands that the candidates shall appear hefere the people and tell where they stand. I put that clause, or had it put in the Constitution, so as to forever protect the people against having can didates spring on them without their getting a chance to 11nd out their posi tions. I am always ready to take my physic and I ain going to give it to others. Voice: "Let Sheppard kick the fleas and hornet." Tillman-I expected Sheppard to use up all of his time when he asked you not to interrupt him. But he did not use his entire hour and a quarter, lie only spoke three quarters of an hour, bacamse lie had so little to say. All that lie said was a rehash of the st fI that has appeared in the State. N. G. Gonzales is the fountain of every charge that Sheppard has made to-day. When a man is a Democrat he does not have to prove it. A man's Democ racy should always be like Caesar's wife's virtue, above suspicion. I am not here to excite your passions, I only want to discuss the issues that are be fore you. Voice: "Tell us who voted for a ne gro in preference to a white man." Tillman, after a short pause-There are some men on this stage who didn't vote for me. Why do these men hate me so ? Voice: "Because you love the farm ers so." Tillman--Why they have crawled on my platform and say send that An archiist Tillman back to Edgefleld and all will be happy. Sheppard says that I had that platform not to ride on but only to get in office on. Why then did he get on that same platform; was it to get in office on ? [Applause.] Don't think that I will got tired. I am a four mile hoss, as I proved with Earle. What are the Issues ? If Shop. pardl is elected Voice: "Hie will be." Tillman-Never, and you knowv it too. If Sheppard Is elected It means that the railroads, banks, corporations, money and 01(d ring will get back in otlice and you'll pay the t,axes. Voice: "IIe'll never get there." Tillmnan-Never, unless you forget your principles. It took six years to win our fight,. Sheppard went ona my platform in 1886 arnd the ring beat him. I triedl to get him to go on that plat form in 1888 arnd heat. Richardson, but hie did not have sand( enough in his craw, in 180 lie fought us. WVhy is it that he gets . on 0our p)latforma when thiero is an oilieo ini sight? What has the Farmers' Movemenrt ever done ? Voice: "Not hing." Voi2e : " We still have the same wish, but can't get it gratiiie:l." 'fillmuan-A 1)111 was introduced at the last session of the Legislature to change tihe form of County govern ment, but thme diriftwoodl killed it. I see lots of things going wrong in the oflices, and if I had time power 1 would take moy boot-tou and kick some of the afile'ials ouit. TIheo Governor accom panijed these words with a imost expressive move rnent of the foot. Th'ie iunpardlonable sin is that I asked for power to remove Sheriffs who al owed prIsoners to be lynched while in Voice: "If a man wants to do his duty io wouldn't object to that." Tillman-TIhe Clerk of Lexington 'ounty defaulted, and the grand jury '<used to do Its duty and indict him. [ sent the Attorney General over and io proved tho defalcation. If this man 11ad not had the decency to resign I ,vould have beeii powerless to have re noved him. VoIce: "That's a poor law." Tillman-When I see these things round me, is it strange that I coin >lain of legislative driftwood ? Sheppard has charged that I spend *oo much. Let's see what the appro >riations wore (luring his administra ion, in 1886. when lie and Thompson v'ere in, the appropriations for those ame departments that he talks about vere $l116,150.90, and in addition to his the counties then paid the sten >graphers $10,000, so that the amount 3xpended was $12&,150.1 I0 - 18in9n when Richardson was in, the amount was $131,700. He says my appropria tion was 8126,000. But he does not say how much was expended, though he could easily have ascertained that from the Comptroller General's report. Only $117,450 was expended. The farmers are beginning to think that I can do anything. I have a letter in my pocket from a farmer up in An derson saying that his wife has run away and left him, and that there's an other girl there that wants him, and he wants me to fix It so that he can marry the girl. I get many letters like these. My hands are tied and I can do noth iug. I made thirty recommendations in my message. and not a single lill was introduced to carry any of them in to elffect. From the United States Government funds were obtained for the education of farmers. These funds were given to the South Carolina College, a literary institution. They now go to Clem son Agricultural College, one of the grandest institutions in the country, where a man can be educated for a farmer from the ground floor up, where a man can obtain his education for $100 a year, while at the South Caro lina College and the Citadel it costs $300 a year. We have $100,000 up there in good brick and mortar. It cost you nothing except a little at the start. The money comes out of the privilege tax which they had been squandering. As to the perjury question that mat ter is rcs adjudicata. It was settled two years ago. I said there was per jury because no reapportionment of representation was given. Earle fought me all over the State on that issue. Why bring it up ? Everybody knows that many Counties were robbed in order to give Richland and Charles ton more than due representation. Voice: "Ilow about that free pass?" Tillnian-4 rode on one all last year and I am not ashamed to own it. Voice: "iIe didn't use a free pass and then charge his traveling expenses to the State." Tillman-No, I saved the State money by using free passes. That talk about my accepting free passes is all bosh, ior every one knows that I have nothing to do with the railroads. Talk about bamboozling? Didn't Ilaskell distribute free passes on the floor of the House? It has been proven on him. Voice: "I'm no Ilaskell man." Tillman -i f you weren't you wou ld n't kick so much. In 1886 we asked for a primary and they wouldn't rive it to us. In 1888 we again asked and did not receive. Sheppard was sent from Edgefield in a delegation instructed to vote for a primary, and he disobeyed the orders of his County, When the few politicians of the towns met and elected delegates to the Thirteen's March Convention, they said, "For God's sake, get us a primary." I had only to throw one rock at them and they dropped the demand. I put a communication in The Register on the subject and showed what harm it would do, and they dropped it like it was hot at both ends. The State Asylum is now run for $10,000 a year less than it was before the farmers got control of the govern ment. Theonly explanation that I can give 13 that I put a now superintend ent and a new secretary and treasurer in ollice there. Columbia wants sewers, but she wants the State to build them at an outlay of about $100,000. We are told that the Asylum sewerage should be emptied into the Congaree belbw he city, and bills are yearly introduced into the Legislature to provide for such a sewer at, Lim Sta,e's expense. Voice: "Put Iaskell in that sewer." Tillman-If you want l4askell anid his crowd back into oflce lie will have' that sewer at the State's expense. I am not down here to make enemies. I say that there was too much drift woodl in the Legislature. I will not say who are the driftwood. That is f or you to say, and pick out better meni. ThIere was enough driftwvood to dlefeat the pledges that had been made for the F'armers' movement. I do not want a Legislature which will obey my ordlers, but one whichl will obey yours. Send men who when they comie home will be able to say that they have done all that they promised to dlo when on the stum:p. Voice: "Can't I vote for whom I please?*~" Tiliman--You've got the righlt to vote for whom you p)leaIse so long as you vote the D)emocratic ticket. Vroice: "I'll vote the Sheppard t icket." Tillman-Vote it and see how lone some you will feel. Voice: "IIow about the $3 poll tax?" TIillman-I never dlodge anything I say. There is a plank in the platform upon which I was elected, and upon which Sheppard crawled, denmandi 'g comp)act school districts, w itih onme school for each color in them.'Ih Legislature never touched thuis with a 10-foot pole. (Omt oni the hedges amnd by-ways thle children are inl a state of' comn parative igno rance. I f there a're any sichmools the farruers have to go dlownm mi Ihelir breeches' pockets andJ pay Iivye times more thani the 53 for their sip port. Unditer the present system only t he towns and( villages and ci lies have goodi schools. There are 1410,000 colhoredl munen oft age in this State an'A 100,000% whites. I educet say 40,00)0, for mneui over age, etc , and( you will have 300,000) peole liable for poll tax. At $3 a head wouhI give $f600,000, which with the two iiil tax prodiucing $300,000), womuld umake $900.,000) available for educational puir pose0. TIhmis would be ai stepi towamrd making the negroes pay for themselves. Vroice: "'We ought. to pay all, for they do all the work." Trillman-TIhat is not true. I see too many sunburned faces before mne of men who have o1init the plough handles to come here and listen to this (discus sion. Every anti in Blarnwell is here today, but many Farmers' Movement men, who know how the fight is going stay ed at home Lu fight grass. WVhen I first started stud(ying the po litical situation I saw that the poor were steadily growing poorer and p)oor er, while a few men around the cities and towns were getting richer. When I analy zed the matter I saw that the in famous lien law, with its temptation to men to get supplies at ruinous mates of interest (100 per cent, and 50 per cenit.), was the cause o1 the trouble. Voices: "That's dead." Tillman-The law is still on the boo0ks; its fangs are not drawn. Prices were lower because the farmers banded togrether and forced them don. All those in favor of abolishing the lien law hold up your hands. Nearly every hand went up, some holding up two hands to show that they were most zealously in favor of exterminating this leech that is drain ing the blood of our citizens. When the call for the opposition was !nade not a single hand was shown. This shows that the sentiment of Barnwell I County is overwhelmingly against this I iniquitons law. If we are the first officers sworn to do I our duty, who have tried to equalize I the burdens of taxation, why God help i the State. Why do these men come 4 snarling around about it? Voice: "T.hey only want to get in I ofice." Tillman--l. have made a table show- I ing that with the increased assessments, I and after paying taxes, the railroads 4 can make 7 per cent. profit. Is that dealing harshly with them ? If the People will print it, I will give it to the paper, and then you farmers, while your mule Is eating fodder at the noon I rest, can lie umder a tree and read and take it in. Sheppard says that the taxes are $361 more. Very true, but ho did not say how that was broug.ht about. Voice:-Some people pay niow who never did before. Tilminan---Your head is dead level. Six years ago you would have put your ltiger i your mouth, said vou didn't know and--ploughed on. There has been $16,000,000 nore of propertyl hunted up and put on the hooks and this will enable the Legisla- I ture to reduce your tax levy a quarter of a mill. Honest men who always j walk up and pay their tax-s have ueel saved the levy of a iarter of a mill, t while the railroads mid corporations I have had to pay what, was dune fIromi thitIII, and coseqluently are growling abouft paying mlore. Last winter when the price for cot toil was low and the tim.-s w-re hard, the Legislature passed a bill extending the tioe for payment. of taxes. This bill was sent to iII for iny signature. I sent to the 'reasuirer and asked him how in tich money there was in the State l'reasiry. ie sald :310,-.. I w3ked how imuch was needed to imeet the ex venses of the Legislatuire andi meet the .Jhnuary iiterest, on the -;tate bonis. lie replied l180,o0. I knew that, it . (lid not sign thie bill it would becoio. a law in three days and so I put the hill in a drawer id lockel It up. Nuppose 1 had signed it, taxpayers wotit imave been in no irry to pay up, tihe baiik could have refusod to lend its any imon ey and the State would have defaulted oi the January interest, and these very ilen would have thrust this to the very hilt in tile. I wanted to squeeze out every dollar I could inl order to avoid that contingency. I knew that those who were able to pay, it would'nit hurt; and those who coutld'nt pity, it coild'it hurt. lhey talk about. the public credit be ing injured. I try to repress lawless ness. flow many imnigrants are coi ing to a State where they constantly lynch people, and where in one County recently a negro was lynched on mere suspicion of his having committed lar ceny. Vroice-When did you pay your taxes? Tillman-Th1e same time as yoi did, way along in February some tine. When I did pay them the State owed me $500 which I was unable to get. In 1889 .John Pejer Richardson and his crowd passed a bill to refund at 4 per cent. the 0 per cent. debt of the State, an1 from that time those bowds began to go down. Voice-They'll go iower. Another voice-If they wit to 2 cents you could not buy any. Tillmuan-Thie papers of the State are owned by the banks and do their bidding. Why Is there this attempt to force down.the price ol' these bonds and rob the widows andI orphans ? It's an at tempt to force (down the prices of these bonds so that they can be bought low and the newv holders can then get good new 41 per cent. bonds in exchange for them. T wo.thirds of the debt is owned in this State andl( not at tthe North. If the State's credlit was veally Injured why do niot thme -i% Per cent. bonids, which have several years yet to run, go dlowni in p)rice ? Why cry becaiuse the 6 perF cent. bonds, which have shortly to be fund ed, go downi in price on account of' tihe mfanipiilationm (f speculators, that it is all because Tl'aln an and his ragariiuf tlls got into oflice; if :imly Sheppard is put ini oflice it will be all right. V'olce-We'd have lower taxes. TI'ill manl-You and your cro)wd never tiiled to lower taxes. I said1 at (Greenville thai t'wheni they took thie platformn they, left out thme hest part, wVlhi was mne. 'That was only a .1joke, but1 these an~[I ,tis wo't unditerstind1( it so. When they sto.le th at plaitf'rin, why i o the~y take (out e'verythinig we1 hal abtout, railroaids an me iere sIubsti t ax cases?y I )o youI wanitt to ha.'.' thiemi ini p)ower andio let, thie rolrodtls rile von ?1 'h'wrning to Chairm);a liellinger (i v irnior Tl'limn askeh2d how nuch moi're'I t.ie lhe had(. F''ive miintes, was theO reIply, whlile thIie crowd *ye!l f or hilm to ~ go' oli 51peak ing al Unight. Th'le anf.i whlo had beenm doing theo I most conspicuous kicking, kicked i againist the Governor speakt(inig any longer. Thillman--Yout all renwm4lrber that 1 when you were l;tth-e chiludren, yourt mothers had $0om1eti Inis to g Iv~e you1e verlniiuge anid :you would kick arid aturm, but it, woulId boe forced down neCvetrthlessi. Tihie medlicinel did you zood, if it did( inake you sick. One more (lose will tmako that iman out I there so sick that yout will have to h rul aim home. In discussing the Cantwell case he iaid some of those smart lawyers In Charleston who can't realize that the l'armers are int the saddle, got up a case to split hairs over a comimon senco anid1 a legal interp)retation of the lawv, which saya that time Governor shall remove an oicer by and with time consent of the Setnate. 'They wvent to.Judge Wal lace and lie reinstated( Cantwell, but showed that ho was not sume that lhe was right by not daring to give Cant well the registration books. WVallace said 1 was a clod-hopper and not relinod enough to split hairs. There are three dlepartmencts i n the I State which are co-ordinate, the .Exe- I cutivye, wvhich is the Governor; the leg islative, which is composed of the 160 1 members of the General Assembly; and I the judlicial, which Is composed of three I Supreme Court Justices; so that one 0 lovernor is equal to eleven Judges ind 160 legislators. Yet one-eleventh :f the Judicial Department had the right to throw aside my action, and I mnust not discuss the matter in public? I got beat in '86 and I went home, roted and ploughed. The same fate iappened in 1888 and I followed the iame course. In 1890 Earle had gone )ack on us and Sheppard would not ,un, and it would have been cowardly .or me to have refused, when called ipon. They say I made a platform to ,ot in oflice on. I made that platform n 1886 and if I had wanted oflice, why lid I not run on it then? I tried both sheppard and Earle but the one could lot and the other would not be elected. Why I could have gone to the Senate - ad 1 N wished to. No one can doibt hat who knows that the Legislature ;lected at the same time with myself -vas overwhelmingly in my favor. But L watrue to you and staved to tight rour battles. Loud cries of time and counter cries ,o keep on speaking. I am shut out from the benefits of - ust criticism. The newspapers look ipon me with gangrened eyes. Wnen L measure comes up before me I ask if t is right between God and man and if t is souud and according to public poli ,y and for the good of the State. If the iuswer be yes in each case I go Lhead. All who want such a man in >lice, will vote for me, and all who vant a double-dealer, who will crawl mn any plat.form and you never know -here he stands, will vote for Shep )ard. 'Tillman took his seat amid loud ap )>ause and cries for him to continue. The meeting was then turned over o the crowl, which promptly called or iore speeches. Colonel Aldrich aid it was not hi; (ay, as the executive tuiniittee had decidad that the candi lates for 'ongreiss tilustspeak on dif erent daNs from those occupied by the 0-te vaidida-s, att he laughingly oked the spoakurs, s.tying the audienlce md cone f roin ciltivathig their crops 1id had cultivat,ed the p( litical field. First had cono th great 18-inch sera )er froin Greenvmill., next the bull oigue fr'o1i Marlboro, then the itraight shovcl from Edgelield and inally whon the grass beguin to creep p iml the crops they had the farmer's riend, 1. U. Tilliman. f Wild applause, .specially I rom the farmers who appre - 'iated the illustration.1 Messrs. Gary, Tal'>ert and Maylield liatle shot t qpe.t ches defending the ad n1inistratii from various sirs cast upon it. The meeting then adjourned. Htig lMit l lo for Bxck Taxos. COLUMMA, S. C., June 1.-The Sink ing Fund Commission is about to h:ve a big clearance sale of land in this State which havo been forfeited for taxes. There are a great many instances u here owners of valuable property have not paid their State taxes for many years. r'operty of this kind is not contined to the country, there being lots in tho heart of the city of Charleston and in Columbia which are subject to sale. Four special agents of the commis sion have beenl engaged for the past year in tracing out all such forfeitable property in every county of the State and this list being now complete, the Sinking Fund Commission has turned the entire matter over to the Attorney General's ollice. Preparations are be ing made to enter suit in hundreds of these cases, and unless the back taxes are paid promptly there will be hun (tred of homeless families in the State. No further delays in the payment of these taxes will be allowed. The State's claim is a ptrior lien, and it will hiavd to be sanSGd Mfiore any other QbligaL Lions of the p)rop)erty can be congRf&. No interest or fees will be collected >nly the original levy upon the prop irty. The amount involved in these cases -anid the State ollicials say that they 3xpQct to get it all-is between $200,000 md $300,000o. Th'lere are about 4,000 [)ieces of' land in the State that .will someI under the bain and they contain ubout 350 ,000 acres. The following gives approximately hte number of acres in the respective younties of the Stat.e subject to action mrd sale by the govern mnent: lHeaufort, 9t,210; Berkeley includinig old Charles on, now lierkeley, 160,350; Chtarleston ~ity, number of. lots, 83; Chatrlestoni ~ounty, '43; Chest,eriieldl, 8,067; Claren Ion, :i,858; C2olleton, 22.832; Darlington, ,74l ; E'dgefield, 3,621; Georgetown, 7,671; Greenville, 1,848; IIampton, 8,126; II<,rry, 2,003; Kershawv, 28,713; aancaster, 467; 31arionm, 13,933; New Jerry, '423; O)conmee, 867; Orangeburg, ,16; I'ickents, 3,255; Btichland, 30,132; .,olhimb)ia TJowniship, inicludinmg city, ')ts arud acres, 830; Si>artanburg, 2,6661; ,umtner, 6,278; \\ iliansburg, 41,923. hie State. A vlit nm to t l hi I.'a hCure, I'A rDu:lt, Miss., .June :.-Mauud 'urtz, the ontly child of Mr. and Mrs. V illimiii Kutrtz of' South Main street, ted Mond~ay imrning. The child wvas akent sick last Octobjer and Mr. Kurtz nt unone'l a physicianm. Th'le med icinme rescibedi wans nievr elv"en, hut was burownm awvay by Mrs. Kumrtz, who is a tronig belie ver' in theo so-called "f'aith urc.' Mr. Kumrtz told the physician hat it was- useless to call, as Mrs. Ku rt z elused to adiister the medicine. In he meian time she had several "'faith" Lt)ctors visit the child, but she contin wd( to gro)w worse, Mr. Kuxrtz being sked who was doctoring the child re >lied, "God and Lizzis Kurtz,." Last veek Mr. K'urt z in formed his wife that lie "faith" cure business had gone far nou gh and he summtoned several >hysicians, wvho found it was too late to lo anything for the child. She Dlied .instanhtiy. Ahei, a Gecrman nurse, dIed at the resl lence of llanker W. 13. Thirockimorton, fi'oim a bullet, wound inilicted by herself. The girl wats always considered weauk mindedl. TIhe family went out visiting, mid the niurso followed suit. WVhen the latter returned she unlocked the loor, but insteadt 0of entering that way, the crawled through a cellar window, heon took an ax and battered down the loor connecting the cellar with the ioiuse. She then entered Mr. Throck norton's bed room, and, taking a p1st ol rom beneath his pillow, sent two bul ets thirou gh her stomach. The coro ter's jury brought in a verdict of temt orary insanity, superinduced by fear f' a threntened cyone.