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HE' PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. ... P. CLINKSCALES, 1 Editobs and l?0. LANGSTON, J Pbopbiktobs. WEDNESDAY JULY 27, 1892 TERMS: ONE YEAR.. $1 50 SIX MONTHS........ 75 BIO WEDNESDAY. This is a glorious day for the Conserv? atives in "Anderson County. An early morning train from Piedmont and the stations between here and there brought in about 250 men, wearing badges with Sheppard and Orr's pictures thereon, and hearing the motto, ? "Tho Peoples' Choice-1892?True Democracy." On arriving here the party formed a line, and headed by the Piedmont band, marched from the depot into the city and around Ihe square. They carried three banners, on which were inscriptions, ^''Our Leaders?Sheppard and Orr," "To 'llalifax with Ben's Poll Tax?$3 is too | Much," and a "God-fearing man for our ; .Governor," respectively. Their arrival created much enthusiasm in this city. ^ HTb^dtizens of this place had employed a German Band, of nine pieces, and they discoursed excellent music from the Ho? tel veranda. Truly, "there is music in the air" this morning. "We think we risk nothing in saying the crowd here to-day runs up to 900 or 1,000 persons. At 11 o'clock they formed in line and marched to the strove at the R. & D. freight depot, and the speaking is taking place from the cotton platform. k \ It had been .proposed to hold the meet? ing in the Court House. That was im? possible. The crowd that gathered here to-day is the largest by many that has /"gathered here at -a meeting of any kind this year. ?' Col. Orr and M:r. Hiofci, MaJ. Murray, . Mayor Tolly, Capt. Broyles, the reporters and other gentlemen were on the stand, ?' Mr. J. M. Sullivan was called to the Chair. From con von lea t places the bands en? livened the occasion with stirring mu? sic. , " Chairman Sullivan made some capital remarks on taking the chair, and his sentences were frequently cheered. The crowd steadily gathered daring the preliminary exercises, and not far from 2,500 people heard the speeches. Mr, John P. Ledbetter was elected Secretary. ; Rev* H. B..Faat invoked the divine i blessing upon the meeting, praying for wisdom for those who were speaking to people. An election, for twelve delegates to represent the Anderson Conservatives in the September nominating Convention was the first business attended to. The following twelve gentlemen were ? elected i E. B. Murray, J. M. Cox, J. W. ; Cement, G. W. Sullivan, W. H. Rodgers, W. P. Cook, A. H. McGee, H. R. Vandi rver, Dr. J. G. Duckworth, William Bai Tt P. B; Allen and T. C. Sherar. Nominations for Conservative Repre itatives in the legislature was then en? tered into, with the following result: William P.Wright, of Honea Path, John C. Gantty Fork Township, CaptJ.W. : Rosamond, Brushy Creek. R. J. Poole, Centreville Township, Dr. S. M. Orr, An? derson. All nominations were made by accla? mation, and long and loudly cheered. At this point Col. Orr was introduced Id tremendous and protracted cheer , and at this writing (12 o'clock) he is ing a ringing speech, bringing forth ited and prolonged cheers, regret that our hour of going to press prevents us giving any longer ac? count of this most enthusiastic and en? couraging meeting. We cannot better close this briet report than as we begun: This is a glorious day the Conservatives In Anderson Coun? ty. That is multum in parvq. By way of postscript: As the long line . of people were marching to the stand and ? were passing Sam Murphy's marble yard -an anti cheer/ally ordered a tombstone fortS? R. Tillman (politically) much to the lusement of the hearers. That's the wi ,y it looks in Anderson to? la this paper we publish the speech delivered by Hon. E. B. Murray in Abbe? ville on the 9th inst., as reported in the j Abbeville Preis and Banner. We hope ptwiJI-beu?fld'rMurefally by every honest voter in the County. It in a plain state? ment of facts. A legislative candidate, Till man:te, for Union County, has been tried and con v ?it? od of carrying s. concealed deadly weapon. The Attorney General of the State has I confessed that he himself has violated the 1 law against car ry:ing concealed weapons. No indictment has been given out. A favorite expression of hopeful but I benighted Tillmanites has been that the Tillman agitation was a ''revolution, and revolutions nover go backward." The real "revolution" is the Conservative movement, and in it the poople of the State will see a fulfillment of the rule governing tho action of revolutions. 3 Watch it. The August Priimary Is for Democrats only. No man. has a right to vote in the Iprimary who will not support Cleveland | and Stevenson and every other Democrat? ic nominee. Good Democrats everywhere will see to it that none bat Democrats, in iact as well as .in name, will be allowed to vote. Challenge all such and have the managers to make proper record of it. The official notification to Mr. Cleve I land and Mr. Stevenson of their nomina? tion by the Chicago Convention was Jpoaade the occasion of a big Democratic ?demonstration in New York last Wednes ? day. The Democracy of New York has gone to woi in earnest, and they guar? antee that Cleveland will carry tbat State by a larger majority than ever be? fore. Do yon want a three dollar poll tax ? ' you want to see good and loyal Dem i cut out of their votes because they i poor, or because they have not learn to read or write? And do you want to j i white men put on the block and sold j (intoslavery for eight days of each year] make roads for wealthier mens' teams J to travel over ? If so, vote for B. R. Till i, and those who are running for the /egislature on his ticket. Maj. Murray said in his speech to the Dnservative Club of Greenville last Fri ?y night that the total expenditures of je first year of Governor Till aan's administration wero $112,000 lore than during Gov. Richardson's last r, despite the fact that the Tillman ad listration paid nothing for work on le State House. We fail to find acy sem? blance of that oft promised and much ted of "retrenchment and reform" in ?t. The Third Party people in Georgia ive nominated a full State ticket. The ieorgis Democracy is fortunate. The 3mov.-raoy over there hns an open ene iy. The Democracy hero has secret foes. Te will hail with delight the day when | >nr Democracy will be purged of what is and dissatisfied within her ranks, le body politic will be the purer and lore healthy and safer thereby. The >ra of the Democracy stand wide for jits from any party or for those who jay have left and want to return to the >ld. They are just as wide, however, for aparture of malcontents. Let all J*-** of Democracy stand firm by 3ir party, bat speed the going of her POOR MAN'S FAtiSE FUlEND! Speech or Hod. E. B. Hurray at Abbe? ville on July ISth. A bbcville Press and Banner. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: In approaching the discussion of tbo is? sues of the present campaign, I feel that we are entering upon the consideration of the most important canvass that bas ever been upon our State. Viewed as I view it, the crisis which now confronts us is the most momentous in the history of South Carolina. There have been crises which were to determine questions of war or peace?to determine whether the white man or the negro was to rule this State for a time, but this campaign involves the confidence of the people in South Carolina in one another, and is to determine whether our ' people are rent into classes distrustful of and hostile to each othor. I come hero simply as a private citizen, feeling a deep and abiding interest in the welfare of South Carolina to present to men, who I know are patriotio and sin? cere in their wish to do that which is best for our common State, certain reasons why I think a change of administration is de? sirable to South Carolina. I wish to present these views to your reason and to have your calm and delib? erate judgment upon them, feeling satis? fied that yon will, as true citizens, act; as yon believe to be best for the common good, and for this reason I shall say as lit? tle that is harsh as I can, and shall en? deavor to use no epithets towards any man or set of men with whom I may dif? fer, for there is no argument in an epithet ?calling names will convince no one. If what I say shall reflect severely upon the present Chief Magistrate of this State, I am determined that it shall be the force of the facts of the case, and not simply the words of the speaker. To begin with, Governor Tiilman and his friends have sought to array one class of our citizens against another class, and has thereby produced a division and dis? trust in this State which bas been most injurious. It bas arrayed brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor and friend against friend in this little ? State which is small enough to make our in? terests one. Our people ought to know each other in South Carolina from the mountains to the sea so well by character and reputation that we would appreciate and sympathize with the motives and purposes of all our people, and not be hostile to one anoth? er. Onr interests are the same throughout the State, and the classes of onr citizens in South Carolin a are so dependent one on tho other that it is a great wrong for any man to seek to produce discord and distrust where there was harmony and unity before, and yet Go vernor Till man has done this under the plea that he is the laboring man's friend. I propose to speak to you plainly and candidly to-day, and at the risk of aston? ishing you by tho proposition. I arraign this administration as the most hostile, in the measures proposed and advocated, to the laboring man of any administration this State has ever had, not excepting the darkest Republican administration of onr State. I want yon to understand me clearly. I do not believe that this administration has stolen money from the people, but I say its attitude toward the laboring man in South Carolina is more hostile than that of Moses or Scott. They robbed the State, but in order to do it they taxed property and stole only from the property holders. In adopting the present Constitution which has been so much abused and ob leeted to they fixed the burden which the laboring man must bear in taxation at one dollar per head and never sought to raise it. They taxed property to run the pub? lic schools, retained the lien law and en? acted the homestead law, but it is reserv? ed for this Administration fifteen years after this party of corruption and oppres? sion were driven from power, to come forward, and as tbo professed friend of the laboring man, and as the avowed champion of the wool hat crowd, to pro? pose to obange the provision of the Con? stitution relating to the poll tax and raise this tax from one to three dollars per capita or to place three times the burden of taxation upon the poor man's head which the Republicans themselves put on it The plea for this is that it will make the negro pay his share of the school tax and run the schools longer. In order to oppress the negro they pro? pose to oppress the poor white man, too, id if they could run the schools longer there' are hundreds and thousands of poor white men who would have to pay this tax that could not send their children, for in making an honest living for themselves and their families they are compelled to take their oulldren in the busy times of the crop to th ?> fields, and only the men who do not have to put their children in the field conld get the benefit of these schools run by the tax on the poor man's head. This basis of taxation is wrong. People ought to be taxed to support the government according to their ability to pay, by an equal tax in proportion to the property they own. Any scheme of taxation which seeks to tax the poor man heavily is unjust, and I cannot Bee how one professsing to be the poor man's friend could be willing to permit such a tax upon him. much less to advocate it, as Goveinor Tiilman' does. Again, Governor Tiilman has expressed himself as favoring the repeal of the lien law. There may haye been a time in the his? tory of our State when crops were abun? dant and prices good that by giving time? ly notice it might have done to repeal this law, but In the last two years when crops were short and prices were going down, down until the staple crop of our country rcached a point below what many persons believe to be the actnal cost of production; when the landlords have been scarcely able to make ends meet, and when tenants have been barely able to support them? selves and their families, often enduring many privations, there has certainly been no time when it would have done to re? peal the lien law. Why, my friends, don't every man in the sound of my voice know that if the lien law had been repealed last year, or the year before, as Governor Tiilman ad? vocated, it would have compelled hun? dreds and thousands of respectable, hon? est, hardworking white mon to have hir? ed themselves and their wives and little children as servants to men who had money enough to run without the lien law. He says the lien law has been abused, and no doubt it has been, but no man is com polled to give a lien unless he finds It to his advantage to do so. It is a privilege the poor man has which enables nun to live and support his wife and children by honest work as a free man and as his own boss. ' I for one would never bo willing to see this larga class of onr iellow-citl zens deprived of the opportunity to live as they find most conducive to their hap? piness and prosperity. As one of the young men of this State, who saw much of the campaign of 1876, I remember with unmixed gratitude the splendid services of this tenant class of oar citizens in the effort to redeem South Carolina. They rode with us on many a night and many a anltry day. They re? sponded in rain or hottest, sunshine and shared to the fullest every peril of that magnificent contest, and I for one, as long ti3 I remember their gallant and ever ready service, cannot consent to see their only means of credit taken from them at a timowhen their crops are scarcely suf? ficient to support them, and thousands of them would have to break up homes, which are happy, even admit their toil and forced economy, to become the hire? lings and servants of their more fortunate neighbors. Governor Tiilman certainly is not their friend when he would take away from them their only means of credit and re? duce them to the position of serfs. But this is not all. In this country the sovereign power of our government re? sides in the people and this sovereignty has no way of asserting itself except by the ballot. It is by the ballot that we select our lawmakers to construe and enforce the laws. We can only enact new laws or re? peal bad or injurious onos through the exercise of the ballot. It is by the right to vote that we can assert our wishes as to the government which controls ourlives, our liberties and our property. It is the highest right of the citizen. It is this right which enables and digni? fies every true American, and yet Gover? nor Tiilman, who claims that be is the wool hat's friend has declared that he wants a Constitutional Convention, among other things to pass an education* alor property qualification for sufferage in this State, and pursuant to this idea the I Senate, whioh is two-thirds Tiilman, pass I ed a resolution calling a Convention and voted down a resolution offered by an an [ti-Tillman Senator to require the work of this Convention to be submitted to the people. Governor Tiilman thus further shows how little he cares for tho poor man in South Carolina by trying to take away from him the right to vote, unless he has a certain amount of property or certain amount of education. He would thus humiliate and degrade those who were not fortunate enough to own property or hare education to the ex tent they might fix, and their purpose was to call this Convention and make its work final without reference to whether the people liked the Constitution they made or not. The same Senate voted down a resolu? tion offered by, an anti-Tillman Senator to require that Convention to re-enact the homestead law thus showing that it was their j/urpose to repeal this law which is certainly intended to protect the unfortu? nate, who, without it, might be reduced to absolute penury. And this Senate likewise voted down a resolution offered by an anti-Tillman Senator, requiring the Convention to re enact the two-mill school tax, thus show? ing, it seems to me, that the party in power proposes to exempt property from taxation for school purposes and to make the poll tax three dollars instead of one, and run the schools on it which would practically be making the poor man pay to educate the rich men's children. There is certainly no friendship for the poor man in this. This Convention was defeated in the House of Representatives by the anti Tillman vote going against it. Again, a bill known aithe County Government Bill, was introduced into the House of Represenatives and repeatedly asserted to be Governor Tillman's bill, and he never denied it that ? heard of, so that wo may fairly call it his bill. It provided for the abolition of tlv? office of County Commis? sioners and for the election of one man in each County and the appointment by the Governor of three in each township who were to run the County Governments in this State. This bill would have given the Governor practical control of all the County gov? ernments in this State. It also provided for working the roads by contract and re? quired every able bodied man between certain ages to work these roads eight days or pay one dollar and a half. If they worked they were to be under the control, and work at such times and in Buch manner as the contractor should designate, thus practically hiring them out to the contractor. If they worked, the State charged the contractor four dol? lars or fifty cents a day for their services, but if they paid out of the work it only cost them one dollar and fifty cents. So that the man able to pay only had to Eay this sum. But the man who worked ad to pay eight days work. Governor Tillman therefore seems to think that the working man is worth on? ly eighteen and two-thirds cents per day, and board him jolf at that. In addition to this there must be a County chain gang, in which all parties sentenced to impris? onment for any offence, whether for vi? cious crime or for a simple fight, were re Siired to be worked and the free labor of e country would have to work along? side of this convict labor. Now, my friends, have I not shown yon -beyond the possibility of a doubt that this administration is more hostile to ihe interest of the laboring and poor men than any we have ever had in South Car? olina. I do not see how any laboring man in this State can get his consent to vote to keep Governor Tillman in office another term. I also arraign Governor Tillman for a failure to perform his promises made to the people of the State in the last elec? tion. You remember how he promised to reduce salaries and expenses, and to reduce the number of offices in this State. Has he reduced a single salary in the State ? Not one as far as I know has been reduced a particle. Has he abolished any offices? Not one, and on the contrary they have actually increased them. But it will be said the Legislature is to blame i for this, and it might bo if the Governor had vetoed the increase. Did he try hard to reduce salaries or abolish any offices ? What offices did he ask to have abolish? ed ? None that I know of except County Commissioners, and in their place he tried to establish about forty new ones in each County. Now his friends are forced lo admit that he either made promises he could not carry out, or that he has failed to carry them out. At Newberry when General Earle offer? ed to give one thousand dollars of his sal? ary to the public schools if he should be elected Governor and called on Tillman to know if he would promise the same. Goyernor Tillman replied no, but I will save the people of this State one hundred thousand dollars the first year I am Gov? ernor. Now will any friend of bis in this large audience tell me of one dollar that he has saved the people of this State by being Governor that any other man would not have saved. I wait for a reply. Can't some Tillman man tell me where Governor Tillman has saved the State one dollar, much less one hundred thou? sand dollars, in one year of his adminis? tration ? [Here some one asked if our taxes are not half a mill less.] Yes, our taxes are half a mill less, but the assessments are higher, and it is stated that there will be a deficiency in the treasury this year which will necessitate a considerably higher tax levy next year. This is the election year and the tax tovy was run down to make the people believe their government was being run cheaper, but the real test of this is the appropria? tion bill. This is the bill which tells us how much the Government is costing us. You may be fooled by a tax levy, but if you go to the appropriation bill you can tell what your government is costing you. Is not the appropriation bill of last year larger instead of lower than before. Then you see Governor Tillman has not saved the people anything. I arraign Governor Tillman not only for destroying confidence between onr own Seople, but also for destroying the confi ence of the people outside of the State in us. He has declared that there was in? cipient rottenness in our government, and without justification or reason has abused our best and purest men. There has been no name so high or so revered as to be free from traduction by him and bis followers. There has been no life however Satriotio and devoted to the people of oath Carolina that has been free from misrepresentation. He has abused the judges of our State, and not only did he go to the extent of setting his legal opinion up in a message against that of Judge Wallace, when as the Executive he should not have sought to interfere with the judiciary, but he went actively into the election of a Judge for the Supreme Court, and secured the election of an Administration candidate for Associate Justice. And now that in one case Judge Pope as Associate-Justice has had the Judicial integrity and the honest;manhood to de? cide a case as he believed the law was, Governor Tillman is going over the State abusing him and the Supreme Court, and to show hi? contempt for the learned and pure Judges of this State he has resorted to the new practice of putting his friends from the lawyers on the Supreme Court when any judge of that Court is disqual? ified. The Coustitutiou says that the legisla? tive department and the judicial depart? ment of our government shall be kept separate and distinct, and yet he has at? tempted to appoint the Lieutenant Gov? ernor and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to Bit as Judges on the Supreme Court. It is due to Mr. Speaker Jones to say that he promptly declined, because he knew he was disqualified. My fellow citizens, the judiciary is the most important department of our gov? ernment. So long as it remains pure and independent your liberties are safe, but it is the last rampart behind which a free people can protect their liberties. When the judiciary is brought into contempt, when it is made the reward for partisan political services, and when it becomes servile and subservient to the will of any man, your rights, your lives, your liber? ties and your property will be insecure, and the permanence of* free institutions will be endangered. I beseech yon to condemn in the most emphatic manner this attempt to over? ride and destroy our judiciary in its in? tegrity and purity. I arraign Governor Tillman for respon? sibility for much of the lawlessness in this State. He has been at many publio meetings in this State where riots have been imminent aud has repeatedly seen the right of free speech abridged and even denied to men -simply because they were criticising his official acts. If he did not j approve of this course, why has he not I taken measures to stop these unseemly manifestations. IL is due to the dignity I of his office thar, in his presence no crowd of roughs shall be permitted to break up a public meeting or prevent a man from Bpeaking his sentiments. He may claim to disapprove o>? these things, but at Lex? ington where Col. Cal Caughmau led the party who interrupted the speakers aud refused to let Col. Youmans speak, Gov. Tillman went arm in arm with Caugh man to his house as his personal and ap? proving friend, so far as appearances go. is it to be wondered that we nave disorder : at our public meetings when the Governor I thus manifests his friendship fortho ring I leaders of the disorder ? You know that Governor Tillman has professed to abhor lynchings and that he I promised to stop them in South Carolina. [ There have been more lynchings in this State since he was Governor than in double the same time before, as far as I ean remember ; but be this as it may, at the last session of the Legislature, he sent a message to the Legislature, charg? ing them with responsibility for the 1 lynching of a prisoner in hidgefield, be 1 cause they did not give him power to re I move sheriffs, and in three weeks after I writing that massage he appointed Cal Caughman to tho only ofiico created by that Legislature although Cal Caughuian boasts that ho was present and helped to lynch Willie Leapheart in Lexington jail. Now, what do you think of his sin? cerity when he professes to wish to stop lyncbings, and at the same time appoints lynchero to State offices ? Again. You heard Governor Tillmau say two years ago that he would see that State ofllcers who violated the law were prosecuted, or words to that effect, and yet be has beard the Attorney General, the highest officer of this State, admit that be went to the Greenville meeting with a Eistol concealed about bis person. The ighest officer of the State, to prosecute those who break the laws of the State, himself vioating the law. Wo frequently see some poor fellow who has a rusty pepper box in his hip pocket brought up and punished in our courts, and yet this high State officer violates the law with impunity and Governor Tiilman takes no stop to have him prosecutod despite, bis promise of two years ago. And again, Governor Tiilman after having sworn on the holy Evangelists that, as Governor of this State, he would discharge the duties of that office, which are to enforce the laws (not part of them) to the best of bis ability, so help bim God, publicly declared that as Governor, with the sanctity of this oath on his lips for one crime ho wonld lead a lynching What right has he to say which laws ho will enforce and which he will bieak? If he can select one to break be can seloct another, and another, and so on as far as be pleases. How can you expect the people to obey the laws when the Governor and Attor? ney General act in this way ? * Does it not look as if the Governor thought laws were made to be obeyed by the common people and to be broken by Stale officers ? Have I not made good my charge that this administration is responsible in part for the lawlessness in South Carolina ? I must condemn without reservation the charge made by Governor Tiilman that Governor Sheppard and his ticket are Republicans at heart. You all know there is not one particle of fact to base this charge upon. Voice in the crowd: Did not Hampton say that an independent is worse than a radical f I believe so. Do yon think that? Yea. Then aint the Haskell ites worse than radicals ? No. I think Jud&e Haskell and those who acted with him made a mistake, but there were a great many irregularities two Soars ago, and you all know that Judge iaskell and most of the men who voted for him were honorable men, and as hon? est in their convictions as either you or I. But that has got nothing to do with this question. Neither Gov. Sheppard, Col. Orr or I voted for Judge Haskell. We voted for Governor Tiilman because h: got what we considered the Democrat? ic nomination, and when Governor Tiil? man says that Sheppard and Orr are Republicans you know it is not true. In 1876 when the Wallace House made the famous march from Carolina Hall to take possession of the State House, John C. Sheppard marohed at the front of) that column, and when tbey reached the door of the House of Representatives it was the strong arm and cool oonrage of JameB L. Orr whioh burst the sentinel fcarded door opeD, and under that arm ohn C. Sheppard was the first man to enter that Hall in defence of the rights of | the people of South Carolina, and ever sinoe that time both of them have been in the forefront of every fight for the Democratic party, long before B. R. Tiil? man was ever heard of. Call these men Republicans. Either of them young, intelligent and influential could have had the highest reward from the Republican party when it was in power, but tbey helped with all their might to hurl it from power. You know that if there are any two men in South Carolina whose democracy is beyond question or cavil John C. Shep? pard ana James L. Orr are so. To-day J. L. Orr stands before you as the candidate for Lieutenant Governor, purely from patriotism. He could have had the unanimous nomination for Gov? ernor, but declined it because his busi? ness would not permit bim to take it. He would have taken that if he was bunting an office. Again we are told that Orr and Shep Eurd represent the factories and tue auks. I do not think this is any objec? tion to them. When analysed it simply means that they have been honest enough, intelli? gent enough and successful enough for their neighbors and acquaintances to be willing to risk their property in their hands. If honesty, integrity, successful busi? ness management and the confidence of one's neighbors and friends is to hurt a man in this country, I greatly misunder? stand the temper and spirit of our peo? ple. Voice in the crowd?What about Gov? ernor Sheppard drinking and gambling ? I was Governor Sbeppard's room mate at College, and have been associated with him for twelve years in the Legis? lature and never knew or heard of his being under the influence of liquor or betting at all. He was elected four or live times to the Legislature, three times Speaker of the House, and once Lieutenant Gov? ernor and you know it would have been charged on him if true. You know that no bank in this coun? try would keep a man for president who either got drunk or gambled, and last of all, Governor TUlman either insinuates what is not true about Governor Shep? pard or he attempted to get the conven? tion to nominate a man for Governor who is a drunkard and a gambler, when ho seconded Sbeppard's nomination in the State Convention. Let his friends take their choice in this dilomma. Either way it reflects severely on Gov? ernor Tiilman. In conclusion, I arraign Governor Tiil? man for lowering the standard of moral? ity in this State by his example, and I call on not only the Christian, but on all moral men in this State, not to endorse him as an example worthy of imitation by our yonng men. No man in this au? dience, I venture, bas ever before beard of a Governor of South Carolina publicly profaning the name of God in a public address to the people of South Carolina. No one ever heard of a Governor of this State, because he was provoked publicly, declaring in a formal speech that he would rather go to hell with his party friends than to heaven with the others. No one here ever heard of a Governor of South Carolina being so vulgar in his public speeches as to make men afraid to take their wives and their daughters out to meetings where the welfare of the State is to be discussed. My fellow citizens, the Governor has always been regarded as an exalted type of manhood worthy of emulation and ad? miration. Are you willing to affix your approbation as Christian and moral vo? ters to this conduct ? Is there any man here who would be willing with the re? sponsibility of a father resting upon him to train up his children to take his little boys around his hearthstone and point to the character of the Governor of South Carolina as a suitable type of noble man? hood for their emulation. I take it not, and if not, then let us vote for men that do not thus offend the moral and Chris? tian sentiment of our people. It was William Penn who said the best government in the hands of bad men is as had as the worst, and the worst form of government in the hands of good men is as good as the best, We believe this republic of ours and this State government of ours are the best and most enlightened and freest gov? ernment in the world, giving more of liberty and independence to its citizons than any other upon the globe. Let us not commit the folly of entrusting it to bad men. W. T. Goodson, a respectable and up? right citizen of Darlington County, wrote a letter to the Darlington News last week renouncing his allegiance to Tiil? man, concluding his letter with the fol? lowing remarks: "Two years ago I was a whole soul Tillmau man, but since that time I have seen the mistake I made. I have asked the people to forgive me and I believo they have done so. I have asked. God to forgive me and I trust He has done 60. I hope to hear soon of other con? verts." The Atlanta Journal is right when ilk says : "No Southern white man with a Bpark of principle within him will fail to vote against the Force Bill. He can only vote against that infamous measure by voting for the Democratic party." True. And yet there iro renegades enough in the South to do that very thing, and they will do it by deserting the Democratic party and voting with the Third Party. Those false and misguided creatures may Bye, too, to see the time when "there will be black hoels on white neoks." And may God have mercy on the South in that day. ? Eighteen of the London theatres are occupied for divine, services on Sunday evenjngB, Bo'land's Store Items. Wc have been having some real hot weather. The farmers will soon bo through lay? ing by, and then they can sit around in the- shade, kcop cool and talk politics. Crops are looking Qno, and if wo only got rain in timo, the yield will bo abun? dant. Miss Lillian Holland, who has been visiting friends in Georgia, has returned home. Miss Cola Winter is on a visit to friends in Anderson. The Rev. 0. L. Duiant has gone to Pickens on business. On this account wo did not have any preaching at Ruhamah last Sunday. We have a good Sunday School and prayer meeting. Both are very well attended. We hope to see more interest taken in the Sunday-School. Come out, boys and girls, and join us in this great work for the Master. Mr. Josepb Winter is building an addi? tion to his dwolling houso, and when completed, it will bo very neat and at? tractive. Well, Mr. Editor, Mr. Tillman hasonfc got us all yet and I hope he never will. I do not see how his principles will bo a benefit to the laboring clauses. In my humble opinion, taking the taxes otf the great moneyed concorns of tho country, and substituting a three dollar poll tax in its place, is not going to help us poor fel? lows much. It is tins: Take the taxes off the landowner and put it upon his poor tenant. Didaskaj.os. Alico Notci. Well, we have had a few days of sun? shine, and good use has been made of it. We have bad some very heavy rains, and much damage hai been done. Mr. Albert Kay, of the City, remarked in our presence the other day that if there had not been so much grass in the country, the land would have all been washed away. While on the way to Church last Sun? day a mule ran away, and Mr. C. McPhall and Miss Nellie Walters, who were occupants of the buggy, were thrown out and slightly hart One of our girls sayB she h&h read so much about leap year tbat it has about Eut her out of notion of getting married, nt I think she is joking. A certain young lady in this commu? nity says she wishes Boss T. would not talk so muoh with the old man when be comes to see her. That's right, Bobs, get on the good side of the old man and you are elected. Friend "Waco" is laboring under a mis? take when he thinks I have got some one to bark for me. I assure him I am always able to do my own barking. Our Eureka correspondent seems to be a little off, because some of the Intelli? gencer's correspondents do not write to stilt him. Our advice is for him to read only that portion that suits him. John. Andersonvllle Items. News is so scarce, we aro at a Iosb to know what to write The young lady mentioned in our last was Miss Llllie Burriss, and not Burns, as the printers made it, and we make this correction in justlc? to the young lady. Mr. Samuel Slay has returned to his home in Elbert County, Ga. Friend Sam. has made many friends in this vicinity who are sorry to lose him. Mrs. Mary Reed is visiting relatives in Georgia. We trust her visit will be a pleasant one. Mr. Paul Gads Jen and sisters, Misses Minnie and Saille, with their auntj, spent a week at their plantation in this section. They report a pleasant time. The farmers are about done work, and now visiting is the order of the day. We are authorized to state that Rev. F. M. Estes will preach at this place on Fri? day before the 2nd Sun day in August, in? stead of Saturday, on account of campaign meeting at Anderson. The series of meet? ings will begin on Sunday following, and will continue for teveral days. It is to be hoped tbat much good may be accom? plished. Mr. Jap. Vernon and family, of Georgia, are visiting the family of Mr. W. H. Ed? wards. Mr. B. F. Wright and wife spent.*everal days in Georgia visiting relatives last week. Waco Messrs. Editors : At the regular meet? ing of West Savannah Democratic Club last Saturday it was unanimously re? solved tbat a public meeting be held at Holland's Store, under the sanction and authority of the Club, on the 17th of August, to which all the can? didates and the public generally -are in? vited to attend. The ladies of the vicinity are earnestly requested to provide a pic niedinner, and above all to honor the occasion with tlieir presence and approval. Tho next meeting of the Club will be held Thursday, August 11, at two o'clock p. m. S. *H. Earlk, Sec. pro torn. Reunion of Co. F at Cook's Station. Editors Intelligences : As I saw no reporter for your interesting and valuable journal present, I have concluded to at? tempt a brief account of the reunion of Company "F" of the Twenty-Fourth Reg? iment of the S. C. Volunteers, which oc? curred at this place on Wednesday, 50th lost. Early in the morning vbbicles of all classes and descriptions began rolling in from every direction, and by 11 o'clock a crowd variously estimated at from five to eight hundred persons bad collected around a beautifully decorated stand erected in the grove on the west side of onr little town. A great many ladies were present to give cheer and pleasure to the occasion, and I think the old soldiers have every encouragement to keep up and continue these annual reunions, fur I venture tbe assertion tbat there bns not been an assemblage of tbe same size in the State the present year who conducted themselves more decently and orderly in every respect than did tbe good people Eresent on this occasion. They certainly ave furnished a beautiful example for tbe places throughout the County where meetings of more of a political nature will be held throughout the Bummer. A brief history of tbia Company, which rendered suoh valiant service iu the late Confederate struggle, might be of interest to some. Their number footed up from first to last one hundred and seventy, seventy seven of whom were killed and died while in the service of their country, ten have since died from disease aud in? juries obtained in the war, eighty-three, after a lapse of thirty years, are still able to answer to roll call, twenty-seven of whom were present on this occasion. As was suggested by one of the speakers, these old soldiers who once wore the greg are still uniformed in grey, but now it is iu the locks rendered hoary by the frosts of from fifty to seventy winters. The exercises were opened with a beau? tiful and appropriate prayer by the Rev. Calvin Pressley, after which the andience was treated to some random shots by the candidates present. After tbe morning Speeches a meeting was held by tbe Com? pany, but I have heard of nothing of in? terest that transpired except the appoint? ment of a committee of arrangements and a place for their next reunion, which will ocour at Cars well at the same time next year. The duty of this committee, as we understand it, is to secure the service of some old officer or comrade to address them on the subject of the war, but this Jear the chairman of tbe committee ac nowledged to gross negligence on their Krt, and for this reason were forced to g tbe politics of the country Into their meeting in order to entertain their friends and neighbots present?a deviation, we think, very unfortunate at this time, as Che condition of political affairs iu our County and State are of such a nature that friends, neighbors and even families are widely different iu their opinions. These reunions, in our judgment, should bo entirely free from anything of a politi? cal character. It is an impossibility to unite men on such subjects, but we can well imagine the feelings of mingled joy and grief that attend the re united of a lost but just cause, as they recount the trials, difficulties and adventures of their Bervice, as they joyfully reoall their happy escapes from danger, or mournfully re? vision the condition of their more unfort? unate comrades, by whose aide they stood as they saw them fight, bleed and die in one common cause. So, friends of Com? pany "F," keep op these annual reunions. We all enjoy them, and are willing to as? sist you all we can on every occasion, and sincerely hope tbat the remaining eighty three may still live and be present at your next, and succeeding reunions for years to come. Now, since politics was a prominent feature of the occasion, there is one or two things that was said to which we will call attention. We failed to hear tbe speeches of all, but heard portions of most of them. awas it fair and honest in the pro candidate for Congress in presenting at to a mixed audience, that a Re? publican Senate passed a free coinage bill, and a Democratic House killed the same, to fail to state tbat his opponent, Col, George Jobnstone, and all the South Car? olina delegation, except one, voted in fa? vor of the bill T We were surprised to haar an ex-Repre? sentative, in seeking the suffrage of the Eeople for another election into office, ac nowledge to being "debauched and bamboozled" into voting for an appropri tion to whioh he was otherwise opposed. We consider the assertion, coming from the same gentleman, in admonishing his friends to Bleep with one eye open and to walch these anties, for "some of them are so vile and unscrupulous that they would even steal your birthright from you," as slanderous and untrue?and now for fear some one might have doubts as to the person, we think his name spells tho Hon. J. Belton Watson. We would sug? gest the propriety of pigmies, who dwell in glasB houses, of not casting too large stones. The famous Josh Ashley was present, and set forth his position on political questions in a very forcible speech. In enumerating the reforms brought about by the present administration, he men? tioned reduction of cotton weighing, and in it being a saving annually of five thou? sand dollars to our County, and also a eayirjg of three dollars a ton on guano the first whack. One other candidate in privately elec? tioneering was heard to state that Ex Gov. Sbeppard's contempt for the poor man was bo great that he always washed bis hands after shaking hands 'with him. Can you, Mr. Editor, or some other per? ron give the truth or falsity of the state? ment? J. Walter Sherabd. ? Mr. W. C. Benet does not sin through ignorance. This is what he said at a meeting at Donalds, Abbeville county, this day two years ago, when a candidate for Congress: "My friends, I am, as I always have been," on tho sido of tho measures desired by tho farmers, but if I were to say now, 'Oh, yos, I am for Till man,' I would deserve your contempt. I might get your vote by so doing, but I would rather have your ostcom and re? spect than your vote. Trust no candi? date for office who now says 'I am for Tillman,' unless ho can say he was for him last March." We can safely permit Mr. Benet to be judged by himself. Guaranteed Cure for La Grippe. 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Ia struction thorough. Expenses moderate. For further particular*, apply to Dr. C. Manly, or to PROF. H. T. COOK. July 13,1892_2 _3? ANNOUNCEMENTS. For Cleric of Court. 1 hereby respectfully announce myself as a can? didate for the office of Clerk of Cou.t for Ander? son Couuty, S. C, subject to the Democratic Primary. M. I'. TM8BLE. For Auditor. I respectfully announce myself as a candidate for tho office of Auditor of Anderson County, sub? ject to the Democratic Primary. Tl. F. WILSON. 1:t the Legislature. The many friends of JOHN C. GANTT, of Fork Townahlp, hereby announce him as a candidate for the House of Representatives from this Coun? ty, subject to the Democratic primary election. The friends of GEORGE E. PRINCE, Esq., pre? sent his name aa a candidate for the Legislature, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary Election._ For Coroner, The friends of MILLEDGE 8. JACKSON re? spectfully announce hie as a candidate for Coro? ner, subject to the action of Democratic Primary Election._ For Solicitor. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election to the office of Solicitor of the Eighth Judicial Circuit of South Carolina; subject to the action of the Democratic Party in the Primary Election in August next. M. F. ANSEL*. For County Commissioners. W. P. SNELGROVE, of Fork Towhshlp, is presented to the voters of Anderson County as a suitable person for tho office of County Commis? sioner, subject to the Democratic primary. The friends of SAMUEL 0. JACKSON respect? fully announce him as a candidate tor County Commissioner, subject to the action of the Demo? cratic Primary. Mr. Jackson is a thoroughly practical young mnn, and would manage the County affairs in a practical way. We are authorized to announce Capt. B. C. MARTIN as a candidate for re-election to the office of County Commissioner, subject to the ac? tion of the Democratic Primary. For School Commissioner. The friends of COLUMBUS WARDLAW re? spectfully announce him as a candidate for re? election to tho office of School Commissioner, subject to the Democratic primaries. Mr. Ward law has made a most zealous and efficient officer, as the condition of our public school system will verify. For Sheriff. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Sheriff of Anderson County, subject to the Demo? cratic Primary Election. NELSON R. GREEN. To tub Votkrs of Ahdkrsos Coumty : I an? nounce myself as a candidate for the office of Sheriff?subject to the Democratic primary elec? tion. Respectfully, D. E. CARLISLE. BUISTS' TURNIP SEED. CBOF 1892. NOW READY. A. N. TODD & CO. An absolute Preventive from Burning all kinds of Food that requires Stirring. ONE I AD Y tell us she tried a Mat, and believe* a full pot of Co flee will boil away before boiling over. We have Lots of Nice Things for the Housekeepers! 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