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VOL. VIII. THE STATE CAMPAIGN. Till1] HECOKD C?r T1IE THIlU> WEEK. Important CoitclUMiotiM Honrhctl at Marion?Tillman Akitcn totIio Separate llox-llc ami Hutler t^nit I'crsonalities? EaetH ami Arguments to Take the IMaco of Abuse ami Detract ion. [The campaign record still continues to possess u real interest for tlio publie : although the tone of the discussion is different and the complexion has materially changed. Argument and reasop^are promised in lieu of personal abuse, and detraction, and a distinct gain has been made for tho reputation of the Stato, if this lino is pursued to the end of tho campaign.] Marion, S. C., July 3.?The weather to-day was quite unfavorable for an outdoor mooting, as the rain fell incessantly for a largo portion of tho time while tho speaking was in progress. There wore about seven hundred persons who turned out to see the Senatorial rock-pitching and tho various and sundry side accompaniments to the big political show. They wore martyrs to their curiosity, interest or whatever feeling that took them there. They not only saw reeds shaken by the wind, but felt themselves drenched from head to foot by torrents of water from black clouds that hung over the town. "It sure was a Hood," remarked a rustic dude, and his description tolls The tale. For several hours thoro was a terrific down-pour and the crowd and most of the speakers had to succumb to a lirst-class ducking. The mooting was held in a grove about a block away from any shelter and tho crowd were sensible enough to keep huddling together and crouching under what umbrellas were on hand, otherwise they would have boon like drowned rats had they broko for cover. General Butler's speech was tho featuro of to-day's meeting. It was really a gem, and the big Tillmanite audion/m libt<tm?/l tii liim vvil.li wiifli imiiiI n 1 - "CVVV" ...... ...... ....v,.. V ion lion that ho actually scorned to have made severe Inroads intotho Governor's Marion forces. His speech was a combination of eloquence, wit and practical illustration. The General had much the better of the Governor as far as speeches wont. Governor Tillman only indulged in some scattering remarks and somo mild references to Gonerul Butler, concluding with a promise to quit throwing rocks and offering to join tho General in requesting a separate Senatorial box. Governor Tillman declared in his speech that General Butler had hollered like Tucker for olheo after 1870. lie offered to join Butler in signing a request to tho State Exocutive Committeo to have a separate Senatorial box in tho primary. IIo added that even if Butler could get rnoro votes in a separate box ho was going to get tho legislators or there would bo hocuspocus somewhere. I don't understand an expression that General Butler used at Darlington, but I toll him if bo will quit absolutely discussing anything but public questions and quit accusing me of being a thief with his dispensary questions, I will promise to quit pelting him, for his record is twice as vulnerable as mine. If he treats mo courteously I will not hit him below the belt, but 1 say that I am not to be imtimidatod or brow-beaten. There are three questions that I want him to answer : First, let him name the man who In; says told him that I ran at Hamburg and I will prove him a liar by all the other riotors. Second, let him give mo the names of the constables who ho says received #:i per day from the whiskey men while they were {jetting $2 from the State. I tried to get the best men I could forconstablos but f expect that I did get some black sheep in the crowd. If he or any man lyiows of such cases let him name them. The third ease I want him to settle with County Chairman Brice of Yorkvillo. iye(? iral Butler said I insulted him at the Yorkvillo meeting and at the Chester meeting ho pitched into me in a very ungentlcmanly and outrageous manner. Ho says ho asked permission at Yorkvillo to reply to mo and that ho was refused. I read from the Yorkvillo Enquirer that Chairman "Brice asked General llutler if he wished to reply and that he declined. Ho and Mr. Brico can settle that betwoon them. As Governor and Senator wo ought to have enough respect for you and for ourselves to conduct ourselves in a docent manner on this campaign. I have simply mot aggression and insult with tho same. T want to say a word to my opponents. 1 don't know why thoy hate mo. Thoy have imbibed poison from tho newspapers until they consider mo a devil without honesty or prinoiplo. Well, suppose 1 acknowledge that I am a devil, but# I claim i have done something for South Carolina and I don't see why wo can't have peace. But they have got to corao to us. There is no neod of all this bitterness and intense feeling. It's sorter died out now, it's true, hocauso the antis are hopeless and have no candidates. But they are hardened in thoir ways and they must go to church and get reform religion. General Butler began his speooh by saying that Governor Tillman had devoted his tlmo to the very thing that ho said ho desired him (Butler) to avoid?personalities. If you take away the abuso of Cleveland, Sitnonton and myself and others from his speech, there is nothing loft. Gen. Butler answored the Governor's questioif concerning Mr. Brico by saying that beforo the speaking ho had put the quostion to Mr. Brico as to ?f H nth nr t.hnre should be a ton minutes reply, and that Mr. Brico went to tho Govornor, who said ho was willing for Butler to ask him a question, but not for him to reply. Governor Tillman must understand right now, whilst ho says ho is not going to be bulldozed, that I never havo been bulldozed and never will bo bulldozed either. I promiso him now that if ho will confine himsolf to legitimate debate ho will havo no causo to com1 plain of mo. I do not bog him to koop tho lash otY, but ho must not plood tho baby act when I striko back, which I Hiti am certain to do. The people want enlightened discussion and they want to know the remedies offered for their troubles. Our peoplo are true and bravo and gallant and they want the truth outside of rings and cliques and they will conio up as free American citizens and east their votes. 1 join with the Governor in invoking the restoration of harmony which is so essential to our progress and welfare. No human being can say that I have uttered a word that would tend to separate the white pooplo of this State into factions, becauso I know the Republican party is standing ready to throw itself into the breach with its 150,000 negro majority and capture the State. 1 appeal to the people to lay aside ull political hostilities and animosities anil put thoir shoulders together and unite for the best. The GovoVnor says that ho is going to boat me in this race. Now that is an old dodge, lie can claim the heavens and the earth, hut that is not going to olect him. This is the first timo the Governor has indicated that lie would join me in requesting a separate box for the Senatorial race. At Hdgoiicld some of my Reform friends took mo asiilo and told me that they wanted to vote for mo, hut that they could not go back 011 the movement, as they feared Clemson College would ho shut up and all that sort of thing. My friends, 1 do not believo in reactionary legislation. All good citizens rejoice in the accomplishments of the Koform movement. All of us ought to be reformers*, and no patriotic citizens can undertake to destroy what has been accomplished. The Governor's administration is, however, amendable to just criticism, and because I find something in it to criticize he cries out "abuse." and says that I attack liini personally. Referring to the constable question, Gen. 1 hitler said that*ho was not going to be an informer, but lie would say that while passing through Spartanburg at the time of the Darlington distil chance a wentleman told him that. they luid a nice set of spies there and intimated that they were taking pay from the whiskey men. LLow, in tho name of common sense, said (ion. UuCler, can the conclusion Ihj avoided, when constables shut their eyes as they walked past open barrooms. Answering the Governor's remarks about tho Hamburg incident, ho said : I think that in tho course of the next few (iays L can furnish tho Governor with a certificate. I was told that when he went to ^Hamburg he could not be found when the firing began. I say to tho Governor, now, that if lie will join me in requesting a separate box for the people to determine in a primary whom they want, that wo will get a fair expression of opinion and that lie will find some political surprises in this State by the 28th of August. Although ho hus been crowing and flapping lite wings, ho will go home that day with his finger in his mouth. If he can boat me fairly, I /shall not whimo. If he beats mo fairly and honestly 1 will do as much as any man iti this State to put him in tho Senate, lie hus not suid as much for mo. Ho says that 1 charged that he has brought chaos into the State. Ifowo wore not on tho eve of chaos at Darlington and Florence, God save tho couutry irom cuaos. l VOIOU IOI* Him and tho entire ticket and I have never thrown one obstacle in tho way of It is enforcement of tho law, but I say that he must bo subject to criticism. No man in this State was more surprised than 1 was when it was found after I87(i that I was the man to be sent to tho Senate. The people called for mo with practical unanimity and I wont there by tho unanimous vote of the Wallace House. Taking up Governor Tillman's charges of corruption in federal affairs, Gen. Butler declared that if the Supremo Court was corrupt and tho Senate had been t>oughtand the Bouse owned by Wall street, then popular government was a failure. Gen. Butler was very effective in replying to Governor Tillman's remarks about carrying pitchforks and rocks to Washington with him. lie said that if the Governor got up in tho Senate the Senators would tell him, 44 Fling your rocks, young man; wo will go in tho cloak rooms and let you throw them at vacancy. (Laughter.) I The general said that tho Senate was tho best oratorical burying ground he knew. 44 These pyrotechnic fellows got scant treatment." He related an instance of a man in tho Senate '4 who sianeu nxs own moulii oh anil then wont off to loavo it." The man in question sent woino manuscript to tho clerk's desk to bo road and wliilo thy clerk was reading it ho wont off to tho cloak room, whoro ho remained until tho clerk wan noarly throught roading, when ho returned and resumed his 1 speech. Having denounced tho Sonato, how does Governor Tillman ox poet to lxavo any inlluonco there? Ho cannot "got ! what a prudent man can and when ho asks for an appropriation for South Carolina thoy will say to him, "Go and got it yourself." (Laughter and applause.) His speeches remind mo of tho piuey woods yearling. Take away till tho abuse and nothing is loft hut tail and ears. (Laughter.) Goneral Hutlor closed his speech with a stirring peroration in which ho said if ho forgot his peoplo may tho good Lord paralyze his tongue and striko him speochloss. Sonator John Gary Evans followed. Ho begun to speak in a pathetic vein, recalling tho doings of his kinsmen in Marion, whon ho was ir?torriint.??d i>v choors for Ellcrbc. Ho made tho following explanation concerning hia remark at tho Floronco mooting that tho Reformers had to "buyout" tho Columbia Register. " I don't think anybody will boliovo that any Reformer had a dollar to buy any nowsnapor. Wo hold a meeting in Columbia to see if wo could raise money enough, and afterward tho Rogistor came ovor to our assistance, and if it was bought it did not get any of my money, and I don't bolievo it was bought. I am horo to defend any paper that has hit a lick for us. As long as tho Register stands by tho | Reform movement 1 shall stand by it." Tho Gamo Cock discussed tho school and disponsary questions and said that tho profit from tho lattor <ought to bo applied to tho public schools. Ho entorod a kick about tho candidates for! Governor boing allowed only half an] jx CONWAY, hour in which to do thoir speaking. It was making tho canvass a farco and ho wanted movo time oven if it had to i)o taken from other candidates. Secretary Tindal made a nice speech, saying' that tlie people must keep tho government in their hands and not allow future rings, adding that they must not exorcise thoir power in a spirit of revenge. General Kllorbo was the last speaker, lie was received by his townsmen with grout applause. lie said lie was for peace and harmony, hut that the minority must give in to the majority. Ho called upon both sidos to lay down their arms and join in helping to build II,, ? l,a Ut.it., "I' He said that ho did not favor the dispensary law at first but that it bad punned out better than ho had expected. lie thought that the opposition should help perfect it instead of trying to kill it. IN HOllllY COUNTY. .Special to News and Courier. Conway, July 4.?To-day the free and enlightened yoomanry of the Independent Ltopuhllc of Horry took their swig, so to speak, at the political jug. It was not so long nor yet so strong a pull as has been made at other places, but it was withal a pull pretty much altogether for " lie for in " and " Reformers." It has been frequently said that an Horrv fanner who was not a TLllmanlte was a subject for museum honors, and while this is somewhat of an exaggeration there can bo little doubt that tho movement has one of its strongholds between the Waceamaw and Poo-Doe rivers. After hearing a good deal about tho following and undivided support which Governor Tillman could count upon hereabouts it was somewhat suprising to find Senator Butler developing even the strength that he did. His friends at the meeting to-day?political friends, of course?were evidently drawn from the fast-failing remnant of tho old Confederate soldiery, and wherever you saw a white head and empty sleeve, or a scarred face, you might certainly count upon a Butler man. This is true pretty much everywhere in the State, but it was particularly true hero to-day. The young men and the middle aged men furnish the roll of Governor Tillman's supporters, and while these distinctions are not inviolate they are evident enough to bo noticeable wherever one goes, and when tho votes are polled, if there was any way of keeping such a tally, it would be found that they fuinish a calculation for the basis of the result. Somewhat depleted in numbers the campaigners rallied at the depot in Marion this morning. The capital of the Independent Republic is not easily eoine at. To got to it by rail one has to journey up to North Carolina, subject himself to the scrutiny of a crowd of gaping tarhccls and then come jolting down through forty miles of country filled with saw logs and turpentine stills. That's what was done to-day, with the result that it was nearly one o'clock before Conway was reached. The reception which was awarded the party, however, was cordial enough to have more than compensated for twice the hardships endured en route. A crowd of five or six hundred people was gathered about the station. A brass band which had been getting in some Fourth of July work on its own account blared a welcome, and the Court House committee brought carriages and conveyed the visitors to Mrs. Beuty's, where an ideal country dinner was in waiting. The meeting was held in a largo live-oak grove a little removed from the centre of the town. When it opened probably a thousand people were clustered about the stand, but the fear of rain and a subsequent removal of the scene of uction to the Court House reduced that number by several hundred. Little or nothing happened, and little or nothing was said which was not a many-times-told tale. None of the candidates seemed to bo in the best of form, and as the I <>IVkUr<l 117 O u niulnulu ntr/iti J/1 vi v/u u ?? t*tj v< n\/i ?jr j v ujj i/u n i/vn in nunn^ scarcoly a thing occurred whieh has not been told in tho reports of the half dozen previous meetings. When Governor Tillman was speaking from tho Court House steps late in the afternoon ho got tho crowd to laughing and there was an incident or so worth lifting from the sameness j which charuterizes most of the proceedings of a campaign mooting now-adays. | Senator.!. P. Dorham acted as chairman and called upon the lie v. Mr. Dowell for a prayer, at tho conclusion of which tho chairman made a short introductory address, warning tho audience that they would be unworthy of citizenship in the independent liepublic if anything but tho best of i order prevailed. Ho was taken at his | word so literally that for tho rest of tho day not even a cheer was heard. Occasionally there was a ripple of applause, but it never amounted to j any tiling to speak of. Would-be Secretary of State L. It. Hill was the first victim. Mr. Hill had cvidontly made up his mind to make a brand now speech. Ho did so. and, not having gotten well usod to his now oration, it got away with him somewhat. Ho rambled around over a good deal of political territory and wound up in the financial brush. Chairman Dcrham introduced Mr. Whitman us a candidate for Superintendent of Education and "the man who wanted to destroy the South Caroj lina Collogo." It was done without comment and Mr. Whitman took no notice of it, but it wa? evidently a thrust in tho neighborhood of the fifth rib. Mr. Whitman made a now and entirely original start. When ho mentioned tho newspapers everybody took it for granted tnat a buzz was to follow. But thoro is just where Mr. Whitman surprised them. He pronounced a eulogy upon tho Uogistor for its services to ltoforin, and then to their " dumbfoundormont" (a now word has to bo coined for so remarkable an occurrence) ho advised ovorvbody to road Tho Stato and Tho News and Courier rathor than not take a newspaper. Having started off in this way, Mr. Whitman launched into battle against tho South Carolina College. Tho people wantod more monoy, ho said, to oxpond on education. Ho could toll them whoro thoy could got some at loast. They could got $30,000 from the S. C., THURSDAY, . South Carolina College and more from the Citadel. Ho did not advocate taking the appropriation away from the Citadel right now, an he believed that that institution hud plenty of students, hut as soon as the attendance feli oil they could do it, and this would give them $.">(),<MKi to spend elsewhere. lie went over his comparison of the attendanco and cost per student at the South Carolina College with the attendance and cost per student at the other Institutions, during which he particularly requested the reporters to make a note of the fact that twenty-seven out of the sixtyeight students at the South Carolina College were from Kichland County. Next Mr. Whitman proeeoded to jump upon Justice Clary mostunmerci ivi11y. tic Haul that out of all the graduates of the South Carolina Collogo thore was but ono who could bo called a true blue " Roformor," over whom no suspicion hung'. lie was n Justice of the Supreme Court (referring to Gary) and ire did not know that that gentleman would have been much of a "Reformer" had it not boon for the fact that some of his relations hud boon maltreated by the old ring rule people. No ono seems to know why Mr. Whitman smeared himself witii war paint in this fashion. Of course the Gary clan will now put a knife in its boot leg for him, and other gentlemen have neon given cause to be offended. Thore is Dr. Strait, for instance, who is a graduate of the College and who is likely to resent tin* imputation that he is not a true blue " Reformer.' Say what you will about the Ron. G. Walt Whitman, ho is hoeing his own row and as ho chops arouud he don't care much whoso shins get barked. Mr. Mayfleld followed him in an excellent speech. Mr. Mayllold thought that his office should be exempt from the rotation business. Long tenure was necessary to good service. Ry common consent this seemed to have been acknowledged in other States and ho advised that this should be so here, If Mr. Whitman was elected he should hold the office four years. Mr. Mayfield made a strong defence of the South Carolina College and the Citadel, He did a little practical fitruriuLr t< show that the $50,000 which Kir. Whitman wanted to tako from them when distributed among the common school? would give each school child in the State about one cent and seven mills. The 44 Reform " Movement, ho contended, was identiiied with education. Its mission was to build up institutions, not to tear them down. His friend, he said, had been most unfortunate in attempting to imply that Mr. Gary wat not a 44 Reformer " from principle. Mr. Whitman : 44 I didn't say that! I said a cloud of suspicion hung ovet him." Mr. Mayfiold : 44 Ho is u 4 Reformer from principle. There is none more honorable and true and I am hero ti defend him in his absenoo." Mr. Maylicld closed a most admira bio address with an earnest appeal thai the people of all businesses, calling* and trades and the) men of every pnrt> and all factions should unite in sus taining every educational institution in the State, whether it be a com mot school or the South Carolina College. The two gubernatorial candidate* were next called upon. Mr. ttllerbe spoke lirst and Mr. Tindal last. lOacli of them tilled the time allotted him and each received a most respectful hearing from the crowd. There wa> nothimr of a nersonal nutnm in uflm) either of them hjiWI. Mr. Ellorbo reviewed hib own record at some length and discussed tiio tinuneial issues. lie said tlio report that ho was opposed tr the eub-treasury was a mistake. lit did object to the ware houso feature ol it, but lie was in favor of the principle embodied in it. He was ovidently well known by reputation to the crowd The impression he made was good, ant: I am told he will have no troublo it carrying the county. Mr. Tindal talked of the record o: " Reform." Ho generalized a goot: doal in the attention ho gave to issues He took occasion to make a strong do fence of the South Carolina College and having discussed tho dispensary closed with a plea for harmony ant! peace. When Chairman Derham came forward to introduce tho Senatorial candidates ho made apologies for candidates who wanted to bo thoro ant! could not. Having performed this duty, ho said that was as good ?? as any other to announeo himself as u candidate for the ofllco of Comptrollei General. His " Reform" record wa> unimpeachable, and ho wanted the of flee. He did not propose ty keep uf with tho campaign party, but he want ed it known that he was in tho fiold. By tho time Gen. Butler was Intro rlurijwl if ix/ u o nt/i/1nni U? 11 4 U /%?/. ? v.uvty?? .V f? WO UTIUUIIU 1/IKtU WIIUI H W JV going to bo a ruin storm. Tho c'.oiuh hud boon gathering nil day and a down pour was now throatoned ovory in in uto. Fears were ontortainod that th< horrible experiences of Marion were to bo repeated, but when (ion. Butloi had boon speaking for a few minute* tho ciiairrnan adjourned tho mooting to tho Court House. A general stain podo followod. Tho crowd packod it' self into tho quaint little old court room down-town until it was suffocating, and still a hundred or ho of their wore outside. Then Senator Butlor resumed the thread of his argument. He added hit voice to what hael already boon saie concerning education. Ho made ar eloquent defence of tho "old fiolt school." Ho was unpolled, ho said, t< heartily endorse Mr. M ay Hold's plen that tho people should loud the stanch est support to the entiro educationa fabric froin the common school up While advocating a constitutional con vention Senator Butler said ho had al ways boon opposed to having taxatioi provided in the fundamental law o the State. Taxation should be loft wit! tho representatives of tho pooplo. j Sonator Butlor jokingly said that i V* A nrul ( lr\\T t\enAf 'run....... -ii.i I t?v uiiu V4UTUI ?iv *. 1111111*11 IUV1 I1UV niA/| their "foolishness" that neither o thoin would bo elected. The wood) wero already full of dark horses. Ue verting to his own record ho said Gov ernor Tillman had been able to brinj no charge against hitn except that h( j had voted for Jud^o Simon ton. 11< had not learned to thieve in Washing ton, and not all the million* of Wal Htroot could buy him. Ho had beei blamed as boing out of sympathy wit) the pooplo, for having boon away frou thorn too much. Should he, he asked have loft the scone of his duty to g< junketing about tho country ? He wa JULY 12, 181)4. not out of sympathy with the people. | Mo did not conceal hi* true feeling unci was not afraid to way what he thought. Cod forbid that his solfrespectshould over allow him to descend ti? the level of the demagogue ur to week otlleo at the expense of truth. They had said that certain families thought they owned eertuin offices. No member of his family except himself had held ofllce for forty years. He had six brothers who had held olllce once in the Confederate service, and with one exception they had all been either wounded, maimed or killed. Ollleoscekers of that kind were not so plentiful those days. > lie turned to his financial argument. In proportion as silver had been degraded the price of the farming pro1 duets went down. The poor prices prevalent nowadays were not the result of supply and demand, but of the scarcity of money. The Farmers' Al1 lianee, he thought, was ono of the best organizations over formed. The only ' trouble with the farmers was that they would not stick together, lie was not a member of the Alliance because they would not let him in. 1 f the farmers would moiii steadlastly together they could bring tho country to its knees. Senator Butler mado an carnost talk. 1 which was listened to with profound attention. He evidently had a good many friends in the crowd. He took his seat amid applause. When Governor Tillman was about to he introduced a delegation eaine in i and asked to allow the Governor to speak from tho court house steps, as there were a good many people outside who wanted to hear him, and who could not got in the court room. This was agreed upon. Considerable eonfusion followed. The people would not move out, and there bid fair to be an indefinite delay when Governor Til 1, man took matters into his own hands , and fairly drove the crowd o? . I When he finally began to speak it was without having been formally inI trod need, it was his third visit to the Independent Kopuhlic. When he came i up the Waceamaw River in 18110 it was the first time the people had ever seen ( a candidate for Governor. In 1802 . they saw himself and Sheppard. Now i he had brought them some more i Gubernatorial candidates, and what s was more he had brought them something they had never before laid eyes . on, a real live Senator. (Laughter.) He wanted to go to Washington bo, cause he thought he could do them i some good there. Butler talked now . about Alliance principles and advocat) ed them, but he did not do it until the Alliance had opened his eyes. Butler : wanted to join the Alliance now. lie occasioned another burst of amusement in the crowd hy advising them to road the newspapers and study for themselves, for, as he said, the people wore not near so ignorant as they looked. Alxmt this time an old gentleman who was standing just behind the Governor, and who had boon making derogatory remarks uhout him all the time, became more than usually unruly. Somebody tried to quiet him, hut ho went on. He said Governor Tillman was not stating thing's correctly and that he (Governor Tillman) had just told a "lie." The Governor could scarcely have hoard this last remark as it was uttered in an undertone, hut he did hoar the talking and fuss, lie turned round and appealed to the Chair for a fair hearing. None of the other speakers had boon interrupted in this way and ho claimed an equally fair showing. The crowd on the ground, some ton or fifteen feet below, begun to yell that ho should not he bothered, f When quiet was restored Governor > Tillman took up the financial questions. I lie said the country was not ready yet awhile to discard both silver and gold I and use paper only. That had been ? tried during the war. They wanted plenty of all kinds of money. He was f not in favor of the sub-treasury us they i all know. That was tho rock upon which tho hopes of tho farmers in - many States had split. It hud lod . thom into the Third Party and thoy i had boon houton. lie had hold tho I farmers hero down to making tho light in tho Democratic ranks; and after all thoro was no use in lighting over tho distribution of money yot to be gotten. First got tho money and I plenty of it. Look how tho papers ? had talked. The News and Courier had made a \ great howl about fiat money. When tho Governor got this far ho said that ' he had forgotten that thoy didn't road Tho News and Courier any longer. ' Tho same old gentleman who had interrupted him before hero broke in with, " Yes wo do. I road it. Wo are life subscribers to it." Governor Till man replied that ho might, but tho 1 rest of thom did not, and then somebody in tho crowd reaffirmed that they j road it. . Tho Governor then said that it (Tho . News and Courier) had liod on him so ( much that they took it to road what it r said and know that tho ro/orso was 1 true. Ho switched ofT on his "dishonost" t dollar argument. In reply to Senator . Butler's assertion that the long peni sion roll stood between tho West and South, ho said if thoy could got more j monoy it would not bo so bad if thoy i had to give all of thom ponsions. Govl ornor Tillman then criticised Clovoi land in his usuul manner. Ho wont I over tho Simonton business and hav> ing wound it up, camo down to a dl? i cussion ol Butler's charge that ho had - run at Hamburg. If Senator Butler 1 would produce tho man when they get . ovor to Aiken and Kdgoflold who said - that ho (Tillman) ran at Hamburg, - that ho (Tillman) would produce fifty i others who would swear Butler's man f was a liar. It was a shame, ho said, i for Butlor to accuso him of cowardico and say ho was not at Hamburg when f ho rodo down tho road going to Ham> burg with Butlor, and ho could bring f twonty-flvo men to prove it. i Govornor Tillman closed his speech with his usual argument on tho subject - of tho dispensary law, and the mooting r was adjourned with choors. j A little incident of tho day that has > attracted some attention is the fact - that Senator Butler and Governor Till* 1 man drovo out to the grounds in the i same buggy and on the same seat, and \ appeared to be as friendly as could be. x Tho campaign party will move down , tho Waccamaw Kivor to-morrow, and j bo in timo for tho Georgotown moets lng on Friday. I ? >? -? V v REVIEWING THE CAMPAIGN. \ <;i.mrsr. OF TIIF SUN \T??III \I, CONTK8T. Tin* 1'iillllrnl rrmiK'rnliiro ol' South Carolina IK fiiwi'i (invrriuir lilliiiuii'h Friends \re the .Mure Demonsi rat ive?liow Senator Hit I ler'n Following I Explains t lie FfTeet of lland I'ri maries. Special to Aii'.'n-ta I'tirmiirle. Coiajmhia, s. C.,.Inly I. 'I'ho political temperature of tho Stat*' is tnueh lower than it was two weeks ago. W hen flic campaign opened at, Koek llill there was a general pricking of OM Psl It UMIC OVttoeioil l?o f amtt<k4 l\Jn.# - ...... i v .? ??.' ' | ? v? ?i i/iuvit ni n 11?* \j 11 i (i }*; would drop with the foreo of a steam hummer, and for two or three duys newspapers wore really interesting things to most people. At the Chester meeting Senator Sutler was ineliuod to he vicious towards Governor Tillman and the debate at Lancaster on the following day showed some evidences of life. Governor Tillman took his turn and reciprocated the Senator's ferocious compliments. On one or two occasions in the curlier meetings misguided persons in the crowd rushed headlong to the coneluc'usion that the speakers were in earnest ami got mad, hut after a little jostling and serouging they were in all cases appeased or removed. I loth Tillman and llutler are now hehaving in a comparatively seemly manner. The Governor, of course, continues to belch forth words of consuming and burning wrath, hut he is considerate enough to aim most of his attacks at Cleveland and Wall street and nobody is at hand to take up the guuge of hattle for cither the one or the other of them. Unless the Governor should train his guns on some enemy nearer home there is only the faintest likelihood that even tiio turbulence of the lirst week will be repeated. At nearly all the meetings the demonstrations have been favorable to the " lllinkor," as Governor Tillman's rustic followers ulTectionatoly and admiringly denominate him. The Governor's friends are demon strative people. They have imtf nsuri able Iuur power, nnd throats \ \w am whistles, and when 44 Mai * n," works himself up to ahout 212 dORioes Fureinhoit and begins to sinR like a tea kettle on a lire of hickory limbs, the 44 wool hats " invariably shatter the walls enclosing all tiie demons of hideous sounds. Then the Governor is a uuin of 44 hand primaries." it is his oldest trick and ho clings to it with the tenacity of a whist player to a favorite suit. 14 Now all of you hoys who think I am ri^ht," he shouts in trie brief intervals that now and then occur between their cheers, 44 hold up your riff It t hands," and always up they shoot, the two or three hundred horny palms of the plough hoys usually densely packed alxmt the platform down in the front ami ooneatn tno platform (rmn which I lie i? hurling his declamatory and iro fill thunderbolts. Thus it has been at York and Lancaster, Camden and Sumtor, Darlington and Floronco, and on ami on from county to county. Senator Butler's friends, when the Governor puts the negative, make it a rule to say nothing, looking on the antics of the opposition with sullen silence. The hand primaries have their intended elTeot. The newspaper reporters trim their pencils and say, "this was another Tillman day," and away on electric wings across the- country speeds the news thatSouth Carolina s pyrotechnic I'opulist is as usual carrying all things boforo him with his fiery eloquence. But Senator Butler's friends talk confidently. " Why, there is scarcely any laxly at the meetings," they say. The crowds number from dOO to a 1,000 at most, while two and four years ago when Tillman was doing the State, always from two to five thousand were out see and hear him. Besides these hand primaries prove nothing. Fifty or a hundred of the rabid atul rampant shoot up both fists at tiie bidding of their boss, to do which they have been carefully trained, in order to make a great improsslon. The people, the real bulk of tho people present, whose hundreds and hundreds of silent ballots will weigh down tho boxes and count, are standing back and tit inklog -Thousands of other pooplo are tired of Tillman, say the Butlerites, and in spite of tremendous efforts made to ruiiy mem tney aro naming tlieir time at homo ami when the primaries arrive Governor Tillman will feel the torrent of their votes sweeping his feet from undor him. When ono hoars a Sutler man discuss the campaign in this way ho cannot but bo impressed that there is not a little truth in thut analysis of the situation. Senator Sutler goes into this race handicapped. All the odds are against him. The anti-Tillmanites eye him coolly w;th an inquiring look on their faees, which asks why he did not on Cleveland's inauguration "chuck off his coat" and ussist thorn in the scramble for all the Federal patronage to the everlasting disappointment of the Tillmanitcs? " Why did ho endeavor to put some of the most blatant and offensive of all tho Tillmanitos into easy berths, while wo who have fought for his causo in tho ranks aro left to shiver in tho cold?" Tho Antles are not in good lighting trim anyway. They have out no Statu ticket, many of them aro disgusted with Cleveland and Congress, and scarcoly two of them can bo found agreeing on all political points. In many counties it will boa difficult task to induce men pledged to Butler to run for tho Legislature. Tho Till man cause being looked upon as invincible, men will not caro to risk losing the chances of future proferment by leading what they fear is a forlorn hope. It is for this reason that Senator Butler insists so strenuously on a separate box in the Democratic primaries in which tho popular choice for Senator may bo registered and by the results of which l>oth candidates bind themselves to abide. Such a proposition, although the primary has always until now been one of the constant hobbies, tho Governor declines, protesting that it is u matter not for him but for tho State Democratic Kxoou* tivo Committee alone to determine. Governor Tillman doubtless believes that he has the Senator at a great disadvantage as matters stand and is naturally reluctant to yield any assistance in NO 52. the menu timo, regarding constancy us a pearl to bo thrown toswine. Strange an it. may soom National iahucs liriil littio place in this Senatorial campaign. Governor Tillman to bo sure is spectacularly errand In his attacks upon the National Nomocracy, the money power ami all that uinbattled host of monsters, but most of bis oratory is expended upon the beauties of ''Heform" in South Carolina, and in replying to Senator Butler's onslaughts. Ho advocates, though, free silver and u greenback currency and cries " more money, more money, rnoro money with ever increasing unction. Sometimes be expatiates on the necessity of joining the South and West against the greedy Kast. and his enemies interpret him as nominating himself as the National standard-boarot for a new party looking to this union for strength. Senator Butler in a regretful sort of ....... ........ 1... ..f 41... .I 'lT,. U... T (i j i|?i tvr\.T ui MI' Iiuiw Uil U himself and (J rover Cleveland on questions of tlnanco und mildly defends the the President us un honest, if misguided politician. He urges the necessity of State bonds of issue, und munfuliy champions tho tarilT bill as tho boat * measure of the kind that has l>een before Congress since tho war. Tho Senator too, intimates that the country could stand a larger gr eon back issue. Hut those arguments are not the burdon of his sotig. They are merely incidental to his warfare on the dispensary scheme and the charges of corruption in connection with it, which ho tires at the Tillman administration. Senator liutlor will have the support of the Confederate veterans. At Chostorilold tho other day an old follow in shabby gray jeans and Hut brimmed white hat shambled up to him and hold out his hand. " Why, how are you, Bruntly ?" said the Senator, as he grasped it. _ As ho did so the ragged old ex-rebel's emotion overcame him and he cried like a baby. In Butler's brigade thirty years ago his humble duty luid been to drive an ambulance across Virginia's hills and this was the iirst time since then that the General had seen him. Senator Butler was never known to forgot the face of a soldier. The Senator inquired into the man's condition, and finding that he was poor and struggling .for a livelihood olTerod to take take him to his Kdgefield plantation, and give him a home for his declining years. And if Butler is defeated for the Senate, fighting over his many battles with tiie warworn umbulanco driver will not in; tho least pleasure that he will lliul in retirement to privote life. ? CAIT.y. K. McIlKK llKSIONH. Tlie Mimt Popular lluilroad Mun in the State t^uitu the lltieliiiionil and Danville Hystom. Columbia .lournal. Capt. V. E. MeBoo will at an early day sever his connection with the Southern Kuilwuy Company. Ever since tho organization of tho Richmond and Danville and its change of name to tho Southern Railway Company various rumors have been afloat that Capt. Me Boo would be transferred to Georgia and be again placed at the head of thoCentral Division, a position which ho formerly lilled witli great credit to all parties concerned. Capt. McBeo has resigned or will do so at an early day and will probably not be connected with the reorganized R. & I), system. As is already known tho Churlotto, Columbia and Augusta, and Columbia and Greenville are to bo sold here on the 12th inst., and until August 1st, Captain McBeo will continue at the head, at tho request of tho receivers. As to the Western North Carolina, tho Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio, and the Spartanburg and Union, Supt. Mclico's resignation goes into effect atonco. The news of Capt. Mo Bee's resigna mm win oo received wiin general regret all over this State and North Carolina and for that matter throughout the South. Ilis tine executive ubility, hard common sense and almost limitless fund of practical information connected with railroading has made him a pillar of strength to the Richmond and Danville system. Ho has been in close touch with the people of the section of the country which the lines of his divisions traverse, and it will ho difficult for the Southern Railway Company to find a successor for him who will combine his many qualifications. Augusta Chronicle. The talk is that Superintendent MoHeo is going to leave the Richmond and Danville and return to the Central Rood. It is said that Drexol, Morgan Co. will in a few days proceed to reorganize the Central Railroad of Georgia, and it is generally expected that as soon as the organization is cllected, the superintendency of the road will be offered to Col. V. E. McBeo, at present general superintendent of tho Richmond and Danville lines in* this vicinity. Col. McBeo was formerly superintendent of the Central, and there seems to be very littie doubt that ho will go back. If he does it is expected that Mr. H. A. Williams, at present master of tritins oi the Richmond and Danville lines at Columbia, will succeed him. There is noolovoror or more capable man in the hiiRinn.aa than if a wh. Hums. Ho 18 u gentloman of character and high standing, and ho is able, otllciont, and competent to till tho ottice, for which ho possesses every requisite qualification. His past faithful work has provon him to be a most valuable oilloor, and has caused him to gain tho ostcom of tho employes under him, as well as tho regard of his superior officers. Mr. William* deserves the promotion by reasonof the exceptional fine service ho hatjt rendered as master of trains, and by his good qualities in gonoral. Ho is bound to get there if merit will win. Tho Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta and Columbia and Greenville Railroads aro sure Jo bo sold under tho auctioneer's hummer on the 12th inst., in Columbia, in accordance with tho decrees of tho United States Court. Roth lines will bo bought in by tho Southern Railway Company. * ??? Bm* ?General Manager C. M. Ward, of tho South Carolina and Georgia Railroad, has resigned and Mr. T. A. Kiuorson has boon appointed his-succossor.