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?mvtimv LAURENS S. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1900. GARY AND PATTERSON FIGHT IW.OWS HIT AT liAllltKN?. Two OMiiiintatL'ti Kor Governor Ifiii )',hk'> I" a FiHilcuU on the Stand. L'i ioo News und Courier, Auguut Kohn write? of tho cannml^n meeting at Laurorm on Saturday : Tho ci-eivt e?ucatlouul campaign ovolved Into a slugging match today. It wan BOtuewhat tho unexpected which happened. Prank Li. Gary und A. Linw ard i'aitertton had a nun: h and lumhle tight before a thousand I. *?11?. > people, men and women. They fought with ilea peration and determination until Jim Tillman and others separated them, and then they wanted to got tmck at each other, Had the acckiunt occurred years ago in this county, when ttiere weroa cartload of platols a'.a mooting, there would have been (uucralu tioro to morrow, but now nil tbo feoiing aeoraa to bo botwoon the candidates. Today the roHull waa two budly hruiaed fucoa and emphaaia on the 8 yle of campaign ing going on, and If uthura allowed toe 8umo spirit thero would bd many muru liatlcutTa from day to day. At touuy'a meeting Mr. PaUoiaon in bla speech attacked Mr. (Jury about bis Charlott ton Hpuuuli, roading tbo clippinga aud making the atatomout published. Mr. (iary thought Uns normalem effort waa tu make it appear, indirectly, that be atraddled in Charleston, or favored a local option wbilo in (Jnarloaton with tho llcenae feature, which tiu inaislo? was not tbo case, and I'uttoraou'a effort by reading extracts waa to placo film in a falau poaltiou aa to wbui ho aaid, and his attibudo on tho liquor quea tlon. When Mr. Gary's turu came to speak he Irnnn dlatoly replied that ho Old not " straddle," ana that his position then as now was plain. Mr. Patterson was sitting about tivu feet beninci where Mr. Gary was speaking, anU Mr. 1'attorson got up and he said : " Mr Gary 1 want to exolain some! lung." Mr. Gary turned squarely around and *au: "Now, Mr. 1'atterson, 1 want to ask you plainly is what 1 have said about that Uharlestou mailer irue ?" Mr. Patterson said ho would exnlaiu. Mr. Gary replied that there was no use lo explain, but insisted on ktiowiut; wheth er what he had j ist saiu ahout the whole matter wa? true or not. Mr. Patterson went on to say tho candi dates would not Hgreo with Gary, or something on thau line, and saiu ho dared to prove his statements hy any of the candidates. Mr. Gary insisted on a direct reply as to whether bis Btatement about the Charleston speech was true or uot. Uy tins time tue two men wero within arm's length, looking fiercely at each other and, no doubt looking for a blow. Mr. 1'atterson said that if he was not allowed to explain be uiuot deny what Mr. Gary had said was correct. Mr. Gary then said : "If you say my state ment Is uot correct you auy what is not mi," The two men joincu. PatlorbOn atruck out and claims to have hit first. There was uot a second's Uilleronoe la the passage of blows. Patiersnn struck Gary an uphauded blow under the left eye, which cut the sklu for half an icon long. Gary bit Paltorson on tue mouth and cut tue lip and struck him under the eye. ll was uot a minuto bo fore half a oi/, m men were around the two combatants ; they wero up against each ottier, cliuontd, ami ocvreai blows were passed, but tbey w ei 0 pulled apart. Gary was laKcu toward the front oi the stand and Patterson to the rear. They said nothing, hut were eager and watching. Growds pressed up to the stand, sumo yelling lor one candidate and somu for anotlicr. Hy the aid of two policemen, Sheriff McCravy, bona tor Tlllmau anu Cnairman Smith, those who belonged on the stand were instructed to get back and sit down, and thuso who did uot belong on the stand to get oil. At this lime the can didates had mopped their faces and wiped the biood from their bruises. When quiet was rostured Mr. Gary faced the audience. Somewhat uis hevelled and bruised, and quivering all over and w'th clinched nauds, he spoko out, and said when be left homo be decided he would bo a gentlemun and give no possible olTonce to any one, In turn he would not take any insult from any one. He bad treated Mr. 1'attersou as a gentleman and a friend, tout be had gone too far, and he would allow no man to insult him without hitting him in the mouth. Mr. Gary apologized with feeling and almost tears for having fought before ladles, and expressed nls deep regrets at the Incident. Then be went on and con cluded bis speech, cutting it hero and there. Mr. Patler bou was allowed to mako a statoniunt and said hu wub vury sorry fu<* the uceurence. 11 o did nut llko such things, lie und Gary had been warm friends and hu had been a ataunch friend uf thu family, hub when ever a man told him hu hud hu tried to put hid dst in hid mouth and give him thu beat hu had in his ahup. When the two candidates had takoi. their seats a poliueman, who luoks like the picture* uf Mr. Dinkclspiol, good naturudly hold uut hia hand and aaid tuo disturbance would cost each of tho combatants $0, or they would have to go before thu mayor's court. Mr. Gary paid his *<"> und Mr. 1'atteraon followed suit. The oilicur, when aakud about the matter, said it always cost that amount for a tight in town, hut thu combatants cuuld go to cuurt if thoy wantud and they might get back their inonuy, but thoy bau unly ono rulu. Mr. Patterson and Mr. Gary left the stand soon after the speech uf Mr. Gary. It so happen ed that they were guusts at thu samo house, but onu uf thum has changed his stopping place. Through the etfirts of Glork of Court Bolt Mr. Pattorson and Mr. Gary met, shook hands and agreed to be friends and comrades as when they ontorod Laurens. Of course nob thor of tbo contestants was hurt to any extent. After the scrap It was up hill work for all tho candidates untli Tillmun was presentod and he was received with onthusiasm. Ho whooped things up and had tho boys hurrahing. Ho took a pVimary, and called mo up to the front to note tho vote. Not a dozen voted for prohibition, but when It camo to vote for tho dispensary pretty much every one voted, and thoro was ono of those old-tlrao dlspuosary holds of up raised haDds. Tiilman was happy and so did every ono else seem to bo, and he remarked that thoro was nothing muoh in tho talk of six hundrod tigers In Charleston and two hundred In Co lumbia, and ho put no faith in this talk, and commented on tho evidences of there being no tigers about Laurens, and tbat there were not near as many tigers as nomo triod to make out. The orowd was quite largo and in tho best humor. OAflTOIlIA. Boats th? _1 ?? Kind You Haw Always BoufiM I MEETING AT GREENVIIJ,E. nuail sj UROWU VKT. Hoyt Woll lt( eel veil and Tlllmau I'rli-K to MMr '1 hingt? op. Pro DO The Daily News. The ci osvil i hat greeted the State campaigners, who ..puke hera yester day from u stand erected In tho city park at Hit- north end of Main Rtl'COI was larger thun had gathered on nn,\ similar occasion in Urceiiville here tofore and twice as largo as any cam paign gathering so far in this State this Hummer. Men were present not only from this but from every neigh boring county, some traveling; over thirty miles in buggies to bear Sena tor Tillman apeak, will n, oi eontr-.e, was I he feature of the day. Although there were a number of (ireenvillu City people presen* the.se for the most part did not take part in the hand primaries uud other demonstrations peculiar to a fi'liuun campaign mooting'. Tho crowd was made up to U decided degree vd* bnstlc admirers <?t' their "oddest only" Ueil and he voted thein will, bill hand (tri ina lies in favor of what ever be wanted. Throughout the hand raising nil owed that the erowd endorsed him by not less than 10 to 1. Senator Tillinun estimated the crowd of .">()(), which was probably at least 500 above the number ac t-ally present. Jle voted the crowd almost, solidly for the dispensary tcs it gains! prohibition ami in t li>- name wtiy be made them endorse lcs pe sition that "the preachers are in an unholy alliance with the wh:d;ey men led by Col. Iloyt," although the same crowd a short time before that shouted almost with unanimity for lloyt, and this county will give him a handsome majority in spite of the way the crowd yesterday exhibited its feelings and sentiments by means of 1 he hand pri ma l ies. Tlllinnn was bis fiercest und he made Iiis most, ugly faoos in express* ing contempt, for those opposing him ami Iiis "God child." I he dlspem^ry law, which he dramatically dcelnred was a legitimate olVspring of a mar riage between Itenson and Prohibition and uol a cheat lor prohibition as had been charged. Prohibition., bo said, wanted to marry that old hag, runalaclsm, but he prevented this, which was his duly I" do as governor in the interests of the people, over 211,000 of whom I he ret urns showed had not voted on the question. A majority of the people, therefore, li'iti not voted for prohibition. He characterized as sneaking n?v.l cowardly shirking tho elVorts nun In on the part of certain politicians In have the liquor question voted 0p<?n separately. P.y a peculiar coinci dence I his scheme w as adopted ill Greenville county ;il the suggestion of one of Senator Tillmnn's staunch est friends, ( apt. A. Mythe. Senator Till ma ti handled the He.V. Dr. ('. S. Gardner roughly und said that his attack in n recent sermon oil the dispensary law was false. lb was interrupted with hurrahs for Dr. liurdncr. lie spoke with fine scorn and contempt of priest, craft, and quoted scripture to show that, there was no foundation there for prohibi tion, but, thai drunkenness was con demned. The campaigners speak today ill Pittkens. A majority of them left yesterday for that town. The others get out of Greenville this morning nt l> o'clock on a freight train. Colonel lloyt opened the speaking by pleasantly introducing his oppo nents to the pep pie of his home coun ty and concluded bis reinarkes by saying: "Give them all an attentive and res pectful hearing and be sure to vote for lloyt." "This met with cheers and applause and "Sit down, Colonel I you're all right; you needn't say a word we'll vote for you anyway." WOULD-BE COMPTROLLER GENER ALS. N. \Y. Krooker, for comptroller general, said he was not unknown t<> many of tile crowd, lit? volunteered when 10 years old and spent, several years in the Civil war, lit' served six years as si director of the peniten tiary, for live years he was ?in ex pert, in the tax department. He re viewed his work in the field. He charged the incumbent with "vicious, violent violations of the law." lie had checked and stopped his (Brookcr's) work. He charged that Mr. Derb am passed $4,304.04 to the credit of the sheriff of Clarendon county in (dear violation of the law. J, P. Derham, candidate for re election as comptroller, said that his statement as to Mr. .HrookerV. charge was made l?y the gentleman who made the settlement 111 question. It didn't do the speaker tiny good to tell why Mr. Brooker should not be elected. Mr. Derham was vigorously applauded. FOR SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT. Kllismi Capers, n fonnci' Crcenville man, as a candidate for superintend ent of education, was received with hearty applause. It, was here that he. got his first, business experience as a clerk in a store in Main street and his lirst. teaching experience ns ti tutor in tin; White Horse school, from here he went, to Columbia mid graduated at the South Carolina college. Ho presented his claims us u practical man as against a theoreti cal man. lie believed his opponent's administration had not only been a fail ore but that. two years more of it would disrupt, the winde school system. He attacked Mr. McMahan for fathering the net. to take the Choice of tllCO OUntV su perintendents out of the hand's of the people. This was ''ruthlessly tramping on democracy." lie charg ed that his opponent was endenvoring to take the entire system under Iiis own, one-man, control. Mr. Capers concluded nmld hearty applause und cries ?>f "you're nil right; we'll vote for you." J. .f. McMahan, for rc?c1cotlon as superintendent of education, suhl ho came In on nn aggressive pint form, lie denied Mint, he hod failed to consult the stuto board. As to the charge that he was trying to take tho choice of the county superintend* cuts out of the hands of the people he said he wanted competent men for that place, lie wanted the position taken out of polities as much ns pos sible, wanted to see the superintend ents with good salaries chosen by a board as the city superintendents ore s > ns to elevate and improve tho county schools. Mr. McMahan wns also applauded. POll ADJUTANT OENEHAL. George 1). House, for adjutant gen oral, was uhseut and ChairiUttU Austin read n letter of regret from htm. Mis opponent, J. NV. I'loyd, referred pleasantly to Muj. 1?. M. Mythe, of this city, his opponent two years ago, and to Major lilythe's company, the Greenville Light infantry, and then spoke of how the militia system had recently been improved. Colonel Floyd made a good impression und was heartily applauded. FOR RAILROAD COM MI SSI ON Bit. I'>. 11. Evans for railroad commis sion, reviewed the situation as to discrimination against, this section re garding the high local tariffs. The present commissioners are "either ignorant of the conditions or they arc subsidized." "Unless you elect, men of honor, integrity, intelligence and backbone you will continue to suffer in the future as you have in tho past. The people of South Carolina are being robbed by the railroads of $t,'.'?o.ooo annually on account, of this discrimination. Me attacked the ex press company and said it was the fault, of the p sent subsidized board that the express rates in North Carolina ami Georgia were from 30 to 70 per cent lower than in this State, lie was warmly applauded. T. N. B?rry, also for railroad com missioner, was a prohibitionist, lie was running as a clean honest man. He was cheered. J. K. Pettigrew, for the same of llee, said he was attached to Green villi* on uc^i'nt of having two brav: (irecnville hoys wn, fell in his com pany and were buried together. He advocated and promised lower local rates. \V. I). May field, for the same posi tion, said that this State paid higher local freight rates than any otllCI Stale, with the single exception of Florida. Consequently South Carol inn manufacturing enterprises cnnnol compete with those of other Slates. Atlanta can ship Hour to every point in South Carolina cheaper than the Hi'CCIl vi lie roller mills can. Wholesale merchants in every surrounding mid neighboring Stale can ship cheaper into this State than the merchants of this Slate itself. .1. II. Whnrton, for the same place, said he had educated four daughters ai Greenville Female College ami a sou at Fitrinnn university. He also reviewed the discrimination situation. W. I>. Kvans, candidate tor re-clee tion as railroad commissioner, was absent AND DEN T1LLMAN Sl'OKK. Senator Tillmuu Ktiicl: "Mi*, chairman, ladies and fellow citi/.cns: It. is six years since 1 had I he pleasure of addressing I he Dem ocracy of < i reen ville, ami after I his long absence il is a source of great gi'ai itieat ion to look you in the face once more ami hear your lirill greet ing ringing in my cars. I will remark in passing before I forget, it, that from, the hearing of this platform ? Ins morning, there must he some thing Weak and shaky in the knees here. I don't know whether it is the leadership in the Democratic party in this county, prohibition or what, Im! I do know whatever it may he, (he opinions, wishes, feelings and courage of the men who arc to lead (ireenville in rank are true as steel, ami will vote as they please in spile of jurisdiction to the contrary. Now they have changed the program for the first time in t his canvass. Owing lo my absence to speak in Dakota for I'.ryan, which 1 agreed to do he fore congress adjourned, I had lo miss a good many counties, and when I returned and went into the State campaign at Itenneltsvile immediate ly a great howl arose from some peo ple who have not. loved me in the oast, ami don't love me now, that I was meddling, doing what 1 had ac etified Senator Hampton of doing in 18U0, and that 1 ought not to do what. I objected to, pretending to be lieve it. contrary to the voice of t he people of the State, and that I had no right, to do it. The idea was ad vanced that, because of the fact thai I have no opposition as senator, that I ought, to content, myself with dis cussing national issues and leave the issues and facts important in this state strictly to the State campaign ers. Now, they have changed the program today, having heretofore kept, me at. the tail, through at least, six hours of sweat- to listen to a lot of speeches which 1 almost know by heart, i'nt today they have put me before the candidates for governor. I don't, know whether I am limited or not. Chairman Auatin?No, speak all you want- l<>. Well, fellow citizens, while I am feeling a little under the weather, 1 propose to discuss at some length, questions for your interest; but be fore. J begin 1 want to set the mat ter straight, why I am here, and what, light I have here. Now, in the first, place, under the constitution of the Democratic party, tin' State Dem? ocrntio committee is ordered to ap point a meeting for the State of ficers and United States senators and congressmen where they shall appear and address the people. 1 am here in obedience to the party laws, because I am a candidate for reelection, and the man wdio under takes to say I am a candidate and have no right to speak my views freely I wish to assure him that. I am going to speak without, fear or favor to any. I am going to hew to the line and let the chips fall where they will, and if some lingers and toes and necks got CUt off the fault I is not. mine. They say Ihn! I should not appear at. the meetings and if I did I should discuss national question; there is no dispute upon national questions. Suppose 1 had not. come what would have been the iieeusntion; that. Ken Tillinan cares no longer for Die one gal I us und wool hut fellows; lu; has gotten his fa) otllee ami goes about his business. They would have charged me with having gotten Die swell head and growing too big for my breeches. Then when I do come into the campaign in obedience to the. order of Die executive commit tee they turn around und say he is meddling in a fight that, he has no concern in. Tho people of South Carolina have enough of intelligence to vote on tin' question without him. it is nothing new. it. is tho Rome old cry of '00 and '02 whan I hud so many people on my book. It. did not. mutter what I Bald or did, it was I would ho damned if I did, and he damned if I did not. The llrst. thing I want to point out here and direct, your attention to is a matter which I think is absolute ly wrong. It is that your Democratic executive Committee has given the candidates a hole to hide in; baa furnished a dodge, by giving a box in which you shall decide whether you want prohibition or not, instead of having the men line up ami discuss ihe question ami not. eleot men who will lioneyfuggle to the interest of the public without discussion along the line whether you want prohibi tion or not. In '02 it was not. wheth er you wanted prohibition or wheth er you elected Till man governor. The only issue today is whether the dis pensary law will stay or prohibition take its plaee. 'Then we will have free whiskey. (Yells for Uoyt). You had better quit that holler ing, now, if you get up that old game you will get pretty hot. I say this business is greatly in favor of the candidates ami gives them this op portunity to tlodge the issue, and 1 will say that you will he fools if you don't make every candidate for the legislature in this county come out and say if lie is not going to vote for the dispensary. If the majority have this right to vote for it you have the right, to have our Servituts to vote for it. Von have U0 right to let them bring these boxes among you without, knowing how they stand, if they don't like it let them lump it. The question which concerns you, my friends, is one of vital impor tance, it is out; which involves the future welfare Ulld integrity of our children and grand-children. It is a question of vital importance and therefore is not. to be lightly dis cussed and whisked aside. Another phase of the question as far as I am concerned why 1 am in (his light, making- (his issue, is he cause I have Ih'cii attacked person al)}', and win" men undertake (o slap me in the face, OJlll iu question lliy actions us governor, lind when I get cowardly enough to keep silent it will he. time to semi me hack. Trenton to stay. I doil't want to mention lloyt's name iu any other than in a most friendly way, and just way. I did not come here to interfere as among men. I did not come here to say for you to vote for or against him. I am here to discuss the issue between prohi bition ami the dispensary and I don't propose to treat lloyt unfairly, lie is a high toned gentleman, but I warn you now Iho more you holler that way tho less you will like it before you get 11)rough. Col. lloyt declared In u speech that the dispensary law is a bastard law and the question is how (he dispen sary has come into South Carolina. I am here now to tell you, and it is entirely proper for mo to discuss it from the stump, but Die pulpit has taken it up and sermons are being preached Sunday alter Sunday on it ami saying we asked for an egg and they gave us a scorpion, WO asked for bread ami (hey gave us a stone. What, were the facts iu '02, after years resulting in county after coun ty going dry, and turning and going wel until special boxes were provi ded on one side to let those vote for it or against it V The issue was not against prohibition but it was against Tillmttnism and untilsm or Shepherd ism. Iu those boxes were till,(Hit) votes, 35,000 of these were for pro hihition. There were 02,000 Votes, and Ihere were 33,000 not voting on it. Prohibition never did have a ma jority. Tho legislature eainc to in-' lo get me to help I hem down on the winning side, they bad said whatever was voted in these UOVCS we will stand by. Prohibition had failed but they wonted to save the twenty five or thirty thousand majority. Well, at that time I had just* b?6U elected governor. In '03 22,000 ma jority, but iu spite of that, fact, they said, ami you can hear it said now, I hat it was a great political machine to further my own ambitions. In the name of common settee what more machinery did I want than your votes, 1 had the biggest machinery organ ized in this State or any other Stall'. An overwhelming majority of your votes, ami when they say I advanced the dispensary to create a machine, why, how contemptible it sounds to U man who loves the truth. When the issue had passed, prohi bition failed, mainly and truly through my efforts Who hail been elected there and tho reformers with, and without regard to who favored prohibition and wanted to put the people In better condition, prohibi tion having' failed and believing from my observation it was an impossibil ity. However, in view of the object lesson given from a State that had it. that whiskey ran riot, 1 resolved as a public man put in office that it. would not be good for South Carolina to have such al aw. It. would prove a lesson which T did not want to sec, therefore I went to work to institute something better. I investigated the dispensary at Athens, On. I found that after the town was run by prohi bition that drunkenness was on the increase. The prohibitionists report ed tins to the legislature and asked to have n dispensary for Clark coun ty and a man to sell it. 1 reported it to this State and got. the Senate to substitute the dispensary as enacted, and then got. the house to accept that. That is the straight, plain his tory of how I enacted the dispen sary. i bad a conference with a Methodist, minister In the conference who bad charge of the prohibition affairs. We made several alterations in the bill mainly at. my suggestions, some amendments, etc. When he talked to me he said this tight in South Car olina was against the saloons. T be lieve if is an iniquity and I will go as far as any man to expell them from the State and destroy thot (dass of liquor selling, When Colonel Ifoyt says it. is n bastard law and I bad disowned my bnhy I want, to call ins attention and your assertion to tho absurdity of bis remark. Here Is my version of the story. old Prohibition, who had been the pet of South Carolina, and an old maid named fanaticism, lie wanted to marry that old maid. He t hought, he had nor. He actually had the preacher ready when I found n good looking young girl called Com mon ,<;.<Mise. I said you want that old maid but you can't, have her. Hut I will marry you to this girl here. Af ter persuading he agreed to many Common Sense. The dispensary law is the offspring of Prohibition and Common Sense. Now, the old man repudiates tho marriage ami s:.ys that, he bad nothing' to do with it, ami savs Iiis olT spring, the dispen nary, is a bastard and he ask you people to help him i<? get n divorce so he cnn go to Iiis first I OVO, fanat icism. Is tins u bastard? No, yon know it. is not. It. If) the result, of a legal marriage. I am the (lod-fatlier of this baby ntid I propone to make this old man stand up to his con tract. i come now to another of the at tacks against, me. A man who goes into the pulpit to make a political speech nmi who-(Cheers for fJardncr). Tillman? I would hnve thought na few ns you arc you would have the decency lo keep your mouths nhul. (Cheers). Keep it up, the more you blow that bellows the hotter the lire grows, in ihis sermon or political speech which this reverend gentle man put forth from Iiis pulpit he lakes positions Oil the several phases of this subject, which 1 will read to you and discuss as briefly as 1 can, and explain them to you. 1 will say that, if he had not. taken tlie liberty nmong other things to mention me by name in an insulting and outrageous manner, 1 would al low him to preach what. In- pleases and pass it, without, a word. Here is ?nie clause in his sermon: ".Nothing can alter the fact that in selling liquor as it beverage to its citizens for a profit, the State is do ing an immoral act, and no sort of logical quibbling, and no sort of dem agogic appeal to the prejudice or the cupidity of the people can cover up that, fact." He. has no authority to ask me that. If it. is immoral to Bell whiskey as a beverage through Stale ofllcers, then it is equally immoral for the State to have whiskey sold under license through these agents who pay for the privilege. There is not the scintila of difference between the conditions the ground of this light is that it. is ti sinful and immoral use of whiskey is derived from a pas sage in the Uible upon which I never heard any sermon preached but a prohibition sermon, in my life. "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink," and right, there to dispute with a min:ecdlbisETAIO they st?>p; they don't go on and give you the whole of it. They take the liberty with this text as they <io with others. Nobody likes to dispute With a min ister about his sermons, 1 don't like '?. But as I say they stop right there, old what is the balance of Iba text, "That, put test the bottle to him, ami makes! him uruilk," ami also "that thou nutyest look upon his nakedness." That, you may cheat him or bamboozle him when you make him drunk, 1 am going to give you another text. Here is what Sol omon says. Here is what the wisest man that ever lived said, (read it). So if the people can quote scripture I can quote them. too. There is an other text 1 happened to stumble over, fell on it, and 1 added it. to my others. There is one thing these men are doing, if nothing else, they are making me study my Bible. I will show you where the prohibitionists couple their text and leave ??IT the tail, the essential sense. They preach immorality lo drink and sell it as a beverage. I contend, I take it there is nothing in (he Bible which forbids the use of whiskey. We, believing yotl had the right to if you had the money to pay for it and not. abuse it, but to control it the dispensary law was enacted. I did not want my fellow citizens forced in order t<> get. whiltskey, because t hoy lowed it, to lie and play the hyproerite, lo get sick every time they came to town to get, a doctor's certificate, so I sub stituted the. dispensary system. I stood by the law in Columbia for a year and a half at almost, the risk of my life. The prohibitionists harp on the fact that hey had a majority; I would say they did not have u major ity. I will point to the fact, that iu '04 they went dispensary with an ov erwhelming majority. The House and the Senat?' in 1805 were in favor ?>f it. In ".Hi in favor of it, '98 in favor of it except a few friends of pro hibition, and now they ciiihp to us in this year of 1000 and swear they wer?' cheated. They expect you to right them, lo lake the scorpion and bruise his head ami give them a nice loaf of bread. Well, gentlemen, you recollect in '04 under the supreme court we bad prohibition for three months. You know you got more whiskey then. You knew from ob servation that drunkenness is de creased in Greenville under the dis pensary, and you Know the people have learned t?> control their appe tites, because they cannot. g?>f it lo drink as they did. Then you know when the dispensary is closed up It stays shut and you can't, get it out of the back door. It, has been charged that there is an unholy alliance bet wen the whis key men and the church. I charged it, and I charge it here now again. "That, charge is too absolutely false to receive a moment's credence from any human being who has the slight est lingering regard for truth left in him. Senator Tlllman, who made that charge, knew to be false when he made it. The charge cannot, be interpreted ns anything else but a mean and coi tomptible effort to break the force of the almost, unan imous advocacy of prohibition by the preachers, and served its author as a good occasion also to throw contempt upon a class of men for which he has in many other ways ex pressed contempt." He not only charges me With slan der in uttering those words, know ing them to be untrue, but he goes further and declares I uttered them to express contempt, for men for whom I have contempt, f stiy here in this presence, among the people who listen to (iardner, that. Gardner owes it. to himself to prove it by bringing certificates, or he owes me an apology, 1 pronounced It a false hood when my religion was brought into question in '00 and '02 and they charged me with infidelity, 1 said then that f was a. poor fallen sinner going from the cradle to the grave, admitting my weaknesses and trying <<> force!, them, but I swear no preacher con say that I ever treated ilim except with respect; but it is al ways the bit. dog that howls; he al ways howls. Is it. an alliance with the preachers and barkeepers or not ? Is it. true or not? (Voice Yes). Very well. 1 will vote you on it. All you who believe, it. not. true hold up your right hand. Now, all you who believe they are in an alliance writ ten or otherwise, hold up your hand. One more word and I am done, I am sorry I had to bring this matter up here, but I believe always in coming to a man's house, face to face, teeth to teeth, if I have a controversy to settle, and therefore had very little to say until 1 eanie here and I am sorry he is not here, but his friends will tell what I have said when he coincs, nnil let Ii im write ay. apology ami publish it. F believe lie is an honorable man and that he. will do it. One more phase of tho. ques tion mid I am done. An effort, is being made by the ministers of the gospel but. f don't know whether by the ma jority, to use the pulpit to take charge of the polities of South Caro lina. Not preaching the word of Cod, an ordered by the divine minister, but. preaching politics. In conclusion I am going to sec tho sense here iih to prohibition or no prohibition, on leg islative candidates, Col. Hoyt would tnko the constablea away, lie hopes in some way to enforce the law, but he cannot do it, but if you semi down to the legislature to Columbia you will protect tin* law, the policy ?>f the state. Now, as I have i>?>t had any other opportunity , 1 wish to sco how you are going to vote on the legislature. , L'o repeal the dispensary law and enact prohibition? I will ask you to hold your right hand iu support of the dispensary. KollII, you have been fair and just; you have given us a straight, report of the meetings, hut you have been unjust, to suppress things you should report, .Now, 1 ask you to report it as it is. Uivo us a straight report its to the num ber of people here. 1 would buy twenty-live hundred in all. All you who are going to vote for legislators who will support the dispensary, hold up your right hand. (Crowd for dispensary). THE OT11EK SPEAKERS. At the conclusion of Senator Till man's speech, the guberuatoriul can didates were given an opportunity to rid themselves of their usual speech es. Governor M. l>. McSweenoy, candi date for re-election, was introduced, lie said that he was not. here to sling mud ami to run down his opponents but, would make a clean speech lie referred the voters to his record as governor, lie said that during his administration the dispensary law had been rigidly enforced, that the constabulary had done splendid work .Mid that there had not been any bloodshed by any of them since he became governor. The en forcement of a prohibition law, he said, would be u farce and a great harm to the people, that the law would only move a mockerv if an effort was made lo enforce it. lit; re ferred to the utter failure of the pro hibition law in Maine, Iowa and Kan sas. After writing to the mayors of the different cities of South Carolina. he decided to out down the constabu lary force und had thereby saved the Stnte the amount, of $20,000, and the dispensary law was now belter enforced than it had ever been. Mr. McSwccncy denied the charge of Mr. Patterson that there were numerous blind tigers in Charleston, and that the people there well going lo vote for McSweeney because he allowed the tigers to exist. At. the conclu sion of his speech Mr. McSweeney wits presented with a beautiful bou quet of flowers from Mrs. .1. .1. Co wart. Col. dames A. Hoyt was next in troduced. He said that he did not intend to make a speech, but felt, called upon to answer some charges made by Senator Tillmuu. Col. Hoys said that he had nothing to do with the establishment of separate boxes for the prohibition ticket in tins county, but that it was the work of the majority of the county executive committee. Tillmnn spoke of his (Tiilmnn's) right, to be in the canvass Col. Hoyt said that he had never ques tioned Tiilmnn's right, to bo in tin1 State campaign and like any other man lie had it right to be in the cam paign if he so desired it. He said that all the candidates would agree with him that tho dispensary was n machine used by politicians to gain office, but denied tho charge that he had said that Til I man was the con structor of this machine. Tillman has shown us Iiis familiarity with the. Hilde. 1 am glad that lie has been induced by some means to study the Bible. In referring to a passage in Hahnkuk which he said was the on ly argument in the Bible for prohi bition, Tillman said thai, Hnbakuk was an obsolete book. Probably he said that because be knew only until recently that there was stich a book. Habakuk is not an obsolete book and furthermore there are other passages in the Bible that, referred to Prohibi tion. Col. Hoyt in strong terms denounc ed as utterly false Tiilmnn's state ment that, the preachers were in nn alliance with the barkeepers, lie ask ed the question, "Who are the bar keepers?" Don't, the blind tigers here in Greenville g<? to the dispen sary to buy their liquor? Are the dispensaries in league with the preachers? Col. Hoyt. said that it was sinful or immoral to sell liquor, the State of South Carolina was then deep in sin. The condition of Greenville and Greenville county is now ten times worse than it. was dur ing the ten years' enforcement, of the local option law. At, the conculsioil of Col. Hoyt's speech on,e of Green ville's fairest maidens came upon the platform and in a graceful manner presented him with a lovely bouquet of flowers. O. Walt Whitman was next on iho program. Mr. Whitman said that as soon as he finished speaking lie would be ready lo lake a drink. He began by giving a history of himself and ancestors. He said thai he was born in Spnrtnnburg county, and that he was proud of It. Mr. Whitman traced his ancestry back to a rear admiral in the ICnglish navy. He said that he knew what it was to have a hard time that, he had always been a bard work ing man and could sympathize with the poor farmers and laborers. He said that Mr. Gary hud asked lor. Where he was during the war, and that, he had replied that, he was too young to go to the war, but had spent, flu? time behind the plow hand les ami had lost, two brothers wdio died lighting for their country. He made an attack upon the State co - leges, saying that he did not be'.'.CtO in taxing the farmers in oredr to run these State schools, lie asked the voters to give him a vote and said that if he didn't make a better gov ernor than MeSweeney had made be would kick himself. Mr. Gary was introduced und began by saying, "I contend that the bist way to deal with the liquor question is by the dispensary system. 1 e'nirn that prohibition will not lead lo the results claimed by its advocates." He referred to a recent, visit of bis 4o the Isle of Palms saying thai he found numerous blind tigers there and also in the city <>f Charleston. He said that if Governor McSwccney would go to Charleston and assert his manhood instead of sending one or tWO Constables, lie would bo able to put a stop to the many blind ti gers in Charleston. Mr. Gary said that prohibition had been tested ami proved a failure and that the dispensary hurl proved a sue C08S( itnt. until we can get something better let. us keep it. lie wius oppos ed to the high license system, but. be lieved that each county had a right to decide for it?plf whether it would hnve a dispensary or not. He advocated the establishment of public schools, that the State could not do better than foster the public schools, but that he was not in favor of pulling down the Stnte colleges. The demand for educated men was growing daily and if we do not fur nish our boys with an education wo would have to import educated men from the north. In referring to the old soldier he said that during his term in the legislature he had altVHya supported every meufsiire presented that concerned the veterans. He Buid he had represented his county live limes iu tho legislature und once in the constitutional conventiou, und that during the last six yours he had beeu speaker of tho House of Repre sent at ives, When Mr, Patterson was presented he COUiplllined of the height of the platform r?|ielf, ami said that he nev er liked to have anything between himself ami the people. He said that he fori" the dispensary law was adopted his OOUUty seat, Uarnweil, at Christmas time was a scene of debauchery and riotous coil dtiet. Christmas, now, he said, was like Sunday, lie said that, the prohi bition party were not- advocating to tal prohibition, but, wauled the sale of liquor continued for medicinal pur poses. Mr. Patterson said that it was gen erally conceded all over tho State I that Governor McSwccney had nr.I enforced the dispensary law. Ho said that there were at least six hundred blind tigers in Charleston, ami about two hundred iu Columbia, ami that they lltlVC been turned over to ihe watchful cure of the police Who wt.ii in cahoot with the tigers. hail read Commissioner \V. I>. ICv ans was next introduced, having been absent when his turn came, lie said he had tried to do his duty in his otlicc. 'The rate on fertilizers, on wood and other commodities, includ ing cotton, had been reduced. As a result the low country had shipped its cotton to Ihe mills up here. Ihc\ had been told that the hoard hail done nothing, thai the factories had been driven from I he Stale, but yet cotton mills had sorunir no all over this country It hud been said thai be was subsidized; that ,':is, I,. Orr said SO. 11* Mr. Orr thinks so he has never made any complaint to the board. His family was as honorable US Oil's He detailed his political record and (old of the honors bis home county had given him. He was on the steering committee of the constitutional convention ami had been elected first vice-president of the national association of railroad commissioners, lie would never be guilty of doing anything that would bring dishonor on his wife and ten children and promised lo serve ilie people ill the future as in the past. Col. .lames 11. Tillman, candidate for lieilf cnuilt-governor, was next in troduced, iic had heard so much speaking that In dreamed of it at night and lie. knew MlC 1.pie were tired. lie was a CUUdida'C for lieu tenant-governor and foil.- honorable men opposed him. They had all held oflicc before and he never had. lie could not. refer tbeni to any ollicial record, but there were boys in ibis county who served under him in the Spanish-American war. lie referred to Col. .lohn T Sloan and bis war record. Then to Senator Knox Liv ingston, whom In- said lie couldn't get. on tiny plai form. Livingston claimed to he from the grand old prohibition county of Marlboro. This gave occasion for Col. Tilllliau's snake joke, and also his roon joke. Col. Tillman then referred to Mr. Winkler, who, be said, was one of l lie most ai l fill dodgers be ever saw, Itlcasc had been as consistent as he could, but he had one objection to Itlcasc. When his regiment was mus tered out, the. privates hail given him a medal and I5lca.se presented it, sav ing that, they hoped to sec him climb the ladder of fame, but lilease is try ing lo push him off the ladder now. lie Iben briefly outlined his platform, lie was squarely for the dispensary. Temperance is a moral question, not a political one. It. should be taught al home. He was a t iod-l ea ring man and a member of the church, but didn't want Iiis church dragged into politics. In every Slate prohibition Iltis beeil a failure. Time was called .hi him. In reply to a question, he didn't favor pulling down any State college. Senator Knox Livingston said he had heard Col. Tiilmnn's speech for the nineteenth time and his joke had been borrowed from a congressman in t he Sixt h dist riet. Col. Tillman -The congressman borrowed it. from me. Livingston No, sir; 1 beard hint tell if two years ago and ho said you borrowed it from him. He did no! wish to be the funny man of the campaign, but stated his claims for the high and distinguished olllce. From 187(1 he had endeavored to uphold the banner of Democracy, not onlv in the da.VS when it caught every breeze but when liiere were storms ami lightning1. His people bad advanced Iii III lo bis present po sition, and nol only bis own county hut those nround it bad greeted him with loild acclaim. He did hold an Otllcc Senntor from Marlboro but ho didn't ask the. people to jump him from the position of private lo the presiding oilieo of the senate, lie asked for their suffrnge on his mer its. Ifo had devoted a good deal of at tention lo the public roads. lie wanted convicts used on the public roads and had introduced a hill on thill line in the senate. He. had stood for prohibition when public sentiment would sustain it. if the representatives from any coun ty wished to be exempted from the dispensary, he would cast, his Vole for prohibition. (Applause). Col. Tillmnn Didn't, you vote for Ihe Appclt bill, a local option bill'.' Livingston A cs; it gave the people the rieht to vote whiskey out of any county. His record on education was clean and lie had ever Voted to advance the interests of the schools. He made no promises, btlt wanted the oiTice on his qualifications. Cole I.. Itlen.SC was the next can didate for lieu I ena nt -governor. He favored a. good school and a. good teacher in every community and the liberal but. not. extravagant support of the higher colleges. He opposed the white man's IllXC.i going to edu cate the negro children. The pooi man's children are paying for the schools from which they (hi not get the. Willie good Iis the rich people's children who have better chance lo secure the scholarships under the present, system. He favored hi-cnulnl schbIohs and had introduced a hill for Hint pur* pose at. tin*, last- session. There are too many laws. [Ovcil the best law yers cannot understand the laws. There is no man in South Coro? Una he honors more than Col. Hoyt, but. when he says the people ask for bread and they give them a slone. lie replied that, the prohibitionists enacted the dispensary law. They had a majority in the legislature, but they voted for the dispensary. Their leader had said in the house that he had had a. talk with that great, and good man, Gov. Tillman, and asked the prohibitionists to vote for the dispensary. As i<> the. Bible and prohibition, you can take the Bible and prove anything. He told a joke to illustrate the point. Time was called on him at this point. C. h. Winkler, representative from Kershuw, und ti candidate for lleuteu nnt-governor, was n?'xt. 11?* was making (he race <>n his record und hud said nothing unkind of any of his competitors. ll?* had served his county for six years iu the legisla t ure. IU* stood for Ihe dispensary as a temperance measure, and if the g?>od people would rally to its support (hey would have the best liquor luw ever enacted. ()n?* of the hest signs is the Inter est the people are taking in educa tion, and he had done all he could for this cause. lie had also stood up for the old Confederate soldier, und this wits one of the most pleasant recollections of his life. He had had considerable experi ence as a presiding otllcer, having been frequently selected to preside temporarily over the house, lie hud been elected three times to tllU lumso and to the constitutional convention, tllwtl.VB at the head of the ticket. Col. ilno. T. Sloan was the last, speaker for lieutenant-governor. II?' hoped to be first on August. 28th. He was a Piedmontcr, having been born iu I'endlcton, and was glad to meet ihe people of (.Irccnvillc. At sixteen years he entered the Confederate army and served through two of the bloodiest campaigns. Neither Col. Tillmnn nor anyone else L'Otlld put u blot on his war record, anil if Col. Til I man bad gone through what be endured he might have the reputa tion of a dodger. No one would do more for the old soldiers than the speaker. He is from Ihe Piedmont, and believed he would gel U good vole here. He ha?l tin' experience for the position, having been first elected to Ihe house from Itichlnnd, I hen served eight years in the sen ule, had been elected l<> the constitu tional convention. Ills plat form mi ? In- liquor question w as a constitutional one. Let tin* people ni' cneh county say what they wan'. That is true Democracy, anil there will never he any rest until it is left to the people. lie detailed how many oft leer a the oilier candidates' counties have, and said it was time lor the Piedmont lo conic forward. lie had fought for Winthrop, had supported the Citadel and the Sooth Carolina college, hut the schools Io was most interested in are the com mon schools. lie would never he Satisfied until he saw the light of a school house on every mountain top, in . '. '..^community. The . 'ales for attorney gen eral, ti. Dunent' ""cllinger, the In cumbent, and .1. l! Moore, of Charleston, were both an.sent. Slate. Treasurer Tiinmcriuan had been obliged to leave, and Clintn Austin read a letter he had left. The next, speaker was I!. II. Jen nings, of fail field, candidate for Stale treasurer, lie came before the people on the recommendation of the people of his county, one which has not. bad a Statt- otliccr in many years. He spoke of his war record and referred lo several (ireenville comrades. Il.mmCUtcd on Dr. Timmcrmun's let i er. ("apt. .1. A. Mooiiey, candidate for solicitor, was introduced. lie. said that if made, no difference who was elected or what the laws wore, so the Slate's attorney's office was vidi filled, lb- spoke lor only a. few min utes, and in closing introduced in glowing terms bis opponent, Mr. ? I ulius I-'.. IJog'gs. Mr. Hoggs threw a few bouquets al. the. crowd and Cap). Mooiiey. He saiil be was glad that, so many good people had come from Pieken* to (Ireenville; he needed them in his business. lie spoke of I he courage, rectitude and indifference to cavil necessary for the incumbent of this office. 'flu- speaking" closed shortly be fore. G o'clock. Mr. .1. T. Johnson, candidate for congress, had to leave the. grounds, ami neither he nor Wil son was called. 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