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I WARMING THEM l7 Senator Tillman and The Minister: Can Not Agree. CAMPAIGNERS ON HOME STRETCH. Popular Interest Is Flagging; in th< Recital of Set Speeches?Notes oq The Campaign. Gathering at Greenville. Greenville, Special.?This has perhaps been the largest and liveliest meeting of the present campaign. Senator Tillman seemed to have on his oici time steam, and the cheers for "Hoyt'f and the twittering of the steam up ?nd he spoke with vehemence. Tillman ?nnk*> fn more than an hour and, as he promised, took up the sermcn o? Dr. Gardner of Greenville. Tillman maaa the be.-t speech of the campaign. He had two primaries, first whether he was Justified in charging the ministerial-saloon keepers "alliance" and many approved of his denomination, and that there was th s "alliance." But It was his prohibition-dispensary hand p imary noted. There were rot over 20 or 25 who voted on his call for prohibition: when the dispensary vote was called for the hands as of old went us as if out of a Gatling gun?fully 25 to 1 was the record. The dispensary had the overwhelming number voting, and Tillman said this would be the result in the primary. Tillman made a connected speech and was severe on the ministers going into politics and talked plainly about Dr. Ga dner. who seemed to have many friends in the audience. ' TT ?* Avnopt tn snp^ak. ! V^UI. nu) I UIU iJVb VV but he made a spirited aud well timed reply to many of Tillman's points, and vigorously defended the proliibit;onists and Dr. Gardner. The audience shewed feeling throughcut.especially as to Tillman in his speech, and Col. Hoyt's friends were in evidence. It is to be noted that Mr. Gary spoke first and he made absolutely no mention of the Laurens incident, nor did he say anything about the Cha leston matter or anticipate Mr. Patterson's arguments as to his dispensary posi- j tion, and when Mr. Patterson came afterward he said nothing about the Charleston incident which occasioned the scrap; so it looks as if the cause of trouble has been buried. Gov. McSweeney furnished evidence that the seizures of bar flxtu es was ordered and Mr. Gary read an affidavit from Mr. Scruggs of Cherokee that constables were asked for thc?.*e and not supplied but were promised after the election, the affidavit says. Mr. Patterson omitted the Charles ton incident except to reiterate mm there are 600 tigers there. He made uo mention of Mr. Gary except as to his prohibition option Senator Tillman was. received with much applause. He said it was six years since he spoke here and it was a great pleasure to be here again and be so well received. From the behavior of the platform there must be something weak in the party here. He did not know whether it was prohibition or not. He felt the rank and file here were true as steel and would vote right. For the time the programme was changed and the order of speaking reversed. It was charged that he had been meddling in affairs and that he had no right to be here and berause he had no opposition he ought to keep nw.iv or discuss nothing but nati nal issues. He explained the change or programme and was told he had unlimited time. Before he started he told why he was here and why he had a right to be here. He explained he was here in obedience to party law and he wanted it understood he would he* to the line and if some fingers and tees are cut off the would not be his. Then he reiterated that had he remained away he would be accused of being too big for his breeches and having gotten the swell head, and then when he came they turned around and told him he J too the samp as of was meuuuu?. n. ? old, he would be damned if he did and he would be damned if he didn't. He asked the crowd to be quiet until he bottled the hot stuff. Then he took up the special box in this county and said the committee had turned the candidates loose and was letting the question he settled for the county in a box. It was a bad p'.an and was intended to let the candidals straddle and honeyfuggle the people. It is cowardly in the candidates to ask the committee to allow th'a screen. You will be fools if you do not have the candidates line up and say whether they are for prohibition or the dispensary. The special box Is a fraud and vrtn nnt like it lumn it. The question before you is one effecting you and your progeny for a lifetime. It is a question to be decided upon the merits of the matter. There should be no undue pressure. He was here also because he had been attacked and he and his administration had been attacked and held up to deri-ion by Col. Hoyt the other day. The candidates present spoke with about their accustomed energy and effect. At Pick;ns Court Hi use. Pickens, Special.?The meeting here started by the candidates for superintendent of education. Mr. McMahan got somewhat alliterative on his- opponent and spoke of Capers cutting up capers and being a circular candidate on the patent style. Mr. Capers, a m in reply, suggested that he would open his barrel of literature later on, and insisted that his platform was a country school man to have charge of the county schools. They both reiterated their customary platforms. Gen. Floyd made a patriotic speech and suggested that the militia ought to be kept up to a high standard, in view of the danger with the other powers on account of the Chinese troubles. The railroad commissioners said nothing unusual. Col. Hoyt was the first of the gubernatorial candidates to talk. He wanted it understood that he was making his race on principle, and that this was the first time he bad ever presented himself for office and that he did not run because he liked to go into politics, but because he was presented as the exponent of a principle that was dear to him. The talk of the political and unholy alliance was simply an effort on the part of some to cloud the issues. If it was not right for the citizen to engage in the sale of liquor it was not right for the State ' ? - ? 1 rst to <10 SO. rie luvorru iue nrycm ui luc dispensary law. and this did not mean lae sale of liquors through drug stores. He said he had no objection to the part that Tillman took in the campaign, except that he thought Tinman should take no part in State politics, and it was even being intimated, jokingly no doubt, that Tillman had come out to help Hoyt. If Tillmau. persisted in fighting him he would try issues with the present argument and was satisfied that the people would act without dictation and as they should. He felt that prohibition was wanted and would win. G. Wa.lt Whitman spoke with fire. He jumped on the State colleges, made fun of the McSweeney badges, spoke of the rottenness that was alleged to exist in the State government, said what he would do if elected governor, and insisted that me dispensary was neither enforced inside or outsde of it. Mr. Frank B. Gary defined his position as usual. He asked to know what had become of the investigation as to the constables who had attended the meetings, and said that a constable at | tended yesterday s meeting no uuuui for the purposp of booming MrSweeney. He repeated the affidavit of Scruggs as to a constable not being in Cherokee. and urged that there were certainTy need for more than four constables for Charleston. He defined , his jiosition on the dispensary, public schools and other matters the same as heretofore, and made no mention of the Charleston incident.. Mr. A. Howard Patterson made his rpiMiiar disnensarv sneech and argued to show that there were more liquor | drunk in prohibition times than ever, and that prohibition was a delusion and a snare Hp urged that the Charleston police were in cahoot with the tigers, and wanted to know why McSweeney had not called upon reputable citizens to testify? He again attacked McSweeney for not seiziug bar fixtures in Charleston, and dared him to telegraph that the fixtures of Hemme Halsey, the Charleston hotel, and Calhoun hotel, be seized. He then took up Mr. Gary, repeated about the effect of Gary's election and how many brothers that would put in office and what salary it would give them, and then argued that Gary's dis pensary views meant the gradual disintegration of the dispensary for Charleston. Columbia and other places "would get from under the dispensary | only to have it starved to death. Gov. McSveeney said that the whole fight seemed to be to get in his shoes. The other candidates did not undertake to show that the^ were better qualified or that they could do any better. but simply seemed to want to tear him down, evidently because they thought he was the man they had to beat. He took up his regular argument to show why the dispensary is on waII nlioAri'oc) PKorloctrtn QC j IIUl ao ?CiI UUOCI ?tu IU vuai 1V9VVU wu elsewhere and what he has done towards the enforcement of the law there and elsewhere, and how the records show that his administration has been as good or better than that of others in results. The constables have instructions to seize fixtures and they had them for a long time. He had affidavits from the constables at the meeting that they were in these places of business. He could not run around to hunt up tigers and would not do so. He read the letter in the Cherokee county matter, and said that the whole thing was an effort of Magistrate Scruggs to have his constable paid an extra salary, and had he appointed the constables the cry would have been that he was putting on extra men *?' ?1? 1?#?T? Af Via r?QnHl- f under me iaou ui cut v.uuU? idates, so it mattered not what he did it would be complained of. He talked about hi6 business adminf^ration and that he wanted to be judged on what he had accomplished and the good era that prevailed. He spoke of his first appointment having been that of a little factory boy. The candidates for lieutenant governor followed in their usual vein. Senator Tillman's speech was vigorous as usual. The day was dull and devoid of incident. * ttt-iL.ll. Ai wainaiia. . Walhalla. Special.?There was nothing of particular interest in the campaign meeting here. It was somewhat smaller meeting than those recently held. It was quiet and entirely well disposed and no one was in ill humor. Gen. Floyd spoke first and spoke his trouble in fighting without Lis opponent being here. The railroad commissioners came next. W. D. Mayfleld, J. E. Pettijrew I Thos. N. Eerry, and J. H. Wharton mn/lft nrottv miirh th^ir piiQt/*marv ar JUMUV v? .. gument on business lines. Mr. Wharton protested that the rate on egg; w s as high from Seneca to Laurens is to hfew York. W. D. Evans and Barnar-l B. K\ans had a tilt about the diipens uy policies which were secure<l through Barnard B. G. Walt Whitman took the ruddle of the stand and orated at length and with vigor regardless of the profuse flow of perspiration and heat. In starting out he said if liquor was made in this State he favored patronizing home industries. He reiterated his us ial ^pleasantries and arguments. Mr. Frank B. Gary also had to wad* put in the broiling sun and announced his platform and views, so well known. Some one complained that interior liquor was being sold and he said this was not the intention of the dispensary | system and it should not be so. He was running because he was | real friend of the dispensary and because the law was not now b-dng enforced. A. Howard Patterson said there was but one issue in this campaign and that was the liquor question, and he waded into his regular defence of the dispensary and some one who interrupted him was asked what he favored free liquor, and Patterson told him to vote for prohibition. He took up his customary argument and woun 1 u> with his attack on the McSweeney administration. especially 83 to Charleston. He pounded McSweeney for not se!z ing bar fixtures and worrying the pooi mountaineer who sells a jug of liquor. He said McSweeney talked about saving money. If he had a few more canstables they would do something. He said estimate 400 tigers in Charleston and 100 in Columbia, put the sales at 51.00 each, which would be $i00 a day i en AAA n^r and the ffinatahlPcr l/l flOU.VW JZ*.. ? if employed could save thi?. Ellerbe had about 60 constabie3. say at $ 2, would be $43,200 a year. McSweeney has 44 constables, which would be $il,680; difference $11,520. instead of $20,000 as claimed. There are in Charleston 180 revenue licenses and suppose each of these sell $5 a day. that would be $900 a day. per month 82.700, per year $324,000 worth of tiger liquor sold. So, instead of saving, the State is -losing by not having the constables Gov. McSweeney soid about the only ( thing against him was the tirade about him and Charleston. All ho wanted was to have the last year compared with any other year. It was wrong to single out any town. He did not claim :oo much, but the people were doing .heir share towards enforcing the law. j Cnno nt Mk fnnstahles will ever be a. owed to injure any one oi llirrsy jrounc's. He read a telegram from Jhlef Howie in whieh he showed that n?truetlons were is3ued to se'ze fix- 1 .ures and he stated that the reason flx.ures were not seized was that the "tl- ; ters got the goods bark on claim and j Jell very and the constables had not , aeen able to provide for counted bonds. The State board had been asked to proride for these bonds, but has not yet ione so. The expenses had not been included in Mr. Patterson's figures, and ae imagined a great deal. He did not agree with Gary there, j aught to be prohibition in one county J * ? T# +V?ora i ' Hid dispensary 111 umeis. ><. s-ere to be Improvements In the dispensary it mu9t oome from the legislature, and prohibition to begin with would Increase taxes. Col. .Tames A. Hoyt said that the friends of the dispensary had already criticised it sufficiently for him not to ' <ay anything about it. There is no uso to go to Kansas to find violations of the dispensary, for any law is violated there or here. He believed there would be agitation until the dispensary ia abolished. The dispensary has some i good features but they are getting in bad repute by non-enforcement. Moral 1 questions, if they affect the peop'e. 1 have a perfect right to enter into pol- < itics. The State has no right to en- ' gage in business. He insisted that there was no neces- , sity in the Bible fo: expressly pr hib- , iting the sa:e of whiskey, to begin with . J--i M the general princ Die is agmusi .1- . quor selling, and there was no such vile ( stuff known in the days of the Bibie as , fuss X, and he took up the Bible to . show its argument against the sale of ' liquor. Senator Tillman was well received after a six hour wait. He said he was limited because of time, and some ' cried: "The moon is shining," and Til'- : man caught the joke and thought this ' was a good one on him about this 1 moonshine country. He then tock up Col. Hcyt's sreech and sild it w s dis- ! tinctly his purpose not to dictate or 1 meddle, and then again explained why ' he was running, and he was going to 1 speak on what he pleased and would take no orders from any one. The people would elect no governor this year not in sympathy with him. He has < been ail along the line and knew of i what he spoke. Anderson Meeting. < Anderson, Special.?The meeting .' here was well attended. At least 1.200 1 wore present at the end of the speak- 1 Ing. There came near being a "scrap" but it was avoided. Mr. Brooker was ' talking about his record ana compar- , ing It with Mr. Derham's and while talking abo'it Mi. Derham's father v having held office under Scott and ' .Moses said something about whether j the people would rather have him or ? the son of such men as Scott and j Moses or something on that line, j Those on the stand were not paying | particular attention but Mr. Derham j jumped up and making for Mr. Brooker said: "Do you mean to insinuate." < He said no more. Chairman Breazeale and Mr. Hood jumped up and walked between the two men. Mr. Brookw'rl' time wa:? up and Mr. Breizealb called time. .Mr. Derham said he was not violent." but wanted to say that the insinuation was uncalled for. Mr. Breazeale had both candidates sit down and there the matter ended. Mr. Dtrham caine up with his fl=t clinched and as he approached Mr. Brooker got ready to meet him but Mr. Breazeale and Mr. Hood stepped between them and there the matter ended. Mr. Brooker says he intended no re flections and was only replying to the card circulated about him and he was saying in defense of his position, "It you were asked to vote l'or a son of Seott or Moses against me." He went no further and says it was hi6 purpose to explain when Mr. Derham arose and there were evidences of the squall that was nipped. Senator Tillmaji made a very long and very v.igorous speech. Frank B. Gary spoke first among the governors. He started out by insisting that prohibition was a stupendous failure. He reiterated his position and wanted it understood he was no apologist for the present Mtforcement of the dispensar.y law. He uoes not think the dispensary was intended to raise revenue. If it takes every dollar to suppress the sale it should 5>e ur-ed and the constables should net be cut off. He took up the Cherokc-e case and said McSweeney should have sent a constable there. As to McSweeney's claim of educating or helping a poo boy, he had helped educate eight boys. As to the Pons casa, had McSweeney pardoned him the governor wohld no doubt have been burned in effigy all over the State. McSweeney had no higher place thaq anyone else because of filling out an unexpired term. It was a desperate strait to talk about his kin being in office. It was left lor peace colonels to complain of his going to the front, no one complained when the seventh Gary brother werat to war. He said he had no organ or "ism" to L 4 ? hi* ?a1 I *\A unnn Mmeolf uuum mill. nc I cucu u^/vat uiuiovn. quoting from John G. Saxe's lines. A. Howard Patterson commented on the closing of the dispensaries at all campaign meetings and then he eulogized the dispensary system. Then he attacked the prohibition platform r.nd said it was not prohibition but the use of the dispensary machinery under ths name of prohibition. The prohibitiondispensary will be as much of a machine as the present system. There would be more Hoyt's cologne sold un der that system than ever before. There wero blamed few prohibitionists from principle. Hoyt wants to be governor more, tkau he wants prohibition; then he rapped Gonwes ana waueu into McSweeney. He said he would not be in the race if McSweeney enforced the law. if the law was enforced in Charleston it was because he jvas after him with a hot stick. The instructions McSweeney reads are over a year old. and yet they have seized no fixtures. He took up the custom house and other matters on McSweeney. He feaid bloodshed had to come if necessary. but it was not necessary. And then he took up the constabulary figures. Then he took up the Gary? and argued that they should not take everything in sight, but leave something for their friends. Gary's platform mennt prohibition, then free liquor and starvation of the dispensary in Charleston, Columbia and elsewhere. He edged on the Charleston incident to-day by saying what he sa!d there. Every daily paper was supporting h.m, and he spoke of his newspaper appoihtments and spoke of me is an "honorable" newspaper cyan. Gov. McSweeney said aJl spoke about violations in Charleston and Columbia. Why are they not fair and show how well the law is enforced eisewn^re. They do not tell you about the grand juries throwing out cases. Patterson rould not get the grand jury of Barnwell to beiieve him and he could do nothing to force true bills. He related what he had done towards a general jnforcement of the law He never had refused to send a constable where asked for by reputable citizens. He explained the Scruggs-Cherokee matter. He read a letter from Chief Howie " * ? PliorloKtnri to snow me couuiuuus m . as to seizing bat: fixtures. His instructions are for constables to do their full duty. Scott was a partisan t>f Pattcrson'3. He then quoted the record of seizues and cases tried, claiming a better record than in previous years. Howie also said the statement that there were BOO tigers in Charleston was absolutely false. Patterson asked how many there were and McSweeney told him to find out in his own way. His adminisrration stood for him and he took up the Pons case and said every application for pardon was carefully considered and petitions were not given undue weight. He was not going about slingine mud and merely presented his claims. He discussed prohibition to show that it was not feasible or good. He explained why. as a business man. he reduced the constabulary force, and there read letters to show that the law ana enforced cenerally. He read a note from some veterans pledging :hair support to him and reminding him of having stood by the veterans in his last annual message, and he thanked Anderson for Its previous support of him. Col. Hoyt spoke of Hampton and red shirts started the '76 campaign on this very hill, and he spoke of those scene* with feeling and he rebuked the idea that he was running for the office and ft V ' V. ! not from principle. In order to enforce any law you must have the peo pie back of it ana tne iacg 01 popmar Siipport of the dispensary was its greatest drawback and the officials mast be good. If the municipal officers enj force the law here and not the goverI nor or constables. Gov. McSweeney I said this would be the case in Charleston if the people and local officer* favored the law. If elected he would not allow the enforcement of the law in Charleston to be common talk. He was told that the Char!e*ton raidg amounted to nothing. Tillman said he . would raise hell on Chicco street andN^ there was the difference. Col. Hoyt brought as witness Gary aud Patterson and Whitmpj. They all say they have seen the tigere In Charleston and they were his witnesses as to hoav wide open things were. He knew nothing of it himself, except everyone said the tigens were common there. He sald^lt was a slander to say drinking was as general as claimed and he had some fun out of his pri* raaries as to those who drank. Not one of the mayors said the constables enforced the law, but they enforced the law themselves. The "tig, ere" are In the country and some one said there was not a blind tiger in Garvin township and Col. Hoyt said the same could be done with prohibition. Mr. Richardson said It would give no money. G. Walt Whitman wae running purely because of patriotism and repeated Wb usual argument and particularly on prohibition. Any man who preaches prohibition is a fool, fanatic or a crank. Josh Ashley and Whitman had a tilt, Ashley insisting that he never voted for the dispensary. Whitman took a few raps about the enforcement of the law and Charleston's non-en, forcement He went for McSweeney as being without backbone, sand or nerve. It was announcd that all other speakers would have five minutes pro vided they spoke before Tillman. All who wanted more than five minutes would speak after Tillman. C. L. Winkler spoke first, supported the dispensary, liberal support for veterans and common schools. John T. Sloan referred to this being his native "neath and wanted to be elected as the first .ieutenant governor from Anderson. He wanted the Piedmont belt to stand by its boys. James H. Tillman favored the dispensary; prohibition had been an absolute failure where tried. Prohibition has almost trebbled crime in Maine. tn tho romnanv from here \ and received a large bouquet from some of his "boys'" of the company. Cole L. Blease stood on his record as a man. He wanted better schools and $100,000 given the public schools. * The scholarship system he urged was wrong. Favored dispensary law. Capt. Jennings and Dr. Timmerman spoke of their qualifications. Mr. Derhain took up the charges ami made reply and Mr. Brooker bam^C mered away on Derham's absence from office. McMahan and Capers skimmed over their platform. In reference to Bishop Stevens he said he was a minister and that was no doubt a good reason for his views, but McMahan nor the instructors of the normal school were preachers. Gen. Floyd made a patriotic defense of his administration and the militia. Mr. Rouse wrote that he was sick. Senator Tillman said be baa not Deen here in six years and this county stood by him as no other had. He was now. introduced as the "Ben-gall tiger. ' Of course he was "Ben," Gonzales furnished the "gall" and the whiskey men and prohibitionists the 'tigers." and' that was how his new name came about. He took up to-day's editorial in The State. It was an old thing to call him a riegster and a "boss." It. was because he always had an all round ring that they call him a "boss." The people are with him and that was why the people stood by him and that was no reason to call him a "boss." Then, as before, he explained why he was in the campaign, it was not his fault that he had no opposition, rne reason no one ran against him was because it was thought to be useleee. Because he came in compliajice with, party mandates he was accused of being a "boss." No one knew better than he that the people would be the very first to rebuke "hossism." If he had not come then he wcruld have been, jumped upon anyway, so k was only an evidence of the web that was being made. They would have said he had the swell head and all that and when he. came it was cHticism. so it is the ' same old thing: "Be darrmeu if he did and be damned if he did not." He never paid any attention to his critics and he always felt be'.ter when he had N. C. Gcnzales opposed to irnn and he knew he was right now wuen he had all of N. G's. venorn poured on hira. He reiterated h!s statement relative to the alliance of the preachers and cid barkeepers and whiskey men. The Feather-stone election showed the "al- I lianee" openly and plainly. A large ni'muer ci ministers uate neve^ oeen | opposed to the dispensary and they I have given it their quiet support. IJ If gave him anything but pleasure to ar/ fl tagonize minister*. for he recognized fl their influence, their piety and ex- || an:ple. but he felt constrained to taJk || out when slandered and when thpy ;||| entered po!itio3. He took up Dr. Gard- i|| ner's sermon and insisted that it wae Hj his duty to prove his charges or with- F||| draw them. No man could insult him.