The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, September 02, 1909, Image 2
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FIFTEEN THOUSAND VISITORS ATTEND *
CLUS1NG EXERCISES?TILLMAN AND \i
SHEPPARD MAKE SPEECHES. ' <<
Anderson, August t?-^:?Fifteen !
1
tLuu.-al.u ill' U. Wi'lilvli Uii(l Chliurt ti
came to Andercon to-day, sonic to
take part in and the others to wit- C
Hess the great Ued Shirt parade, and j'
to hear the orators of the day. j'
The iiLie of march was formed short- j
lv aftti 1) o'clock this morning, and I
at 11 o'clock the parade moved j
under Commander J C Stribling, ,
passing in review, ami witnessed by
thousands on the street, sidewalks,
in the windows, ba!ccn:es, etc.
Four thousand men and ladies
wearing red shirts, 6ome mounted
and the others on foot, formed the
parade, whtch was more than a mile
long. After the review the line
marched to Buena Vista Park, i
where, under the large and shady 1
trees, Ex-Governor John CShep- '
pard, of Edgetield. andSenatcr Till- <
man spoke to live thousand persons. <
Col K W Simpsou presided over the J
meeting. <
Governor Sheppard was the tirst
speaker, aud bis remarks were en- <
tirely of matters pertaining to the ]
Ked Shirt men. He recited personal J
experiences during the campaign of i
1876, and most interestingly told of |
the deeds of the brave men that (
wore the shirts of red. He related t
their history aud explained to the 1
young folks in the audience why the (
Red Shirts organized and told what i
they accomplished. i
His remarks, lasting nearly two i
hours, were brimful of interesting c
facta of the campaign made nec- i
cessary to take the rule of the St^te }
from the negroes and carpet-bagger.-. \
Senator Tillman was the next and (
last speaker. He opened by huil- (
ing compliments at the newspapers r
aud ridiculed th^ir editoriils about ]
bis leaving Washington during the (
tariff session aud going out West J
to make addresses. He sarcastically t
raked the newspapeis over the t
country about their "barkiug at my t
heels just because I have made ar- ^
raogemeuts to leave my lecturing a
tour to come to South Carolina to c
make five or six speeches." J
He then jumped on the negro r
question aud made those remarks 1
so often spoken by him about this 1
country going to racK and ruin if 1
1 in 4
compu 1SUI > aiutauuu 19 ?
He said President Taft is playing to c
8plit the Solid South, and that he t
is dispensing a few census jobs t
here and there, hopiug that it will e
help him in the job. c
He repeated that story about how <3
he, Tillman, blocked the Senate in t
the Cruni matter, and said that t
nothing pleased hiui better than u
getting mouey from the Re- \
publicans for making two-hour s
lectures in which he would tell \
them they were fools and idiots. He a
rapped the News and Courier and
The State. He said that Deacon j
Hemphill was advocating the orgau- r
ization of a commercial party, ^
which is nothing short of Republi- a
can. (
A voice in the audience said that j
the newspapers did not amount to 12
much, aud Tillmaa replied: "No, ]
they don't; but a mosquitto can s
make it mighty unpleasant some- j
times/' c
After giving Tillmau considerable r
advertising, telling what be had s
done and what he took special de- s
light in and relatiug how he ac- t
complished this and that in the I
Senate, although opposed by lie- t
publican Senators aud unassisted by fc
Democratic Senators, and after J
rapping the newspapers good and c
hard and those persons differing jt
from him iu opinion, Senator 1
Tillmau branched off to lied Shirt 1
days. He recited persona) experiences t
and told of the awful condition in t
which the State was at the time, i
He told of the brave deeds of the 1
Red Shirt organization and the bal- r
lotiog in the Hampton campaign.
Senator Tillman was given an s
ovatiou when introduced and a
throughout bis speech there was s
considerable applause. The au- v
dience was with him from start to 1
dnisii and every utterance, especially t
sarcasm was used or when an attack p
was made, brought forth yells upon 3
tils. He spoke for nearly two
lours.
When Senator Tillman concluded,
i picnic dinner was served in the
rove to the immense crowd. The
lay passed off pleasantly. Good
weather prevailed and few arrests
resulted. There were no appreciable
ielays in carrying out the programme
of events and the first lied
Shirt Reunion has gone into history
as a grand success.
Senator Tillman, speaking of the;
bloody shirt drill in Aiken, August j
3, 1876, said:
"There has been more or less dis- j
cnssion in the papers of the State j
recently about the origin of tbej
red shirt as the Democratic uniform !
in 1876. I shall leave it to others
to sift the evidence and determine,
if it can be done, just where the
credit lies. I want to tell what I
know about the bloody shirt and
its effective use in that momentous
crisis. In mv story of the Hamburg
riot I have mentioned the
drum-head court-martial, which
condemned and executed prisoners
ifter the fighting or firing had
leased.
"The last man selected to be shot
was a notorius thief by the name of1
* , . . I
romp Uurry, wnom 1 naa Known
From boyhood. He had furnished
ihe names of all whom he recognized
:o District Attorney Stone and his
jvidence caused warrants to be issued
against practically all the
neaibers of the Sweetwater Sabre
dub and a few others who were
lot members: We were charged
villi murder aud conspiracy to
nurder, and the sheriff of Aiken
:ouuty was ordered to make the ar ests.
Like a wise and prudent man
le did not attempt to execute the
varrants, but communicated with
:ol Butler, our captain, and by
:ommon understanding all of the
neu thus charged assembled at
r*V*abaa rvAnr] u nloao roar
uunci viiciuatc |/vuuj u uvit&
Jol Butler's home, and started for
Uke:i. The procession was led by
he sheriff in a buggy, followed by
he so-called prisoners, armed to
he teeth, and accompanied by bagjage
wagons with supplies for horses
ind men, cooks and a full camping
?ut6t, except tents. The llev Wm
>haw, who owued a plantation two
uiles west of Aiken, the dwelling
louse on which was unoccupied,
lad kindly offered it for our use.
?Ve reached this place some time beore
sun-down and took up our
|uarters for the night. Court was
o convene two days later and we
pere thus early on the ground in
irder to give the lawyers who had
iur case in hand, opportunity to
Iraw up the papers and prepare for
>ail, if we were to be allowed to reurn
home. Gen Butler, who was
inder indictment, the Hon George
Y Croft, the Hon D S Henderon,
of the Aiken bar, and Majo:
Villiam T Gray were acting as our
ttornejs.
"Among those whose interest had
nduced them to acompany us was
ny brother, the Hon George D
Tillman, who had been nominated
is a candidate for Congress in our
Jongressional district. He had beeu
n correspondence with General,
ifterwards Senator J Z George, of
Mississippi, the man whose contractive
statesmanship in devisng
means to safeguard Southern
civilization by the elimination of the
legro vote will cause his name to
hiue for all time as a great con- ,
titutional lawyer and benefactor of
he South. It was under him that
Mississippi led off in disfranchising
he negro and practically every
southern State has followed suit.
Mississippi had thrown off the
arpet-bag yoke two years before
hat, and Gen George advised my
irotlier to have the South Caroinians
impress the negroes both as
o our strength and the purpose of
he whites by using a spectacular
miform and urged the parade of
ong processions of armed white
nen through the country.
"The Hamburg riot had caused
uch a furore throughout the North
md the Kepublican press of that
ection was waving the bloody shirt
nth such frantic energy that Mr
Dillman suggested to Col Butler
hat we, though then assembled as
irisoners, should wave the bloody
hirt in reality as a token of defiance.
The idea was seized upon by all of
us and Luther Ransom and myself
wer?- appointed a committee to visit
Aiken, confer with tin Democratic
authorities and see if we could in*
duce them to help us in secuiing
shirts to be donned as uniforms. Col
Ceorge \V Croft, then county chair,
man, entered into the scheme with
great zeal, and gave us au order
for the necessary yellow homespun.
Having obtained this, Ransom, who
knew nearly all of the ladies of
.viivrij, iiCLuiupaiuei* me in uiy uu^^y |
aud we distributed the bolts of
cloth among the ladies with the request
that they make us forty homespun
shirts just as soon as possibb.
As I remember it, the cloth was distributed
one afternoon and the next
morning we drove into town from
our camp aud gathered up the garments,
obtaining a good supply ot
turpentine and Venetiau red at the
same time: I had telegraphed to a
friend in Augusta, Tom Henry, to
send me without fail two negro
paper masks; or rough faces, aud
a kiuky chignon. I had ordered a
carpenter to make a large flag staff
in the shape of a cross and I got one
of the ladies to make an enormous
shirt, bigger than Goliath of Gath
would have woru. This shirt was
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Registration NoticeNotice
Is hereby given that the books
of registration for tne Town cf Kingstree.
S C are now open in the office of
(he Kings tree Hardware Company on
Academy Street of said Town, for the
registration of all voters and qualified
electors within the limits of the Town
of Kingstree, S C. who, under the laws
of the State have the right to become
qualified voters within the limits of
said Town.
Applicants for registration must,
when applying for a certificate of registration,
present his certificate of
registration from the Board or Supervisor
of Registration of the County
entitling him to vote at the polling
precinct within said Town, ana must
offer proof of his residence within the
limits of the Town for four months
und the payment of all taxes assessed
tgainst him due and collectible for j
the previous fiscal year. *
C C Burgess,
Supervisor of registration for the
Town of Kingstree.
August lltli 1909. 3-12?tf.
Administrator's Notice. All
persons having claims against
the estate of Frank Scott, deceased,
ivill present them, duly attested, ami
ill persons indebted to said estate will
make payment to the undersigned.
John Scott,
812-4t Administrator.
GTiorifFc SqIa
WIAVA AAA M WWAW^
By virtue of an execution to me directed
I have levied upon and will sell
for cash for taxes on the first Monday
n September, the 6th, before the court
muse door in King-tree, S C, thefolow.ng
described lands, to wit: 100
teres more or less in Sumter township
jelonging to L> R Cook and bounded as
follows: North by lands of J L C Cook,
>n the Eastby landsof Floyd & Moore,
m the South by lands of Norman
foung, on the West by landsof Warren
^IcClam. Purchaser to pay for papers.
GeorgeJ Graham,
8-19-3t S W C
Kingstree
/ CAMP N?-27
.fe" twirLA* Mtrriifoi
X v - lit and 3rd Monday
' 'MwBhUI I] Sight* in each
' v^JHIs iyJa I month.
"i' "i PfiVkW Visiting chopper* oor\
' "v>^?:v*i>eirvv dlally Invited to come
v. i4Bf// up and sit on a stump
or bang about on the
limbs.
Thos. McCutchen,
37 13m. Con. Com.
Ihv- ' . ;
turned into a flag with the arms outstreched
over the crosspieces. The
negro faces were tacked to the top
back to back, so as to make a grin uing
negro head from either side,
aud the chignon was nailed on top
of these.
"Satan's appeal to the fallen
angels:
'Awake, arise, or be forever fallen'
had been emblazoned in large black
letters on one side and my brother
suggested the motto for the other
side:
'None but the guilty need fear.' "
'The shirt was made bloody with
the marks of bullet wounds iu red,
and when the work of making the
unique banner was completed,
Kansom and others making suggestions,
it was surely a most ghast.
ly object.
"The yellow homespun shirts had
been put on and every wearer
stained his shirt with artificial
blood according to his own fancy.
Some used poke-berries to make the
color more fiery tnan the Venetian
red and turpentine, and vary the
tint.
"Everything in readiness, about
4 o'clock the day before Court was
fi-v /tAnronn fKo TJomKnirr viotoro tn
IV LVI1 T giiVj 11JV liuuiuui^ iivwiCj vv
tbe number of forty, uniformed as
uo men have ever been before or
since, rode into the town of Aiken
in column of twos. The flag,
which was in itself not very heavy,
required a very strong and muscular
man to handle it when we began to
gallop, and Milledge Horn was selected
as flag-bearer. He was six
feet high, weighed over 200 pounds
and was correspondingly muscular,
and had lost five brothers in the
Confederate army, a sure guarantee
of his courage and daring. As soon I
as we reached Aiken we rode quietly
by every house where the ladies '
had been at work on onr shirts, so ;
as to let them see us. Then string- 1
ing out in column of file, making !
a line nearly a quarter of a mile '
long, the order was given to gallop,
and for half an hour, at break-neck '
speed, we paraded through every
street. It being dry we soon kicked
up a great cloud of dust, while all
(Continued on third |?:ige.) I
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POOR CROP CONDITIONS.
I
Recent Hot Wave Has Damaged Cotton \
Crop 15 to 25 Per Cent. j
The Columbia State published |
last Saturday reports from its corre- |
spoudeuts, covering twenty Gve |
counties in South Carolina, as to |
crop conditions, especially cotton. |
The consensus of opinion indicate s |
that the recent drought has caused |
the cotton crop to deteriorate from |
15 to 25 per cent. The hot days with |
dry, cool nights have caused cot- |
toil to drop its leaTes and forms ,
and checked the growth of the plant. |
Conditions in this vicinity are 3et |
forth by the local correspondent of |
The State as follows: j
Kmgstree, August 27:?On ac- <
count of the extremely dry weather |
for the past two weeks the cotton
crop of Williamsburg county has
been greatly damaged Shapes are *
falling and the fruit is not*^ - '
iug. Until the beginning of ? ,
present drought the prospects for an
unusually large yield were eucourag- ,
ing, but some planters now estimate i
the damage to the crop in this vicin- ;
ity at about 20 per cent. The corn crop
generally is excellent, and will !
return possibly the largest yield for ;
the past ten years. Practically the
entire tobacco crop has been gather- i
ed and is ready for the market. The ;
weed handled by the Kingstree ware
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nouses nas orougQi very encuuragiug
prices, although the best quality of
tobacco has yet been generally marketed.
Prospects for a large forage
crop are good.
A Narrow Escape.
Edgar N Bayliss, a merchant of
Robinsonville, Del, wrote: "About
two years ago I was thin and sick,
and coughed all the time and if 1
did not have consumption,it was near
to it. I commenced using Foley's
Honey and Tar, and it stopped my
cough, and I am now entirely well,
and have gained twenty-eight pounds,
all due to the good results from tak- <
ing Foley's Honey and Tar." *
D C Scott.
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