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Below are the two speeches of Gov.
Tillrnan and the speeches of Col Shep
pard aad Lt. Gov. Gary made at the
late meeting at Greenville:
GOVERNOR T?LLMAX'S OPENING SPEECH
Mr. Chairman, Ladies ?and Fellow
Democrats: It affords me pleasure,
after an absence of nearly two years,
to return once more and meet the men
I of Greet ?ille and of the Piedmont I
! escarpment face to face. When last
1 had the pleasure of addressing an
audience of my fellow citizens on
this spot 1 appeared as the man put
forward by the masses of the people
to lead the fight for Jeffersonian Dem
ocracy. (A voice: "You've got
it.") I thank you on this first oppor
tunity 1 have had for the gallant man
ner in which you supported me both
in the Democratic convention and at
the electiou in November. For eight
een months I have been Governor of
South Carolina by your suffrage, and
appear here today for the first time in
my life as a candidate 1 am here to
ask you to re-elect me Governor.
(Loud cheers and applause and cries.
"We can do it.") 1 am here to give
an account to you of my steward
ship. (A voice: "Talk on." 1 am
here to meet my traduc?is face to face,
and let God and justice decide be
tween us. (Applause. A voice:
"Tell us about that free pass.'") Now
my fellow citizens, what were the
issues in 1890? They were whether
the people of South Carolina should
govern or whether a ring should gov
ern. (Cheers and "Hurrah for the
Blinker.") It is true we have a ring
now, but a baud is all around the
ring, (laughter and applause) and
composed of every white man in
South Carolina. But I refer to the
old ting?a ring like a joint snake.
(Laughter.) Although smashed to
pieces it is wiggling and wiggling
and making a despeiate effort to got
itself together again. (Laughter
and applause ) Now, what ate the
issues today? In few words, and
boiled dow:t to its essence, it is
whether the people of South Carolina
shall govern or whether corporations
and monopolies shall do it. In ail
free governments it is best and
necessary, if the government is to
remain pure, and liberty remain intact,
that there should be two pat ties. We
have but one in South Carolina?at
least one decent party?that of the
white men; bus hitherto we were
bound so we had to eubmit without
discussion. There was not the bene
fit to the people of open aud free dis
cussion on which they could decide
intelligently and which privilege ex
ists today. Some of us invented the
March convention, in which a portion
of the Democttic party met and laid
out their grievances aad their de
mands before the people and selected
a candidate to represent them. We in
vited the opposition to do something.
But oh no Tillrnan and his methods
were ridiculed by almost every paper
in South Carolina. It was advanced
by every stump speaker the ring could
put out. In march 1892, onr oppo
nents, out friends everywhere, come
farward and said: "Wel?, you boys,
yon were pretty sharp and we are
going to imitate you," and they en
dorsed Tillrnan and his methods
Now we did not take any patent out
on our March convention, and we
therefore couldn't claim any royalty
on it; but we can say, and I do say,
and I want you to hear it, that the
fact that they csme and acknowledge
that there wae v'ture in iL and that
it was t ight is a confession that I and
those who were with me are two
years in advace of them in statesman
ship. (Cheers and applause. ) I con
gratulate you, fellow Democrats, that
we can come here, free and untram
melled, to enter upon discussion for
the good of the people of South Car
olina, have no lunger before us the
danger which has hither to confronted
us of divisions in out* parly and an
appeal to the negro. This is true if
those gentlemen meati what they say,
and I must believe it. because they
tried appeal to the negro and failed.
So then I repeat that we are tending
on a condition in which we can dis
cuss all questions without danger from
the Republican party. Therefore I
do congratulate you that we have ar
rived at a point where tho6e in power
can be criticised by those outside to
the limit without danger of a split
(Aplause. "Ilurah for Tillrnan ") j
These gentlemen who are opposing j
me are repr?sent?es of peace and j
unity. (Derisive laughter and ap- j
plause.) But the only thing I can't'
understand, and which they will
doubtless explain, is why there has j
not always been peace and unity, j
(Applause. A voice: "That's right? j
that's what's the matter now.") |
They love peace and unity, oh, how
dearly, fellow Democrats they do love
it, (A voice: ' Yes, and offices
above all. Prolonged cheerings and j
applause ) Now listen to me onc i
minute and savesome of your hurrahs j
fo;- my !a*t speech. Just as the last
Legislature adjourned all of the news- j
papers of S<>uth Carol.na. w:th the
exception of a few which are in favor
of the people, let loose an avalanche j
of slander, falsehood, abuse and mai- !
ice on me such as has never boon j
witnessed in this State before. The I
lea 1er iti this was The State, the ?
Organ founded by the Haskeliites to j
?ceep alltve the embers of malice and j
misrepresentation of the unfortunate !
strife of two years ago. (A voice: i
"That's tight, and tell 'em to get that ;
down ") The men who got up the
last convention ? this last March con
vention?wen; N. G Gonzales of
Toe Siate, (No Good Gonzales,) and j
the editor of the Greenville News, \
A. i>. Williams. (Laughter aud '
cheers for Tillrnan ) Now 1 have
something to read, hoar. Here is a?
piece from The State of March 1 1
(Governor Tillrnan here read an ex
tract from The Srate, and continuing ?
said: Therefore you see, boys, that
it was not Tillrnan, but the farmers' :
movement they were after. Although
this last convention?this abortion of
a convention?swallowed the farmers' ;
movement, they swallowed it with
the exception of its best part, and
that was myself. (Laughter and ap
plause.) That convention, I tell you
was nothing but ths oid Hug
under a new t;?ime. ?t was
Ilaske?lMm in disguise. (Applause.
A voice: "That's sov and I be
lieve every word of that ") Now,
listen again. On February 28, N. G.
Gonzales sa?d?(The speaker here
read another extract from the State
criticising a position assumed by the
Greenville News ) Commenting on
it he said : Well, if I can judge any
thing by the temper of the audience
I think they'll have a regular cat and
monkey time over it. (A voice:
"Tell us about Edgefield Well,
Edgefield is three to one for the peo
ple's candidale. Our boys are too
wise to be caught by wolves in
sheep's clothing. (Applause and
cheers.) But let me read the proof
that this convention is not the begin
ning o? it, and that N. G. Gonzales
is the father of the movement and
not Williams. Ilere is what Gon
zales said. (The speaker here read
extract from The State in which its
editor spoke of the address to the
people as the result of The State's
exhortations ) Some of you who
read The State will remember that
three days before the address was
issued N. G Gonzales came to the
front in an editorial in which he de
manded of Williams "Shoot, Luke,
or give up the gun." Well, Luke
shot. (A voice: "That's what he
did") Well what was the result?
(A voice. "He didn't hit nothing.")
Hold on?let me tell you about it.
Luke shot, but while in that platforS
or in that call they enunciated the
fact that Gonzales and his crowd
must take back seats, they found that
unless these Ilaskellites were allowed
to come back and run the covention
they could have no convention at all:
("Yes, Lord, that was it !'') So tel
egrams weie sent out to the signers
o? the call to say that they didn't
mean it-^that the convention was
sovereign, and that they could do
what they pleased. (A voice :
"They ought to have put Ensor on
the ticket, too.' ) Well, let me tell
you what this movement is, and 1
prove it after awhile It is only
Tillrnan ism diluted. It is like moun
tain coffee: too week to run down
hill. The platform is a confession
that these men, including my distin
guished friend, who was in high posi
tion for ten years, never had the abil
ity to originate anything looking to
the good of the masses, and they
now say of our platform that it is a
good one, but you must throw Till
rnan overboard and make him a Jo
nah. (Laughter aud cheers ) Now
again, listen to this, and 1 want
every man here to catch it. (The j
speaker here read an extract from !
the Thirteen'6 platform, in which
they accepted the results of 1390.')
Now, if we have done anything, we
have taught these Bourbon* one lee
sou, and that is that the farmers have
some rights, aud that they have learn
ed how to accomplish the ends tl.ey
aim at. This platform is a confession
that if you will throw Tillrnan over
board we will grant you ati agiicul
tural college or anything else you
want and yet men who fought the
college to the last ditch, and who
oppose it stiil, ire on that ticket ?
men who helped to make Richardson
Governor in although he was
opposed to it, aud men who defeated
Sheppard for him. The men who de
feated Sheppard in 1888 ate now com
ing forward and telling the farmers
tiiat tt ay are willing to give them a
little more v?ice in the government.
But 1 know, my friends that you will
never surrender what you already
have won. I know that you are not
going to take these men whom you
have found wanting and throw over
board the honest servant who has
tried do do his daty. (Applause and
cheers for Tillrnan.) I stand here
and teil you that these men are only
my followers my students in states
manship, but they havn't graduated
yet. But my fViends, my time is
nearly out, but I will have something
to fay again to the opposition who
have put up two distinguished law
yers to prosecute the cause of the
people?that is, the ling, against B.
R Tilintan You are here as the
jury. 1 gay it, but not with egotism,
that but for me you never would
have had the opportunity of heat ing
candidates discuss issues before you.
this, then, is the court of last appeal.
I say to these distinguished attorneys
who ate prosecuting this case?one
of them your Solicitor for many
years?aud I say to yon that I am
ready for tria! ; and while I now give
way to speakers who are follow
me, 1 say, ' Lay on, AIcDuff, and
damned be he who first cries hold,
enough." (Prolonged cheering and
applause. )
SPEECH OF GOV. SU KITA HD.
General Gray introduced Governor
Sheppard as "au old schoolmate aud
lifelong friend." I was with him in
the historic Wallace House. He so
di?tingui-hed himself io that body as to
be cho.-cn prosid-ng ( nicer. Though!
young in years and political experience
he discharged its duties with such
coospicuous ability as to gaio univer5al
encomiums as hetng the peer of any ;
offioer South Carolina ever produced.
DuriDg the short time he was Governor,
upon the resigtafion of Governor
Tbomp-Ou, he exercised his administra- i
tiou with such ahiliry and conservatism
that his nume was placed before the
convention of 1886 for Governor, and
Governor Tiiltuaa in commenting ou j
his personal worth and meri toriousn ess :
said that to say more o? him was "to ?
gild r< linci gold."
"JS w we'll hear something/' wa*
the shout that first rent the air a:<
Governor Sheppard walked to the'
front, lie spoke in substance as
follows : i
I am very much gratified to he per- j
milted to address my fellow citizens of
a county which fnun the first has been
so devosed to the Farmers.' Movement.
While not the author of that movement
I cau prove by ths people of my own
county, and by the people of the State,
and by Gov.Tillman hi m pelf, 'hat I have
been a friend to i: from the first, and
arc to-day devoted toil as muoh as any
mau. My friend told the truth when he
said that the March Convention
' swallowed the barber's Movement?all
of it, except Gov. Tillman (fl^re the
! uproar wae so great, that Gov. Tillman
! had to appeal to the crowd to keep
jq'iieO All I ask, continued G)V.
' Sbeppard, is for you to hear the argu
ment and the fac 8, and then to tmke
up your verdict, a* a sworu jury. As
far as the March Convention being an
off shoot of Haskellism is concerned,
my friend knows that I took the stump
in his own support iu the last election,
and if he gets more vote3 at the primary
than I do, I will take it again this
year. The man does not life who can
say that I ever proved false, to the
white ppople. The reason we oppose
Gov. Tillman and not the movemeut is
that he has not carried out the promises
he made. (Here Gen. Gray inter
posed again to procure something like
order in the assembly )
The charge G )v. Tillman mide was
that the government had been too
extravagant. The promise be made
was that it should be more economically
administered, and that taxes should be
reduced. I fay taxes have beeo
increased. My frieud has spokean bout,
aristocratic, extravagant government..
Why the first thing he did when he was
elected was, at hie inaugural, to have a
platform erected, which cost $300 or
?400, and the people had to pay for it.
The only way, eaid the speaker as
the babel almost drowned his voice, you
cao keep me from convincing you is not
to hear me. If you are reasonable
men and will listeo to me I will
convine e you. I never voted for an
independent in my life.
The next thiag Gov Tillman did
was to recommend that the poll tax be
increased to $3. ? say that that is nob
the way to raise money, to tax the j oor
as much as the rich. It is not just, and
there are thousands iu South Caroliua.
on whom this tax would be heavy. I
think the Farmers' Alliance has the
right idea here, which is a tax on in
come.
I am in full sympathy with the
farmer, I ploughed for two years after
the war and made the money to go to
your Furm3n University for three
ye*rs. Yc3, I have; a wife and six of
the prettiest children in E Igefi-ld
couoty, and they all take afier their
mother.
Here the speaker was about to read
an extract Irocu a paper, but the noise
and calls become so great that Col Orr
besought the audience to maintain
order.
Every time I go to say anything
against the administration, continued
the speaker, you interrupt me. It
looks as if you don't want to hear the
truth. I will read you a piece from the
Register in which reduction of salaries
h advocated by Gov. Tillman. But he
has not made any reduction since he
has been in office. Governor Tillman
said :
"The purchasing power of money is
much greater than it was ten years ago.
The tax-paying power has not increased
at all, while the price of our miin
money crop, cotton, has hovered very
near the ces* of production. The
reduction of expenditures, when pos
sible, must then appeal to the common
sense as well as the pockets of our peo
ple, and no good reason can be given
why salaries in our State should be
fixed higher than in North Carolina and
Georgia, both larger and wealthier
States. We invite the careful atten
tion of taxpayers to the following
figures, taken from the comptroller's
repor s of the three States "
llore are his figures for South Caro
lina for 1886.
1886
Executive Department, ? 9.500
Comptroller Gen. Department, 5,800 I
Educational Bureau, 4.500
Judiciary Departrueut, 55.750 j
Board of Health, 9,100
State Department, 4,100
Military, 13 000
Treasury Department, 7,100
Adjutant and Inspector General 4.400
Sta:e House Keepers. I 650
$115,800
The figures for 1890 and 1891.the first
and secoud years of Governor Ti il man's
Administration, for tr.e same depart
ments, as taken from the appropriation
bills, are as follows :
1800. 1 SO1.
Executive Dept , $10,630 $10,030
Comp. Gen'l., 6,050 6,4*0
Educations1 Bureau, 4;30 4.550
Judiciary Dept., 67,400 62.700
Board of'Health, 11,100 11,100
State Dept., 3,975 4,000
Military, 10,000 10,000
Treasury Dipt , 7.000 7 000
Adjt. and insp. Gen'l 3.900 3,900
Slate ??ouse keepers 1,560 2.735
Tota!, $120,935 ?123,085
A voice?Don't miss the cow scrape
Sheppard?That's a small matter.
The cow question is nothing in com
parison to those great (questions of
expenditures.
I have told you that he complained
about the extravagance of Gov. Kichard
son's expenditures, but he has not les
sened them. Since Gov. Tillman's
term there was appropriated for him
iu 1890, ?11,000 more than wa* a
propriated for Gov. Richardson. This
was before this quesiiou between the
railroad- and banks and the State j
was raised. In 1891, $9 000 more
were appropriated than iu Gov. Rich- !
ardson'a time. I toll you Gov. Till- i
man was only trying to inflame
the minds of the people, whin he
appealed to them on tlm ground of ex- j
travasatici The government today in 1
our State is nx.re extravagant than an I
other government has been. In (?<>y. J
Rie arson's time?you arc all inter-;
ested in a government?there wore J
appropriated for the executive depart- i
ment, ?-43,82?; in Gov. Tilintan** time, j
during the last ses>iou, ^?li.^S?, or
over ?7.000 mure Every tune the i
comparison is drawn we l?tui that there j
? i more money ppent. IV ho re then is I
he promise oi economy? The appro-!
pr?a?-?ous, you must know, are made ac- !
cording to the demands of the depart
ments V\ hy did the governor eom- :
plain of the extravagance of other I
administrations, it his does not improve 1
" them? j
Here iOine one asked him if he was
president <?? a bank. Ves, 1 am pre
s:'}'-:!* of h 1 )fc?;k, and there are hundreds
;f oor farmers io Ed ge 6e Id count who
?hatik God that. I was president of a
batik !:i>t fait, for ! sold nothing that
they owned, although there wer? huu
j d.eds whose farms I had run. In his
own township Gov. Till ma got only 8
more votes than I did, and I kco.f that
I will beat him there this fall.
Senator Donaldson here came forward
and urged the audience to give the
speaker a hearing, Aftar soa?e mo
! ments partial order was restored and
Gov. Sheppard resumed his address.
You were giving mc attention until
I brought th-.-se facts from the record
against the governor, and then you
won't hear me, and so you are not
keeping your promise to hear me.
I have shown increased expenditures
during Gov, Tiliman's term, Another
serious charge. In the demands of the
Farmers' Fiat form was one that the de
partment clerks get to their business
earlier, and Tillrnan charged that they
we?t to work at 9 o'clock and wore kid
gloves.
What did Gov. Tillrnan say? Yoa
bave to elect the right men to the
legislature ; I can't do any thing unless
that is with me. You gave him a legis
lature, has he made any change '{ I
want you to ask Gov. Tillrnan when
they get to.^busiaess now ; snd have the
offices been abolished or the salaries
reduced? Not one change has been
made there since he was governor.
(Here the question of being president
of a bank, is again thrust io) I have
told jou before I am a bank president,
aud I tell you again, and that I coo
duct my business on basiuess principles
and that is what you need in your
government, and that is what you have
not got.
When you talk of being in sympathy
with the laboring people you touch me
right on the heart, for I have been of
them. No man has grown up in nnre
sympathy with them than I have. I
am as close to the farmers and the peo
ple a3 any man in the State. I am here
not to defend myself er my business,
but to take up the challenge from Gov.
Tillrnan. Your taxes have been in
creased you have paid ?36.500 more
than last year.
Now abcu*. Coosaw. I have been
perfectly familiar with that question
since 1874. I never doubted that the
charter would expire in 1891, and was
gratified that the attempt was made
to deprive Coosaw of its exclusive
privileges ? Other attorneys before
Gov. Tillman's administration thought
S"), and Gov. Tillmao admitted in print
that he took his cue from Gen* James
Conner, of Gov Hampton's administra
tion. That admission is a very uokiud
cut against Attorney General Pope, of
his own administration, who wanted the
credit for the Coosaw matter badly. I
sympathize with the litigation to settle
the question, but was it good business
management to stop all operations pend
ing settlement? (A voice. It was
human nature.) No, it was not human
nature, it was human folly. Thsy say
the State has lost nothing by suspending
the royalty ; that it is still there. Sup
! pose a 1.000 acre farm is yours and is
put into litigation : how will it pay you
to let it lie idle, until the litigation is
settled. Yes, you ueed to follow the
governor's advice and sweep your State
house once in two years, and see if
there are any rats in it.
Here, at Greenville, on this spot two
years ago, on 10th June, 1S9U, Gov.
Tillrnan denounced former administra
tions for having their business conducted
by other lawyers than the attorney
general, aud *pu applauded him to the
echo, Bat since Gov. Tillrnan has
been governor more attorneys have been
employed outside of the attorney-general
I thau by all other administrations put
! together since 1876. (A voice says
i something about the administration hav
ing been abused) You are an old
man, and I have ever respected old age.
Ycu must be in your sixties, but in ail
your years have you ever seen one who
j has abused more people, who has hurt
I more hearts and made more wounds
! thau Gov. Tillrnan has?
SPEECH OF LIEUT. GOV G ART.
Gov. Sheppard's time was now ex
hausted, and after some relief afforded
io music by the band, Gen. Gray intro
duced the next speaker, Lieut. Gov.
E. B. Gary.
At the beginning, said Gov. Gary.
I beg you to listen quieti} to what 1
have to say. 1 do noi come to discuss
men but measures. I lay down the
gauntlet fairly and squarely, a?jd tell
you that if they convince you that they
are right I will see that Abbeville county
goes fjr the nominees. There is no
right in or reasou for all the trouble cf
this year. This is no holiday occasion :
you have come to hear ihuse who claim
your suffrages to-day and to decide.
There has been a crowd of men that for
a long time alone exercised the rights
aud privileges which ought to he exer
cised by the m eu every where in the
country and village?, as well as in
cities. They went ou in it so long
until they felt they hai a divine right
to office. Two years ago you broke up
all ti that. Before when ?uy one tried J
to run furotB ;e who was not t.i the line 1
j of this military promotion, they had
I some little fellows here and there to
down him, and they called him dema
gogue. 1 have leant'd to define
I demagogue to be a man who runs for
! oSce aud does not ask the ring for
! permission.
Do you remember the ol jecfions they j
I used to raise agaiust Gen. Jackson '( I
The said tie was a military man. at>a
\ was arbitrant :*nd dictatorial Well
? l?ov. Tillrnan i.** cot a mii i ary man,
and so they can't say tbet against him,
hot they cali him dictator. They talk
about his fighting the banks Gen.
Jackson fought them in the past and
the republic still lives.
When Mr. Sheppard. spoke of the
appropriations be dui not lay a linger on j
any extravagant appropriations that
were made
As one of the administration I can say |
that when the hill was introduced to j
educe salaries. the administration
through me, as its servant, cast the
deciding ite against the bill being |
killed
As fo farm illustration :? is not the
phosphate there still, and growing ?
When he says more lawyers have been :
employed than by any other adminis
trations, why did lie not t' 11 you that
: t he y forced us into if We would make
ir. a government for the people, hut they
; think it should be a government of the
I people by the statesweo :vud for tbc
1 statesmen.
I J
j As to the banks. There never has
been any decision to show that the
j banks were taxed too high ; but the
I banks by not denying the traverse
j admitted that they were taxed too low.
About the railroads. Th-re is a
provision that the Secretary of State and
Comptroller General are on a board
of equalization for fixing the Value of
railroads The railroads had waited
until the last day for paying thtir taxes,
and theo said if they could not get, a
receipt in full they would not take any
Why did they not tender the amount
they were willing to pay, until the
Courts forced them ? The platform put
forth by the convention in Columbia
speaks of a State deficiency, but tne mon
ey from the railroads had not been paid,
and they were unfair in dealing with
the administration in so speaking of an
impending deficiency
I charge them wi'h being inconsistent
from first to last. I charge them with
opposing you all the time until you
showed that you were goiug to have a
hand in the government. I charge
them with inconsistency in saying that
yoa were undemocratic, and then turn
ing about and doing the same thing
themselves. I charge them with
inconsistency in calling for peace and
unity, and then stirring up the biggest
trouble South Carolina has ever known.
Has it not been their policy all along
to oppose the prescut administration ?
Were not the railroads agreed before
hand to do exactly as they did; and
have not the papers done all they could
to hinder and hurt the present adminis
tration.
The lieutenant goveraor was heard
throughout with a comparative degree
of order and atteutiou, and was loudly
applauded at many points during his
addres? After more music Gen. Gray
next introduced Col. J. L. Orr.
CLOSING SPEECH OF GOV. TILLMAN.
Governor Tillman then began his
reply, opening by telling hie old joke
of Peter's wife's mother lay sick of a
fever. At thie juncture the confu
sion became very great and there
was an evident intention on the part
of the crowd to retaliate for the un
?ecmly howling down of Governor
Sheppaid. Governor Sbeppard came
forward and begged the crowd as a
personal favor to him to hear Gover
nor Tillman.
Governor Tillman read a piece
from The State commenting on Col.
Orr's speech at Laurons, in the at
tempt to show that Col Orr is the
mouth piece of N. G Gonzales.
There was so much confusion iu
the crowd that Governor Tillman
bogged all of his followers to come
over to the right side of the stand
The crowd here grew wilder than it
had ever been. Governor Tillman
kept waving his hands and inviting
his friends to congregate together
and out howl the other side. Even
the ladies in the and'ence were not
spared, and but for the persistent
struggles of some gentlemen they
would have been mashed bv the
struggling crowd. It was impossible
to obtain order and Col Orr stepped
forward and said that though he was
interrupted without having a chance
to say what lie wanted to he begged
that they would give Tillman a hear
ing.
I suppose that is what yon people
understand by peace at:d hai mony.
[Laughter and applause.] But I
tell you that I came here to ?peak,
and I am going to speak if it takes
till to-morrow. I tell you, young
men, that you will have to \ote for
mo or appeal to the nigger just as
Ilaskell did. You may out holler
me, but you can't out vote that grand
army out there. Sbeppard has allud
ed to the farmers' movement and said
that every feeling, every motion of
bid heart was loval to cur sgricultu
ral people. He grew so eloquent
that ho almost made me believe that
he had discoverd the movement in
stead of myself. [Laughter and ap
plause ] Well, 1 tell }*ou that in
1SS6 in convention I voted for Shop
paid for Governor and tried to elect
iiim. Why ? First because at that
time I knew none of the public men
of the State, and second because we
had been school-mates and were then
and are now personal friend?. There
were then three candidates in the
field?Senator Coker of Darlington,
John Peter Richardson and Sheppard,
who had received the office at the
hands of Hugh S. Thompson. The
movement then had two principal de
mands?the reorganization of the ag
ricultural bureau and the establish
ment of an agricultural college. I
wrote to Coker and asked him if he
would support those demands. He
?vroto me back that he would not,
and I ha I Richardson approached
and found that he was the ring can
didate. [Voice : "Tell us about that
free pass.''] Yes I'll tell you about
it if you'll hush, because I am not
here to dodge anything. I then wont [
to Sheppard, and we hada confer-1
enee. He told me lie was in favor of
everything the farmers' association
had demanded except the abolition o?
the Citadel Academy?the dade fac
tory. I was hen h? ft in this cond?-1
timi with Sbeppard, who had been !
my school fellow. [A voice: "And
.fudge Wallace's pon in-law."] j
Well, yes, but thai had nothing to do
with it ; and why shouldn't ? rote
for him, and especially alter lie came
over and joined ns? But what was
the result ? Col. Orr ami W. L j
M a tildi headed the delegation from i
Greenville, Went to Columbia and j
were responsible for Sheppard de
feat in 1880, John C. Sheppard had j
beaten Col. Orr for Speaker and lie j
hates him for it to this May. [Cob
Orr: "Didn't you vote l'or Hutsoi?,
who wss epp ised to the Agricultural j
College?' J '
TiUman?Yes, and MsuTd?? was ?
opposed to it.
[Colonel Orr: "No, sii; he cast;
the vote that saved the college "j
Tillman?In I SNS 1 again asked
Sheppard to oppose Richardson. He
said, "1 will go to Columbia next
week and see about it." It was two
or lineo days before I he meeting an
Hodges. He went down there and
was converted to the < ther side, and j
Orr presided over the convention j
?bal defeated Eaiie in favor o? Rich- 1
?rdson. Now, these are the men
who say, "we are in fVvor of the
farmers' movement. Oh ! we do j
love you farmers so well that we
could take you in our arms and em
brace you." [Laughter and ap
plause ] But now let us see what
they have done with our platform.
The speaker here compared the
two platlorms and made point.* that
the Thirteen had omitted the de
mands for railroad control and a con
stitutional convention. He then de
nied the charges of extravagance,
alluding to the building of the inau
? guration platform, which ?rhe said was
suggested by the committees of the
House and Senate. He then
acknowledged that he had alluded to
some of the legislators as driftwood,
and showed that the. failure to carry
out economies was not due to hie
want of suggestion, but the blocking
of legislation in the Legislature. He
quoted from his inaugural and his
speeches to show that he had been
consistently in favor of reform. He
denied that he had acted as a dicta
tor. He quoted a letter of Ilaskell
to The State which he said explained
how the members of the Legislature
had been bamboozled and also how
that newspaper had twitted the legis
lators with being under his control
and causing them to vote otherwise
than had been expected. lie admit
ted that a good d< al of time had been
spent in the election of a United
States Senator ; that nothing was be
ing done, and that he therefore called
upon two Solicitors to assist in what
administration measures embodied
the views of the farmers' platform,
lie then went on to show how these
measures were defeated, but contend
ed that he had carried out his
pledges and that the Legislature had
failed to carry out theirs.
As a part of the argument here he
quoted extensively from the party
platform, stating in what respects he
had endeavored to carry out its dec
larations. He also entered into an
elaborate discussion of the causes
which led to the defeat of several of
his measures, and especially the ail
road bill, the Sheriff bill, and others
He then replied to some of the state
ments that he had lost ground in the
State, and continued thus : Sheppard
has cla med that he will carry my
township assure as fate. Well, Gen
M. C Butler, who has had a finger
in this pie, has had a heap to do with ',
stirring up this township, aud so has
A. P. Butler, who was sent home b}T
the Legisla:ure, and who lives on the
edge of the township. They have
been distributing the States free
gratis. 1 have been at home bet
seldom, because I have stayed in Co
lumbia attending to your business ;
but 1 will s?y that 1 will go home,
make three, speeches, and if ? can't
beat him in l\>." primaries I will with
draw from the race. Governor Shep
paid, will you say as much ? 1 have
gone my friends, through h?I to get
this office, and I have been told that
no other man could have led the
movement to success Since my
election 1 hare discharged my duty
as faithfully as I knew and I am now
asking this people whether they I hints
I have done it or not. J made a liv
ing before I got into the Governor's
office, and whenever the majority of
the people say "we don't want you
any longer,J I will retire without a
murmur.
Speaking of the Judge Wallace inci
dent, he said : Oue of the uupardons
ble sios, the unwasbable sin, which it
is charged I have committed, is that in
mv message I took issue with Judge
Wallace because he bad decided that
the Governor had no right to remove
Cautwell, the Supervisor of RegiDtra
tion, while the Senate was not in ses
siou. I bave shown the law under
which I acted, and no lawyer has yet
answered it. They don't dare to take
issue with that law, although I am no
lawyer. Now, what were my motives ?
The people of Charleston were under
rio<* rule. Thev had the most outra
geous tyranny practiced upon them,
and Cautwell was oue of the instr?
ments which the ring used to keep itself
in power, by issuing bogus tickers aad
allowing them to be voted. The re
form movement there begged that this
man be removed. I looked at the law
and 1 had the right to suspend him un
til the Senate met. I simply desired
to remove the shackles from the bands
of your friends in the City by the Sea,
and Judge Wallace by his decision had
them locked again. N>ft, what is the
scheme of our government? li
has three departments?the legis
lative, the executive aud the judicial?
aud they arc considered coequal. jw, j;
it looks to me that if iz is proper to |
criticise the Governor, especially ?s 1 j :
have been criticised?1 ineau cri ie:s |
of my cfSee?aud if my office is no!
enough to insure being criticised decent- ;
lv, in God's name where is the in.pro- ;
prxety in my criticising another branch 1
of the gevernnicni? And bosidr* are j
these judges siways infallible? L t me
show you: Here is a list from the
Supreme Court records I am in the 1
citadel now, you see, ami I can get the i '
records. I ara net obliged, as I us d 1
to be, to have to chunk around io- '
things, as before I was elected. This 1
list shows th.it d ? the last Eve years, I
or ?rom ISS5 to l$t*0, there were ? 7
appeals token from decisions of the C:r- { '
cuit Judges, and ?hit. over250of them (
were overruled or modified. That is 1
that over one third of these opinions 1
delivered by tho-e Judges?the San- 1
hedrirs, toe priesthood of the inner ten:- }
nie?men too holy to be criticised by the 1
Governor?were overruled by the Su ?
preme Court. And as to this Supremi
Court, haven't you many a rim? heard *
the l?wv< rs curse and damn it :;s being 1
a set of jackasses. [Great laughter sou
applause.1 You will understand ol
course, that this is not my language
In this issue the Senate has sustained
me and the Supreme Court has not yet
decided the point raised I y Judge Wal '
lace, and I will do it agai:.; and if any 1
other Supervisor shall act in the wa}
that Cant well did ? won'd tot hesitate
to take him by the throat and pat hsm
out to morrow. I am told that mv
time is about cut. Colonel Orr ha?
harrowed y<>ur soots by charging th t 1
in an i ite? view declared that the farm
era taovetaent couid whip the Alliance.
I deny absolutely that. I ever thought
such a thing, wrote such a thing or said
such- a thing. Can you believe chat
I would see the rsform movement split id*
half and taking each other b; the throatr
and like two dogs cpiarreliog over
a bone, destroy their combined power?
Do yoQ suppose that would ever by
this means let that gang of sheep over
there seize this government again? Miy
friends, I would have been not only a
political Hiot but a doable-dyed traitor*
had I announced each a sentiments
[Applause and cheers.].
List year said that I believed tS?f
the sub-treasury bill was uuiftse. f
went \ Spartanbarg and ra a meeting:
of the State Alliance gave my reagom
for saying that I opposed it. I says ti
you today that at that time I was fight
ing what I supposed was * third party
movement and sot Alliance. tr&?
opposed to it, and I believe that si! of
you are opposed to it now, because it
has been withdrawn by the Alliaace
itself. I say to you here now as- 9
loyal Democrat,- as a loyal Alliance
man, as a loyal farmer?' movement m?o*
that I am bound bj the rale of the
majority and that if a majority of the
people want these demands I shall I
attempt to dictate to you. (.Prolonged
cheering and applause.) I have beer?
accused of trying to dictate to the
Alliance, bet I have given yon mjT
reasons for my opinion and my position,
I am on record as opposed to the sub
treasury, aod I am opposed to it now,
but the rale in the Alliance and of the
Democracy h? to abide the will- of the
majority, and I am not going to fighi
my brethren. Just before the Spar*
tauburg meeting, don't you remember
how sweet and smiling the newspaper*
were to me? They actually slobbered
over me. They wanted to get me away f
and if I had chosen to go with them I
would have been a king among th?
Shot/, bat a traitor to the Goats.
[Applause and cheers j
1 want to say to yoa that we havg
but one party in Sooth Carolina, the
Democratic party, and we will have
peace and noity if these gentlemen will
let os. If we arc beaten iu this fight
we will not do as tbc lUskellites did/
get oat of the parry and bolt. We*
have control of the Democratic party.
We can enunciate any platform that wf
please, and on that platform we will
make car fight. The majority mvffi
rule in this State aod I would prefer t >
follow you to h??I than to go with
these men to heaven. [Tumultui-?*
cheering.] Of course I mean this S<
mere'y typical language, a simile wi f *
out iuteudiog to be irreverent, bat it
docs rueao that I am now with the farm*
ers of South Carolina', aod with them I
expect to die. [Applanse} In ?890
I did not run on the Alliance platform,
or a sub treasury platform 1 tried my .
best to make the fight and that the
Alliauce should not go in as an AlhV
ance. I objected to that at Ridge way,
I have not betrayed s single pledge i
ever made. I have never failed to
keep a promise, sod I defy any man to
prove it. I made charges of eorrup
tion, and I found that one cmcer o" the
government had embezzled $5,000
within a month after I came iuto my ?
cSce j that three Couoty Treasurers
have taken some thousands more, and
that there were shortages (and that is ?
an euphonious word} of abou* $20.000. '
Your endorsement, my friends, shoWe
me that you realize th"e objects of these
men who are trying to put me off ths .
platform which } fouuded, who aro
trying to ride in on the palace ear.
But don't you know that there is a sigo
on the door of this car that yoa moat
uot ride on the platform. [Appiana*
and cheers ] These fellows are trying
to ride en it, bat I know yon will
switch them ori in September, and la '
the election I will vouch for it that ?"f
sud Sbeppard will vote the straight
Democratic ticket. [Applause]
The speaker next took up the
Coosaw case and explained the litiga*
tioii and how it was begun bj the
company lie said there had been a
lot of talk about the people having ter
pay the fees of the assistant counsel*
but he believed that Coosaw would
eventually have them to pay. He
said that if lie had not made the ?ght
the newspapers would have charged
him with neglect of official duty, lie
then tjok up the primary business
arid gave his views thereon substan*
tially as in his intervfYw recently pub*
iidhed.
Governor 'fillman then went into
the railroad and bank litigation and
recited the cause that led to it and its
present status. Speaking on the free
pass matter be said:- They say 1
made a mistake. Well, car humble
Saviour, the h>wly Nazarene, when
stum*! !..g of this sort was said, re*
peated: *'L t him who ?3 without
sin among you Cast the first stone."
If Janu s L Orr had never ridden on ft
free pass or if Ire was not president of
factory that is wotki:ig poor me*i
und women thirteen hou* s a day wi h
>uly forty-five minutes for dinner?*
[Colonel Orr, interrupting: "That is
not trae."]
Tillman: Well I am glad bot let
me say :hat we h ve no antagonism
to capital nor do we want to oppress
it. It is not onr purpose to have one
aw for a corporation and another fof
the people. V\ e want equal rights
for ail and sp? c:ai privi'eges for n it*.
He charged the railroads with go
ng into the Tederai COSitS with the
)bji?ct of embarrassing the financ?e
[?f his administration. O! what a
Kiwi they raised when it was said
hat County Treasurers had been in
structed to refuse the tender of pay
nent It was taken up and repeated
ind Coi mei Orr stated it.
Col. Orr?' 1 did not make tha*;
statement " Tillman?"Truth can
ever urei talee a lie." Col Orr?
Well, it has overtaken ont now/'
Afte r some futrher parley Governor
Hilmar? took up Orr's * peches at
Laurent and elsewhere ai d read h:e
Hate m -nts concerning him, the Gov
ernor, on his refusal to extend tha
lime for the payment of taxes, etc.
Referring to Orr's statement ibat ih ?
people were in as bad a condition CO\C
as thjy were in *6\ he said: "Grei;
God, has it come to this, that the
masses oi honest yeomanry shall have
their present misfortunes compiei
to thoso in Radical days una?.* t beffi*
be lain!"