The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 27, 1892, Image 1

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ra? SVHTBB WATCHMAN, JKetablished April, IS SO. Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881.1 'Be Just and Fear not?Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's " SUMTER, S. G., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1892. THE TRUE SOSJTHttON, KUmHUibe* Jone, tSttf Xew Series?Vol. XL No. 39. . Gh. OSTEEN, S?MTKR, S. C. TKRX8: Two DoUfcrs per annum?in advance. ? dvi8ti8smist8. Ob? Square, first insertion.?..$1 00 Mvery subset uen t insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. Ail communications which subserve private nterests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be ebarged for. CHILD BIRTH ? ? ? ? ? * MADE EASY! " ** Mothers' Fwehd "is a scientific? ally prepared Liniment, every ingre dient of recognized value and in constant use by the medical pro fession. These ingredients are com bined in a manner hitherto unknown "MOTHERS' FRIEND" ? WILL DO all that is claimed for it A NB MORE. 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G. C. Osgood, Lowell, Mass. Tmx Owrcaos CoktaHT, 77 Murray Street, N. T. THE SIXOKDS NATIONAL BANK, OF S UM TER. STATE, C?TV AND COUNTY DEPOSI TORY, StJ?TBR, S. C. Paid up Capital.$75,000 00 Surplus fund.10,500 00 j Transacts a General Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. SAVINGS DEPARTMENTS Deposits of $1 and upwards received, in terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first days of January, April, July and October. R. M. WALLACE, f President. It. 3. Ca?sof, Aug. 7 Cashier. mm ti mm SUMTBR, S C. C?TT AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY. Transacts a general Banking o usi o ese. Also has A Savings Bank Department. Deposits of $1.00 and upwards received. Interest calculated at tbe rate ef 4 per cent, j per annum, payable quarterly. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, A. Whits, Jr., President. Cashier. Aug 21. _ BE I ?LY? SOLOMONS, DENTIST. Office OVER BROWNS k PURDV'S STORE. Entrance oa Main Street, Between Ero-vas k Purdy und Durant k Son. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30 ; 2 to 5 o'clock. Suinter, S. C , April 29_ ft W. DICK, D. D. S. Office over Bcgin's New Store, entrance on main street SUMTER, S. C. Office Hours.?9 to 1:30 ; 2:30 to 5. Sept 8_ Dr. T. W. BOOKHART, DENTAL SURGEON. Office over Bulti??n k Bro.'gShoe Store. KZfTKANCK Oy, main STRKKT. SUMTKR, S. G. Office Hoars?9 to 1:30 ; 2.30 to 5. April 17?0 0?09@@09 0 _ The mxagHest P*ll fca vhe-.Woxld I ~ THE SECHST , Aof recruiting health is discovered inf% I TUTT'S Tiny Li A In liver affection*, sick headache, dys- A pepala, flatulence, heartburn, bilious colic, captions of the skin, and all a tronb?es of the bowels, their curative effects pre marvelous. They are a cor recti ve as "?vell as a gentle cathartic rg. Very small and easy to take. Price, Vj? ?Sc Onice, 39 41 Fark Place, . Y. First Guns of the Campaign at Greenville 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!"