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THE STATE CAMPAIGN. THE WALTEKBORO MEETING. ?liman has Sis Inning. Walterboro, S. C, July 13.?This is the county seat of Col le to county, where the campaigners had their stump contest today. The feature of the meeting was Caughman's attempt to show up Got Tillman as an "arrant fool." Cal has been a not?d character in the reform ranks until recently. He is the man who was tried and acquitted of the leading of the lynchers of Willie Leaphart, colored, several years ago in Lexing ton, and who afterwards wrote a book telling how be did it He used to be a trusted lieutenant of reform. He is now running for Congress against Dr. J. William Stokes and Congressman Izlar. There were about 50.0 persons present, and about j one-third were negroes. It seemed to be a pretty well saturated Tillman crowd Gov. Tillman's speech today was spicy. He said that the dis pensary act of 1893 was as valid as any other law on the statute books, and pretty soon he would be ready to start it into operation, when he would make it hot for some people, oov. ttllman's reply. The Governor prefaced his reply to Gen. Butler's questions concerning the refundment of the State debt by saying that Butler had pranced for ward at Charleston, telling those peo ple how he loved them, and warned tbe Cclleton people not to be fed out of Butler's spoon, but to spit it out, as it had Haekeilite quinine in it. . Butler put the questions in a decent way, and he congratulated him on the improvement in his manner since the Chester meeting. He had put hie fuse to his little bomb and noth ing but fizzle resulted. Replying to the question he said : "I have never hesitated or expected to find fault with any criticism of requests for information concerning any official act of mine, and I will cheerfully make such reply to Gen. Butler's $ questions a? I can, away from the 4 official documents in Columbia. First, as to the $6,030,65 charged in the treasurer s books to the redemption of Brown consols expenses, the larger portion of this was paid for the engraving and print ing of the bonds themselves. The balance was tbe expenses incurred by Dr. Bates and myself, when we went to New York for two weeks, begging ap and down. Wall street and every item, with vouchers, can be had in the treasurer's office. This is what was spent of the $8,000. To the second question, how mach of the funds of the sinking fund com mission were expended, and for what, 1 answer, not one cent. Third, who received the $124.161, 65 ? This should be $118,125, the 2 1-4 per cent, semi-annual interest on the new bonds. I answer that I do not know. We did not. as every body knows, fuud the bonds in New York, because we were antagonized by tbe Charleston banks, and the feeling there appeared to be for ? gold bond, which we were not authorized to issue, and which Iwa<* unwilling to have the State issue After our failure to do any thing in New York, we authorized Mr. Rhind to negotiate the loan of $5,225,000 of 4} per cent bonds at par, and expressly informed him that if he could sell them so as to get any commission it would be ail right, but that the State would not pay him one cent. So far as Mr. Rhind's finan cial standing was concerned it did not concern us. We were dealing with him as a broker who appeared to know his business, and who had | discretion and judgment. His asso c?ales in the work with the syndicate, and who got part of whatever com mission he received, were Messrs. Lancaster and Williams, of Rich mond. I say this, however : that no member of the syndicate?Laucas ter, Williams, Rhind, or any other ; man, has ever paid one cent of his j commission to anybody in South I Carolina that 1 know of, and ? defy ? anybody on earth, under the earth, or anywhere else, to trace any of this money to South Carolina, or say j that Bates or I got one dollar of it. ! A Voice?Are you a Populist or i Democrat ? The Governor?1 am a white man ! and a Democrat, but you are a white man with a black heart. (Lausrh t?t.) : I wish you people had been at I Charleston last night, and seen me j spit fire at those hounds. Chico and j Cantini and Nolte. The present aristocracy of Charleston were out I with their underlings, but I salted I them down good Voice?What about the di?pensary shortage ? The Governor?I told Gen. Butler ! he could examine the books if he was honest in that matter, and we will ? send you along to wash the spittoons. ? (Laughter.) In regard to Gen. Butler's state- ' ment that the times were favorable to funding the debt, and that Georgia funded hers at 3 per cent., I say that, while the candidates for Governor; and others who liad been members of] tbe Reform party, boasted of the re- ! funding of the debt at a reduced in- j terest as an achievement worthy of; praise, I have never opened my mouth about it. I know how difficult the operation was, and how uneasy Dr. ! Bates and myself were lest the scheme I should fall through. In fact early in Jane, the nervous strain on Dr. Bates was so great that he left me the whole burden to bear, and went to the springs, being completely prostrated. During the time he was absent the stringency in the money markets and the impossibility of obtaining curren cy was so great that the last week in June money on call in New York, commanded 60 per cent, interest and but for the fact that we had a bonus of $150,000 as a forfeit should the Baltimore Trust Company fail to take the bonds, and but for the further fact that I assumed the responsibility of shipping the bonds C. O. D. by ex press, so that they could be deposited as collateral upon which to borrow the money to pay for them, there I would have been a failure to complete j the transaction. Gen. Butler's lament able ignorance of the financial condi tion nuder which the transaction was completed shows that he isn't even fit to go to the Legislature. Georgia's State debt is much sinail er than ours, abe is twice as large and her assessed value is over $450,000, 000, while South Carolina is assessed at $170,000,000. Georgia has a white majority ensuring a continuation of good government, while we have 4,000 negro votes in excess of the whites. This means that under cer tain conditions which have at times appeared imminent there might be a struggle between the white factions which would make the negro vote the arbiter that would inevitably bring a return of - the condition of affairs which caused John Patterson to say there were five more years of good stealing in South Carolina. Georgia owns the Western and Atlantic Rail road worth $9.000,000 and which rents for $450,000 an asset nearly I double her entire public debt so that j any comparison of the financial stand- j ing and credit of the two States is simply farcical. I say it in no boasting spirit that we consummated the finest financial deal ever made by a ''farmer and a clodhopper''?Dr. Bates and your farmer Governor?in reducing the annual charge by $80,000 and every man of any character or honesty in the State whose heart is not gan grened with political venom gives us credit for it As to the veiled charge or insinuation that I received any of the commission, I denounce as a malicious slander and I can only say that those who are ready to make the charge only display the corruption of their hearts and confess indirectly what they would have done had they been entrusted with this important and delicate matter. Further, Jonn C. Haskell is ou re cord iu a speech before the Legis lature as not believing South Carolina could float a four per cent bond and he | had introduced in the General Assem- ! bly which authorized the issue .of the 4 12 per cent, bonds, a joint resolu tion continuing the interest on the j State debt at 6 per cent, ior three years. The only offer we ever received from Charleston for any I bonds at all was made by Mr. Ptingle i who offered 97 per ceni for?250.?U0. ! If Col. Haskell's proposition had ? received the endorsement of the ! Legislature it would have been a con- j fession that tbe State was unable to refund her debt, while the interest for the three years would have entailed a burden on the taxpayers of $2o6,000, twice the commission which we paid, and then there would j have been no guarantee that the debt j could have been refunded at 4 1-2 or I 4 per cent, without paying just as ? much commission as we paid. Such j large blocks of bonds can't be ban died in any but strong bouses and such men do not work for nothing. I happen to know, having received the ] information from a banker in Balti- j more, that many of the weaker mem- j bere of the syndicate lost money by reason of the enormous interest they I had to pay for the currency to meet their obligation and take the bonds on time. The Governor declared that there j was a ring forming in Colleton county to send some fellow to Congress and ' the people must see that he was not j one of Cleveland's "me-too's " If there was a reform ring in South1 Carolina he must be in it for he was the centre of the clock, the lynch pin . upon which tne hands of reform have revolved for four years and the peo- : pie were the balance of the ring. General Butler's speech was de- j voted to a plain discussion of Nation al questions. A new candidate for adjutatant, general appeared in the person of Dr. J. P. Minus, of Colleton. The doctor is a veteran but has not the appear- j ance of a commander of legions. ; Assistant Adjutant General John ; Gary Watts promised if elected to give the people a militia that they would be proud of and he would j weed out all "bandbox soldiers." A sally of laughter greeted "Uncle j Sam" Timmermau, who is running; for lieutenaut governor and whose j good looks entitle him to the position, ? but whose name is said not to appear j on the slate that has been prepared j for reform consumption on the 13th : of next August The doctor made I a good speech and elicited as he al ways does, a "whole raft" of admir ing exclamations on. his marked | resemblance to the Appollo Belvidere. j "Pony" Yeldell then rode forward on the reform platform and proceeded j to discourse some genuine Edgefield oratory that held the audience too i mute for applause. Lie advanced ! arguments why he should be made I ! railroad commissioner for which he has been on a cold trail for several years John Gary Evans came forward full of memories of last night's per formance in Charleston. He declar ed he was glad to look into the faces which God Almighty had something to do with making. The crowd at Charleston last night was supposed to represent the best people, but it j had treated him outrageously. From now on he proposed to pour hot shot I into the antis, because he believed ; j their cry for peace and harmony was ! I a sham. One of his flings at the | : Supreme Court was the statement ! that whenever the people had any I thing that interfered with the towns ! the courts called it unconstitutional. The dispensary law of 1893 had been ! kept away from the courts because they did not propose to submit it to a packed jury. He spoke of the Charleston crowd as "hoodlums" who had insulted him, "but most of whom apologized afterwards." I Voice?"You gave them hell, didn't you ?" Evans?"Well, something like it. Those barkeepers down there own Charleston and the people are scared to death of the whiskey ring." Voice?"Dispensary whiskey makes a man love his wife." A half dozen men in the crowd kept an incessant clamor for John Gary and tbe dispensary Secretary of State Tindal was the only other gubernatorial candidate who spoke to-day, Comptroller Eller be having missed the outgoing train from Charleston this morning. Col Tindal delivered a well rounded ad dress on more money and better edu cation. Cal Caughman began by telling ? the crowd that they must not listen j to the isms of demagogues any Ion- j ger. "I am going to prove," said he, j "that Governor Tillman is the most I arrant fraud that ever eutered the political arena of South Carolina " This caused pandemonium to break loose and Cal was howled down. He said he could prove it, but the Till man boys wouldn't hear of it. He then launched into an expose of what is known as tbe "printing fraud," whereby the Columbia Register was awarded the public printing. He tried to show the- crowd that "this damnable iniquity" robbed them of thousands of dollars, but they did more talking than he did. He told them they did not know their rights and after a monkey and parrot time of twenty minutes he stopped. The other speakers to-day were Messrs. Whitman and Mayfield, candidates for superintendent of education. J. W. G. OTHER MEETINGS. BEAUFORT. Tbe Saturday meeting was held io Beaufort. The day was without spe cial interest. The State's correspond ent counted the crowd and there were 94 whites and 240 negroes present to hear the pleaders for office. W. Jones, of Edgefieid, candidate for Comptroller General made bis maiden speech. The people of Beaufort treated all tbe candidates with characteristic hospitality, although, as Gov. Tillman himself stated on tbe stand they have ; never admired him. HAMPTON. Tbe Hampton meeting on Monday was held in the rain, and tbe crowd, i which numbered about 600, held oo to the last. The stand was overcrowded and eoe end fell iojuring three or four people. It was a Tillman crowd aod Evans was not present and Elcrbe did not ; jump on him as usual. Gen. Butler was persistently inter rupted, but made a good speech. Gov. Tillman paid his respects to tbe I blind tigers and dispensary, and as ! usual got the best of those who talked ' back to him. BARNWELL. The Barnwcll meeting yesterday was made interesting by Gren. Ellerbe. He denounced tbe Piedmont Headlight and ; L?ureos Herald and all men in general who were charging him with treachery I to the reform movement. He said : "I ha\e heen slandered and misre- j presented on all tides, and it has been j said that I was the candidate of a fac- : ti on "Now, fellow citizens, I am going to ! tell you something I very much dislike. I am going to tell you whose candidate : 1 am. At a meeting of several Alliance and reform leaders, Governor Tillman : among them, they asked me to make tbe fight for Governor, Tillman himself joining io tbe request. I consented, ai though I told them that my health was ; bad and that it would be better to take some other good farmer aod put him up. Governor Tillman said that we must i have a farmer for Governor, by all j means." Continuing his personal remarks, Geo. Ellerbee said : "There is a dispo- j sition to change the farmers' movement 1 into a lawyer's movement. I do not think they ought to be allowed every- j thing. All classes and interests should be represented. Tbe lawyers have the most now.'' General Ellerbe declared that in a dozen counties he has talked the dispen- ! sary, and if I am elected Governor, fel- j low citizens, I will have the dispensary j law enforced to the letter. My record ? in tbe fights with tbe railroads aud th banks shows that when I make up my uiiod 1 will carry oat the law io spice of all opposition." Senator Evans began by saying that he was prepared to answer any fiiog at himself or hie people. His cousin Wil lie says he (Willie) would be elected if there was not a ring. There is no ring. Evans said, except a hands all round ring of the people. It was doiog the reform movement no good to be making such charges. Willie has simply lost his candy. Senator Evans said that before, he would get up here and appeal to the pre judices of the people and try to array class agaiost class I would quit the race for Governor. I would not attempt to put the reform movement on such a nar row minded basis. It is in bad taste for any man to try to get up such a feeling. It is absurd to talk about shutting a man out because he is not a farmer. Senator Evans concluded with a talk on the dispensary, in line with what be has said elsewhere. Commenting on the constable feature, Evans said these officers were called "Tillman spies.'7 Voice : "They will be Evans' spies next." Evans: "Yes, and we are going to have them.'' Two-thirds of the crowd did not want to bear anybody except Till man. Governor Tillman said that before be began he would have to touch on some questions raised by Evans and Elerbe. Tbe Governor said be was in a deli cate position. He was somewhat in the position of a man with two wives each oue claiming to be the right wife. ?s to bringing out a candidate for Governor, I will simply state this: Since last fall there has been a demand for a farmer for Governor. I never have claimed that this is a class movement. Whf Ellerbe mentioned this matter tc me, I asked him to name the farmers who were proposed for Governor. He named several. I told bim none of them would do. I asked : -'Why don't you run ?" He said bis health was bad. I told him if he ran I would hold bands off'' The rain fell in torrents during the latter part of Gov. Tillman's speech, which contained nothing new. Gen. Butler spoke only two or three minutes, on account of tbe rain. Tbe next few meetings are apt to be hot. The Campaign Schedule. Edgefield, July 19. - Lexington, July 20. Winnsboro, July 24. Oraogeburg, July 25. Columbia, July 26. Newberry, July 27. L?ureos, July 28. Union, July 31 Spartanburg, August 1. Greenville, August 2. Pickens, August 3. Oconee, Augusta 6. Anderson, Augusta 7. Abbeville, Augusta 8. Hood's Pills become the favorite cathartic with every one who tries them. 25c. They Want Names. The Russell Art Publishing Co., of 928 Arch St., Philadelphia, desire tbe names aod address of a few people in every town who are interested in works of art, and to secure them they offer to send free, "Cupid Guides the Boat," a superbly executed water color picture, size 10 13 inches, suitable for framing, and 16 otber pictures about snme size, in colors, to any one sending tbem at once the names of ten persons (admirers of fine pictures) together with six two cent stamps to cover expense of mailing, etc. Tbe regular price of these pictures is $1.00, but they can all be secured free by any person forwarding tbe names and stamps promptly. Note.?The editor of tbis paper has al ready received copies of above pictures and considers tbem really "Gems of Art." Excelsior Baking Powder is the best, be cause it is pure, try it. Prepared by Dr. A. J. Cbina. Guaranteed Cure. We authorize our advertised druggist to sell Dr. King's New Discovery fur Consumption, Coughs and Colds, upon this condition. If you are afflicted with a Cough, Cold or any Lung, | Throat or Chest trouble, and will use this rein euy as directed, giving it a fuir trial, und expe rience no benefit, you may return th*? bottle and have your money refunded. We could not make this offer did we not know that Dr. King's New Discovery conld be relied on. It never disappoints. Trials bottles free at J. F. AV, ! DeLorme's Drug Store. Large bottles 50c. and $1.00. 2 j TO DEMOCRATIC CLUBS. Headqurters of Democratic Executive Committee of Sumter County. Sumtsr, S. C, July 9, 1394. The Presidents of the Democratic Clubs of | Sumter County, are hereby ordered to call together their respective clubs on July 28th, : 1894, for the purpose of reorganization. On said day, and after reorganization, the cluhs shall elect delegates to a convention to be held in tbis City on the 6tb day of August, next, 1S94, on the basis of one Delegate for every twenty-five members, and one fur a majority fraction thereof. Upon reorganization, voters leaving clubs to which they formerly belonged shall sign j requests to the secretary of the clubs, which { they propose to leave, to erase their names i from rolls of said clubs, and said requests shall be filed with the rolls of the clubs from which the said voters may withdraw. By order of Executive Committee. D. E. KEELS, W. H. Ingram, Chairman. Secretarv. July 11. Herald and Freeman copy. ARARE BUSINESS CHANCE. Entire Stock of a Wall Paper and Artists . Supply Establishment for sale at a bargain. . Wall paper, 18,000 rolls. Great vartetv o? ; Artists' Supplies, Paints, ??9, Brushes, Var- , nishes. Stock of late C. W. Stiles will be sold | as a whole, or any part, at a tremendous sac- j rifice. 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