The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-24


Mr. Murray: "Our section has Jared
pretty we'll under the convention sys-
TEN in the matter of State officers. We
have four out of the eight. | don't
know that we should fare 50 we'll un-
der a primary system. l don't think
the gentleman can show any material
increase in expenditures of the State
Government. Wherever there has Geen
an increase it appears in the approprla-
tions for legitimate purpose and has
been voted for by both branches of
your representatives. There is not a
man here who would not express HIM
self in favor of the reform which the
gentleman from Edgefield claims to
SEEK
Mr. Tillman land then vote against
it when he comes here to the Lcgisla-
ture."
Mr. Murray: my friend has been
here two years trying to get the class he
essays to represent to carry through his
reform ideas, but they have never been
able to agree Oh the details"
Mr. Tillman: "The bill was agreed
to, but the men who promised to sup
port it went back on their pledges"
Mr. Murray "In the House of Rep
sentatives the bill received very few
votes, and in the Senate it received &
votes out of IS. 1t is very easy to
talk reform, extravaganza, retrencb-
ment, &C., but the question is What
item will you begin at"
Mr. Tillman: ave can bring the Pen
itentiary back to where it was i'll 1880,
paying the State $4,000 year, instead
of being an annex to the Canal"
Mr. Murray: "If you will do that we
will put you in sole charge and vote you
a pension Laughter
Major Gary, who next spoke to the
question, thought there was no neces-
sity for the change. No one has sur
fered any loss of their rights by the
convention plan, and he was in favor OF
leaving we'll enough alone. If the eS-
penses ofthe Government were to oere-
duced that could be done through the
executive branch.
At this stage of the debate Mr. Till
man again rose to speak, and there
were cries of "Question !question"
Mr. Tillman thereupon called out at
the top of his voice: "You may gag
me here, but I will meet you before the
people"
Several delegates then moved that
Mr. Tillman be heard again, and cries
of Tillman were heard from different
parts of the hall. After some heslta-
ton Mr. Tillman walked into the mid
die of the aisle and spoke as follows:
"Gentlemen of the Convention, l
thank you for this courtesy, aud Will
try and not impose on your good n;-
ture. I want merely to answer some OF
the points made by some of the speak
ers. The gentleman from Anderson IS
anxious to save the dear people trouble.
That has been the cry of all tyrants.
The Car of Russia saves his people all
trouble, except the trouble of paying
tax and stopping bullets. There have
been such outrages perpetratcd III this
hall I hesitate to name them, and
must speak of them with bated breath
Charleston stands here to-day with ten
| representatives which she is not en-
titled to if the Constitution had not
been trampled under foot, and Rich
land has two more than she is entitled
to, while the men who did the brunt
of the fighting in 1876 are DISTINGUISHED
by the enormities perpetrated by the
Legislature. They came here and took
an oath at this desk to support the
Constitution but after they got here
they were bambooZled or affected IN
some way by Columbia water or whis-
key or by Charleston-what shall call
it-brain? Charleston always catches
on her feet. If she is tripped in the
House, she catches on her feet in the
Senate land if tripped in the Senate she
turns up all right in the House.
Laughter While we poor farmers
are carried around by the dozen under
the arms of such men as my friend
from Charleston, (Buist.) Laughter
If we have bright boy and send him
here to this College he gets switched
off. None but the fools come home.
That is why we want an agricultural
college to give us brain on the farm.
The majority Of you here don't repre-
sent political cliques and rings in your
different counties. I won't attempt to
90 into many details that would like
to if had the time"
Mr. Haskell here produced the Stat
utes and showed that in round num-
bers the expenditures in 1879 had been
S9OS, 900 and in 1856 $3.50, 900, to which
should be added about $4,000 to bal
ance a direct Appropriation to the Peni-
tentiary of that amount in 1879, still
leaving expenditures for 1856 about
$500 less than 1879. Amid the al
| Dlause that followed Mr. HaskellS re-
marks, Mr. Tillran was heard to say {:
81 will prove the falseness of those fig
ures before the people,"
On Mr. Gray's motion to reject the
unfavorable report ofthecommittee and
adopt the State primary plan the yeas
and nays were demanded The roll Of
delegates was called accordingly. At
no time was there any doubt as to the
result, but when the result was an
! ponpooS-SS yeoS to or navS-tba an