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been sos, 600 and IN 1886 "a year I had
not mentioned) they were $3.50, 900,
sc. s.Amid the applause that followed
Mr.. Hsskell's remarks (his 'ringsters'
would have applauded him if he had said
black was white, which he did in efect)
Mir. Tillman was heard to say: 4 Will
prove the falseness of those figures be-
fore the people, &C."
merely desire to call attention to the
contradiction between his first and last
statement, and to the fact that the
figures he gave were not official, and are
shown by Gen. Verners statement to be
totally incorrect. Further, that Gen.
Werner says that the surplus was not
used in 1879, as stated by Col. Haskell,
but that the 'sunpaid interest was
funded"
ssEGen the good Homer sometimes
nods," and the distinguished chairman
of the WAYS and means, who has bull
dczed and brow-beaten so many tanners,
will mind how he accepts another s'dare"
from one. 7 have redeemed my pledge,
and shown that was night and he was
wrong, and now 'sdare" him, or any
one else, to disprove what have assert
ed in this letter.
A few words on the editorial IN The
Weekly News and Courier of 23d and 1
am done. In it, what I said in the Con-
vention is characterized as ''discredltable
in both matter and manner" and the
bulk of it termed s.invective and ex-
ssgeration, !" &c. I have never laid any
claim to orstory; and knowing the Con-
vention was very impatient to adjourn, l
made no attempt at anything but a
direct and clear ststement Of my ideas
on the matter without wasting time on
the usual orstorical s'buncombe. l
never delivered myself as the official
spokesman of the people" or made any
ssthreats" of what they would do. My
words we're: ssI stand here IN the inter
est of the common people of South
Csrolina and ask that you give them
their rights and my reply to Col.
Haskell was not 'sunguarded. He was
nisstating my words just as Capt. Daw-
son has done, and I said, 81 have never
claimed to represent anybody but my
self, !" which is the simple Truth. The
only sscommission" had in Columbia
was from the Edgeield Democratic Con
yention. After warm debate, In which
the identical arguments used by Col.
Haskell, Senator Murray and Mr.. Gary
were advanced by q friend of the ssring, !"
that convention by vote of 1Ol to IS
passed resolution In ssfavor of primary
elections for all Offices IN the gift Of the
Democratic party from Governor down. :"
am told sneerngly that my Gown asso-
cis5es voted against me" They did it
IN the face of the resolution, and it only
proves that the ssyen" I gave about the
State Convention Representing the peo-
pie" was true. I may not represent the
people of Edgefeld IN all things, but I
feel sure on this point and also feel sure
that it Will not be long before a State
primary for State officers viii replace
the Peterborough Convention system.
The appeals to sectional passion and
salfshness Will not prevent the common
people from learning, even In the negro
counties, that their interests and rights
are safer IN their own keeping than when
delegated to delegates who represent
themselves and their own personal am
bitions only, or who allow themselves to
be traded like sheep to further the aspi-
rations of some place-hunter.
Just as surely as Democracy means
white supremacy, and that the nomlna-
lion by the Democratic party means an
election, inst so surely will the people
tine Of electing men in November whom
they haye bsd no voice in nominating,
and the result wM be that the Democratic
partywM fall 10 pieces of its own rotten
ness unless the people are allowed to ex-
ercise the right, dear to every Anglo
Saxon, of ssf-government. But forgot.
7 am ssEhreatening, OF doing what The
News and Courier calls ssthreatening, !"
and Imnst stop. This is the e'volcano"
10 which I alluded, and no sane man will
deny the danger. The editor of The
News and Courier chooses to assert that
my warnings and opinions are 'threats. !"
ssThe burden of his defamation was that
the people demanded this, that and the
other, and if they were denied what he
called for, this, That and the other would
happen" He does me too much honor.
The demand for a State primary comes
from counties where I have never been.
It Will continue to come and grow In
volume and strength, without any effort
Of mine, and the aristocrsiic ohgarchy
which now governs us had as well prepare
TO yiald it gracefully. The fight for it in
the Convention was not my fight, and
the defeat was not my defeat, as many
seem to think. It is the peoples battle,
and they VIII win it in the State as they
have won it in the counties.
B. r. Tm1MAN.
Roper's, s, c., May %, 1883.
p. 81 hope q sense of fair play Will
make all papers copy this that published
the debate in Convention or Gen Verner's
statement.
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