The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-06-12

pressed with the fact that Greenville
would 60 at present with majority
for Tillman. Yet Gen. Earle has many
strong aud influential friends in the
city and county. Gen. Bratton too
has some strong friends there.
1t is long time yet before the CAM
paign ends, and there is no way of tell
ing what the end will be.
Gree1lyille seems TO be a delightful
little city, and not so small either, as 1t
is thought the present census that Is
being taken will show a population OF
10000. There are elegant residences
there, and the city seems to be build
ing up. Through the courtesy of Mr..
r.. Nicholas, General Secretary of
the y. NJ. c. \. there: I enjoyed drive
over the city. Mr.. Nicholas has many
friends in Newberry who will be glad
to learn that he is getting on nicely in
his work at Greenville.
I left the city at o'clock, and on the
train coming down were several gentle
men from Anderson. Some of these
gentlemen were discussing the Con-
gressional race in the Third District.
One gentleman who is in the councils
of the Tillmanites and the Farmers
Alliance, said, and as he did not speak
it as a secret, feel that am betraying
no confidence in repeating it,, al
though he was not talking to me, that
it would he decided at the meeting here
on Friday whether Hon. J. a. Sigh,
of Newberry, or Mr.. D. X. Norris, of
Anderson, would be run as their can-
didate for Congress from this district,
that is as I understand it the candidate
of the Tlllman party, or Alliance can
didate. From what I could gather, I
hardly think Mr.. Norris will be in the
race.
AS this is to be campaign Of educa-
ton, trust that every voter will be
willing to hear every side, whether he
be Tillman or anti-Tillman, and make
up his mind honestly and fairly and
free from prejudice, and cast his vote
for the man of his choice as his best
Judgment may dictate.
Let no one deafen his ear or harden
his heart, but view the issues and the
candidates honestly and squarely and
exercise his franchise as a free white
citizen of South Carolina.
E. H. ACLL.
P. S.-Since writing the above l see
that the daily papers estimate the
crowd at G1eenville on Tuesday at
from 800 to 1000. Somebody is doing
bad guessing or bad counting one or
both. 1 have 20 desire nor intention
to misrepresent any thing, and when l
said there were about 600 voters pres
ent, a stated what I conceived to be the
truth as nearly as I could estimate. L
had reference to the voters who were
out where the speaking took place. AS
I came up town I noticed quite a num-
Der of men on the streets and IN the
stores. had no reference to these. l
do not believe there were 1000 people
present at the speaking, counting wo-
men and children. One gentleman
with whom I talked as we stood IN
rear of the audience, estimated the
crowd at 500 voters. I do not claim to
be an expert at estimating the number
of people in any crowd, and 1 do not
care any thing about the number OF
voters that were present at the Green
vile meeting, only gave my estimate
which was corroborated by the opinion
of others who were present.
The Greenville News says there were
1000 persons present. 1t ought to know,
I suppose, but if there were, 1900
people makes much smaller looking
crowd than I thought it did.
Z. H. A.