The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-09-11
From the Greenville News. !

From the Greenville News.
We knew the Tillman campaign was
a lob put up on the people, and knew
that sooner or later lis secrets would be
revealed. We did not think, however,
that the revelation would come so
soon.
Candidate Bob" Smith is an awk-
ward man to handle or to have in ring
or a caucus. His ideas of reform politics
and arrangements for the blessing OF
the people are crude. He thinks men
ought to mean what they say and that
when they make bargains they should
stick to them. When there are breaches
: of faith, lapses of memory and yield
ings to popular calls in defiance of
private agreements DR.. Smith is in
eliued to kick vigorously and speak out
: with alarming bluntness in defiance OF
the requirements of personal or fracsio-
nal interests. He is Citizen Ashley
kind of man. He doesn't enjoy being
made fool of, used, squeezed, stepped
onand then thrown away, and he won't
5 submit if he can help it. There are
good many points about DR.. Smith
which many good people don't like,
but nobody can accuse him of not say
ing what he thinks or falling to hit
back. and we confess to liking that
kind of man as heartily as we dislike
the sneak who will crawl and fawn and
pander and meekly accept all kinds OF
snubs, insults and wrongs because he
is, afraid or c'ings to the hope that
thrift may follow his fawnirg.
WHEN SMITH "PEAcHED."
The meeting at Walkers Crossroads,
in this county, Saturday, was the first
DR.. Smith has attended since the an
nouneement of the candidacy of Capt.
G. w. Shell for Congress from this dis
trict. DR.. Smith has been candidate
for the same seat for some months. He
was first in the field. He is an Alliance
man, q Ben Tillman man and a sub
treasury man, Capt. Shell is on pre-
cisely the same platform, and Smith
went to the Crossroads loaded for bear
Shell. He talked out in the meeting,
and he told the people some curious
facts concerning those eminent and
disinte7ested reformers, Tillman and
Shell.
ORGANIZING THE ''REFoRMATIoN."
From his statement it appears that
the spontaneous uprising Of the people
against wrong, injustice, oppression,
ring rule, tie aristocracy and the dig
archy was organized so far back as last
November, the place being the city Of
Columbia. President Stackhouse, ofthe
State Alliance, DR.. Smith. Capt. Till
man and Capt. Shell did the organizing.
Their purpose was purely patriotic, but
each of them felt it in his bones that
the people would insist on giving him
an office and each selected the one he
thought would fit his size and shape.
According to DR.. Smith, Tillman
was to be Governor. Shell Secretary of
State, Smith Representative in Con-
press from his ditrict, Stackhouse Re-
preventative in his. This little arrange
ment was, we suppose, a quiet one,
perfected in an inner circle apart from
the sixteen members of the executive
committee who ordered the call for the
March Convention. This same inner
circle-wheel within wheel, ring within
rinc-framed the famous Shell mani
festo.
In his opening address to the March
Convention, four months later, Capt.
Shell said:
II am not here seeking any office at
your hands and would not accept one
if rendered to me, am actuated by no
selfish or ambitious motive and have
spent my time and money for four
wears for the love of the cause. Ifit
succeeds under my leadership it will be
glory enough for me-"
On the same occasion Capt. Tillman
opened his address thus:
'There are men here so narrow, so
prejudiced, so poisoned that they are
ready to say I am speaking for myself.
It is true that my name, without any
active movement on my part, is con-
nected with the office Of Governor; it |
is true that had something to do with |
the writing of the Shell address, but, |.
as God is my judge, I had no idea Of
doing anything for myself"
Gas God is my Judge" Capt. IT'LL
man says he believes in God. If in
March he solemnly called on God to
witness that he had had no idea of doing
anything for himselfwhen heknew that
he had arranged and agreed in Nov.
to have himself nominated for Govern
or, we would like somebody to explain
why his deelaration ives not morally
perjury-not officially perjury or politi-
cal perjury such as he charged against
Judge Izlar and others, but moral per
jury-saying he knew not to be true
and calling on the Holy Name of Gtd
to strengthen his assertion and give it
weight with his hearers. We see no
escape from the conclusion that there
was either a fiat case of moral perjury
against Capt. Tillnlan or thas Senator
Bob Smith has heGI. We do not Believe
Senator Smith has lied and we wigSes
seven dollars and eighty cents Easl