The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-07-31
Promises and Performances.
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paign with good deal of large talk of
what he intended to do. He was to
60 to Sumter and tell John Dargan he
had come to Columbia with the kiss of
Judas on his lips; he was to go to
Charleston and tell Joe Barnwell he
was a peJurer. He half expected the
campaign meetings as arranged by the
Executive Committee would kill him
but he had some thoroughbred blood
in his veins ard would be with Earle
at the wind up if it was in his coffin,
CHEERS and cries of "Hurrah for Till
man") He was to plant the flag Of
reform on the battlements of the bat
terry and he was to do divers other re-
markable, heroic and desperate things
and deeds.
Earle and Bratton didn' tpromise to
do anything. General Bratton is old
enough to be Tillman's father, and he
didn't hint that the Executive Com
mittee had arranged schedule to
break him down and kill him.
Earle and Bratton have gone straight
through this campaign talking to aud
ences generally hostile. They did not
have decent showing for division of
strength and hearers until they got be-
low Columbia. Yet neither of them
has weakened for an instant or given
back an inch. They went to Edgefeld,
Captain Tillman's home county, to
Abbeville: to Marlboro, to Union where
the county chairman opened proceed
ings with a warm Tillman speech.
They have accepted the arrangements
of friends and foes and made no COM
plants. They have faced all kinds of
taunts, jeers and Interruptions and
have stuck to their work. They have
taken nothing back and modified moth
ing and have said what they had to
say in the heart of Tillman strong
holds as clearly and emphstically as
they said it among their own friends.
Captain Tillman retracted and apollo
gized for what he said Of John Dargan
long before ne got to Sumter. At
Winnsboro' he sat down because part
of the audience hooted him and had to
be persuaded to continue. At Florence
he refused to speak because the ar
rangement of the order of speaking did
not please him. Now he refuses to
speak in Charleston on the ground
that the committee there has arranged
to have the campaign meeting in the
Grand Opera House.
The meeting there is held at night
because city peaple are engaged with
their business affairs during the day.
Convenience, order and the comfort of
speakers and hearers alike will be pro-
moted by having the meeting in
building which will seat 5000 people.
There has not been an assemblage of
that number at any meeting in the
State, except, perhaps, at Columbia.
At all these other meetings Tillman
has been favored because the town
people, who generally oppose him,
could not leave their stores and desks
to attend. Now he kicks because one
meeting will be held under cover but
with the doors wide opeD and admis-
sion free. He will not call Joe Barn
we'll perjurer in Charleston; he will
not fight Earle into that city; he is out
of his coffin, but he will not be there to
plant the banners Of reform on the bat
Elements of the battery. Earle and
Bratton went to the Tillman strong
hold without hesitation. After all his
boasts and promises, Captain Tillman
will not 60 to the Earle and Bratton
stronghold. It is from the Tillman
side that all the talk has come regard
ing the probability of their leaders
assassination, to the scandal and injury
of the State. The Northern Republi-
can newspapers have taken it up and
are making much Of it. If there was
any personal danger, Bratton and
Earle shared it. There are as many
desperate and lawless men on one side
as on the other. Yet nobody has heard
a word from them or any Of their
friends indicating any such fear or be-
lief.
Captain Tillman has acted like a
spoiled child. He began with trump
eting declarations of what be was going
to do. He has left a great deal Of it
undone and he has sulked and refused
to play at game in which everything
was in his own hands whenever he
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