The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-09-17
THEY ALL SPEAK,
SPEECHES FROM CAPT. TILLMAN AND
THE OTHER NOMINEES.

THE OTHER NOMINEES.
4 Very CONSERVATIVES Address from the
Nominee for Governor, Whic!, was in
Turn Followed by I'll the OtI:crs-Capt.
TiIIman gives His Views on Muttors.
COLUMBIA. S. c., Sept. 11-Shortly
after four o'clock this morning COM
mittee OF twelve entered tho hall, eS-
corting Capt. Is. r. Iillman and the
other nominees. Their entrance WAS
the signal for loud and long applause
from the Tillmanites all OF whom rose
to their feet lis the party. passed up to
the Speakers stand.
The remnant of the Straightout dele
cation remaining in the hall kept their
seats and looked and listened in silence,
both to the cheering and to the speaking
which Immediately followed.
DR.. Pope introduced each one Of the
nominees in turn to the convention.
Capt. Tillman, on heing introduced,
spoke in substance as follows:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the
Convention: After your ardous labors.
lasting thoughout day and night, I
know that you are now worn out, have
had some sleep, and out Of considera-
ton for you l shall be very brief, for
you have had enough OF speaking al
ready.
Captain Tillman, continuing, said
that he would, therefore, only touch
upon few points which he felt it
necessary now to mention. They had
iust conferred upon him nomination
to the highest Office within the gift Of
the people, and it has been customary
for those"thus honored to speak of the
sense of gratitude which overwhelms
them, but he must say that whilst he
was profoundly grateful to the people
whose representatives they were, yet
the feeling Of gratitude was not SO
much uppermost in his mind us was
the sense of possibility. They had
not conferred upon him boon bat a
burden, and he felt it so, and he realized
now that no Governor from the colonial
period down to the present time had
ever been 80 much the subject of watch
full criticism as he would be.
We have just passed through most
remarkable campaign, an unparalleled
one. and it is doubtful if such state of
affairs has existed in any other State.
There must be cause for this, and
there was a cause. 1t was the cause of
the people against ring rule and boss
ism, and he was but the engineer, the
masses were the engine. The issues of
the campaign had been already fully
discussed, and most OF the members
had already heard him dc so at some
point or other in the State. He would
only say now in regard to them that
the verdict OF the people had declared
him to be right. Much had been said
perhaps on both sides that might have
been better left unsaid, and much Bit
terness Of feeling had been engendered.
and yet he would say now that the great
victory for self-government, which had
been achieved by him in behalf Of the
people, was well worth all of the heart
burnings of the campaign, We entered
this morning upon a new era IN the
history of the State, and he trusted that
the new departure would be looked
back upon in after times with feelings
of deepest gratitude, for it was one
which made the people, the rank and
file of the Democracy, the true and only
masters of the State.
lie knew that he was plain. blunt
man; he had been charged sometimes
with even brutal bluntness. and as a
consequence was to-day the worst hated
man in the State of South Carolina; and
yet after all, the people had endorsed
him. Why? Compared to his two dis
tinguished competitors, what was he?
A mere nobody. What was the reason
for it? It was not that the people were
for Tillman; it was that they were for
the principles of which he was the ex-
ponent.
In accepting this nomination,
he felt that his peaceful days were
gone and heavy load of care
placed upon his shoulders. BE that as
it may, he would assume the Office to
discharge its duties without fear, favor
or affection.
He trusted, now that the campaign
had closed, the days of vituperation and
abuse had also closed. He had been re-
presented through the medium Of the
press as a dangerous demagogue, a
worse than Red Republicans one
who had DETAINED his mother State.
When had he ever accused the people
of South Carolina of fraud or corrup-
ton? He had charged official mistakes
and mismanagement, and had said that
such things should be righted and must
be righted. That was all there was in
that. The turn of the wheel sometimes
brought the scum to the surface, and
there we're those that held that such
was the case with the revolution which
had thrown him on top. If it were so,
time would show.
AS regarded the misses Of those who
opposed him, he could say now that he
felt no animosity towards them, nor
did he entertain single spark of re-
sentiment in his bosom against any man
who had not treated him with common
decency in the campaign. Some there
were who had not done so, and he could
not say that he felt friendly disposed
toward them; but he would say that he
had no one to reward, no one to punish,
and would enter Office with clean hands,
unpledged to anything whatsoever,
save to administer the laws faithfully
and impartially.
Abiding once again to the bitterness
existing against him in certain quar-
ters, Captain Tillman asked the Con-
vention to contrast his action in the
past, when he had accepted defeat and
concurred in unsatisfactory nomina-
tions, to the action Of the people Of
Richland, VINO had instructed their
delegates to vote against making his
nomination unanimous. Richland
might refuse to join the Tillman
column, but like the absence of the
statue Of Pompey from CAESARS triumph,
it only made the triumph more con-
splpous.
Of the many ISLANDERS uttered against
him and spread broadcast over the land,