The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-30
THE CAMPAIGN MEETINGS.
THE SAME OLD SONGS SUNG BY THE
CANDIDATES.

a Quiet and Orderly Meeting at Conway
Capt. Tillman and his Party Give the
Charleston Meeting the CODY.
CONWAY, S. c., July 22.-Hurrah for
Horny. The Independent Republic has
given the campaign speakers cordial
welcome 1t was certainly one of the
most dignifed and respectable meetings
of the entire campaign. It is thought
that the meeting has done considerable
to enlighten the people of Horny upon
the issues of the day. There were be-
tween fifteen and eighteen hundred
representative farmers at the speaking.
Quite a number of negroes were
among the audience.
The meeting was in reality battle
between Senator jeremiah Smith and
Tillman. The general verdict was
that Smith scored signal victory. He
is a good straightout talker, knows his
facts and has the utmost confidence Of
the people. The war of words between
Capt. Tillman and Farmer Smith was
at times exciting, but never exceeded
the bounds of propriety. To Senator
Smith, Col. Earle in great measure gave
the field, and the Horny Senator made
things lively for Capt. Tillman. The
Tillmanites, as usual, were out to a
man. That is part of their pro-
gramme. The Straightouts were pres
ent in large numbers, and were con-
sidered in large majority at the meet
ing.
Is soon as Capt. Tillman had finished
his reply to Senator Smith the band
headed a procession and led Tillman
from the meeting. It being somewhat
late. the crowd, under the seduction of
the music, naturally left the meeting.
The band then came to the meeting, and
to the annoyance of Col Earle, con-
tinued to interrupt him by playing vile
music until it was routed.
Another curious incident was the
sudden and unexcused departure Of
Tillman from the stand. He left as
soon as Col. Earle rose to speak, not
allowing him a chance for direct reply
or oss-eaamination. The Straight
outs seem to have very little doubt now
that the County viii send six Regular
Democratic delegates to Columbia.
The speech of Senator Smith, with those
of Earle and Bratton, did effective
work.-NewS and Courier.
THE CHARLESTON MEETING.
CHARLESTON, S. c., July 24-The
four burly policemen and two cute de-
tectiYes, who have been acting as a
body guard to Captain B. R. Tillman
ever since his arrival in Charleston,
were relieved from duty this afternoon
at 5 o'clock, when the Captain and his
ticket took their departure for Sum-
merville, where they will speak to-,
morrow. Captain Tillman and his
party arrived here at noon on Wednes-
day, and the head Of the ticket has been
faithfully guarded by the police ever
since. The Chief of Police says that he
made the detail at the request of John
D. Murphy and T. B. Reeves. Captain
Tillman's two lieutenants here, who
said that they had received threatening
letters during his entire stay.
Captain TIlman was closeted in his
room at the Charleston Hotel. On
Wednesday afternoon he was given a
carriage drive by ex-Mayor Courtenay,
and this morning he took flying trip
to Sullivan's Island, leaving at 10 a. m.
and returning at l 2. m. No attempts
were made to assassinate him. The
straightouts indeed say that the protec-
ton called for was to protect Murphy
and Reeves. They feared, it is claimed,
that the "ringsters" might guy them
while they were buzzing in and out the
hotel.
There are rumors here that CORES
pondence is going On between Captain
Tillman and J. w. Barnwell, in which
the latter demands an explanation for
the assertion made by Captain Tlllman
that he, BarnWell, had threatened him
with assassination.
The straightout Democratic mass
meeting tonight can scarcely be called
a bowling success. Three causes are
ascribed: First. it was a squaly wet
night; second, a rumor got abroad dur
ing the day to the effect that the Demo-
cratic Executive Committee had deter,
mined to abandon the meeting after
Tillman refused to speak.
Despite these drawbacks, however,
the house was fairly crowded and the
meeting was peaceably conducted.
There was but one Tillmanite in the
audience, which numbered about l, 600,
and he became obstreperous and was
put out by policeman. This was
about the only Tillman feature OF the
meeting. Speeches were made by Gen.
Bratton and Attorney General Earle,
straightout candidates for Governor;
Secretary of State Marshall, Judge
Crawford and others, and the meeting
became enthused to high pitch.
MEETING AT SUMMERvILLE.
SUMoIERvILLE, S. c., July 25.-The
meeting here to-day was not much OF a
success as to numbers. The meeting
was held in a little pine grove at the
southeast corner of Main street and
Railroad avenue. There were no deco
rations to speak of, except two flags
with Tillraan notices, which We're
nailed to an oak tree in front OF the
stand, and there was also on the street
wagon loaded with upright green
corn stalks.
AS to the crowd, it was not very large;
but it was in no sense entirely repre-
sentative of Berkeley. The Berkeley
campaign meeting" was, in fact, a big
missioner. AS Capt. Tillman remarked
in his speech "You are here not alone
from Berkeley, but from Colleton and
Orangeburg."
The proceedings were not noisy or
boisterous, except at one point towards
the close of the meeting. There was to
all appearances only one drunken man
in the whole assembly. Two others
got into a dispute. which ended in q
iisticuf, but that was the sum total OF
the disturbance.
Gen. Bratton was the first speaker.
His speech was about the same in sub
stance that he delivered at the other
meetings. Col. Earle was absent, and
Gen. Bratton was followed by Capt.
Tillman. The crowd cheered him lusti-
ly and it was quite evident then that
more of his friends had taken the
trouble to attend the meeting than the
friends of the other side. The Coleton
and 0ranrahlrp people were for him