The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-15
LET Us ADOPT THIS SUGGESTION.
Abbeville Meeting Might be PospOn-
ed Until November 9Th, when the
Railroad Barbecue Could FIJI up
Tillmanites, and Hask elites too.
If any of the Latter Should be
Here.
Columbia Register.

The resolution ofthe campaign committee
OF the Democratic party calling upon the
County Chairman OF every County In the
state 70 issue call for holding mass cam paign
meetings In each County In this State on the
9th OF october, with the exception OF Rich.
land and Charleston, where meetings will be
held on the 2Sth and 18th, respectively, opens
the ball again, which everybody in the State
had fondly hoped was closed out for ut least
two years.
At the Columbia and Charleston meetings
Senators Hampton and Butler are invited
to speak.
We doubt sincerely the necessity or the pro.
priety Of these meetings. The people of the
State are sick and tired Of public speaking.
they are quite willing to do without it for the
next sixteen years.
Ofcourse it Is but right and proper to give
our Senators bearing If agreeable to them,
but it Will be putting them in n very tight
place to take sides against their old friends
and supporters, either on the one Side or the
other, in the very handsome family Quarrel
we now have on hand. Nevertheless, Wehope
and expect that these Senators, II they con.
sent to speak, will be open and above boar
in expressing their opinions.
We look TO the 9th, when everybody will
be expected to shoot off his mouth in every
County in the State, as just that much waste
ofbreath. The spasm of oratory that will break
out that day will be WEAKNESS Of the flesh 10
many poor fellow who will be expected to
be there and take 1t all in. There are so few
men who can speak, even when they try, and
SO few audiences in the State who know what
good speaking is that it makes q sensible man
sick at his stomach to becalled upon tospeak.
That there are so many men, and good fellows
too, who think the sum and substance OF
these occasions is in halloo: "Hurrah for Till
m-a-aa-n!" that to get up before these people
to talk sense Is like proposing q first-cass
prayer meeting at an old fashioned break
down.
And when to the protracted vocal boom for
Farmer Ben on that eventful 9th we shall
hear in response that sharp rifle sounding:
"Hurrah for Haskelli' II somebody don't get
hurt we shall be surprised. We suppose there
will be no division of time between the two
tickets, but you may bet your bottom dollar
the "Haskell boys will be around on the oc-
casion and that there will be chin music on
their side, too although we have no right to
speak authortaitively on this matter. We
only guess so from the nature OF the case and
the nature of nature Of the men on that side.
But the 9th quite possibly will not be the
only day that we will have this speechifying
and when 1t all gets through, If you will let
one side tell the Others story, you will con.
clude that there are the meanest set OF people
in South Carolina that ever assembled in one
poor little State. And yet, some people de-
light In this sort OF thing and consider it an
honor to have chance to spout for half an
hour or 30. But we shouldn't complain, for
we were fool enough to think 80 once oursel-
YES. Now3 if we had charge OF that day We
would forbid all speaking most positively and
have the biggest barbecues that were ever