The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-07-02
THAT SECRET CONCLAVE.
The Transactions of the Recent. Conference
ofTillmanites in Columbia Comes
to.Lisht --Some.1nteresting
Reading.
IColumbia Record, June 18th. ]

paragraphs at the daily newspaper
and Tillmanic threnodies into tn
breasts of the "people"-the dear, de
lightful, delicious, delirious people,
what is agitating the administration.
As the Record has already remarked
the cry of the Dominant Element is
"Wanted-One Organ, Tuned and Re
paired"
Some time ago theiRecord published
exclusively the fact that the why ant
wherefore of the secret administration
meeting in the dark in Comptrolle
Ellerbe's office was letter addressed t
the guests" by Gov. Tillman, stating
that the administration wanted /;
newspaper, as the News and Courie
was unreliable, the Register too weak
and the World had gone back on them
THE WORLDS BIG "scooP."
We hit the nail OF the head.
To-day the Charleston World lay:
bare the secret meeting in most of it:
details. That paper publishes thi:
mornining over three columns of {
spicily written account Of the meeting
containing details heretofore unknown
to the public. The World claims thai
it used a "kinetograph" in procuring
this readable information. This, the
World says, is Edison's latest inven.
tion-a marvellous little machine that
you can put in corner and which viii
faithfully portray every action and rec,
ord every word.
The World graphically describes
what the kinetograph saw and heard
and then says:
PERSONNEL OF THE MEETING.
The room is nearly full. There must
be~some thirty odd present, thin and
stout, bearded and bald.
They range around the walls, and
there are more than enough 70 so
around.
"Say; some of you fellows sit in the
windows; there might be reporters
sneaking aroundW
How familiar that voice! Yet the in
tonation was not all that could be de-
sired, or the kinetograph might be
! tempted to call name.
| But the 'fcllows'' got into the Win
dows, and filled the ledges full
Inside were seen:
-, Benjamin P. T:lla:an, Governor OF
South Carolina.
James f. Tindall, Secretary of State.
Hugh L. Farley, Adjutant General.
John L. NJ. Irby, United States Sen
ator-elect.
f. r. Stackhouse, Congressman from
the Sixth District.
George w. Shell, Congressman from
the Second District.
W. H. Ellerbe, Comptroller General.
James Norton, chief clerk of the
| Comptroller General.
, D. w. Townsend, Assistant Attor-
ney-General.
James P. Bean, Governors private
secretary.
W. J. Talbert, Superintendent of the
Penitentiary.
Capt. T. W. Dagget, Representative
from Horny County.
w. H. Zimmerman, Senator-elect
from Edgefeld County.
w. T. G. Bates, Treasurer of the
State.
H. A. Meetze, Senator from Lexing-
ton.
Stanyarne Wilson, member of the
Legislature.
John G. Williams, member of the
Legislature.
DR.. Sampson Pope, Clerk of Senate
L. S. Bigham, Senator from Flor
ence County.
G.. w. Kinard.
J. W. Bowden, editor Anderson Ad-
| vocate.
--- Stark.
r. G.. Watts, one of the editors Of the
Laurensville Herald, and Irby's sue
cessor in the Legislature.
J. Elmore Martin, of Charleston.
There were others present-possibly
half dozen more whom the kineto-
graph could't catch. But that don't
matter; enough has been given.
STOKES GETS THE "MULE DoDGE.n
But there was one presence conspicu-
ously absent. Paradox, eh? True, nev-
ertheless.
Who was ii?
DR.. J. William Stokes, editor of the
Cotton Plant, president of the State
Alliance, defender of Alliance princi-
pies, and the sub-treasury plan in par
ticular, which plan is just now loom
ing up as a rock upon which the "dom-
inant element" may split into thou.
sand pieces!
Why wasn't DR.. Stokes there?
Not invited! Wasn't wanted.
How does the kinetograph know be
wasn't invited: Ask Dr. Stokes if be
was, and see how true an instrument
can wor round corner!
THE GOVERNORS LETTER,
A "lesder" in each county-which
means q public officer of some kind
except DR.. Stokes-received stylo-
graphic letter like this, which the
kinetograph caught over the left
shoulder Of man who sat in range, as
he read it over to see that the object Of
the meeting was being stated correctly:
COLUMBIA, S. c., May IS, '9l.
DEAR SIR: At this time there is no
6ailv r,aDer in South Carolina which