The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-08-12

said ne wuul4 st,al; c'osc 10 ihc records and
especially 10 tt", pni his friend ,Benc,l
.-d Skipped. .!c V..eyeI .A.t he demo.
cratic party ought to be and would be sup
ported after the primary and that was the
reason lie voted for Tillman in the last cam
paigu. lie referred to conversation with
Gov. Tillman several years ago wherein h,
Gov. Tiilman) virtually acknowledged thai
Ioumans was the better farmer Of the two
the Gov. saying in the conversation that OF
his farm he had nothing but grapes aut
jersey cows.
Col. loumans, coming back to his direc
argument, said: Your State bonds arc be
low par. Can you expect people to plac,
York has recently said that he has the
money to invest, but could not put it here
where the people arc on the verge of civil
war under the present administration
Referring TO Gov. Tillman's charges and
also TO his pledges he SAID: will leave
him to be tried by his own standard. He
has denounced the farmers as fools and
said tho ringsters would wine and dine
them, and when they got to Columbia they
would soon forget their poor fellow farmers
at home. He had called them green
gourds, which rotted before they were ripe.
Speaking of the free pass, Col, Youmans
continued: With Gov. Tillman it was the
battle Of the forbidden fruit. The free pass
was the tempter and when il was offered to
Gov. Tillman he fell. One time Gov. Til.
man said Sheppard was refined god and the
painted lily, now he says he is wolf in
sleeps clothing. lie says he met the BOYS
in 1890 and that he now has them in his
breeches pocket.
Thsn he come to the SO poll taA I un-
derstand that there gre 3-5 delinauents in
Union County who oou'd nat pay their ST
poll. How many would there be if We had
So poll tax? Gov. Tilllman snys any man
who can not pay So poll tax ought to be
placed in chain gang with negroes. When
the time came to pay your last taxes the
times were hard and the General Assembly
passed n bill to extend the time to pay them
sixty days. Did Tillman remember you
then? No he said if the taxes were not
paid the penalty would be attached.
Col. Youmans said that if the educational
and property qualification was ever made a
law II would cut off many white people
from voting. Again referring to Gov. Till
man abuse of the people on his own side he
continued: Gov. Tillman says that the
legislators who we're elected OH the same
ticket with himself were trading politicians,
UNFIT to elect anybody. lie only excepts
eight. and in that number includes himself
He tells yon to send man there who will
stand by him. He cnims that he las the
farmers in his breeches pocket, and now
he wants you to elect a legislature that he
can put in his breeches pocket also. Ne
has been fighting the judiciary because thew
did not bow before him. He insults the
judiciary ofthe State by saying 10 the peo-
pie they, the Judges, know on which side
their bread il butfered -
Col. Youmans predicted that the reason
Tillman wanted his own Legislature now was
because he vas laying his plaIs for ,he
United States Senate.
Throughout the entire time OF Col. You.
man speech he received . -xooa i,e,ript,. "a
When Col. Youmans closed, il was after
five o'clock, and Chairman Lyles Immediate
ly adjourned the meeting.
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The Union campaign meeting has rassed
of pleasantly. Most OF the voters of Union
County have seen aud heard the speakers ON
both sides, face 10 face, and the time for
them 70 mske their choice is near at hand.
The right TO vote is one Of the erandes,
bulwarks of American liberty and tLe
choosing OF officers who shall preside oysr
the destinies Of our land is one Of the mosf