Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-05-05
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other, but true. to their own true
instincts he could not help enjoy
ing the sight Of those hand
kerchiefs that we're flying when
Nh. Sheppard Was adressing the
crowd.
Heshad come to appeal Ito their
sense ofjustice and right, to ask
his hearers "a. think, to ask them
to exercise their God-given right
of self-government; he had come
to appeal TO their consclences and
induce them to decide the matter
according to what is right and
Just before God and man.
An effort, he said, had been
made to prejudice the audience
with insinuatione of Haskell llism.'
That was an appeal to prejudice
instead of reason: The Conyen-.
tion was Democratic and so were
Its nominees.
I ask, he said, thatyc. Jake the
facts and decide them according
to the best interests of South
Carolina, and Twill stand where l
have always been, the supporter
Of the nominee of the party. You
know the history of this move
ment. The first plank in the
platform says that the Democratic
patty should be supreme. Didn't
Governor Sheppard do all he
could to help Governor Tlllman
secure the election9 ! myself
when there WAS a movement in
the Convention to bolt made the
most earnest speech l ever made
10 prevent that movement. !
voted and worked for Governor
Tillman because he was the NOM
inee Of the party. The Has
kellites were mistaken, and they
have recognized that fact, and !
am glad they have. They have
come back and are now as good
Democrats as can be found. GAY.
plause.) Tillman works himself in
toa fury of acting, for that is what
it is, about my accepting q nom
ination afterI had said | didn't
want it.
"A voice: aWhat did he say?"
Orr: He had been for years say
ing he didn't want an Office. Yet
he accepted one that pays $500 q
year, and / am nominated for one
which pays $40 a day during the
session of the Legislature. Who
deserves more contempt, Tillman
or.myself? (Cheers for Orr. He
made the mistake in his own favor
as he did with the free pass. ( Ap-
plause.) I asked the Convention i i
they nominated me for any Office
to give me one which paid no
salary. (sHurrah for Tllman.1
Governor Tillman says he did
not make q promise to reduce your
taxes. He said at Newberry and
;at Anderson that he would save
YOU q hundred thousand dollars.
Did he do ita (Gries of aNol's
AT Anderson Governor Tillman
refused Col Earle's offer to give
if elected a thousand dollars OF
his salary to education, and said,
ssNo, I won't do it, but I will save
YOU a hundred thousand dollars
the:frst year. Has; he done it?
I fGhears for Tillman,l
Tillman said it was an outrage
upon the administration Of justice
: to employ legal counsel outside the
Attorney General and the solicitors
and yet hea has sempolyeds more
than did the proceeding Admins
tration for ten years.
T:llman is trying to excuse
himself in the Agricultural Hall
matter. There was no danger
that the Statewould have toepay
the blue Ridge scrip. The Supreme
Court has declared itrMorthless.
Ifyou sold farm for one-third
cash and the balance on one and
two years., time and you got the
: first payment and q mortgage to
secure the balance, would you,
because the purchaser expressed
an intention NOT to make the
second payment, go into the courts?
No. Secured ibyyour cash pay