The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-04-20

criticised and watched without danger
Of split. The gentlemen come to US
as candidates for peace and unity,
(winding up with sneer, followed by
applause) What can't understand
is why there has not always been peace
and unity. They love peace and unity
(sneeriuglyl and the offices above all
else. loud applausel Now listen one
minute and save your hurrahs for my
last speech. | have saved the lest till
the last" Applause aud cries Of sit
down in front.1
GOING FOR TIE NEWSPAPERS.
When the crowd had quieted down
and some had found seats Governor
TiIIman resumed. He said that just
as soon as the last Legislature adjourned
tue newspa pers of South Carolina, ex-
cept few, turned loose an avalanche of
Misrepresentation abuse, slander and
ta!sehood on him, the worst that had
ever been seen. 1t was led, he said,
bv an organ started to keep alive the
eInbers of HaskeIlism. The men who
got up the last convention were \. U.
GouZales and the editor OF the Green
will News. [Confusion and applause.l
Governor Tiliman then read an edlto-
rial from The State of March 14tn,
written after Editor Williams resolu-
ticns in the March convention in this
county, criticising the endorsement of
the farmers movement. "lt is not
Tilman they are after" be said, "but
the farIners.n He alluded to the last
peace ard unity convention as an abor-
ton. "Although the March conven-
ton swallowed the farmers movement
whole,n he continued, "eXcept the best
part, that's me, laughter it is nothing
but the old ring under new name
and Haskellism in Disguise" The
Governor read an article from The
State OF February 10Th, dissenting from
the claim of the Greenyille News that
the chief demands Of the farmers
movement were safe, and declared that
the News would have high old time
conducting an anti-Tillman campaign
on Tillman platform. He thought it
would have parrot aud monkey time.
Laughter.
Tel us about Edgefield," called out
voice.
"Edgefield went three one, for the
goat candidate" said Tillman. The
bows there are too wise to be caught by
a sheep in VOLTS clothing"
Heres proof, resumed he, "that
The State is father Of the March con-
vention, and not A. B. Williams"
He then read an editorial from The
State claiming that the convention was
the result of letters to it, and that it
L. = RI a n
\. G. Gonzales had demanded of A. B.
Williams to "Shoot, Luke, or give up
your gun" Luke shot. A voice, Yes
he did" Another voice-"But he
didn't hit nothin'. " The address of
the thirteen had said Haskell and Has
hellis,n were to take a back seat in the
COW ention, but it was soon found that
without the help of the Haskell ele-
ment there could be no convention.
Telegrams were sent out to the thirteen
sieners, and they agreed that the con-
vention was sovereign; that when they
said Haskel!ism was out they did not
mean it. Voice: "They ought to put
Ensor in, too."1 Governor Tillman
said he wanted to show his hearers
something of the March convention
platform and what it is. at is Till
manism diluted" he said. "But it is
like mountain coffee, too weak to run
down hill. 1t is confession that these
men never had the ability to originate
ANYTHING for the good of the masses Of
the people. They took a good platform
but tried to throw Tillman overheard" )"
He read the following plank of the re-
cent March convention: I'VE accept
and respect the will of the people as
expressed in the election of 1880, as
meaning the larger participation and
stronger and more direct influence of
our agricultural population in the con-
troll and management or our pubic al
fairs.n Commenting on this be said:
Have we taught these Bourbons one
lesson-that the farmers have some
rights? If you throw Tillman over
board they will give you the agricultu-
raj college or agricultural anything
else.n Some of those that are now
clamoring for the farmers movement
are against it; some men on the ticket
had voted against Clemson and fought
it to the bitter end. They now come
forward and tell the farmers that they
will give them a voice in matters.
"I know you amt going to give up
what you've got," he said; that you
won't take these men you have tried
and found wanting. l stand here and
say that these men are my followers,
nv students in statesmanship. Voice:
They amt old enough to graduate J
Nv time is Dearly out. The opposition
will put up two distinguished lawyers
to prosecute the case of the ring against
B. r. Tillman. You are the jury. /
can say without egotism that but for
B. r. Till*nan you would never have
had the opportunity to try the case.
am ready for trial. You are the Jury.
I say:
Lay on, McDuff;
And dam'd be he that cries,
Hold, enough"
This was the conclusion Of the speech,
and Governor Tillman took his seat
amid wild cheering. The crowd had
not been orderly and did not seem dis
posed to be so. The mingled cries and
confusion did not cease while the band
was playing.
A single bouquet in which hand
some calla lily was prominent, was
banded through the crowd to the
stand.
EX-GOVERNOR OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
General Gray then introduced Gov
ernor Sheppard, speaking against cy-
clone of confused cries. He said: "It
is now my pleasing duty to introduce
to you an old schoolmate and life long
friend, a man who was colleague
with me in the Wallace house, who so
distinguished himself as to be made
the presiding officer of the body and
who discharged his duties there so well
that from the House he was called to
preside over the Senate and won the
encomium of being the peer of any pre-
siding officer the State has ever known.
He became governor ou the resignation
of Governor Thompson and during the
short term his administration was so
able and conservative that his name
Was put before the convention Of 1886
for reelection. On that occasion his
excellency Gov. Tillman paid high
tribute to his personal worth and Off
cial merits and declared that to eulo-
gize them further would be to gild re-