Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-08-18
ANDERsoN's ANSWER.
Tillman Certain to Receive aBig
majority.


That fact was plainly demon
strated byto- -day'smeeting, which
was attended by over 5000 people
The proportion was fully four
|.ta.ona. for Ben and Reform...,....
Both sides were. very enthusiastic,
but good order was preserved
Throughout, land. speaker vas
interrupted.
Before the meeting, Tillman
held q receptionIat Hotel Chiquola,
and shook hands with nearly two
thousand of his friends who wanted
Ia hand grasp from the great, Gov
ernor. go, ~ -;&
The speeches of the Conservatives
fell fiat on the crowd to-day, fol
they do not believe IN appeals to
class, like the appeal of the antis
to the poor people to vote against
Tillman, because be proposes Ger.
tain measures for their interests
which these. self-styled lovers Of
the poor try to make them think are
|inimical to their interests. aH
z CANDIDATE SHEPPARD.
made the opening speech, and
touched on his usual. points, talk
ing about Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire, their, water power and
banks, at full length. He opposed
the various measures Tillman pro-
poses for the benfet Of poor people
saying that they. would hurt this
class.
GOVERNOR TlLLMAN. ID
followed with what some of his
friends pronouce the ablest- speech
of the campaign. He read the fol-
lowing afidayit, which had q
decided effect:
estate ofiSouth Carolina,
Anderson County.
Personally appeared before me,
w. L. Snipes, who, being duly
sworn upon his oath, says that he
was at the Cedar Grove meeting,
and upon.his return he was sent
for by Capt. E. A. Smythe, pre-
sident Of Pelzer Mills, and
informed that he was discharged
on account of his presence at that
meeting.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this thirteenth day of August.
1892.
. w. L. sN1pEs.
D. H. RUSSELL, T. j. A. G. L. ST.
Public discussion was rendered
necessary by the untruthfulness
and unreliability of the press
which was opposed to the people.
This is campaign of education,
in which the white people of the
State: are teaching the ring
Jeffersonian Democracy. They have
been taught the elementary
branches, and possibly in four
years they will graduate. They
must acknowledge and recount
their sins. They must fight for
free government, instead of ring
rule: i
! In the Coosaw suit, their papers
were againstus, and almosttprayed
that Coosawwould give them a
chance to accuse us of. ineficiency
and bad management.
Their platform proposesa a COM
prommiseofrailroad litigation, yet
they dare not say the assessments
were too high. I6
They were4in favor of a primary
until they got to Columbia. Murray
made a speech in favor of the
demand for a primary when in
Anderson, and spoke against it
when in the Thirteen Convention.
We are teaching them that all
white men in South Carolina are
free and equal, that the poor man
has one vote. and the president OF
Piedmont has no more.
He touched on Haskell and his
followers, and showed that they
are the backbone of the fight
.against;him. a -
He. proved thatshe was not a
demagogue by quoting the ex-
pressions; of anti speakers, that
his measures were calculated to
.injnre the poor and deprive them
of the right to vote. If this were
true, which it IL not, then it is
incompatible with the charge of
demagoguery.
He dwelt at length on the ques-
tions of the constitutional conven-
tion, The need of railroad control,
better county government, and the
So poll tax; and a primary on the
latter showed nearly all of the
crowd favoring it. He illustrated
the need of a constitutional conven-
tion by saying: GA defeated and
enraged minority might be carried
by. the devil to a high mountain,
and shown 140,000-negro voters in
this State, and be tempted to
appeal to them." :
CANDIDATE YoUMANs.
talked in his usual strain, claiming
that Tillman had been untrue to
his pledges and had been guilty
of various and sundry sins, which.
Youmans recapitulates at each,
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