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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-09-22
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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-14
.A man of very clean record is

A man of very clean record is
John G. Sheppard. BE has been
Governor Of South Carolina but
there hangs around. him no free
free pass edor, no os3poll tax odor;
no suppression of tax extension !;
no itching and fostering lust for
unlawful power; no pitiful stu
pidity as regards legal matters;
and, more than all, no wicked,
selfish engeLdering of strife be-
tween father and son, brother and
sister, neighbor and friend
Edgefeld Chronicle.
The editor of the Edgefeld
Chronicle was one of the delegates
TO the Thirteen's convention. That
convention professed to be for
apeace and harmony" before and
above all things else, but no sooner
does this delegate get home than
he eeommences to pile his dirty little
adjsctiyes upon Governor Tillman.
Now, if Tillman and Sheppard
were from another county, such
trade would not be promotiye OF
peace and harmony, but when we
remember that both these candi-
dates are from his own county'that
TRADE becomes q wicked sngen-
dering of strife between father and
son. brother and sister, neighbor
and friend Our contemporary
used go harsher or viler adjectlyes
than these about Chamberlain;
! the accusations reduced to their
last analysis are nothing. That
etching and fostering lust for un-
lawful power was nothing more
than a request TO the Legislature
to authorize the Chief Executive
to remove sheriffs where they viii
fully and knowingly permitted q
prisoner to be lynched. That free
pass business was not an admin
istrative act. That suppression
of the tax extension" was no sup
preston at oil, and that "pitiful
stupidity as regards legal matters"
has been sustained by the Supreme
Court of the United States of
America and made the law of the
land.
We would conjure our contem-
porary to call off his iies-keep
them at home to be used on some
other meat than son of Edgefeld,
We make this appeal in the in
terest of apeace and harmony" in
Edge6eld county, not in the inter-
eat of. Gov. Tillman; Calumny
has done her worst on him, Vitu-
peration has barked her loudest,
and the Father of Lies has called
off his dogs.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-14

average climate for all of the west
till one reaches the foot hills OF the
Rocky Mountains; this majestic
chain of hills breaks the force of
the winds. The only advantage
this country has over ours is that
the lands are fresher and little
better, but the other advantages
we enjoy compensate for this.
1 want to say something to our
colored friends to try to induce
them to stay at home. l only
wish they. could take a peep at the
poor, homeless, ,shivering, destitute
colored people that can be seen at
some of the stations on the rail-
roads in the territories, that alone
would make them remain forever
where they are. If a colored man
gets a claim in this country the
reckless, desperate class of whites
will make it so hot for him that
he will have to move on. Last
Sunday went to see a colored
man from South Carolina, who is
a lawyer by profession and a man
Of fair intelligence. I had seen
him in Columbia looking "fat and
slick" buty should see him now,
a pretty tough looking citizen. He
had been sick and I took him
some medicine and gave him some
advice in regard to his health.
His next door neighbor, q white
man, did not even know how to
direct me toreach his house which
was not much over a mile from
him. This colored man is as l
have said, a lawyer of fair intelli-
gence, right in the midst of people
mostly from Indiana, Kansas, and
Northern States, that are contin-
ually crying and weeping their.
philanthropic tears for his race and
still will not give this deserving
man an encouraging word. / send
him nv South Carolina papers to
read and he has written me- one or
two pathetic letters about our sweet
sunny South where he first saw
the light. One can almost hear
him say: "My heart turns back to
Dixie'. These two illustrations.
my colored Fl; ;eads,ar only isolate d
examples amongst hundreds OF
such that can be heard of. So take
a friends advice and stay at home
where you were raised, and if you
only have to work for wages and
get three good meals a day and a
shingle over your head, thank
your God for this much and do not
be allured out to country that
you know nothing of, to suffer and
very probably die for the actual
necessariesof life. The white man of
the South is your best friend after
all. Educate your children and
work hard yourselves and all will
be we'll with you. What you hear
in the North in majority of cases
are but the spasmodic plants OF
fanatics who would make you
believe that they feel for your race,
but when you look into it, it is
only vapor that comes from some
short haired woman or crazy sem
timentalist. When you thought
you needed your leaders in 1875
they left you for foreign parts,
proving to you what sincerity there
was in their friendship.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-14
ANNOUNCEMENTS
EoR CONGRESS.

The friends of Col. w. J. TALBERT,
recognizing his ability and fitness, his
Christian virtue, and the deep interest
manifested by him in the welfare of
the whole people-his known oppose
tion to monopolies-his advocacy Of
a better system for circulating the cur
rency of this great country-his IN
terest in the general welfare of the
people and especially of the farmers,
hereby announce him as a candidate
for election, under the Democratic
rule. to the House of Representatives
of the United States from the Second
Con gressianal District of South Caro-
lima. MANY CITIZENS.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-14

honor in the past. He it was that
had plunged his traitorous dagger
into the bosom of his country when
she lay prostrate and helpless
nder the iron heel of a brutal con-
ueror; and it illustrates the
eternal fitness of things when the
on of that hoary-headed assassin
of the liberies of his native land
shonld put himself at the head of
a movement to again degrade the
proud name and unsullied fame
of South Carolina.
There are many things that ought
to be forgot, there are many records
that should be erased from the
tablets of memory, but among the
things that should never be forgot
is the betrayal by Judas of his
master, the treason of Benedict
Arnold and the assassination of his
country's liberty by James l..
Orr.
Now let this son of this man
whose record I have tried to give
in the foregoing lines ask himself
if he could by any possibility
imagine the son of Judas Iscariot or
the son of Benedict Arnold going
about and advising the people
what to do and they the .ame peo-
pie that their fathers had betrayed,
and ifhe is unable to imagine such
athing, CAN'T be exactly the thing
for him to do, when we cannot for
get that his father stands on the
same plane with the above men.
toned worthless? Very truly.
JOHN M. PAYNE.
st. Matthews, S. c., March 25.
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"reminiscences and Reflections


To The Cotton Plant: Some
years ago (that is to say in the
years of good stealing) | was in
the city,of Columbia at a time
when the faithful of the carpet
-baggers, scalawags, mongrels and
negroes had gathered together
(like vultures around a dead
carcas) to congratulate each other
on the face that North Carolina
had just cast her vote for General
Grant. The cannon was BOOM
ing in the grounds around the
State House, and the house and
grounds were filled with crew of
ill-visaged and sinister looking in
dividuals that to look at would
make women turn pale and honest
men turn sick. In this ill-favored
crowd were many so-called orators
that held forth one after the other
in commentary on the glorious
occasion. The first that came
forth on the platform (Which was
the State House steps, was
Beverly Nash, a negro (that was
as black as the political cloud that
then hung over South Carolina);
he made such a harangue as a
negro only can make. He was
followed by R. B. Elliott, another
negro black as Erebus; what he
said was at least decent. He was
followed by a portly, statesman
looking white man; his head was
covered with the winter that
eternity SHOWS upon all that live
long enough, his features were of
the kind that Milton ascribes to
the aarchangel lost, He made a
speech--he congratulated the faith
full around on the fact that God in
His providence had made such a
meeting as that possible in South
Carolina. He said the Southern
people generally ought to con-
graduate themselves that they
were not hung to man as traitors
and rebels, and that they ought to
be exuberantly thankful that they
had fallen into the hands of such
magnanimous conquerors; that it
was now the manifest duty of the
Southern people to put forever be-
hind them the history and tradi-
tions of which they had heretofore
been SO prond, and come forward
into the new light of the new
gospel of calpet-bag evangelization
az North Carolina had done, and a
great deal more of the same kind of
talk.
The talk from the negroes on
this occasion did not seem out of
harmony with the surroundings
but seemed as something that
might reasonably Lave been looked
for. but when the white man gave
expression to the sentiments that
he did, there was something
anomalously abhorrent in them
words cannot express: Every
instinct of Anglo-Saxon manhood
seemed to be outraged and in
suited. -.
Now, the man that made this
speech that / am telling you about
was James L. Orr, the man that
South Carolina had delighted to
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-14
AN. N.EDGEFIELD YOUTH
Writes Letter from the Indian
Territoryzstruggle for the
New Lands-No Room for
the COlored Brother.
Fort RENO,

INDIAN TERRITORY, April 2.
Look on one of the new maps OF
this country and you will see Fort
Reno, headquarters of the Fifth
Cavalry, U. S. Army. You will
also notice a good deal of the
Indian Territory west of us. All
this portion of the Territory will i'll
be opened for settlement between
this and the 10th or 18th of April.
It would amuse you all, my friends
in Edge6eld, to see the variety
and number of people from every
quarter who are ready to fly in at
the word and secure homes, such
as they are. What we are now
looking forward to with much
interest is what's known as the
crush" The town near here is at
present infested with all manner
of humanity, from the sleek and
polished gambler to the desperately
uncouth looking professional
boomer. One can see more or as
much of the west as they wish at
this time. There are few if any
negroes among the boomers; their
colony is about here and the race
line out here is more strictly
drawn than any where in the
South. When the order comes to
open up the country, on army
officer on horse back rides down
his portion of the line, frer his
pistol, then the crowd rushes in.
One can see women, children,
old and young, in and on every
conceivable vehicle and animal,
struggling, pushing, fighting, cuss-
ing, swearing for miles to get
homes in a country, in the greater
part of which one can hear "cow
peas gruntiug a mile trying tP
sprout."
There are two factors wanting
in this country to make home
comfortable, and these are wood
and water. From this post one
can look and see open country for
miles and miles, farther than the
human eye can reach, without a
tree on ithalf as big as any of the
scrub oaks in the pine woods in
the lower part of Edgefeld near
Aiken. This section is very
much like the lower part of Texas
bordering on the Rio Grande, and
I think we ought to declare war
with old Mexico and make her
take this portion OF Texas back.
Many of my friends, no doubt,
will conclude at once that I have
not very exalted opinion Of
this portion of the west. What /
have said though is not through
prejudice, but it is the truth.
Another feature that is against
it also, as a desirable country, is
the wind that blows almost con-
tinnally. I have been out for a
few miles ride and before I conld
get back a most terrific cold wind
directly from the north, known as a
:norther' would come up and almost
most freeze me before l could get in
doors. Ihave gone to bed at night
with the stars shining in the
heavens bright and clear and
arisen the next morning and found
the ground covered with snow or
torrents of rain falling. l always
thought our climate in South Caro-
lima changeable, bnt this climate
is far ahead of it. A man never
thinks of going any distance with
out his overcoat, "slicker," and
Buffalo robe, in order to be ready for
sudden changes. This is about the
. u
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-14
ADvICEEoGo oV.sHEPPARD;

We believe that when Gov. shep-
pard sees, as he must now see that
the State Of South Corolina is
overwhelmingly for Tillmap, that
he will be patriotic enough, and
wise enough, TO withdraw from
the race.
We know that Gov. sheppard's
friends will charge that this advice
is evidence of weakness, and that
the ADVERTISER apprehends that
Tillman may be beaten, but Gov.
Sheppard knows this is not so; he
knows that nothing short OF a
miracle. can elect him Governor of
South Carolina in 1892; that our
advice is, IN this respect, disinter-
ested and that the ADVERTISER is
as good, aye a better friend of his
chan some of the parasites who
are nearer to him in this race, for
We would spare him the mortifca-
tion of defeat as well as the sting
which will come to him in after
days of having precipitated upon
the people: of Edgefeld county
useless, senseless, and bitter con-
flict...
Edgefeld county will suffer
most should he continue in the
field. Edge6eld county, his birth
place and the home of his friends
and family and constituency
which has delighted to honor him
in thszppast, will be torn into
factions, harassed and distracted
by the bitterness of the canvass,
and convulsed, perhaps, by inter
necine strife, brother against
brother, son against father, and all
for what purpose? To make a
holiday for the enemies of Gov.
Till1nan outside of Edgefeld
comfy. The most intelligent OPP
ponents of Gov. Ti!lman know that
the race against him is utterly and
absolotely hopeless, no matter
whom they might have put up, and
their sole object in nominating
Gov. Sheppard was to weaken
Edgefeld county and her political
influence in the future. They are
willing to sacrifice Sheppard to
the anti-Tillman Moloch, in the
hope by and by, some time, some
where, they might defeat the will
of the people when they have no
Tillman to lead them.
Occasions come in every mans
life when..the dilemma is presented
TO him of deciding between two
eyils-between the devil and the
deep sea. Such an occasion now
nresents itself to Gov. Sheppard.
Nav he decide in the interest OF
apeace and harmony" among his
own home people. Wisdom die
aates it-prudence dictates it
courage dictates it. Let us have
peace.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-14
Governor Tillman.

Americans are born politicians,
and this characteristic is peculiarly
highly developed in our South
Carolinians. But ever since the
Revolution, as every one knows
and every truthful man must con-
fess, the management of fpublic af-
fairs in this State has been resigned
into the hands Of certain men and
families, who looked upon this
entailment of power as their
inherent right by birth and mental
superiority owe the common mass
of our population. The long ad-
ministration of those old-line
aristocrats was dashing and
brilliant.
But all of this time the common
people-we mean the honest,
toiling classes not within this
select pale-did not seem TO ad-
vance with the new condition of
affairs brought about by. the
emancipation of slavery. If a
poor mans son felt spark of
commendable ambition burning
in his breast, he was told to
smother it; that the place to- which
he aspired was the inherent
property of another; but to prove
to this young man that his merits
and ambition were not ignored,
30 long as they were confined
within plebeian channels, he was
permitted to endorse by his vote
the ticket selected by the old rulers
for him to support, and he was also
kindly permitted to pay taxes,
and Keep on plowing .
But one morning these old
leaders awoke and found a new
man at work in the political arena,
who was acting without their
cognizance or consent. This
reformer was B. R. Tillman, and
and his burning words of elo-
quence, as the flaming torch of
Scotland, drew the inmates from
every home and rural hamlet, who
follow him with that unselfish
loyalty and devotion peculiar to
the agricultural population of the
South.
We all know the history of that
remarkable campaign-how the old
rulers were overthrown and new
men, fresh from the hands of the
people and in full accord and
sympathy with their views, were
elected to positions of honor and
trust-places that were before
sealed by the lock of caste against
their aspirations.
AS is ever the case in revolutions,
the resentment of the defeated side
was concentrated against the man
who organized and led this revolt
agains the old rulers. Even before
Tillman assumed the helm of gov
ernment, their phials' of wrath and
hatred were poured upon his
head by the organs and leaders of
the vanquished side. Never was
man fonght more bitterly
and persistently than has been
Governor Tillman.
But with the clear head and
superb nerve that carried him
safely and triumphantly through
the campaign, and that won the
political liberty of the people, our
Governor has pursued the even
tenor of his way, and brought to
bear on the affairs of State the
same sound judgment that has
made success of whatever he
touched.
He is now crushing his enemies
with the power of merit, and the
charges made against him are one
by one vanishing in the air, or
proving boomerangs to his,
assailants. His last and crowning
victory was the triumph Of our
State, the administration and
Attorney General McLaurin i'll the
Coosaw case.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-14
GOAT BOXES.

The reports from the various
oting places in Edgefeld county
i've Tillman the following boxes:
Blocker,
Norris,
Eulala,
Beuknights,
Red Bank,
Gray,
Moss,
Red Hill,
Rinehart, No.2,
Rhinehart, No: 3,
Cooperville, No. 1,
Cooperville, No. 2,
Centennial,
Wise,
Big Creek.
Golfers,
Old Wells,
Long Branch,
Mine Creek,
Meriwether,
Dry Creek,
Ridge Spring,
Hibler,
Talbert,
Bacon,
Mt. Enon,
Huiet,
Mt. Willing,
Washington.
SHEEP BOXES.
The Sheppard list is as follows:
Hampton,
Shaw,
Johnston,
Plum Branch,
Meeting Street,
Cleveland,
Fruit Hill.
The Rehoboth club was divided,
md Rinehart, No. ], failed to or
,anize. Upoa thisresalt no COM
nent is necessary, it carries its
,wn comment and its own lesson.
Is near as we can estimate it
has, out of the $500
,oters in Edge6eld county, not
more than 500 he can call his own,
With the probability that after the
.Srd of Anril there may be some
to Tillman.
The record-union., 1892-06-25
Concerning the Concerts.

EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN: I have been en-
ployed in the railroad shops off and on
for the past fifteen years, and 1 can say
l have never yet refused to contribute
my might toward the evening concerts.
Therefore / think / have right to ex-
press my opinion upon this subject,
which has caused so much talk in the
past week. And before 1 go further L
wish it understood that I belong to no
church, but respect goodness from what
ever quarter it may emanate.
But this is foreign to what want to
get at. My point is that l wish to raise
my voice in defense of the young men
who have devoted their time for the past
two seasons to furnishing music for this
city. 1t was rank injustice for certain
persons to have jumped on them with
both feet, as has been done the past week,
These men are not paid officers of this
city-they are workmen like ourselves.
The difference is they are more public
spirited, and therefore deserve encour-
agement rather than abuse. I am not
acquainted with one of these men, but I
have read every line published on the
subject, and my conclusion is that they
did just about right under the circum-
stances. IL they were short of funds it We're
better to give one concert weekly than
all in a month, and then starve without
them.
AS for the day of the week they should
be held on, in my opinion, it makes no
difference; but if they did err in not
having them on Sunday, why they are
not the first of us who have made mis-
takes in our lives, and it would come
pretty hard on us If the turn was called
every time we made one.
A LOVER OF CONCERTS.