Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-06-23
THEIR LAST CARD.

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Having charged Ben Tillnan
with everything else, the ants are
now charging him with cowardlee
-running from Youmans at
4 sIKSinpstree. This is their last card,
{ and It isn't q trump, as the follow
] ing Is letter written from Kinstree to
the Register will show;
EpIsoR REGISTER 4 Much has been
said and moro will be said, about
the course of Governor Tillman IN
leaving the speakers stand at
Kinestree, on Thursday, June IL
HIS enemies will attempt to make
. mountain out Of this mole hill.
Colonel Youmons called i, cow
ardly of Tillman to leave the
stand. This is the the first time lime
that any such imputation has
been made against any OF the
Tillman family and it will be the
last time it is ever made against
Ben Tillman.
~ Tillman's action saved the life
! of Z. w. Youmans. 5,
tits probable that Til1man's
action also saved the lives OF
Others besides Youmans.
Youmans, a high-toned gentle
man otherwise, is mopomaniac
with reference to Tillman, SIM
ply because Tillman wounded You
3 mans in his tenderest point, his
vanity; he. has hurt Yonman.s
most conspicuous quality his
conceit.
To all who hear the speeches of
the candidates or read the pub
lished reports there of cne thing
is patent-that Youmans is ac-
/ tuated in all he says and does by
Z deep and violent hatred, and
personal animosity to the farmer,
who has overturned the class to
which Y Youmans belongs and hurt
its pride by putting plain, G COM
mon, everyday men in the Offices,
to which that class imagined it
had the perpetual, exclusive, and
J abiding right.
Youmans issa powerful man,
and in any other cause his speeches
would have powerful effect,
but two facts vitiate their influence
with all lovers Of fair play.
First, That deep-seated undying
hatred of Tillman prompts the
bitter things, the caustic yitupera-
tion, that he indnlges in about the
Governor and induces him to run
on q platform to many planks OF
which he is opposed.
Will Colonel Youmans deny
that he is opposed to many OF the
planks of the platform upon
which he seeks the suffrages OF the
people?
Second. The inordinate per
sonal vanity of Colonel Youmans
in continual boasts on the stump,
and in conversation that he is the
: mi qMlah 8aHfP :8H aIgg Igho can face Ben til
has wiped up the face Of the earth
with Falman.
Slowly in the minds OF many
people is growing upa conviction
that there is a dark conspiracy to
involve Ii illman in quarrel with
Yonmans, ending up possibly and
probably with a personal encounter.
The enemies of the Governor know
that it lis useless to hope to defeat
him in any other way. Colonel !
youmans in each speech brags of
the valor he showed in the Mar
and in '76; he is supposed to be
q veritable fre-eater; Tillman's
temper is none of the longest:
possibly Youmans's TRADES may
arouse the Governor to resent
I them. What then? Who carries
q pistol? The Governor does
not.
Will Colonel Younmans say
that he has not carried pistol to
each campaign meeting? If so,
will he deny that there was,a pistol
in his pocket at the Kingstree
meeting? What use did he think
he would have for a pistol?
Colonel Youmans said on the
stump that at one time he
meditated personal assault on
Tillman, and it is said that he
bought certain heavy stick
vhich he carries, for that very
purpose. He says certain friends
,fhis induced him abandon the
=. For how long did he abandon
IL. IF something Tillman said
provoked a desire on his part to
cane him some time ago, perhaps
sOmotnlng tnaC lllluau MiShI
say again might awaken the same
desire. Are. Youmans's utterances
on the stump framed with that
purpose in view?
Suppose Tillman had remained
at the-stand at Kingstree and lost
temper under Yonmans's crimi-
nations and made some bitter
retort, would Colonel Youmans
have felt it incumbent upon HIM
there and then to wreak his
vengeance on Tillman by a
personal assault such as he says
he meditated at one time? Was
there a pistol in his pocket to