Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-07-07
A LARGE CROWD PRESENT.
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most forcible speech which he has
delivered in the campaign. He had
inspiration in the fact that he spoke
to two thousand people, the largest
audience, except that at Charleston,
which has appeared at any of the
meetings. The crowd were four to
one in his favor. He did not make
reference to the trouble with Col.
Youmans till near the close of his
speech, when he said Col. Orr, "the
big candidate" had seen his side so
whipped that he had quit and gone
home to his cotton factory, deserting
the last seven meetings and never
attending but two.
Voice: aWhat did you run for"
"Who says l ran,'' said Gov. Till
man, turning upon his interlocutor
with lightning g-Gkerapidity and speak
ing in voice changed to gale, iran
from whom This--is- miserable
cry to accuse me OF running from
this pitiful little fellow from Barn
well, when I faced Earle two years
ago through hell into which this
man would not have gone"
The speaker said he did not intend
to sit there or on any platform and
sweat to hear Col. Yonmans. aIf
my friends say should, though" he
said, 81 will stay here and hear this
man. As many of my friends as
think l should stay here, hold up
your hands
A large number went up.
Gov. Tillman: care you Tillman-
ites::"
eyes, sir; yes, yes"
Gov. Tillman: "Now, as many as
think that I should go to my hotel
and take rest, SO that can speak
at Florence Tomorrow, held up yyonr
hands"
Four or FIVE times the first num-
Der OF hands went up. Gov. Tillman
bowed. He said, in substance in
closing, that the purpose of putting
Col. Youmans on the Conservative
ticket was to tire him out. Then ne
left the stand.
He took dinner, staid away about
two hours and returned before the
beginning OF Col. Youmans' speech.
He sat and listened tc the speech
: calmly throughout, frequently laugh
ing with ali the others at humorous
points which arose in it.
Col, Youmans delivered mild
speech compared with his other
speeches, barring only a few strlc-
lures upon Gov. Tillman. Col. You
mans declared that he had no inten-
) ton to be personally abusive to Gov
: Tillman, and would do to-day as he
ha6 done at the Hampton meeting.
request the chairman to call him to
; order if he overstepped the ordinary
parliamentary limits of debate. His
trouble with Gov. TillmaG was not
! personal animosity, but poli5lca
antagonism.
The pistol sa5ject was not brought
} up except in casual way by Gen
McIaurin and he quickly disposed o.
+. it. The meeting closed in good
order and in good nature. The next
meeting is to be held tomorrow al
Florence.
$ To-day's meeting was tie ninth o.
5 the series and there arc just twenty.
Eve more to be held reaching tt
August Doth, then the campaign fol
this year in South Carolina will be
3 over. The speakers Were: Ex-Gov
: ernor Sheppard, Governor Tillman
I Lieutenant Governor Gary, Colone
L. w. Youmans, Attorney Genera
McLaurin and Adjutant General Far
i ley.
, The point was brought out by
Gov. Sheppard that if Gov. Tillmar
desired fairness in the election, which
Gov. Tillman cautioned his friend
3 at Conway to fight for at the ballo
: box, he challenged Gov. 1'illr1- a t.
: agree to a proposition to have two
. administration and two Conservative
$ managers Of election at every pre-
Il cinct, which would secure fairness
e Gov. Tillman had cried ont agains
personalities and-epithets being use'
against him when he used Ghe follow
o ing epithets a thousand times il 1890
: to-wit: Political harlot, political lep
}. rosy, howdy do statesmen, incipien
rottenness and rascality, etc. Gov
y Tillman had said the people ha'
q passed upon this two years ago. II
; ithe speaker) would reply as Lad.
McBeth said to her husband, 81 smel
blood still," and as McBeth said, "a
S Neptune's ocean shall never was
+ this blood (strife and hitterness) -fror
his hands" The people would pas
upon it again. He defended length
d lily the existence of banks and raj
Il roads and bank men and railroa'
e Imen, and advocated the establishment
tt Of more banks and the building G
lmore railroads.