Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-08-04
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING.
Reports from Over the State En-.
cOuraging. The Register.
Endorsed.

couraging. The Register
Endorsed.
Yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock
there convened in the State Capitol
the friends of Governor Tillman
and reform who cbanced to be in
attendance in Columbia as dele
gates to the Alliance and members
of the State Executive Committee.
1t was at first designed to hold a
meeting in a busine ess office, but
the crowd was so large that the
meeting had to be adjourned to the
hall of the House of Representa-
tives.
with one exception every
County in the State had one or
more::representatives presnt, and a
finer body of men we never saw
collected together Neither were
they confined to any one class.
While the farmers predominated,
there were present merchant, law
yers, doctors, ministers of the
gospel, and in fact nearly every
line of business known to our.
State.
The meeting was organized by
calling Colonel Meetze of Lexing.
ton to the chair.
Senator Irby stated that the,
meeting had been convened for g
conference between the friends of
the present administration, that
they might compare notes and
from a correct idea of the strength
of the reform movement.
Mr.. Gary Evins suggested that
the best and speediest way would
be for the chairman to call the,
roll Of Counties, and the gentle-
men present therefrom would tell.
what they knew of the political
outlook. The call began at
Abbeville and ended at York, and
the reports were indeed en-
couraging- We were impressed
with the fact that the members
were very cautious in making
their estimates and gave the ring
rule ticket even more votes then it
was thonght possible for them to
secure in the primary. Most of
the Counties were assured to Till
mau by majorites ranging from
1000 to $500. 1t is exceedingly
doubtful if Sheppard carries a
single County in the State, for the
reports from Charleston and
Richland were most encouraging
to the farmers. In Charleston the
Tillman supporters are spendlidly
organized and are working like
beavers. They know every voter
in city and County and how he
stands. The Reformers are gaining
recruits daily from the ring ranks
and it is thought that we can
confidently count on a Tillman
delegation from Charleston by
from 500 to 1000 majority,
In every County where there is
any doubt, a strong organization
has been perfected and roll of
every Reformer mad elm many of
the Counties the Tillman men
say that their numbers are SO
overwhelming and the Sheppard
ties 80 few and far between that
it was not deemed necessary to
organize, but they will now do 30
at once, and in ten days we expect
to have the Reformers thoroughly
organized and marshalled.
The most glorious news comes
from Spartanburg. She will GER
tainly redeem herself in the Au-
gust primaries by giving a ma
jority of from 1900 to Tillman.
In County politics the lines had
not heretofore been drawn, but the
ring-rule crowd met in town and
decided to support no one for Of
fee unless he supported their
ticket. The Reformers accepted
the gauntlet, and many men who
had not declared themselves came
under the banner of Reform.
The reports from all the Coun-
ties were in. and, the estimates of
Reform majorities added up, 1T
was found that Tillman would
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