The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-06-15
tSnecial to Greenville News.]

HAMPTON, S. c., June Sit looks as
if the campaign is petering out before
it fairly starts. I counted 260 persons
present, including men, women and
children, a few persons Of color aud
candidates. There may have been $50
altopether when the meeting was the
biggest.
The platform had been handsomely
decorated with evergreens and Cnlteo
States flags. The Rev. Mr.. Dowllng
opened the proceedings with prayer
Mai. NJ. B. McSweeney, county chair
man, made brief, strong and eloquent
Introductory address.
Lieutenant Governor Gary was tne
first speaker. He was received ID oeao
silence. He proceeded to discuss the
farmers movement platform of 1850.
He maintained that the Governor had
carried out as far as he could the
pledges of that platform. He urged that
the people constituted thejury and hao
8 right to hold the prosecutors OF the
present administration to the lndlct-
ment drawn in the March platform and
not ALLOW them to 60 off on side issues.
He began to review the platform OF the
conservative convention. He charged
that the conservatives were responsible
for not helping to fund the State debt.
He was interrupted by a question
whether in 1890 the Tillman party had
not published things to the discredlt OF
the State. There was nothing especially
telling in his reply but it evoked the
first evidences of enthusiasm. Gary
said parties in Asheville had offered
the preceding administration to pay
the State debt if given Coosaw's ex-
elusive rights. Governor Gary took up
the conservative platform, plank oy
plank, analyzing each and ended ID
general charges ofinconsistency against
the cons ervatives. There was not
ripple of applause during the speech
though there was some laughter now
and then, and at the end there was
brief round of applause.
Colonel Orr was the next speaker.
He was also received in silence. Before
he had spoken long, however, predic-
ton of conservative success ELECTED a
warm cheer from one wing OF the
gathering. He discussed the manage
ment of the Coosaw case and the Agrl-
cultural Hall case and claimed that
both Illustrated the fact that the
trouble with this Administration is too
much politics and too little business.
(Cheers.) He also analyzed the bank
cases and directed attention to the fact
that Pope, formerly of this Administra-
tior, now on the supreme bench,
supported the position of the banks.
Governor Gary having brought up the
question of reapportionment of repre-
sentation, Colonel Orr laughingly said
he had started to acknowledge it in
Hampton County, which had lost
representation but he had always
favored reapportionment. The palliat-
ing circumstance in that matter WAS
that some legislators had objected to
taking representation from white coun-
lies to give it to negro counties. A
man in the crowd interrupted Colonel
Orr with number Of questions as to
his holding office under a republican
Administration The speaker replied
that he held the office of private secre-
tary under bis father and the Admin
istration had nothing to do with it.
He had been a democrat ever since he
was born. (Cheers.) In reply to
question about voting for a negro,
Colonel Orr said he did not remember
doing it. His recollection was, he said,
that he favored the reappointment of a
negro jury commissioner in Anderson
because the n an had helped the demo-
Gratis to carry the county for the first
time in six or eight years. He was not
ashamed of it and under the same
circumstances would do the same thing
again. (Cheers.) He referred at some
length to the war on the judges and
legislature. He protested against the
three dollar poll tax and said the result
would be that scores of men in every
county would be put in jails for tax
payers to support.
Governor Tillman was next intro
duced and was greeted with cheers,
prolonged but not especially hearty. A
large proportion Of the crowd evidently
determined - give the Governor every
possible encouragement. He called for
all who intended to vote for Sheppard
to hold up their hands. About twenty
hands went up amid much laughter.
One anti called out that some OF that
side were modest. The Governor said
he never knew a man on that side to
have any modesty. daughter and
cheers.1 He was asked if he had said
he had his boys in his breeches pocket.
The fellows on the other side were the
ones he had in his breeeches pocket.
He said be seemed 10 1890 to be the
only man with pluck and nerve and
brains to lead and did lead. He review
ed with much sarcasm the csll OF the
last March Convention. His victory,
he said, had been victory of the peo-
pie. Thirteen men of the old school
who believed the people lacked the
intelligence to rule had called that
convention. He rid;culed the failure
to demand a primary, and directed
good deal of sarcasm against The Green
Vile News, The State and Orr and
Sheppard.
u cold tho March Convention was