Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-07-14

presented with flowers, Tillman
receiving the lions shear. Some,
of his friends ran before him,
while upborne on loyal shoulders,
and waved the flowers like Grim son
banners.
A frenzy of excitement possessed
one and all and men shouted and
swore, who under ordinary
circumstances are the quietest of
men. The madness of the moment
was infectious and solid substan-
tial citizens, as we'll as the most
fiery, were thirsting for fight, and
it is a miracle that a regular bat
tie. was not fought.
Many individual combats
occurred, bit the police by great
activity and vigilance controlled
these before serious harm was
done any one, though some men
got bloody heads and noses and
some peoples clothes were badly
torn. One or two knives were
drawn, but hickory sticks
conquered them, and fortunately,
though hundreds of men had
pistols, none were drawn. Had
one of those weapons been shown
q deadly 6ghtto the finish would
have been the result.
Talk about game qualities, the
ladies of Edgsfeld are the bravest
The Registers correspondent has
ever come across. Not 9 one Of
them showed the white feather,
not q cheek blaiched, not voice
faltered, not an eye dimmed. No
wonder all the men of Edgefeld
arc brave. We're one to show the
least drop of towards blood he
never more could live in this
County of courage and bravery. If
by any chance the men coun.
tenanced his living on in the
County, the fair women would take
their garters and whip him from
it's borders.
Great is the courage of Edge.
field men and women, of all ages
and political persuasions.
When Tillman had been Sc,
down on the academy piazza
number of ladies came there toe
and were much calmer than the
men and quietly chatted and
smiled and laughed while every
one, and they too, knew that the
crowd was trembling on the brink
of a fearful fight. All honor te
the ladies of Edgefeld for their
bravery, grit and GOODNESS: Had
they not been present at this time
the results might have been far
worse.
The Conservatives attempted to
shoulder their candidates around
the grounds, but the ponderous
weight of Colonel Orr was too
much for them and they were glad
to put the candidates in carriage
and pull it around, yelling and
screaming and dancing around as
if wild political fever.
Tillman's followers demanded
speech from him. Mr.. Mobley
introduced him and he started tc
speak from the piazza. He said
hit is a matter of great regret that
a set of men, who are neighbors
kinsmen and friends-
At this point the noise became
80 great that the Governors voice
could not be heard. The Shep.
pardites began coming over to the
crowd of Tillmanites to try and
break up their meeting. Who sent
them there? Echo answers who?
Even the quietest and most
peaceable Tillmanites in the crowd
were now ready to fight and were
anxious for the jostle to begin,
They considered as outrageous the
conduct of the Sheppardites in
trying to interfere with meeting
of the Tillmanites, when the latter
had Withdrawn to themselves to
avoid a fight which must have re-
selted disastrously.
Every nerve was now strung to
the utmost tension, every soul was
on fire, and the Governors friends
begged him to 60 on speaking aud
they promised to wipe up the
ground with the opposition if they
kept on trying to act like bullies.
On the outer edge of the crowd,
the skirmish line as it were, sew
eral fights were in progress. In
no case was q dead1ier weapon
than a stick used, but as the
fights and quarrels progressed the
danger became greater and greater
for pitched battle would have
resulted had a single weapon been
drawn.
The Tillmanites yelled that
they intended to stand here and
have a speech.
What does the cool and level
headed Governor do? Precipitate
a riot, whcih be could easily have
done? Oh! no. He showed wis
dom as we'll as courage aud said;
I do not want you to stand here
for trouble will result, and I know
that I'll get Your votes.
The crowd yelled that The
Register would have true report
of the affair; that it was the peo-
ple's paper and fought the peoples
battles.
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