The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-07-06
MEETING ON SALE DAY.
A Meeting With Which The Antis
Were Much PIeased-GOOd Order
and GentlemanIy Conduct of the
Audience-The Effort 10 Stir Up
Bad Feeling Was II Signal Failure.

It was not known to some of us If the Get
Ing on Sale Day was the public meeting or
some thought that the farmers would meet.
and for this reason quite n number Jailed TO
be present at the beginning ,! ihe meeting.
Lieut.-GOv. Gary was In the chair. The res
outons which appear elsewhere were Intro
duced and u speech by Hon. w. 7. Widenlan
had been delivered when some OF us went In"
to the Court room.
After stating that the resolutions were ef
great Importance Mr. Benet spoke ut length:
He pointed ont ClevelandS many errors and
gave his own reasons for not supporting
Cleveland's nomination In the Stale ConVen-
ton, but added that he would now support
him, since he had received the nomination,
with as much zeal as anybody. He tried Till
mans tactics Of hand primary, 10 nno out
the sentimentaS to whether the crowd favor
ed the nomina:ion of Cleveland-if ihey Ia
vored him before his nomination-and some
OF the "antis" held up their hands, which
other friends Of Cleveland called down. soto
rOcr. When II was asked for lhe hands OF
these who opposed Cleyeland's nomination.
number OF hands went up. General lamp
ton was scathingly referred to, and some OF
the old hero's recent utterances were bitterly
criticised. The speaker at great length show
ed the many errors into which "Our friends,
tile antis.' had fallen. He objected 10 me
Joining of the Federal and State tickets by
emblaZeninS on our hammers, "ClrVeianu nna
Stevenson-Sheppar and Orr" and thought
that the State tickets should be Kept separate
The Conservative Democratic Chairman OF
course came in for his share oi errors IN lssu,
ing his addreSs-the Tillman chairman had
done nothing Of the kind. He also defended
1he leaders OF the Tillman faction, and even
found ample excuse tor j. william Stoke 5 Ut
ierances before and since the Nntionai Con-
vention. He charged the anLIs with being de-
slrOuS of forcing the Third iarty upon SCUM
Carolina. He criticised severely the action oi
our people in adopting the resolutions ut our
Democratic ratification meeting.
Mr.. Mctiowan replied with vigor, as he had
introduced the resolutions, anu asked Mr.
Benet To state wherein the resolutions we've
objectionable. lut up TO this time Mr.. Benet
has not pointed out their error.
voice In the crowd asked Mr.. Benet 10
read the resolutions. lie replied that he had
not Il copy.
Mr. l. IT, McCalla spoke In n manner to
throw oil on the troubled waters, and the one
Of the orators on his side, who showed Il dis
position To seek harmony among fellow DEM
OcratS.
Mr.. w. y. Graydon spoke in reply to Mr..
Bcnct, and among other things said that he
did not rccOllcct to have heard him speak
without finding some prcteXt for luSgihs III
IIamptOn's maine, and for criticising the olu
man whose place had been taken from him,
and who was now IL private citizen, neither
seeking nor as ing. nor expecting anything
from the public. He thought the resolution
cundemning the joining of the names OF ihc
Presidential and Stale candidates was unWlSe,
unjust and impoiiic: that the humblest citi-
zen had the right to express his opinion as 10
the State ticket while IL was every Demo
Gratis patriotic duty To support The nominees
Of the party: that as no Tlllniun allii tIary
club should be prevented from putting their
names ON the Cleveland banners, so no Shep-
purd and Orr club should be prevented from
putting their names ON their banners.
Various Others spoke on either side ana IL
lia ly the resolutions come to 81 vote. The res.
ulution ratiiyIng The resolution Of Cleveland
was carried unanimously. The other fcSolu-
tions were adopted.