The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-07-14

The Governor replied to (he iuterroga.
tory given above to the e4ect that he
had sold "those COWS" to the ASYLUM
at less than onehalf of their value. and
that the herd Of seyeaty-fiye COWS and
calves had been taxed at much more
than their ;tual value. The assertions
were accompanied by several witticisms
directed at the interlocutor IN very
savage manner.
The Sheppard men then became up
roarlous, and shouted and howled il,
style. The Governor tried to grin and
bear 1t, but 1t was evident that the per-
1ormance somewhat puzzled and greatly
annoyed him. lilo shouted out one or
two sarcastic remarks at the crowd,
which were indistinguishable, but the
enthusiastic opponents of the Governor
however, paid little attention to him and
continued to perform a species of war
dance.
The shouting continued for five or six
minutes, and then when it had partially
subslded the Governor crossed over to
the opposite side of The staud with the
remark that he would give up trying to
speak to ''those Haskellltes and would
address these peaceable Christiaus.n
The shouting continuing, Governor
Tlllman said: l want to say right here
it don't speak no one else shall. [ can
adjourn this meeting in five minutes if
want to.
The crowd then quieted down some
what and Governor Tillman continued
his speech.
He stood there and boldly said that
the Tree schools of the State were n
humbug. When speaking of the school
districts, which he had proposed voice,
wanted TO know "why he had not done
it,"
Governor Tillman: Because that
drlttwoed Legislature would not vote
tor 1T.
When he got to the three.dollar poll
Tux matter there was some cheering from
the audience.
He knew the county we'll, and he
knew that there was many a poor man
whose children did not ct one month of
schooling. The remedy lay with the
people. They must first elect members
of the Legislature who would support it,
and then they must vote for it when it
came back to them in the shape Of O
constitutional convention. He took
hand primary, resulting as usual in
number OF hands being held up IN sup
port Of the three-dollar tax, and none
against it.
He referred to the railroad matter in
the usual terms, claiming that the drift
wood Legislature was responsible for the
TACT that they did not now have relief.
lie had vetoed the bill because they had
inserted in it provisions contrary to
what he had recommended. Governor
Sheppard and Col. Orr were accused of
being railroad lawyers.
Speaking of the financial aspect he
said that those men who were to follow
him would tell them that he had ruined
the credit Of the State. The Anti-Ad-
mlnistratlon people said that 2 and Q
made instead ofits making 4, and then
they went OF and got the Judges to con-
firm 1t. If that crowd was elected there
would be one law in South Carolina for
the poor man and another for the rich.
This was apropos Of the fact that the
corporation could get mandamus and
tue poor man could not.
Col. Murphy had deserted the faith of
his people and had gone over TO ringism.
He was paying his way-but no, he was
guest; Col. Dibble was paying his
way. lie wanted to tell Col. Murphy
that he had Just struck the true Demo
cracy, and if he (Col. Murphy did not
have grassy row to hoe between hereI
and Greenvlllc he was "nigger."
Col. Murphy had said that nothing
had been lost to the State. But why?
1t was because he had allowed him to
pay up, When the doors of the Penitentl-
airy We're standing open just IN front of
him. That was not all. The treasurer
OF Charleston County was $4,000 short
and his bondsmen would have to be sued.
In Sumter il was the same case, but that
had been made good. Two men in
Union, elected on the Tillman ticket,
had dctaulted, and he had unhesltating-
ly kicked them out.
Col. Murphy came from the people,
and now that he has gotten up among
the aristOcracy, he wanted to keep down
the rest of them. A few moments were
then devoted to the peace and unity
question, and he said that Col. Orr had
said many hard things against him, and
Sheppard had compared him to Scott,
Chamberlain and Moses. That was the
kind OF peace and unity we are having.
Holloring would not win elections.
They must remember that we had Il
Jesuit to contend with now.
A voice: What is Jesuit?
Governor Tillman: You 20 get your
dictionary and find out. Then ON Sec
ond though: I'll tell you what it means.
Ii means that for ways that are dark
and for ticks that are vain Sam Dibble is
very peculiar.
The Governor started to stop and
then turned back and said that he had
come near forgetting the best thing OF
all.
lie recounted the incidents OF the re-
cent meetings, claiming that every meet.
ing thathc had attended, not evon excep.
ting Charleston, had shown an apparent
majority for him; but the "funny" thing
he wanted to tell was how "this man
Youmans" was doing him. He said
that after the charges which had been
made about his running away from You
mans, he had stayed on the stand in
several places and listened to win a, he
had to say. To-day he was tired, and
would have three more speeches to
make this week, so that if the people
would let him he would 90 tn The botel