Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-07-06

in his new aspirations. You may
think this rather a violent pre-
sumption, and perhaps it is, but
just now we cannot do anything
but make presumptione violent
and otherwise. The situation in
.Edgefeld county with the proba-
bilities and possibilities as we see
them are as follows:
Senator Butler.
twenty-five years ago Gen. M.
C. Butler was the idol of Edgefeld
county, and for ,hirty-three years
he has been making history for
South Carolina and could
truthfully say of that his
tory maagnapars f1i. He was her
most eloquent orator, her most te-
-n0wned warrior, one of her most
sapient statesmen, had the
most magnetic presence, was the
.handsomest man in South Caro-
lima a very Appollo Belvidere, and
by odds the most popular.
y 8 e
nzium tuit-senator Buffers
hold on the people of Edgefeld
county is not what it once was,
not by reason of any fault or de-
terioration of his, but simply be-
cause
Old times are changed, old manners
A stranger fills the stuarts' throne.
There are five hundred voters in
...s iszr 1riiuna- -at mans
estate within the past ten years,
who would not know Senator But
.ler s if they should meet him in the
road, and there are besides one
thousand voters in Edgehe!d
county who have thrown off all
allegiance to the past and are fol-
low 40 q new and what they esteem
better lights. Now, this might
be called the fixed opposition to
Senator Butler (for the five hum
dred young voters are practically
a unit against, although not bigot-
ted in their opposition). On the
other hand the Sheppard vote OF
last year, 1000 approximately, will
go for Butler, and this, supple
by his (Butler's) personal
following and the old soldier feel
ing Of comradeshlp will make up
fifteen hundred. Here we have
fifteen hundred votes fixed for, and
fifteen hundred against Butler,
leaving eight hundred and fifty
votes as the unknown quantity to
be fought for.* After giving Butler
FIVE hundred votes from the Till
NANTES of last year on account OF
his personal popularity, the ques-
ton arises can he get enough OF
the balance to carry the county?
If you should think five hun
dred votes too many to give Butler,
on account of his personal popu-
larity, over and above the Con-
seryative vote of last year, there
are two other things to be remem-
berod that will make our prognos-
tication reasonable. One of these
lie, the tendency of the human kind
as with the sheep kind to. follow
the bell-weather, and Butler is the
Oldest bell-weather except DR.. Bill
Jennings, sr.-and he claims not
TO, be q Weather-in Edgeheld
county; the other is the DISPOSE
ton to go with the @best folks"
and Butler also fills this bill SO
far as aristocratic lineage IS con-
cerned.
In an aggressive and bitter cam
paign Tillman is ahead of Butler
on the stump, but if the campaign
pitched OF different plane, a
plane of cold reason, diplomacy
and political strategy, Butler will
get away with Tillman-not that
Tillman does not use reason, but
lit is not Of the cold kind.
For the .fortiter IN re in political
campaigning, commend us to Till.
man Tor the suaviter IN naoao, to
Butler, and for a combination o.
the two Butler can go up head. OF