The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-06-14
oua,r1relIing Over the Pie.


thing as having too much pie. It Is just
about as bad to imagine that yer have it.
This is Just about the condition of affairs
with what Is known as the Reform fac
tion In South Carolina politics. There is
lots Of pie lying around in the shape of
public Office and it would appear that
every "Reformer" imagines that by all
the laws Of political etiquette 1t is time
that o piece should be served In his direc-
ton. There are great many, who now
think that they have been working long
enough 10 deserve some kind Of recoSni-,
ton; by. that is meant slice Of Office pie.
For some time past 1t has been common
talk that tho powers that be-Irby, Till
man Il Co--were putting their heads to-
gether and beginning to select the State
ticket that will represent the "Reform"
movement in the coming campaign.
There is, as might be expected, consider
able trouble in getting mp good slate so
as to take geographical location and SER
vice into consideration. To-day I had a
talk with one Of the s!.select" and he told
mel that ss he understood it few places
had already been agreed upon. So far as
he could remember they were:
For Governor, John Gary Evans, OF
Aiken.
For Attorney General, T. J. kirkland,
Of Kershaw.
For superintendent of Education, M.
F. Tghe, Of Charleston.
For Secretary of State, j. Walter Gray,
Of Greenvalle.
ForState Treasurer, ]. E. Wannamsker
or Il. r. Walter, Of Orangeburg.
This schedule would leave vacancies
for the positions of Comptroller General,
o,ol T n nryor.
nor. The Pee Dee section and the Ches-
looked to for the candidates to fill the
the candidates named, and the positions
may be interchanged. The proposed
schedule was given me by the Reformer
as being bona fide.
There Is, however, no disposition to
Secretary of State Ifndal is, I believe, in
the race to the end and he is not going to
be side-tracked by any interest. If he's
defeated within the Reform ranks thcr:
that will settle 1t, and not until then. 1t
ought to be remembered that w. Jasper
Talbert, Geo. w. She'll, Geo. D. Tillman,
DR.. w. It. G. Bates and number Of
others are all possible winners for the
"Reform" Gubernatorial nomination.
After hearing about the partial slate
several of the sachems In the camp were
seen. They said that they had heard Of
such a slate, but that there had been
nothing done about it. One Of them said
In the most positive manner: ~ am quite
confident that no attempt has been made
to arrange slate. II one is made UP
You can be sure that it will be smashed.
The Reform party will not be dictated TO
any longer, and Just as certain as anyone
is. on q prearranged schedule, just that
much less chance has he got OF securing
q nomination. The selections will be
made by a convention or not at all.
"Another thing I'll predict. Whoever
gets the nomination will be asimon-pule
member Of the Reform faction. There
will be no compromise or compromise
candidates. This is going to be fight Of
men with "backbones." From now on
things in the Reform camp promise to be
quite lively. Everybody is not quite as
happy as year ago. There are rumb-
lings Of considerable disaffection, and ION
the quiet this or that leader is getting
look too we'll"
The general expectation here is that the
Federal plums will soon begin to fall in
this State. From what can be learned
the Reform-Alliance-Till illmanite Senator
and Congressman are very despondept
and do not expect TO have very much of
a say as to who shall receive the appoint
ment in this State. In fact they are
looking on, and are getting really anx-
ious to knew how the thing is going to
end. The opinion of the big Reformer is
that the slate will be much to his sorrow:
District attorney, Charles A. Douglass
internal revenue collector, Benjamin
Perry; United States marshal, ]. B.
Hunter.
Of course the Reformers had an entirely
different slate. They wanted Earle and
and anybody excepting those
taken up and endorsed exclusively by the
Conservatives.
In some way the chief interest is in the
contest for tho appointment of district
attorney. From what can be learned
here, If a betting pool were gotten up,
the odds would be about like this: Geo.
w. Dargan, w. Perry Murphy, VIM.
Elliott, Chas. A. Douglass, Theo. d. Jer-
yey, Leroy f. Youmans.-SpecidI to
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