The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-27


Of duty.
Gen. Butler went on to say thai he
bad ploughed twenty times as mach as
Governor Tillman and that be noticed
that about the only time Governor
Tillman spoke about being a farmer
was when he wanted the votes of
farmers.
CON 'ESSING HIS SINS.
He then went on to say: I voted for
the Lord will forgive me for it. Great
laughter all around the stand.l He
then gave hurried view of Tillman's
promises when he went into Office, and
laid special stress On the fact that Gov
ernor Tillman had promised to see that
salaries would be reduced, yet be took
good care the reductions should go into
effect after he had gone out OF Office. he
reiterated bis statements about being
the only members Of the family who
had held office for forty years and the
COMPARISON as to pay. He paid
compliment to Col. Geo. Tillman, who
was the other member of the Tillman
family who had had office.
Then some one asked him what he
had done in the Senate. He replied:
l have not gone around blowing and
Dragging abo1t what will DO when I
get there. I know the causes Of the
present troubles better than be does. l
have studied them better and longer. l
know how they can be reached. have
some settled plans which is not abuse
and chunking rocks. You notice that
be has no remedies to suggest to you,
and abuses people miles away. Then
Gen. Butler had something to say
about his being
"a SIMON PURE DEMOCRAT"
and predicted that he would be in the
party long after Tillman as he had
been there before him. He said that
he was no, going to tear down the
party pillar by pillar by abusing it and
those who made it. lie admitted that
he was very much displeased with
certain things that had been done, for
instance the veto Of the seigniorage
bill, but that was no reason why he
should abuse Mr.. Cleveland and Sena-
tors. They were acting Conscientious
ly for the interests they represent, and
he believed them thoroughly honest
in what they did. The trouble, he
saiG, was that the South had been
repeatedly outvoted. The fight could
not be won by abuse.
AsPAT WITH STRAIT.
Then Gen. Butler and Congressman
Strait had q little tilt about Congress
being bought. Straits idea was that
'the majority was Influenced by the
minority and the minority was in the
hands of Cleveland. He had some
thing to say on national politics after
getting through with Governor Till
man for to-day, and said that the
present tariff bill was satisfactory and
would be passed. He did not believe
there was any chance for the adoptic q
of bis id. az of giving financial relief as
long as Cleveland was President, but
that did not make him believe Cleve-
land dishonest. If he was sent to the
Senate he promised he would be found
standing side by side with the masses,
and he was willing to shoulder his gun
and fight for personal liberties and
property. He wound up in
A BURST OF QUENCE,
and when Re was called to time was
greeted with rounds of applause, and
the opposition whooped for Tillman
with might. 1t was the first time
Iillman had ever been caught by the
collars, 50 to speak, and shaken up.
BUTLER GETS EVEN.
Then Chairman Barber said that Gov
ernor Tilman desired to make brief
personal explanation if Gen. Butler
had no objection.
Gen. Butler said be wanted to make
an explanation yesterday but it was
denied him, and so he would prefer for
things to 60 as they had started.
THE LANCASTER MEETING.
At this meeting Governor Tillman
had the reply and seems 20 have had
the crowd and as it was in replyto
General Buffers Chester speech We
give Governor Tillman's speech.
GOVERNOR TILLMAN
started out by saying this was bis
third visit here. Office has not been
very sweet for him. The wheels Of
State have been along stnmpy road.
The records would show that he did
more work than all the Governors since
the war. Public sentiment showed
that be was going to be elected. At
Chester he left without opening his
mouth in reply to the indignities that
had been heaped upon him by General
Butter, which were fouler and blacker
than had been made against any man.
LOOKS LIKE A RIOT.
Yarcy Sherrard, who was out In the
audience, cried out: You took them!
Then several hundred men in the
audience jumped up as fsometing was
going to happen. -,
Then Governor Tillman cried back in
reply: Yes, tell you, you cowardly
hound, why l took them, and I'll meet
you wherever you wantto. took them
because I, as Governor of the State,
could not afford to create row at a
public gathering and have our people
murder each other like dogs.
Sberrsrd called back at the Governor,
but could not be beard.
The men around the stand were all
in commotion and yelling for Tillman,
and the women in the audience began
to run away. Governor Tiilman, the
chairman, Gen. Butler and several
others called out to the ladies to come
back as the trouble was all over. Gov
ernor Tillman waved his hands for the
crowd to sit down and then be cried
out: A few puppies around here can
have their tails and necks cut off if
tbov want 70 or hot h
Some of the ladies came back and
then things went along smoothly for a
while.
Tillman continued: Gen. Butler pre-
tends that I had made an imputation
on bis character. The insult was that
at Rock Hill said that eight hundred
men had been hauled there by some
one to hurrah for him, and I asked if
they had been sent there by a corrup-
tion fund. [ had ridiculed them as
Coxyeites, as tools of corporations, and
I did say that some one bad paid their
way there. / wanted to know who it
was. indicated that somebody had
corruption fund and did not know who
had the distributing oft, and did Lot
charge him or anyone else with using it,