The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-05
SHARP REPLIES TO TILLHAN.
Mayor Dirgin and Senator Butler SPEAK
Emphatlcally for the Other Side.
MERCHANTS ARRESTED IT FLORENCE
On Owning Up That They Took the Guns
from the Armorv--Pregress OF tho
Inquest at Darlington.

speech. IL is as follows:
"You know the Governor is a POLITICAL
and he Is making campaign speeches
When a politician gets In a hole he matt
rally tries TO get out OF It, III he ma
made a mistake he IL the last man unde
the sun to honestly own IT, He tries
put IL on some one else. There are on
or two inaccurate statements of his whie
1 do not like 10 pass over without cor
rectinE He says. speaking or the con
stables. that they had been sent ther
because the Mayor had allowed them u
be insulted and cursed q their faces.
The Governor was so informed that i. al
Mayor had allowed that. his informant
Is a liar. This 81 the first information
1 have ever received OF such fact. he
SAYS again. two boys. mere stnplnss.
got into a fight. and some hfty armeu
mea went 10 the depot and picked
quarrel with the constables. and men on
both sides were killed. don't know VINO
Informed him OF this fact. but whoever
did so Just lied. and knew he He'd when
no gave such information. Again. he says
the fault cannot be clearly placed, ana
possibly never will be known AS TO that
the Governor is a very badly informed
man II he lays that fiattering JUNCTION 70
his SOUL and l venture the prediction
that he will find the fault clearly placed.
and that there Will be found that the
sonstables simply did everything else Du'
their duty
fiIimsn's April joke.
You Will find never said, as he states,
that the Governor had exercised power
hat no Governor had ever attempted.
but | say Il now. and think facts well
known to the people Of South Carolina
bear out my statement; but what J did
say was that Governor Tillman assumed
that his spies have privileges that are
not enjoyed by any other citizen OF this
state, etc. and l will add. privileges that
even he does not enjoy. ] notice that the
Governor tries to get N an April Joke
Well. / hope ne enjoyed II. II does look
a little funny that after all this fuss and
feathers the chief officer OF the State
would march his troops up the hill and
then march them down again. Well. that
is a Joke we have enjoyed very much in
these serious times. but 1t does look funny
that the Governor had his friends so to
30 much trouble to try and get his con-
stables out of the hands of the people who
were not trying TO find them.
well. they d.d not find them and /
reckon that It IS a good thing they did
not. for IL they had done so. possibly
some citizen would have had TO die before
tncSe spies D1t the uuSl
What tho Governor Wants.
II know pretty well what Governor
Tilman wanted We 10 do. ] understand
him very well. He is not the first poll
ticlan J have seen. The Governor would
have liked our people in their rage to
have murdered this man McLendon. who.
| am Informed. boasts Of the fact that
he has killed three other men. He would
have liked for us to have destroyed the
dispensary. because then there would
have been two facts which he could
have pointed to as justification Of his
unprecedented course in this whole mat
ter; but. thank God. our people are not
that sort"
They are made Of different stuff from
what he imagines. and we congratulate
ourselves to-day that the man McLen-
don. who. am satisfied Il Will be shown
brought on this bloodshed. having been
shot down and thereby disabled from max
ing his escape. and. though ne fell into
our hands helpless. has been treated as
all helpless men and wounded enemies
are by civilized people. This action
stands out I'm a startling and striking
contrast to the action of his privileged
state officers who. 1t appears from the
facts. shot the body Of poor Frank
Norment after he was down in four diff
ferent places with Winchester rifles. and
shot our chief of police discharging his
duty. This was enough TO fire the blood
and make even infant sinews as strong
steel. But here cool heads come to the
front who were not politicians.
i know now. after that speech of the
Governors. that he wanted us to destroy
State property; but am thankful to say
that 1t. with all other property of the
town or Darlington, has been protected
our people only wish that the lives
or our Fellow citizens were as well pre-
served.
Judgos Others ny Bims-lf
The Governor Is a curious kind of IN
dvduai. There Is one peculiar and
striking thing about him. He judges
everybody by himself. When he wants
information about anything he never
goes to the man who is charged with
knowing the state of affairs. unless that
man Is either hireling of his or one
OF his own peculiar political family. He
would take Information given him by
bootblack II he belonged to his party.
rather than the information furnished
him by the officers OF a place. In the
commencement OF this matter, IL the
Governor had not been judging me by him
self; had he asked information about
the status at Darlington; had he address
ed has communications to me, who has
charge. under the law, with the admins
tration Of affairs OF the town. like he
has with the affairs OF the State he
would have been informed accurately
and truthfully OF the situation; but IN
stead OF that. i suppose. from kilograms
published. he gave fun credence TO his
hireling. J. r. Floyd. whose knowledge
OF affairs of this town IS absolutely as
nothing. IL l could not have been re-
lied on. or 4 ne had information that
from my character and standing he could
not trust me to give him reliable informa-
ton. surely he could have sought II from
some gentleman OF standing and respecta-
biEty In this community. He did not
choose to do so. and that occasions his
many mistakes and blunders made in this
matter.
No one Is frightened by all this bluff
and buster CT the Governors and no
one fears him or anything he can do,
except Tillmanites think they arc
all very much afraid OF him. / do not
think anybody else is"
Tho Men Who Took the Guna ArrsStsd.
FLORENCE. s. c.. April 4.--The clti-
zens OF Florence were greatly startled
this morning by the announcement that
the men who took the guns from the ar
mory here Friday last and participated
In the pursuit OF the constabies viii be
arrested by the militia. The disposition
was at first 10 resist. but mild methods
were adopted BY the officsrs, Who induced
the men to acQuiesce I'm the action taken.
The men who took the guns were gum
moned to the courthouse where Col ~.
a. Evans cOmYnandtrc In tho ehsence ~