The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-06-27
THE YORK MEETING.
GREATEST INTEREST IN TIE FIGHT
FOR THE SENATE.

The Crowd La, ,gs)y in Favor OF TIllm an
Butler Makes a Good Speeches. psi
the Speeches Msde by ire Difsren
Candidates.
YoRKvILLE, S. c., June 19.-Tning
warmed up little at today's campaign
meeting. The crowd got some"ha
enthusiastic The best Of humor how
ever, prevailed. Everyone went ava:
happy and contentej, and no ange
was shown. Today's meeting empha
sized one thing strikingly, the audi
ences do not care three snaps for aoy
thing except the Senatorial debate
The enthusiasm was below zero unit
the central figures, Butler and Till
man appeared. Then the voters bracet
themselY up, and we're all interest ant
showed their feelings They listened
to the others, they laughed and notet
the argument, but when General But
ler was announced there was decided
change in the atmosphere. A complete
change had come over the scene
Chairman J. Steele Brice, In opening
the meeting, begged that this be madt
repetition of the model meeting hele
here two years ago. The Rev. Mr.. w
G. Neville made the opening prayer.
JOHN GARY EVANS
was introduced as 'from Edgetield,
but he promptly corrected the state
no ho cvoc from A iEAn
He continued: Whether we be Re
formers, Independents or Conservative:
or Republicans our interests are one
That banner can 60 with the one un
der which we have won, Equal right!
to all and special privileges to none.
We are not Populists or Communists
but are working for one interest. We
now have ring of entirely new peo
pie. See to it that you are not dlcta
ted to by the bosses. No man has the
right to fear for the interests OF his
State, of the people. Nearly all OF TIT
measures advocated in our platform
have been enacted into law. There Is {
demand for constitutional conven
ton and that has not been acted on.
The Constitution you live under was
made by a people who had no Interest
in you; yet we are told to keep this
dangerous Constitution. l tried to
amend it and was voted down. VIZ
pay too much to the classes whose ID
terests are not ours in proportion tf
the taxes paid. That means if thi:
country ever gets into the hands OF the
carpet. .baggeIs the negro has equa
rights in all your schools. There is
great danger in this provision. Tht
schools should be put under the people
through the Legislature. Vote for 9
constitutional convention. New York
has outgrown her Constitution. anc
ours was modelled after theirs. Every
Confederate soldier is stigmauzad in
your own Constitution as rebel.
We"Reformers" have started out OF
the platform of the Alliance. Those
demands are today the only true DE
mocracy. We have been called al
kipds, Of namess because we have hae
to old Jefersonian Democracy. W.
are fighting for principle and If We
keep it up we are bound to win. :!
stand upon every demand in there. Il
is claimed that we have done nothing
for the people. We refunded your deb
with an annual saving Of SoO,OOO
year. We actually had men SO 20 Ne"
York and say the debt would be repu
dated. They ran DR.. Bates and Gov
Tillman out of New York by their ma
licious reports. Thew even wanted te
continue the debt at 6 per cent. when
they knew negotiations were pending
for the settlement of the bonds. The
next year the bill was telegraphed t
New York. Why was it done2 Fol
political purposes. They were trying
to fy-blow the whole debt. We wen
over to Baltimore and placed tn
whole thing and they went away likt
they had their tail cut. Hurrahs. q
patriot of South Carolina wanted th'
State to fail in placing the bonds.
They are all coming over, but VI
must not baptiZe toe many at on
time. Don't let them al in at one time
They may break the plank. We have
even converted the State. The scale:
on his back are too thick to let him II
with one scraping. We have to mari
him with red star and anolnt hin
and baptize him before we let him IN.
About this time train passed D.
and Evans said: Let her rollr' and III
wait. The dlspensary law IS the bes
thing YOU have ever had. We tOunt
South Carolina drunk as lord. w
could not take away the liquor at once
we took it away gradually. We tool
temptation away from the boys. |
decreased drunkenness oyer 10 pc
cent.
The audience did not seem to be II
the humor to applaud, and only did 81
when he made good point or laugh
able suggestion.
COMPTROLLER GENERAL ELLERBEE
was in good trim. lie said that, al
though he had been cussed and dis
cussed, he had no intention of apollo
elzing for anything be had done. NJ.
cousip, for he is my cousin, Is some
what ashamed of me because as plsll
farmer l can't speak like he does
When l am elected he will call m
cousin, and then III give him a trla
iusticeship. Laughter
When | went into office found tn
property not fully assessed. l sent ou
circulars to my auditors to increas
assessments to the full value Of th
property. We have increased the val
uatlon of the railroad property t
ABOUT 100000 as it now stands to
day. We raised the South Carolin
and Georgia road to $4,000 per mil
and that was when the bonds Wer
worth on the market about s. 100000
It's the same thing with the othe
roads. The Columbia and Greenvill
bonds were worth on the market SIT
600 and we assessed it at $40, 500. Ie
they cried we were trying to ruin tn
!State.
Recently we got over 100000 tina
escaped taxation, and yet this propert
! is no higher than any other. You a.
remember the bank cases. l only or
dered the auditors to tax the propert
according to law. In the Newherr
| Bank case the bank showed 5000. 900 il
stock and surplus. The auditor as
sessed them at S230,OOO, but the Cour
fixed that at $4,000, which is les
than so per cent. | am sorry to So
-, ooroo in f,uon ehorta1ae