Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-07-18
HE THANKS HIS MANY
Friends in all Parts of the State
for Their Confidence-ThinkS
Edgefield Represented
Well Enough Without
His Taking Part in
the Campaign.

i
your paper to publish this letter.
am not q candidate for Governor
and as am tired of writing sepa
rate letters to that effect, | hop
this public response will sufflc'
for reply to numerous unanswer
cd solicitations from strong mel
of all political factions, more O.
less, residing in nearly ever.
county in the State, urging me tt
enter the gubernatorial race.
To say nothing of being very
very busy with farming operatlon
and rebuilding my dwelling hous'
which was recently burned, many
other reasons concur to prevent m'
from standing for Governor, only
one of which I will mention, deem
ing it all sufficient.
7 am not one Of those who seen
to think that Edgefeld and toul
of it's adjoining counties are the
State of South Carolina, and there
fore it occurs to me that the eter
nal fitness of things forbids al
Edgefeld man should run for Gov
ernor in the pending canvass
Edgefeld may produce all the
Caesars and six-sevenths of the
thirty-four other counties may fur
nish the underlings of South Caro-,
lima. still I cannot divest myself
of the belief tlat majority OF
the other counties Likewise have
good material, some of them an
abundance of it, for making Sena-
tors, Congressman, Judges, Gov
ernors, or State House officers.
Remembering the many high
places Edgefeld men (including
myself) have filed since 1876, and
considering that she now has a
United States Senator, a Congress
man, a Governor, and a Circuit
Judge actually in office, while al
the same time she has two candl.
dates for the Senate, one candidate
for Congress, one candidate fo1
Lieutenant Governor, one candl-
date for Secretary o. State and
still another candidate for Rail
road Commissioner, if were to
come out for Governor also, [ fear
thousands of modest men would
marvel a: such audacious lmpu'
dence.
This geographical argument IN
favor of assigning honorable civil
distinctions to different localities
something akin to a just proper
ton or rotation, is usually all
powerful and it cannot be long ere
most of the underling counties OF
the State will assert their natural
sentiment of self-respect and re-
ciprocal equality in awarding po'
litical nonors. Hence, 1 do not
care to provoke too much the ia
tigued indignation of the supposed
underlings, who, sooner or later
according to the law of all reac'
tion, shall surely combine to retail
late against Edgefeld; and wher
that revulsion comes, as come ii
must, or else all history is lie, 8
generation or two will likely have
to pass before another Edgefelo
man shall be able to get any posi-
ton outside of his county.
In other words, I cannot stand
for Governor now, because I have
a too lively sense of the indecency
of a few counties, or a few families
or tie same county, or the same
family, at the same time attempt
ing to monopolize the best offices
of the State.
sincerely thank my many zeal
GUS friends in all parts Of South
Carolina for their generous conf.
dence and cordial assurances OF
support, and deeply regret that l
cannot comply with their wishes
at this time.
G.. D. TILLMAN.