The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-08-15
THE LAST MFEiING
OF The CAMPAIGN FIELD AT b6Be-
VILE ON WEDNESDAY,.

slf IN An Ms suSi Csp' urch iA5 SII"
Bune,'a Pathetic Speach-The Guoerna
t.7isl Cxndidstea Have Thsir U,us
Lively but Coed Ma, a,u-tdTnt.
ABBEvILLE, Aug. 8.-Down in
shady hollow under big pines and pop
lars, $500 to 5000. some say $500 peo
pie Including Geo Georgians from Ell
berton mostly Tillmanltes, generally
nicely dressed and well behaved, anc
many pretty girls, sat and heard the
reverberation OF the campaign die
away. Senator Butler did not SPEAK
more than five or ten minutes. The
Georgia visitors are said to have beer
PopulistS. 1t Is certain they were no1
for Butler, or at least they cid not ap
plaud him.
TILLMAN AND BUTLER.
Chairman Bradley tailed the crowd
begged that Aboevllle'S reputation be
preserved and that attention be given
all the speakers. He introduced the
Governor, who advanced and began
Not q sound was heard. The Governor
after few remarks, observed that he
had more friends IN South Caroline
than any man. (Whoops, short, sharp
and loud)
The Governor enumerated what has
been done by Reform that is of yalue
to the people and State, beginning with
the choking of CoosaW into submission
and going through other things as fol
lows: Giving the people the
right to see candidates before vot-
ing for them; making Railroad Com
mlssiopers elective by the people direct
reapportionment of the State; primary
elections: refunding the State debt;
building Clemson College and the Wo
mans College; collection of railroad
and bank taxes and making corpora
tions obey the law after hard fight;
calling a constitutional convention
and, last and greatest, the Dispensary
law. The Governor was applauded as
he went through this list and spoke
strongly and forcibly of the various
achievements of the greatest of all
movements.
When discussing the scarcity OF mo-
ney there were many sharp comments
by the crowd. The Governor asked
what is money?
Voice: 1--WE haven't seen enough OF
it to know" (Applause.)
The Governor begin to skin and stew
Cleveland
Voice: Roast the old devil
Uaughter.)
TilIman: 'rm just getting ready to
give him his medicine" (Applause)
He was more than usually bitter on
Cleveland and Congress and repeated
his charges that Congress had been
bought, referring especially to corrupt
and bought up Senators. The Cover
nor's pet plan of getting the South and
West together, politically, was given a
good deal of attention by him. He IN
cidentally said that he had seen nobody
against him because he was against the
sub treasury. He declared that there
are hundreds OF men ID the Alliance
who will swallow court house or any
thing else to gat to the Senate. It was
these men who were kicking up all
this row. The politicians had always
been against him and now have knives
up their sleeves for him and will con.
tinue to keep them up there, but his
strength lay with the common people
and wool-hat boys. (Great cheering }
He said the Alliance in Georgia fol-
lowed Tom Watson off and was living
in ditch with lis neck broke. The
boys split the air. There are some
men in the State" shouted the
Governor, "who want me to get on the
Ocala platform with all fours. Some
of those men would swallow anything
to get to the United States Senate" :"
The Governor spoke on 10 his usual pic
turesque style and the boys kept up
their comments. A young man just
beneath the stand got into an old time
camp meeting hurrah and yelled hister-
icallv. When the Governor ended the
usual demonstration occurred. 1t was
loud.
When General Butler was introduced
there was some discourtesy to him as,
"we don't wantto hear you, "go home"
etc. Chairman Bradley asked for quiet
and the fuss subsided.
Gen. Butler welcomed the Georgians
thanking them for the aid they gave
rs in IS. lie spoke of his record and
declared that his happiness did not de-
pend on his return to Washington, and
he was ready to bow to the will of the
people, if he was retired without the
agency of political rings aud cliques.
In closing the General appealed to
the people that whatever their political
differences might be that the bond
which held Old soldiers together would
not be forgotten. His voice dropped
low and trembled with emotion and the
last words were, "My fellow country
men, wish you all the choicest b!es-
sings of God" A small cheer followed
interrupted with whcop for TilIman.
Sheriff Nance arose just as the Sena.
tor was departing and read the Alliance
demands, asking the Senatorial candi-
dates what they had to say about them.
Senator Butler returned and said that
be had given his opinions on the de.
mands IN letter to Secretary Mitchell.
He thought all the demands, except two
had gooG Democracy in them.
Tlllman got up and reviewed his po
sition to these demands, opposing the
sub treasury in his customary words
and manner. He said he didn't want
any warehouses around to store corn
and cotton IN nor asystem which would
give the s,arty in power a million men.
The crowd gradually broke after the
two big sSyrockets had exploded, but
$500 remained to see the four Roman
candles 60 off.
POPE, ELLEREE, TINeAL AND EVANS.
DR.. Pope argued strongly for the con-
stitutiona: convention, and defended
the sub treasury as the best of the AL
lance demands" He criticised the re-
opening OF the dispensaries and &C.
clared If respect for the courts was not
maintained anarchy would ensue. He
attacked the Reform convention and
exclaimed, 81 believe a great deal Of
prejudice had been injected into the
Reform movement to place certain men
in Office" lie closed with a plea for
harmony and said that the Ants dis
liked him as much as they did any of
his competitors. He had fought them
but had never struck below the belt.
AS he sat down the SlrieKerS Shrleked