The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1894-07-05
QUIET DAY IN FLORENCE COUNTY,

10 fNSoAe' e'a" oAAoy hoPo GHtC CneS
% will not have to go through anoth,
or like it. In four days a majority
it of them have travelled 90 miles over
a country roads, besides hundreds on
8 the railroads. There is hardly a
o man in the party who will not
Y welcome the few days rest ahead
/, of him.
The meeting for Florence Coun-
ty was held at Elim's Church,
twelve miles from here, and the
speakers and newspaper men had
to go there by private conveyance
and return here.
! Not over five hundred voters
were present to listen to the speak
ers, and the meeting was without
a feature.
Senator Butler had few friends
in the crowd, which was for Gov
ernor Tillman by odds of thirty to
one.
The stand was about as largo as
} a chicken coop and there was no
room on it for reporters, who sat
! in a hack and used their knees as
tables. They did not have much
to DO, however, as the meeting was
flat and uninteresting. There was
little enthusiasm for any speaker
until Governor Tillman spoke
The crowd did not stay near the
stand until his time came to speak
and then they crowded around to
hear him.
The conduct of all except two or
threo was good. Theirs was not
disorderly, but twas annoying. 1t
was not directed to any particular
speaker. The efforts of County
Chairman Mccall to suppress these
etfusive individuals were fruitless
There was no police authority anc
they could not be arrested. .
| Had not General Ellerbe ant
Senator Evans clawod zach otho
some there would not have beel
any fun. Tillmau and Butler le
, each other alone.
General Ellerbe was tho frs
speaker. He snid he was not &C
ing to mako speech, but was &c
. ing to make plain talk to "cloc
> hoppers," as clodhoppers. He sal
: he was going to criticise tho recor
of his young friend Evans, but wa
y not gong to hit below the bel
\ They were friends and were NJ
J going to fight. Unless they qua
l. relied some there would be no tu
IL in the gubernatorial race. Geno
" al Ellerbe then accused his frior
of having gone back on Refor
measures in tho early days of tt
movement, one of them boil
u Clemson College. Evans's excu
ry for doing this in 1889 was that
lis would increase taxes, yet he vote
or for tho bill later, and it then il
le, creased tho taxes. General Ellie,
is be made tho same charges whic
20 he has previously made agains
Senator Evans's early Reform rt
CO cord. Gonoral Ellerbe elaine
30, that he had asked the Legislatur
Id to reduce salaries and had asked
I'd to cut down the number of. clerk
10. ships in his Office. General Elle1
t. be invited criticism Of the admin
of lstration of his office and said hi
re- record could be attacked by Evan
IT the latter desired. lie told wha
90 had been done by his Office in th
@ matter of taxation. TO tho oharg
IN OF Evans that he (Ellerbe) ha
70 wanted tho bonds sent to his hom
rs to sign, he said that for two yoar
s, he had worked 80 hard that he con
j. tracted pneumonia. This settle
10 on his lungs and he was confino
ar to his home for months. Will
N In this condition he had gotte
his chief clerk to take some Of tn
=, bonds to him from Columbia an
y, ~ had signed them in his sick bod.
" General Ellerbe attacked the rot
:. ton financial laws of the countr
d, and said that unless there wo
- - moro money tho people woul,
~ ~ starve. The Alliance, no though,
~ =, would succeed IN bringing roliol
The speaker gave the audience tn
- benefit. of his knowledge and idea