The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-03-14
TIE CAMPAIGN OPENED.

TIE CAMPAIGN OPENED.
A BIG MASS MEETING AT AB6EVlLlE
COURTHOUSE.
John Gary Evsns and Ssmpsor Pops
Fired Their Opening Guus-Whst They
Sa,d-No Other Candidates Present-A
Large Crowd in Attendance.
ABBEvILLE, S. c., March e.-Near'
ly thousand citizens were present on
last Monday 10 hear the gubernatorial
candidates speak. Il was quite dis
appointment 10 he crowd that all of the
candidates were not present, for the
people were Anxious to hear and com
pare them. Messrs. John Gary Evans
and Sampson Pote were present aod
were most cordially received. The fol-
lowing is Evars' speech:
Mr.. President and Fellow Citizens:
It is with much pleasure, commlnsled
with sone embarrassment, that l have
accepted the invitation Of your commit
tee to address you upon the Maternal and
state issues which today confront our
people. I am pleased Tor the reason
that feel when look into your honest
and so many familiar faces that I have
your sympathy in the grand cause tor
which am lighting. It's success will
be grand victory for the people. am
embarrassed from thefact that I speak to
scores c. the. constituency OF Calhoun
and McDufie and to people who have
ALWAYS led in all great reforms. moral
and political, and so you continue to do
to-day.
Ny own countrynen, the dcctrires OF
Calhoun are as live and clear TO you to-
day as wien he uttered them from the
red hills OF old Abbeville fifty years ago.
It has been truly said that the life OF a
republic depends upon the virtue OF the
people, that OF mooarch upon the igno.
rance of its people, Under our form OF
government the people alone are soyer-
eigp and their rulers are simply heir SER
wants. It Is evident then that to lnshll
virtue into their officers it is the right OF
the sovereign people to assemble IN mass
meetlng ana 1ne ootY 0 Ine seisan. w. ",
appear before tnenn. give an assoon. ~ ",
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and he who tails to respond to the call Of
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