The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-08-07
erless to stem the crowd and to allay

erless to stem the crowd and to ALA.
the excitement.
Governor Tillman advanced to ash
for quiet, but Butler peremptorily told
him to sit down.
| Chairman Lyles made earnest efforts
to restore order and these efforts were
finally successful. Before order hai
been restored, however, General But
Ter was shouting above the noise thai
he came here as an invited guest anc
that he intended to speak il he stayed
there all night.
Voice: "Go ahead, we are going tc
| listen"
Butler: "No, you arc not. You
didn't come to listen. You como here
to howl me down."
General Butler shouted that he had
not said anything that he wouldn't
stand by and he was going to stay
here" he said, "to frighten and intim.
idate me. I thought the men of Unicn
were remarkable for their courtesy
and chivalry and believe majority
af them are, but some of them have
acted the blackguard here. Iwant YOU
to understand that 1 see men in that
audience who stood firm when times
were more dangerous than now, when
bullets whistled around our heads and
cut down men by our Sides"
Voice: "We would stick to you now
If you were all right"
Butler: "That shows what you are.
l sat and listened to him (Tillman) and
said nothing when he foully slandered
me. When came to reply his hench-
men try to howl me down."
Voice: "Did you call this crowd
thieves ?"
Butler: "I did no such thing. 7
want to say this to you, some of whom
have stood by my side when it took
bravo men to do it. and l am going to
say it. In 1876 and 1877 I took my life
in my hands hundred times to redeem
this State. thought that when we
got rid of those thieves we would have
free speech, but now when n man gets
up to express his honest sentiments he
this country or anywhere else and
won't win. 1t will bring untold woes
If it is persisted in" Then General
Butler continued his speech talking on
national issues. Cheering and counter
cheering broke loose and there came
near being several fights.
There was never perfect order from
the time Butler began until he finish
ed and the gubernatorial candidates
began.
FAIR PLAY ALL HE WANTS.
General Ellerbe opened his speech
by repudiating the charges which have
been made against him by papers
friendly to Evans and refuted them.
He declared that they are foul SANDERS.
He did not believe his opponent had
anything to do with these ISLANDERS, but
1T was low and mean that such schemes
were being resorted to defeat him.
CAN'T ought to prove the charges he
has made or apologize.
While talking on the subjects man
said: You wrote too many letters in
favor OF L. @. Duncan for tho Legisla-
ture.
Ellerbe: ct am glad you mentioned
that. did writo several letters and
friend. He said he would support the
Reform administration and Governor
Tillman and pledged himself to that"
Some interlocutor "Did he prove
to be Reformer ?"
Ellcrbe: 81 don't know. You can
settle that among yourselves, but he
was my friend and never go back on
d friend" (Applause.)
Interlocutor again: eve arc going
to vote for your cousin Johnny"
Ellerhe: I'll tell you how you can
DO that. The next Legislature will
elect two judges. He is a lawyer. You
can elect him one of those Judges and
and counter cheers.)
General Ellerbe said he was going to
be elected Governor and is going to en-
force the Dispensary law.
Voice: thought you were weak
kneed."
Ellerbo: "No man can accuse me
OF being weak-kneed. Governor Tillman
and | are both in favor of reopening
the Dispensary, although differ from
him some time. If l am elected will
enforce that law" (Applausc.) After
the men with plenty of mouth got
through speaking General Ellerbe dis
cussed Alliance demands and national
issues.
THE AIKEN GAME COCK
Senator Evans who followed said he
did not pay any attention to tho pitiful
little newspapers and inkslingers.
There are measures of Importance and
they ought to be discussed. Senator
Evans told what he had done for Re-
form and said he was going to be tho
next Governor.
Voice: "There is report around
here that you will disfranchse the
poor man and keep him from voting. )"
Evans "That is a lie and is intend
ed to hurt me, but they can't fool the
people" (Applause.)
Ellerbe says l have got all the poll
ticians on my side. We'll they are, but
they see that the people are going to
elect me and they want to be on the
winning side" (Applause.)
He took q hand primary on this ques-
ton: "All who think that the Gov
ernor is right in reopening the Dis
pensary and that l had right to
criticise The Register and stand to the
Governors back hold up your hands ~
On this double headed question in
which GovernorTillman was 80 adroilty
mixed the crowd voted overwhelmingly
the way Mr.. Evans desired. None
voted the other way when that side OF
the question was put. "That Is vindi-
cation enough for me-" exclaimed Sen.
ator Evans, and he won't on with his
speech on the Disponsary, arousing a
| good deal of enthusiasm. Evans begged
the people to vote for constitutional
| convention.
DIR. PoPE'S POSITION.
DIR. Sampson Pope spoke in favor Of
his stand for a Reform primary. He
talked to small crowd which did not
seem to fully understand all he said
DIR. Pope declared that he did not ex
! pect any advantage from the Conserva
tives by the position he had taken. Or
the Dispensary DIR. Pope said the Su
preme Court, which was composed O
honorable men, had decided the law un
constitutional. Governor Tillman was
not acting according to law in reopen
Ing the Dispensary now and tho people