The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-01
FOXY BEN TILLMAN.
He Will Play a Little Game Learned
From The StTaightOutS.

Laying Pipe to Get Into the Senate in
the Same Manner that Wade Hamp-
ton Got There Fourteen Years Ago.
Shell, the Father of the Farmers
Movement, F." Apparently Favors But
lers Reelection.
Washington, Feb. 2s.-The South Car
DINA delegation have been aroused to
star cham Der caucuses by report here
that Gov. Tillman intends making a SINH
lar coup to that which sent Wade Hamp-
ton 10 the Senate and made w. D. Simp-
son governor.
Tillman not only wants to be senator
but, it is said, is willing to hazard his
chance for that in order TO keep his hold
on the state affairs by making John Gary
Evans governor. His move is this way,
so stated here: He intends to run at the
head OF the state ticket again, and be re-
elected governor, with Evans as ieuten-
ant governor on the same ticket. Then.
holding the whip, he will have himself
elected to succeed Butler in the
Senate, when the governorship will fall
TO his protege, John Gary Evans.
On this move Tillmans friends are
anxious and his opponents hopeful. Even
HIS SbfUuRtSL SuppDEbtE6 say budL 1lliLudn
will have hard time being elected gov
ernor if he attempts to carry Evans in
with him, for his play will be too playable
to bs accepted.
TRYING TO ROTATE SHELL.
There are strenuous efforts being made
to bring Congressman Shell, who repre-
sents the Columbia district, into the
gubernatorial fight, but he declines to be-
come a candidate. When asked to-day by
the MORNING NEWS correspondent if he
| could be induced to make the race, he
said he could not.
Il have all along declined to enter this
| race and nothing can induce me to change
my mind" said he. Il am going to get
out of politics, and even if l wanted to
continue in it, l would not enter the
wrangle which will take place in South
Carolina this fall"
'M'LAURIN AS B'RER RABBIT.
Representative McLaurin is looked
upon as available gubernatorial tim
Der, and though he is lying
pretty low now, he may come into
the open before long. If he does there
will be even greater complications than
| those which now present themselves.
He and Senator Irby have fallen out, and
should he make the race, the entire state
machine will be thrown against
him. But then again he is
the leader OF one wing or the reform fac
ton, and would gather about him not only
the conservative element in the state,
but also that portion of the Iillman wing
which is waging war on Irby and fighting
his machine.
There is the deepest interest manifested
among the South Carolina contingent
here, and this latest move contemplated
by Gov. Tillman of running himself again
for governor for the purpose of putting up
Evans, has thrown them into fever of
expectancy and excl EN- ent
SHELL FAvORs BUTLER MEN.
The next two important appointments
to be made in South Carolina are the
postmasters at Columbia and Greenville.
They are both in Capt. Shells district.
He has recommended Capt. William Wal
lace for the office at Columbia, and Will
liam Meetze for Greenville. Wallace is a
prominent lawyer in Columbia and has
strong business backing, and is for Butler
for the Senate
Meetze's appointment has been hung up
for time because of his extreme youth
He is little over his majority, and if APP
pointed, will be the youngest presidential
postmaster in the south.