The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-08-07

Sheriff Dean and a lot of deputies +,
the meeting to nip in the bud any in
cipent row. The fact is that there wa.
no trouble because neither Butler MOI
| Tillman mentioned the others name
Men were ready for fight though
The observant people noticed that
around Tillman and Butler sat a little
knot of friends. Butler sat on the
East side of the wide platform and
Tilman on the West. Those little
knots OF men mad no business on the
stand, but they would have made bust
ness out of 1t in short orderif the occa-
sion arose. The truth is that unknown
to either Tillman or Butler, these men
were body guards Of their respective
champions.
The meeting was held under the
main building at the encampment
grounds, whore many meetings have
been held before. The crowd was esti-
mated at not less than two thousand
five hundred. Two banners foated in
the crowd. One of these contained
the nomination of Tillman for Presi-
dent in 1896 together with a life-size
steol engraving of the Governor. The
Dispensarie' here were closed by Gov
ernOr Tillman till o'clock this after
noon. There was not a great deal OF
whiskey afloat for SO large crowd.
The crowd was turbulent at times and
disorderly and i'll behaved to can
didates. 1t didn't like Secretary of
State Tindal and Col. D. p Duncan ran
tho gauntlet OF jibes and cheers for
their rivals. General Ellerbe pummel
ed Larry CAN'T in great style and by
his very intrepidity and boldness got q
fairly good hearing. He bearded the
lions in their dens and showed no fear.
ha R,et -
al candidates to speak, was received
with rousing cheers and waving Of
hats. He said it was an insult to the
people of Spartanburg to say there
was ring in this county. Cheers. J
The people from the mountains to the
seaboarf have joined in one big ring
and he Is the centre of it. (Applause. J
He gave history OF alleged for q snap
convention and charged that the eff
forts now being made for primary are
to try to beat him. 1t is said to be an
appeal to the antis to help them Or they
will sink.
He attacked W. D. Evans, without
using his name, saying that he is trying
to call of the Reform Convention, but
can not do it. Evans, he said, is can
didate for Railroad Commissioner, but
has never been before tho people.
Senator Evans said he didn't want to
be Governor If he could not get the
place by Reform votes. He said that
Conservatives are not dead and alleg-
cd that caucus of anti-Tillmanites
was hold in Columbia yesterday.
"They are up to something" Evans
exclaimed.
Voice: "Stick 'em again."
Evans: don't like to stick dead
Chicken" Evans was greeted with
thunders OF applause throughout his
speech and many of the crowd yelled
"There's our next Governor" Talk
ing on the Dispensary Evans said ho
for Governor and the Register "our
paper" opposing the action of the Gov
ernor in reopening the dispensary. He
assorted that the people will back
Tillman and will risk their lives in
assisting to enforce the law. He took
a primary on the reopening and over a
thousand hands went in the air in
token that the men of Spartanburg
would sustain the Governer. He said
the men of South Carolina were not
afraid OF a little bloodshed. They
have chicken gizzards in their breasts
II they are. The Governor has the
law and the people on his side. He
said 1T was no moro disgrace to be q
constable then to be Governor or high
sheriff. When Evans time was up,
stop and yelled "Give him moro time. I"
G. M. Miles in behalf of the many
friends of Senator Evans presented
their "Game Cock" with beautiful
cane, which he accepted in Il graceful
speech. The cane is elegantly carved
and in some places has pearls on it.
DR.. Sampson Pope was the next GU
bernatorial candidate. He asked where
was Evans when Reform was started.
Voice: Don't say any more about
Evans" which was followed by loud
cheers for the Aiken man. DR.. Pope
sailed into the crowd for its cheering
for Evans and their noise and said they
were blinded by prejudice and did not
want to hear him. DR.. Pope got poor
hearing, voices and yelling being con-
tinuous. He said II it was treason to
oppose Governor Tillman in his Dis
pensary action make the most of it..
He said it would have been small
thing to allow Conservatives to vote in
the Reform primaries and bring about
peace. 1t would have been small
thing and might have saved dark and
dangerous days in South Carolina.
The Reformers, however, are too blind
by prejudice and 1t Is being preached
into them by nearly every speaker.
DR.. Pope had stumpy road to travel
and was guyed on all sides by the
crowd, but talked like man. He could
not be ratified.
CAN'T CALLED TO TIME.
Before introducing General Ellerbe,
Chairman Allen made an appeal for a
fair hearing for every speaker and
scored the crowd for its conduct. He
was told to sit down and shut up. Gen
eral Ellerbe began by saying that the
story circulated that he would bolt the
Reform nomination was an infamous
falsehood. He would support the nom
ineo, no matter who he Is, and will
stump the State for him II necessary,
(Cheers.) General Ellerbe then began
to review tho charges against him.
Ho pronounced as an infamous lie the
| story that he had been in caucus In
| Wrights's Hotel, and turning toward
CAN'T said. I" / now call on the man
| who made that charge to prove it,
He next denounced as false the story
that he was In favor of O. snap cOnven.
tion. General Ellerbe told CAN'T and
all OF Evans friends not to try to beat
him by dragging him down. Touching
the Sunday caucus charge of CAN'T,
General Ellerbe said to Gantt's teetf
that 1t was false that an anti entered
that room In the hotel. He would
give CAN'T S5 for every anti who went
In that room, and 81 call on CAN'T
here and now" he said "to prove that
charge or be man and apologize tx
me for IT," CAN'T said there was q
negro boy ut the door to let antis in
That is false. Can't charged that
was Shells candidate, when he knew
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