The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-05

hSort W the service OF HIS state.
Columbia, S. c., Dec. 4.-Benjamin
Ryan Tillman is no longer governor of
South Carolina.
AT 1:S0 p. m today he was succeeded
by his chief lieutenant. John Gary
Evans.
Several thousand people assembled
in the hall of the house of representa-
tives. despite raw and chilly day,
with intermittent rains. to witness the
ceremonies of Inauguration. AS the
inaugural procession entered, the band
played Hail to the Chief
Prominent among those on the ros-
trum were United States Senator Irby,
Ex-Governor Tillman and the justices
OF the supreme court. After prayer by
the Rev. John A. Rice the oath of Of
flee was administered to Governor
Evans by Chief Justice McCuer The
governor spoke distinctly and without
trenor. His address consumed about
an hour in delivery. He said:
Gentlemen Of the general assembly:
After obtaining the will of the peo-
pie in three separate elections I am
here today to assume the governorship
of the proudest people on the globe
Thirty years ago the election Of man
of my age to the highest office in the
gift of South Carolina people would
been called Unconstitutional. A young
man in South Carolina would not have
dared to aspire to this honor for fear
of gaining the odium of the class, who
by reasons of age or inheritance, COP
sidered the office as their particular
property without regard to the popu-
lar will. There are some who still re-
gard that which gave to us an aris-
tocracy of brains instead of lands and
money as an hallucina ton, and it was
the reign Of the dema gogue. The gen.
tie slunlber will result in good and the
Rip Van Wrinkles of the state will
awake to find themselves monuments
of antiquity surrounded by youngsters
of modern progress and development,
who have nothing but love and rever-
ence for them. 1t is matter of con-
graduation to the people that this eff
fort to stay the course of reform by an
appeal to an ignorant and purchas-
able vote has been rebuked the second
time in a manner unn1iStakable in
terms, and let US hope that in the fu-
ture there will be found in the state
no man so ignoble as to dare threa ten
US with a return of the dark days from
1858 to 1876. 1t is unfortunate, indeed,
that the foundation of our, social and
political institutions is the unity of the
white people. This condition was
thrust upon US by the emancipation
and enfranchisement, with one stroke,
of unfortunate slaves, placed in power
by the bayonet, forced to govern their
former masters.
I'VE thus witness a. spectacle sell
dom recorded in history. A govern
ment of ignorance, vice and corrup-
ton over wisdom, virtue and honesty.
l say here, on the threshold of my adj
ministration that it is time for our peo-
pie to come together and be a united
people, and let the responsibility fall
on those of the opposition who insist
upon a rule or ruin policy.
1--WE are fast coming to the plight
which Ireland is in. Our great plan
tations are becoming merely the hunt
ing preserves Of the wealthy, and the
laborer, year by year, is being ground
to poverty and servitude. The party
that was true to us is the party that
we must look to in the future or suffer
defeat from one extreme of the land
to another and today not a Democratic
state is left north of Maxon and
Dixon's fine The northeast seemed to
be deaf to our appeals, and the ray of
light, which we had hoped for in the
west, has proved as tickle as an aurora
borealis. South Carolina has led in
every great moral and political reform,
and it remains for US to set the pace
for the nation, which will ultimately
bring relief to the entire people"
Governor Evans begins his specific
recommendations with suggestions that
the State Agricultural society be given
a small appropriation. He congratu-
lates the people upon the calling Of
the constitutional convention, and the
South Carolina college, he says, should
be opened to women in all of its
classes. The constitutional convention
should provide special courts for the
trial of criminals usually victims of
lynch law. The courts should protect
the victim of the ravisher from public
and vulgar cross-examinatiop and the
notoriety of newspaper exploitation.
Of the dispensary law, he says:
81 am thoroughly satisfied, after an
active canvass Of the state, that the
dispensary law is now written in the
hearts of the people and is favored by
fully IS per cent of the population. 1t
shall be my duty and pleasure that
the REMAINDER RESPECT anu ODty II,
He sharply arraigned those hostile
to the law. The remedy was with the
legislature. Governor Evans remedy
is supposed to be a metropolitan po-
lice force for Charleston and other
towns where the administration of the
law is obstructed. The governor con-
dennis the practice of leasing convicts
to private parties.
In closing, Governor Evans says:
eff, when 1 return this commission,
I can say, Behold a happy people, in
peace, love and unity my reward
will be great and sufficient. I ask the
support of my friends, the charity of
my enemies and the help of God. I
now dedicate my head hand and
heart to the service of my state
After music Northumberland w.
H. Zimmerman was conducted into Of
flee and addressed the assembly.