The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-08-15
WHO WILL BE GOVERNOR?
HOW THINGS STaNc AT THE CLOSE
+ THE FIGHT.
Governor Tillmsn the Kz CO for Cover
nor is Nip and Tuck Between Evans and
ho

Governor Tillmsn the Race for Cover.
nor is Nip ard Tuck Between Evans and
El!elbe.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Aug. 5.-The
Register of today prints the followin G
from it's campaign correspondent, Mr..
W. ". Price, who has followed the
speakers all over the State:
The people are trying 10 figure cut
who is to be the next Governor, OF
rather who is to be the Reform nominee
for that place. This now perplezing
question will be answered in q few days
by the people Of the State. There are
going to be some surprises, Is predlc.
ton I make
Well, the fact and the straight fact
ls this: The mau who says he knows
who ls going to be the Reform nominee
has soda water on the brain and needs
examination. Governor T,llman agrees
with ne. I speat Friday night with him
ct Clemson College, and IN conversation
with several persons he said the race is
one with az much doubt in it as he ever
knew. He declared that nobody knows
who will be the winning man. He even
went 80 tar as to say that there ls quiet
vote in the Reform ranks which cannot
be guessed at and that the weight OF il
will be felt. This is the vote which the
friends OF EIlerbe and Tindal claim.
It's all muddled. have now been in
everv county in the State except three.
but the nearer get to the end Of my
campaign work tho more muddled be-
come OF this question Of toe next Gov
ernor. Oae day think it IL going TO
be ElIerbe and the next I think Evans
is tho winner. I do not believe there
will be twenty votes difference between
them N the Reform convention. It may
turn out that Secretary of State Tindal's
friends will hold the balance G. ;rsoo~er u
the convention.
Goveroner Tillman made statement
in his speech al Pickeas which vas IN
derstood by some to have indirect re-
ference to General T]lerbe. He was
talking about the efforts being made to
change the Coileton plant convention to
a primary and said tha, ths~fuends of
"oeaten" candidates we're responsible
for all trouble. In view Of the impress
sion nearly everywhere that the Cover
nor is q friend to Senator Evans, it is
noL to be wondered that the remark MAS
taken as slap at General Ellerbe. I
remarke.' to the Governor at Clemson
College that bis words had peculiar
sound or significance. He said that he
had no reference to General Ellerbe, and
then proceeded to eulogize Enerbe as
one OF the best and strongest men IN the
Reform ranks. He warmly compliment
ed the Marion Swamp Fox on his
Spartanburg speech. The Governor up
to now has not seemed to appreciate that
the conditions are such at this time that
almost anything he may say which Is
not definite and explicit will be likely to
more than one construction. The sit
ustion is delicate and I am satisfied the
Governor is chaing under it.
Since the Union row Governor Till
man and Senator Burler have let each
other severely alone. They were getting
pretty ''chummy" before that exciting
little incident. They used to ride to-
gether IN carriages and would joke each
other on trains and everywhere. They
cot to be as thick as school boys and as
Gay with each other as two-year.olds.
Now they avoid each other and to hear
one OF them speak you would not think
be knew the name of his rival. I heard
in Greenville that they refused to ride to
the speaking place in the same car
riage together. This may have been a
rumor. At any rate it is not probable
that they will refer to each other on the
stump again this campaign.