The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-08
KICKING CAROLINlANS.
The Threatened "WidG Open" Split
Comes on Schedule Time.

I breeze ana w III make All the ElEhL
There is in Him-A Conference Com
mittee Gets Going in Columbia and
Gives the World and the Democratic
Party the Result of It's Labors.
! Columbia, S. c., Sept. 7.-Dr Sampson
/ Pope of Newberry will run for the gov
| ernorship in opposition to John Gary
/ Evans, and will make a fight to a finish
/ in the general election. Tonight he
/ issued the following: ITO the Democratic
/ Voters of South Carolina: / understand
one of the ring said to a gentleman a few
! days ago, speaking of me, HE shall never
hold office again. Chagrined at my ex-
! posure of ring methods as now practiced,
and at my checkmating him by refusing
] to go into his trap at the first and second
! primary, he thus vents his spleen. | be-
| lieve the offices belong to the people, not
| TO any individual or set of individuals.
| I shall, therefore be a candidate
! for governor at the general election. The
| last killing at Blackvllle has convinced
me that we can never have peace in this
| state so long as the dispensary law is
| upon the statute books. / shall, therefore,
| run as an anti-dispensary candidate and
! in favor of true democracy. Let the peo-
| pie decide at this election whether or not
a few men shall dictate who shall hold
! office, and let them decide for themselves
| whether or not the laws shall be passed
! in the interest of peace, harmony and
! good government. AT this election a bal
lot can be cast directly for the
man of the peoples choice. Let the
people rise up as one man and
see to it that there shall be fair count.
| Respectfully, Sampson Pope"
DR.. Pope was asked what about the
negro vote in the general elections!"
| Said he: 1T is well the cry of stop
thief has been given out by the ring on
that subject and yet the newspapers say
| Gov. 1illman had q three hours chat
| with Murray, the negro congressman,
This looks as if they have gone TO the
negro.
DO you believe Evans has majority
| of the white vote2"
'No In the last primary 5S, 600 votes
were cast, according TO newspaper esti-
mates, Q though l do not admit their
correctness, except for the sake of argu-
ment, and $4,000 of them did not vote for
governor and a large number Of those
who did, did so because there was no
other, and do not feel bound thereby.
This would leave $4,000 as voting for
| Evans, and as there were 1000 at the
primary in 1892 you will see by adding
the $1,000 above set forth that a ma ority
OF the white voters are against Evans.
To this number add 10000 who did not
vote in 1892, and who have become of age
since, and you will see the negro vote is
not necessary to carry the election"
Il suspect deal with Murray, but he
cannot deliver the goods. as the negroes
refused to vote in 1890 / have some in
formation on the latter point, which | am
not at liberty to give, but which may be
given later on. Murray moved from Sum
ter to Charleston, you known, soon after
the passage of the redistricting bill, thus
putting himself in new district"
CONSERVATIVE DISSATISFACTION.
The dissatisfaction on the part of the
conservative faction with the way poll
tics OF the state has been conducted re
suited in some definite action being taken
tonight. A conference of representative
men from every section of the state met
here tonight and issued an address
to the democratic voters Among
other things it says "the Dem
ocratic party has been betrayed
by leaders who have usurped the rights
of the democratic voters and are using
the party machinery for their own selfish
ends; that 2 ring has been organized and
is exercising arbitrary and tyrannical
authority TO the utter subversion of the
welfare of the people; that the leaders and
rank ald file of their followers openly and
avOwedly indorse third party and ,populis-
tic measures The committee representing
"
announces their continued allegiance to
true democratic principles, and calls upon
ali who agree with them to hold mass
meetings on Sept. 10 in their respective
court houses in each county, and elect
delegates to convention, to be held in
Columbia on Sept. IL, for the purpose of
reorganizing the party, TO consider the
political situation and take such other
steps as in their wisdom they may deem
proper.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STEP.
This is taken to mean that full state
and county tickets will be put to oppose
the Tillman faction, which controls in the
state. While Senator Butler holds that
he is not seeking reelection by this new
| movement il is certain that should il
succeed he will be reelected TO the SEN
ate. Most of the men signing the petition
are or have been his lieutenants in the
contest There may be n triangular fight
If the new movement nominajes ticke :.
DIR. Pope, eX-refOrmer, ex-candidate for
[ governor, but who got out a week or two
ago, has changed his mind, and tonight
announces that he will make the race. He
conuts on getting the votes Of dissatisfied
reformers, as well as some conservatives.
He announces that he will run as q demo-
crat, and his platform generally is one Of
opposition 10 the ring.
ACTION OF THE COMMITTEE.
A conference of the anti-Tillman demo
Gratis held here issued the following at
midnight:
To the Democrats OF South Carolina: The
following preamble and resolutions having
been adopted by representative body OF
! democrats coming from large majority of
| the counties Of the state, ana having since
| been approved by many democrats Ia all the
/ counties Of the state 10 becomes my duty as
chairman Of the democratic conference com
mittee OF South Carolina. to publish them 70
| the state, and TO earnestly urge ali the true
/ democrats 10 take active part In the mass
| meetings proposed TO be held. and to Rcud
! representative delegations 10 the democratic
state convention therein recommended
TEXT or THE RESOLUTIONS.
To the Democrats OF South Carolina.
| Whereas, nder the guidance OF those SO.
/ called democrats, pr a majority Of them who
have control Of the party machinery In this
state the leadersof the rank and fle OF the
party have attempted TO commit them 70 the
third party aDd TO pOpulist doctrines have
/ atenated us from our fellow democrats OF
the union, and have brought the party IN
South Carolina into rcprOach as 20 rs align
ment with the national democracy. adopted
false and undemOCratc principles and pro
mulgated them 10 fhe name and under the
banner Of democracy. and
Whereas, he democratic masses Of the