The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-08-22
WHO LED TiLLMAN ASTRAY?
hugh L. FARLEY sCATHINGLY DE-
NOUNCES J. L. N. IRBY.
A Chapter Of Lamentations Over the De-
cadence OF Reforln-General Farley,
Notwithstanding His Long
Service in the Reform
Ranks, IS Retired.
I From the Sunday News. I

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COLUMBIA, August 1S.-Every now
and then some Reformer gets to cuss-
ing at the leaders or saying something
very amusing about the way things are
doue by the modern school of Reform.
According to all the rules of the game
there is DO one who ought to be better
able to tell all about it then Gen. Hugh
Legare Farley, the present Adjutant
and Inspector General and ex-candidate
for Congressional honors under the Re-
form regime. he knows how to be
funny and when he wrote his letter
withdrawing from the race for Congress
he must have been in a good humor.
The way he does blister some of his
old.time political bed-fellows must be
rather refreshing. In a word it is a
''meaty" letter, and makes good Sun
day reading. In fact, if Gen. Farley
keeps this up be will supplant Mr..
William Nye's letter in the Carolina
papers.
FARLEY EXPOSES HIS PALS.
Here is what he has to say:
To the public: In hereby announcing
my Withdrawal from the race in the
4th Congressional district I desire to
make some additional remarks explain
tory of my actions and the political
situation in general.
1t was good deal of hesitation and
not sanguine expectation of election
that I entered the race, but determined
to takes my chances and keep in touch
with the people, with reasonable
grounds for believing that with full
vote I would be in the second race
where I could win against a single
competitor. The action of the commit
tee in refusing to call off the "Colleton
plan" Convention and the small vote
of the clubs, as well as the evident dis
satisfaction Of the people, show un-
mistakably that the vote at the primary
will not only be small but largely con-
fined to the same elements, which
under the dictation of the bosses voted
in the clubs. Hence no one but those
who are already slated will stand any
chance in the primary election or the
September Convention unless there is
an immediate general uprising of the
people who have not participated in
the clubs by the placing of an opposi-
ton ticket in the field as delegates to
the September Convention, and this
seems improbable at this late date.
PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS.
Reviewing the causes which have led
up to the present situation may for the
present be q proftless but not un-
interesting occupation, and as I am
given to philosophical reflections" now
and then, do not mind giving few
more 10 the public for its amusementif
not for its instruction.
Now, as soon as these nominations
are made, all of the disappointed aspi-
rants will be laying the blame at the
door of my friend, Governor Tillman,
myself alone excepted. Right here in
the beginning I want to meet this dis
as unreasonable as it is un-
just, by a fat denial and the facts I
think will bear me out, particularly
among those in the Reform ranks who
are best posted, for the evidence is clear
that he did not want and was not the
author of the so called "Colleton" plan
of making nominations.
TWO RING cAUCUsEs.
It will be remembered that last
Christmas Governor TilIman failed to
appear at a caucus held by Senator
I1by at Laurens, when it was said 10
one cared to go except Larry CAN'T aud
D. A. G. Sullivan. On the other side
a caucus WIS held at Columbia abont
the 9Th of January, at the Governors
mansion, at which Messrs Shell, Ellerbe,
BoWden, etc, were found, and where,
it was generally agreed, that Shell
should call a March Convention for the
purpose of considering the propriety of