The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-07-04
A QUIET MEETING.
PEACE RElGNS Between THE SENA-
7ORlAL CANDIDATES.
The Campaign Gathering at Benn ettsville
Tjndsn. Ellerbe, Evsns end Other Can
d'datas Make SpsGches Representing
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Tjndsn. Ellerbe, Evsns end Other Can
ddstes Make spssches Representing
Their Claims.
BENNETTsvILLE, S. c., June 27.-The
campaign IS just humming along quiet
ly now as a summer sigh. The Cover
nor continues to prod Cleveland's "old
fat ribs" with his pitchfork and G. W
Whitman is still blowing up Hell
Gates by the gross without touching
the South Carolina College, but all
traces of blood have disappeared from
the Senatorial moon. A majority OF
the meeting favored Tillman.
Representative Whitman was the
first speaker. He jerked the bell cord
of the welkin and rung it for all it was
worth. He put on his political diving
bell and blew up He'll Gate again. He
declared that in order to finG out q
mans politics these days one had to
revert to genealogy and The records .
He had several other He'll Gates in the
shape of the corporations and the mon.
ey power to blow up but did not have
time to fix the dynamite. He thought
it was time to rotate Mayfield out OF
the State House and rotate him in.
Secretary of State Tlndal spoke next.
He said that one South Carolina had
passed away and that the reform move
ment was making a new one and read
justing the social lines on new basis.
The agricultural college had been es-
tablished to enable the boys to apply
science to their work. The South was
| fifty years ahead of the North except
in one respect-the North has more
skilled artisans. The reform move
ment had taught the railroads and the
corporations that they could not die
| tate to the State. It had reduced the In
terest on the State debt from 8 to 4 &
This goyesnment has been taken out of
the hands Of the few. thus preventing
them from rehabilitating it on ante
bellum lines. If the people wanted to
continne to progress and properly ad-
| just the affairs Of government they
must watch and not let another ring
be formed. A government of the whole
people would eventually result in a
government of the best people. There
was no reason for strife to continue to
mar the peace and progress of the State.
1t could result only from the mere de-
sire of one set of men to dominate over
the other. He hoped Tillmanite and
Conservative would remember this.
The conflict between the towns and
the cities was deplorable. This came
from a misconception Of the Alliance
by the town people who would not open
their eyes to see the object OF that
great organization. Mr.. Tlndal
sketched the history OF the Alliance,
showing that it was through it that the
nation was awakened to its interests;
that it overturned the Republican par
to and placed the Democrats in power:
and that it stopped the sugar bounty
and the giving of land to railroads. In
stead of saying damn the Alliance"
every farmer should join 1t. He
warned the people not to allow the Al.
lance to commit itself 10 any political
party. If elected Governor he would
endeaYor to administer the affairs OF
government in equity and justice to all
alike.
Senator John Gary Evans was the
second Glbernat0rial batsman. He
paid beautiful tribute to the Con-
federate soldier, especially to the Veter-
ans of the Pee Dee. Discussing national
affairs, he said that the only real Dem
ocrats in the South today are those
who stand on the Ocala platform. He
declared that he believed the Sub-Tre-
asury plan, if adopted into law, would
destroy the Yankee nation. l. would
make the South the most prosperous
section of the United States, and would
transfer the financial fountain head OF
the country to the South. No law, he
said, could be passed which would not
benefit one serction at the expense OF
another. The country is too big. He
advised the Alliance not to surrender
one of its demands or principles. 1t
will win in the end.
Senator Evans spoke next of his con-
nectiou with the Reform movement
and of some of the bills which he had
introduced and seen become law. He
believed his county government bill
one of the creates ever passed and that
it would make splendid ronds for the
people. 1t had been commented upon
it every part of the country. He said
he introduced bill to establish separ-
ate public schools for white and color
ed children. 1t had been defeated by
members from Charleston and Colum.
bia. He said the article published in
the Columbia State that he had oppos-
ed the tWo-mill tax was false. The
people, he said, should vote for con-
stitutional convention. This conVen-
ton would change the arrangement for
bublic schools.
Teaching on the Di5pensary law,
Senator Evans said the Supreme Court
had tried to become the Legislature
of the State. 10 prove that the law
was constitutional, he said the whiskeV
men of Charleston had employed law
yerS TO get their advice on the law
and were told that it was sound and
constitutional. Every circuit judge IN
the State except one had decided that
it was constitutional. He quoted decis-
ions of the Supreme Court showing its
inconsistency in Whiskey cases. Ten
years ago it decided thaC the right to
sell Whiskey was not inalienable. This
year it had decided Just the opposite.
SSualOC Evans dOlJ OSlSuQCu tuO
Dispensary law. He showed how much
that decreased drunkness and how
much good it had done. The people
want the law and are going to have it.
The speaker attacked prohibition as a
farce. He told a good joke on Benefits
vile when it had prohibition and
showed that liquor had been more
plentiful then than now. Ha was lib.
orally applauded when he finished.
General Ellerbe then took the bat IN
the gubernatorial game and he knock
ed some hot grounders and several sky
scrapers at the Aiken game COCK.
When he repeated his statement made
at Chesterfield that Evans mad said
there was ring in the State House,
the Senator got up an denied he had
made any such statement, that what he
had said was that he was ready to
smash rings. ElIerbe replied he was
glad that Evans had the manllness to
say that hs had been misrepresented,
as he belonged to the State House
crowd, and if there were any charges
about ring there he wanted names.
Evans-I did not say there was no
ring there, and you can tell that part