Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-07-04

} were from one county OnQ SOmt
. were from another. They all had s
' right to be there, and the railroads
J had a right to bring them on free
passes if the railroads saw fit to dc
so. He had nothing to do with it
He had nothing to do with corpora
! tons, nor they with him.
Another charge made against
him was that be had not voted
against the confirmation of Judge
Simonton. He had known Judge
Simonton for forty years and he
had never known anything against
his public or private honor. He
wanted to know, if Governor Till.
man thought Judge Simonton's op.
pointment so monstrous, why 1t
was that he had never protested
against his confirmation. E(e for
one had never seen such protest.
Tillman had charged that he
| (Butler) had been in office go long
that he was out of sysmpathy with
the people. The fact that he had
been. elected three times un-
animously did not show that the
people thought he was out of
sympathy with them. Gould Gov
ernor Tillman pointto one act of
his which showed be was out of
sympathy with the people?
1t had been insinuated that he
had drawn an enormous salary. To
this he would simply say that the
people of South Carolina paid a
little over $S4 on his salaro per
annum, while they paid Governor
Tillman $4,000. He had done battle
for free silver before the "Reform"
party and Alliance were ever heard
of. They were all now getting on
his platform, and he was ready to
welcome them. He wanted to pre-
dict that the next great struggle
would be on this line. It would
settle who was to rule, lhe masses
or the money power.
The last fow years had witnessed
a remarkable political spectacle in
this country. In 1884 the Demo-
Gratis had elected Cleveland Presi-
dent. At the end of his term he
had cotton his party in such fix
that the Republicans elected their
ticket easily. They in their turn
elected Harriso When bis Term
shs g y had 81 Dup
country. What aid they do? They
went straight ahead and reelected
Cleveland. He was directly op-
posed to them on the money ques-
ton, and they knew it; and still
they elected him. It was a most
remarkable occurrence. He did
not believe Cleveland was dis
honest. The President was gov
erned by his New York environ
ments. If he had anything to do
with the Democratic party in
future be intended to read the
Riot Act. Cleveland, Hill, and the
rest of them were tarred with
the same stick. He now had in his
mind a Western man whom he
considered the right man to lead
the party.
AS for talking about coalition
between the South and West that
was what many OF them had been
working for for years. 1t was one
thing to talk, another to act. IL the
schemes it must not be forgotten
that the West was iu favor Of
pensions, and that system was one
of the greatest burdens the South
had to bear. He had been told
that the people of Marlboro wanted
the candidates to discuss the issues
and not fly off on personalities.
That conformod exactly to his
ideas. He never heard a public
speech without learning some
thing from it. He complimented
Col Thomas's speech. 1t was true
that there had been a little spirit
shown between two of the Guber-
material candidates, (Evans and
Ellerbe, but that there was no
real bitterness. It was a lawyers
quarrel. He closed with power
full appeal for party unity in the
State.
GOVERNOR TILLMAN
was the last speaker. AS a ma
jority OF, the people present had
come to hear him particularly the
crowd had held Together very we'll
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