The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-04-10

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a newspaper which distills day by day pois-
on into their system, and will not let the
fever subsde. They give me credit for
nothing. IN their vocabulary Governor Till
mans side of the ledger is all debt and no
credit. They try to sting me personally by
abuse, slander and msrepl esentation. L
wear q coat of mail which they have never
pierced-an honest heart DESTROYS of better
ing the interests of the safe, and looking to
the welfare of the whole people But, fell
IoW-citizens, this strained relationship be-
tween the factions in South Carolina must
stop-must cease. 1t cannot go on without
precipitating civil war.
People in the Saddle.
'-We of the majority faction are not to
blame. l deny that we have done anything
except in accordance with the law ard the
constitution. These men who have opposed
US and are still opposing us, must come to
their senses and realize that il democracy
is to govern in this country they have got
to submit to the rule of the majority, These
two newspapers are like thorn in the flesh
which continues to tester. They VIII not
let the wound which was caused in 1870 by
the displacement of the old order of things,
and the establishment of the rule of the
people heal They keep open the sore.
They pour poison into it, and they are en-
couraged to do it, aided and abetted in do
ing il by these who are forever and eternal
ly blaming me with it. Well, this patient is
delirious. He is like a maniac. There is a
powder magazine not far off. He has
lighted match, ard is straning all his nerve
to reach it. The collision in Darlington
produced flash, but it was gas and not
pcwdcr-moStly newspaper lies. 1t flashed
abroad-hashed a light that Illuminated the
state and the United States based on false
hood. The people listened with bated
q collision they expected to follow, the civil
war which was predicted. 1t did not come
and it will not come 1t cannot come, be-
cause the people are in the saddle and will
continue to remain there, (Cheers.) The
men would disgrace the state in their bitter
ress ana anger, if thereby, they could dis
grace me and through me the rule of the
majority.
Ben Is Brave One.
ut has been sent abroad all over this
state and the United States that my life is
daily threatened; that such and such men
are Offering to go to Columbia to kill me-
one prominent citizen has had the temerity,
or rather the folly, to tell Mr.. Ycldell, of
my own county, that he came to Columbia
with shotgun Friday to kill Governor TILL
man. l will not give him time. Threaten
ed men live longest A barking dog does
not always bite. There never has been one
moment when | have felt the least uneasi-
ness for my personal safety. My life is not
worth much to me; but is worth as much as
any other mans, and rather than desert
my post to my enemies by leaving the eX-
ecutlve mansion where you have placed me-.
II would have gone out of it a corpse.
p 'sGars.)
DIN .dcyg all sis? The blazfng ele-
mem; the match which is trying to
reach the powder is the barroom men, the
whisky men, and those who are egging
them
Encouraging them are the rulers of the
old oiigarchy whom We overthrow in 1890 al
the ballot box This row which has broken
forth is a political frenzy; the blood that
has been split is an Offering to the moloch
of whisky. They claim and declare that
the state shall not control the Whiskg traf-
fic; that they viii resume their Ubiquitous
trade, debauch our households, furnishing
poison to the people and make them kin
one another. and they will repeal the dis
penSary law by saying they can sell whisky
from their residences. Shall this demon.
who has already four or five victims. have
any more? one negro at SpartanburS, Il
white man at Wexford and three men at
Darlington | do not intend for him to have
any more if | can help it. He has enough.
In Gods name. as Il statesman. and as a
as" enlightened public opinion, | shall
not bulge one inch from the position | take
that this is the peoples government and
that the people shall rule il. (Cheers)
Now. gentlemen. you may imagine in
asserting this that I am going to aggra-
vate the trouble; that il claiming the right
to search private residences | will cause an
outbreak | will tell you what ! am gong
to 40. | am going to tell the state tomor-
row IN a proclamation that the revised
statutes of South Carolina are mine of
strength, wealth and wisdom for a governor
who viii search them and enforce them.
What would | have been able to do il | had
not been able to control the railroads and
telegraph preventing them from reinforcing
the insurgents and sending abroad more
incendiary lies to intiame the people?
Fakes Control of tlle Police.
e.1here is another sword Of Damocles
which the law places in my hands to sus-
pend over these insurgents or people who
are pressing for this law to be annulled
without process by the Legislature, and to-
morrow | shall cut the thread Which holds
that in suspension and use it, and that is
section 49, which gives me power in an
emergency to take control of the police. We
have had the spectacle presented of the Off
GERS of the law opposing officers OF the
law; those who have been sworn to sup
port the constitution and the laws disobey
them and aid others in disobeyinG them.
If the mayors and city councils do not make
the police do their duty intend to see that
the police do their duty or I will discharge
the last man Of them" (Cheers)
A voice: That's the way to do them
up"
81 intend, as I say to control the state
in the interest of the law and order. / Will
not surrender to any mob nor to any whis-
ky element; if the dispensary law is good
and proper and the people want it, they
shall have it, and those who don't want it
must take it. (Cheersl
''Until the result of this move IS
seen [ shall confine the duties of the con
stables to watching the railroads and seq
i1,.r con TIA hand nIlisllN and ching he