Evening star., 1894-04-03
LATE NEWS BY WIRE.
Governor Tillman Announces His
Ultimatum.
Law TO Be EXECUTED At ANY RISK
An lmpassioned Declaration of His
Position.
DENOUNCES HIS OPPONENTS
Special to the Associated Press.

COLUMBIA, s. c., April 3.-The $50
soldiers. who have been kept in this city,
were nIassed in front of the state capitol
today to listen to a speech from Gov. Till
man. IL was a startling climax to the
grave situation in South Carolina. Hun
dreds Of citizens crowded around the troops
and about the grounds to hear the gov
ernor, who outlined his side of the affair
In the strongest and most vehement terms
and announced that beginning tomorrow
be would take charge of the police through
out the state and that he would enforce
the dlspensary law at all hazards.
said he: You are familiar with the oc-
cuTrenceS OF the past four days of the
connect oetween citizens and the officers
oi the law You are aware Of the conten-
uoh made by those who are resisting the
Aspensary law, that it is an invasion Of
private liberty; that il is unconstitutional
ana that 1t shall not be enforced. The con-
,equenceS OF the claim that private resi-
oehces shall not be searched simpIiiies the
oispensary law. II the claim were well
founded mans home could be tUrnel in
70 a saloon. This law is on the statute
books. l, as chief executive have sworn
mat tne laws of this state shall be res
Pected, and until the dispensary law is re-
pealed, SO help me God, l will exert all the
obeyed."
The Governor Cheered
oud cheering from the troops and cries
vi we Will stand 10 your back" after
which the governor continued:
men the unfortunate collision occurred
II harrington the news flashed from one
ehd OF the land to the other than an armed
mob of hundreds of men were mounta1 and
IN pursuit of the state officers The con-
sLdouIary mad DISCHARGED their dutv and had
@ @sone 10 the depot to leave town. They had
Deeh sent 10 Darlington because the six
cohstH 2les on the ground had been nearly
HiODoed before that, and when / ordered
.le chief constable there the mayor of the
Town mad allowed the constables IN no
cursed to their faces An armed mob had
broken into the armory and seized the arms
OI the state / ordered out the local com
bany, anu capt. thompson (who is a son of
eN-G0V- Hugh ). ThompsonI wired that he
would obey, but not trusting him. / ordered
the sumter company to go there
"heh the constables got to the depot
TWO boys got into fight and one of them
got whipped and he ran back 10 get rein
Iorcements. and about fifty men came. arm
ed 10 the teeth They picked a quarrel With
the conStableS; a collision occurred and mon
were killed The fault can never he nIacaJ
some OF the military in the state have been
~ nuuny against the commander-in-chief
anu anu nave refused to obey orders; but, thank
Goa, there are enough left to obey and to
see that no oligarchy shall ever rule again
uphold the law"
loud cheers from the troops)
There was some remark made by some
she he3r the governor and he told the party
To hIsh his mouth.
Continuing, the governor said:
The mayor, in his statement this morn
FS, tries 70 throw the blame elsewhere
EEd says that l am exercising power that
no Gther officer has ever exercised. Those
handbook troops who have refused to obey
orders QaUShter); these soldiers turned
poIltlcians and influenced by political ran
cor and frenzy, have. by their actions
iOTced me 10 call on you and the men who
have been sending telesrams from ali ovsr
the state Offering assistance to Darlington
nave convicted themselves in the estima-
'on OF the world as lynchers at heart
The Governors Coat of Mail.
Why did they not lynch the men they
claimed did the trouble? They have SIAN
dered themselves by saying they would
lynch those who did not cause the trouble
and then would not lynch the man Vybo
they say did cause it. The body polite is
IN fever because the people of Charleston
and Columbia have taken yipers to their
bosom in the shape of newspapers which
oahy dlstll poison They give me credit
Tor nothing. They try to sting me person.
coat of mail that they can never pierce
an honest heart looking to the welfare of
the whole state.
But the strained relations must cease.
They can't go on without precipita ting
civil war We not to blame These
men who oppose us must come to their
senses and submit to the rule of the ma
tOrtty- These two newspapers are thornS
In the flesh. which continually tester. They
will not let the wounds of others heal. They
pour poison in them and are encoura ged
by those who are forever blaming me with
It. The people have been listening for the
explosion of civil war. 1t will not come and
cannot come, because the people are in the
saddle and intend to remain there (ap-
plause). Those men would destroy the
state in their bitterness and anger If they
could destroy me thereby. and through me
the rule of the majority.
TT has been sent abroad that life has
been fhrn9tPna1
the soldiers. They better not kill youD.
One man told Mr.. Yelldell here that he
came from Edgefield, nv own county, with
a shot gun to kill me Friday night. I will
not mention his name. Threatened men
Hive long and 1 have never felt uneasy.
My life is not worth much to me, but it
Is worth much that of any man to
him, but rath than desert my post where
you have placed me 1 would have stuck
there until I had to go out as a corpse.
The men that are threatening to fire this
powder magazine are the bar room element
and those who are urging them on are the
rulers of the old oligarchy. This riot is
Political frenzy. The blood split is an
Offering to the Noloch of whisky"
These fellows declare they will resume
their iniquitOuS trade and repeal the dis
pensary law They say they can sell whisky
from their residences. Shall this demon
have any more victims? It has negro
at Spartanburg. one white man at Wexford
and three at Darlington. 1 don't intend for
him to have any more II l can help il, but
as statesman l shall not bulge an inch
from the stand that 1 have taken as the
peoples governor. You may imagine from
this that / am going 70 aggravate the
trouble but / am simply going to uphold
the law / could not have done what I have
unless l controlled the railroad and the tele-
graph lines The revised statutes Of the
state give me still another sword of Damo-
cles, and tomorrow / shall cut the thread
and use It
VIII Not Surrender.
Section 519 gives the governor power to
take control of all the police in the cities.
The mayors and the city council have re-
fused to make the police do their duty. 1
intend to see that they do, or L will dis
charge every one Of them. / will not sur
render to any mob whisky element. From
this day the cOnstables shall watch the po-
Icemen and report to me whether they are
doing their duty. and if they do not obey
my orders. and if the authorities don't CO.
operate with me, 1 shall call the legislature
together, and we will have the power given
the executive to remove those men and ap-
point others who will obey the law
At this point Mr.. Early, a cousin OF Mr..
Norment. who was killed by state consta-
bles, yelled out, "Why don't you obey the
law yourself?
This created big commotion in the
crowd.
one Of the governors sympathizers yelled
out, shoot him." and the crowd of both
factions rushed up. The governor called
for silence, and Chief Of Police Radcliif
~ nd al To