Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-27

to talk. LII give II 10 hihl
Hnrrahs an cheers.
Gen Butler raised his voise,
walked across the platform and
said: He must take his punish,
ment like man. He said yes.
terday, or if he did not say so ne
adopted a meaner form, by IN
sinuation innuendo and suggestion
that T had a corruption fund in
Wall street or elsewhere with which
to buy my seat into the Senate.
Then turning around towards Gov
ernor Tillman he went on to say:
say in reply that if Governor TILL
man or anyone else makes thai
charge against me
HE IS AN INFAMOUS LIAR.
The crowd was dumbfounded.
They looked at Gen. Butler and
Gen Butler at Governor Tillman
Everything was as quiet as the
calmest sea. Then all of sudden
there was an outburst of applause
a mixture for Tillman and Butler.
Chairman Barber asked for order
aud Gen Butler continued:
When he has charges to mako
against me let him make them
like a man of courage and truth,
specify and not indulge III the in
nuendo of blackguard and bully,
Tnen rising up in front of his
audience: The man never will
live who imputes dishonesty to
me rHurrahs for Butler and Till
man. "Give him hell" Governor
Governor Tillman may go to the
Senate, but he shall not go there
standering me. Let him 60 on
there on his own merits and not
by villifying lampooning and mis-
representing better men than he is
Hurcah Talk about my having a
corruption fund. He says I am
no thu sympathy with you men.
Voice: "Were you at Brandy
Station?"
Yes, I was, and I am here to-day
and will be with the Governor
every day, hope I have not some
of the defects of character whereby
he accuses man behind his back
and the next day denies be said
it.
Voice; "be'll do it every time"
EHurrah for Tillman and Butler.
He talks of my friends being at
Rock Hill as Coxeyites. There's
one of my gallant friends from
Edgefeld: as true man as ever
lived, He would no more under.
take to tell that man he was
tramp if he were on equal terms
with him than he would to fly
These men simply did not get the
permission to do as they pleased
from "Marse" Ben. [ did not pro.
vide these men with transporta.
tion and had nothing to do with
there coming. I could have had
nothing to do with it. Governor
Tiliman perhaps thought he had
been bossing the State long enougl
to think b. had a right title ane
interest it.
"How about that blacklisting?'
Some one fired in.
I had no more to do with it thai
you had. Then he went on: Gov
ernor Tillman says I declined tt
make speeches in 1890. I do no
believe that committee ever made
the request in the first place. They
ignored me and
GOVERNOR TILLMAN DOES NOT TELL
THE TRUTH
when he says I was invited t.
speak in that campaign. I wa
Systematically ignored. Gel
Hampton went to Aiken, where h
was invited. and was howled dow
by Tlllman's myrmidons, and they
tried to disgrace and humilat'
that old man. I did not go because
| I was mol invited. Then, too, il
1892, although I offered my ser
vices, there seemed to be a design
to keep me away f1om the people
There never seemed to be any
place for me. Governor Tillmar
Gays I was elected because of the
Hamburg riots, and that he tot
was there. Maybe he was, but
was there and did not see Till
man, and I have been told tha'
when the shooting began he could
not be found.
GLOW about Brandy Station?'