Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-20
BUTLER And HILLMAN.
OFF FROM SCRATCH IN SEN
ATORIAL SWEEPSTAKES.
LONG RUN OVER ROCKY ROADS.

Both Saving Wind for Later
Spurts-Loudly Cheered
by Admitting Friends.
Both Confident.
The Columbia State.
Rock Hill, June 1o.-The great
Senatorial contest has begun.
During the early hours of the
day hundreds of people were con-
gregated around Turner's Hotel.
where both Butler and Tillman
were quartered, and it was a But
ler crowd, the followers of the Gov
ernor not coming up into town in
large numbers.
TILLMAN TRoTTED' IN THE RING.
President White, after caution
ing the crowd not to interrupt the
speakers, introduced Gov. Till
man. The Governor advanced to
the front of the platform, paused
half minute, and, after the
cheering subsidized, began by say
ing that he occupied a peculiar po-
sition in that he had commenced
to stump the State for the third
time.
THE $4,000 PER ANNUM LEVEL.
"I want to get down to the level
with you boys that plow," Cover
nor Tillman exclaimed. He had
met the people, of York and Lam
caster, and few weeks before had
addressed a great peace and unity
public meeting just beyond the
railroad when the Winthrop
school cornerstone was laid.
DON'T LIKE HIS EXAMPLE FOLLOWED.
-ae said that he had been accus-
ed of having a bitter tongue; per-
haps he had but be was not re-
sponsible for all the dissensions in
South Carolina. "Look at the
manner in which I have been
abused by the newspapers, and in
The last campaign the exponent OF
the peace and unity crowd went
about the State before I began
speaking, saying that I was un-
worthy to tie the shoe latchet of
Judge Wallace. Both of the can
Gidates for the Senate are from
Edgefeld. Our plantations are in
the same township. We are friend
ly, more or less, and no cross word
ever passed between us. If feath-
ers are to fly each of us must
| loose some of our pin feathers.
| TIME TO COOL OFF.
The people had been in a fever,
he said, for five years. While
some good had come fit, the time
had come for it to cease. The in
terests of the town and country are
the same, and when the man who
follows the mule in the cotton row
cannot pay his debts neither can
the lawyer earn a living or the
preacher collect his salary.
ONLY HUNTS BIG JOBS.
II have been Governor four
years." said she Governor, "and
my record is public property. I
am ready to defend every act of
NV administration. I never stood
for office until I was thirty-eight
years old; then I asked for the
biggest plum at the top of the tree
and climbed up and shook it down,
SO I can't be called much Of an Of
fee seeker. Offices belong to you.
No personal title to the Office Of
Senator lies in anybody. My dis
tinguished friend has been in the
Senate eighteen years next March,
but the position is not his. It's
yours.
SHORT wINDED FROM HIGH LIVING.
You expect a discussion of na-
tional issues and I shall take a
birds eye view of them. I can't
sweat and puff and cover them all
today. eff I tried I should be
like a piney woods pond-only
knee deep"
DOESN'T PROMISE BETTER TIMES.
If the cotton crop is bad in one
State today, 80 it is in another and
the same is true of the wheat crop.
IL seven States troops are out to
keep down insurrection and riot.
There is no prospect of better
times. shall not talk of the
tariff, cannot reach it, but I shall
talk to you of our financial sys-
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