The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-16
TILLMAN'S HOT TALK.
THE GOYERNOR USES ROUGH Ian
GUIGE TO CHARLESTONI4NS.
General Butler is Greeted with Applause, but
the Meeting is Mysteriously Stampeded
and Turn. Into Free Fight.

Charleston S. c., July 12.-(Specal.) 1.-THE
camnaisn meeting here tonight full of
Incidents 1t is not a difficult thing to get
,lp crowd in Charleston with the aid of
brass band and Governor Tillman on the
bills as a star. His hatred of the city,
which he has never hesitated to aVoW
whenever he has been called upon to ad-
dress a Charleston audience, renders him
drawing attraction. Hence, when he was
introduced to speak tonight there We're some
thing like 5000 or 5000 people packed IN the
square at the intersection OF Broad anu
Meeting streets The crowd was composed
almost entirely of white men, although
there could be seen fringe OF black races
on the outskirts glistening under the fashes
of the electric light. 1t was good-natureu
crowd, and although it took part IN the uls-
cussion, Messrs. Whitman, Ieldell ana Inn
norman three of the reform candidates
who preceded the governor. managed to get
a very good hearing.
1t was about half-past o'clock when the
governor got up to speak. he was Sreeteu
with cheers and Kisses about evenly divided
and these lasted for some time. Then the
governor poured can of kerosene INTO the
seething crowd by shouting
This is the fifth time I've tried 10 POKE
sense into the heads of you people, po'
suppose you don't want it, and thllk you
had better beat your drum and stampede
like a lot OF towards as you dlu the ST.
ond time [ came here.
Rough Talk.
This was alIudinr to q stampede which
occurred at a meeting he tried TO adureS9
here lust after the earthquake inns iii""e
the crowd mad. The governor was hau
when he started. For fifteen minutes ne
struggled with the crowd. only oisJoiil'1t
sentences of his speech could be heard' puC
+b[sa ,yera like call and wormwood to the
crowd.
You are a set of old FOSSILS said he,
..and YOU can go to the devil in your own
way | don't want your votes.
In reply TO a request from the cn'li min i,
of the meeting for silence, voice IN the
crowd shouted;
Let him talk like a gentleman and we
will listen to him. a suggestion which was
heartily endorsed by the crowd
Finally the governor sad that he saw
rhe people did not want to near nm, ana
ne would therefore, give the rest of his
time to General Butler. At this there was
a tremendous yell. Before relenting, how
ever the governor shaking his finger IN the
faces of the crowd, shouted in meiodra-
matte tones: Hear my parting shot. I'm
going to ram the dispenSary down your
Threats with the constables and the militia
and metropolitan police, and you'll have
TO stand it whether you want 1t or not.
The Meeting Stampeded.
Governor Tillman was succeeded by Cen
eral Butler who evidently had the crowd
with him. He began by expressing his Won
der and amazement at the way in which
Governor Tillman had insulted the audi
ence Just then there was a fiutter in the
midst of the crowd and without any prove
cation another stampede, such as the one
the governor had alluded to, took place
Men and boys rushed wildly in every di-
rection. trampling and climbing over each
other in a mad and senseless scramble. No
one seemed to know what started it, al
though the conservatives say that 1t was
started by a handful of reformers brought
up from Berkeley, who made the Ell
fort TO break up the meeting because it re-
fused to hear Tilman talk. Several hum
dred hats We're lost in the scramble and
score or more persons We're painfully
bruised.
General Butler, who is running for re-
election to the senate, finished his speech
after quiet was restored, and evidently had
the audience with him. The other candi-
dates all had a hearing. 1t is evident that
the votes of Charleston will not be for the
governor. but his friends claim with great
confidence that he does not need them, ana
that he will be elected by a large majority.