The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-08-17
on 10 il. T.Ilman viii be elected sena
tor beyond D doubt.

on 10 il. TlIlman will be elected sena-
tor beyond doubt.
Comptroller Ellersbee, Secretary Of
State Tindal and Senator Evans all
spoke. all being candidates to I'll the
chair of Tillman. They are all re-
formers and are all TilImanites. Ell
lersbe and Evans are young men, not
over 80. Ellersbee is q farmer and
impresses you as being in earnest and
as being good man. Mr.. Tindal is
fully so years and is in for peace and
harmony He is earnest and calm
in his demeanor. Evans undoubted-
ly is strong supporter of Tillman and
takes pleasure in referring to it. He
is curious example of "peace and
harmony He emphasized this by
declaring "a man who would oppose
the farmers alliance in the south is a
knave or fool. When / see them /
feel like saying: Forgive them for
they know not what they do.v He
branded Grover Cleveland a ''treach-
erous scoundrel'' and styled the
"Ocala demands Simon pure de-
mocracy.r He has small dark eyes.
The violence of his language, ''scoun-
drel, etc." was similiarto that of his
leader, Governor Tillman. The peo-
pie evidently like strong language in
the old palmetto state. The dispen-
sary question was also discussed. All
the gubernatorial candidates are on
the same platform. 1t is simply a
question of ''get there" Tillman and
Butler are on the same issue. / have
talked with men from various por-
tions of the state. Tillman will cer-
tainly succeed Butler. When Till
man gets to Washington, however, /
imagine his language will have to suf-
fer change or the senatorial dignity
will surely suffer. Senator Butler
chided him with pitching pitch
forks at his opponents, if he should
ever get there, telling Governor Till
man that it was easy to talk but the
senators had habit of going into the
cloak room. Here General Butler
told an anecdote relating how a man
once listened to the braying of an ass.
Tillman will be the next senator.
There is but little difference in the
principles advocated by either on the
stump. Tillman is in the ''swim."
With the present "Simon pure dem
ocrats,n and Butler is trying to be,
Butler is evidently playing hide-and-
seek with this party. When they at
tack. Cleveland he partially concurs.
When they demand the free and un-
limited coinage of so cents worth of
silver at 100 cents basis he agrees to
it. He is not attacking their princi-
Piles or their dogmas. In conversation
with various democrats of the ''regu-
lars'' it is claimed that Butler in al
lowing the appointment to office of
certain of the Tillmanites had lost
ground with the conservatives while
gaining nothlng from the IIlmanItes.
Butler is evidently trying to keep
peace with an element bound for Til
man, and which he can not capture.
The audiences like the man who uses
strong bold language-''liar," ''un-
mitigated scoundrel,n etc. Tillman
can beat Butler at this. Evans beats
all his competitors for governor in the
same line. Tillman and Evans will
be elected senator and governor re-
spectively. 1t is a fine thing for a
young man. Both Ellersbee and Ev-
ans are under SO. One is now comp
troller, the other has been state sena-
tor for 6 years. In order to hold Office
a man does hot have to have a beard
as long as a billy goats.
ALBERT w GIIcHRIST