Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-07-16
TiIlman Gets Mad.

The campaign meeting at Charleston,
5. C., last Thursday night was full OF
Incident. 1t is not difficult thing to
get up crowd in Charleston with the
aid of brass band and Gov. Tiliman
on the bills as a star. The hatred OF
the city, which ne has never hesitated
to avow whenever he has been ca led
upon to address Charleston audience,
renders him a drawing attraction.
Hence. when he was introduced TO
speak Thursday night there were some
thing like 1000 or 5000 persons packed
in the square at the intersection OF
Broad and Meeting streets. The crowd
was composed almost entirely of white
men, although there was a fringe OF
black faces in the outskirts Of it. 1t
was also a good-natured crowd. and, al
though it took part in the discussion,
Messrs. Whitman, Nelldell and Timer
man. three of the reform candidates
who preceded the Governor, managed
to get very good hearing.
1t was about half past o'clock when
the Governor got up to speak. He
was greeted with cheers and hi-ses,
about evenly divided and this lasted for
some time. Then the Governor set
fire TO oil by shouting
This is the fifth time I've tried to
poke some sense into the heads OF you
people, but l suppose YOU don't want it.,
and think you had better beat your
drums and stampede like lot Of cow
ards, as you did the second time came
here.
This was alluding to a stampede
which occurred at meeting he tried
to address there after the earthquake.
1t was tender subject and it made
the crowd angry. The Governor was
angry when be started. For fifteen
minutes he struggled with the crowd.
Only part of the sentences of his speech
could be heard, but they were gall and
wormwood to the crowd.
''You are Il set Of Old fossils" said
the Governor, 'aud you can so to the
devil in your own way. ! don't want
your votes.
In reply TO q request from the chair
man OF the meeting for silence voice
in the crowd shouted
Let him talk like gentleman and
we will listen to him
This suggestion was heartily en-
dorsed by the crowd. Finally the Gov
ernor said that he saw thepeople didn't
want to hear him and he would
therefore give the rest of his time to
Senator Butler. at this there was
tremendous yell. Before retiring, how
ever, the Governor, shaking his finger
in the faces of the crowd, shouted in 4
loud voice:
'Hear my parting shot. am going
to ram The dispensary down your
throats. with the constabes and the
militia and metropolitan police, and
you'll have to stand it whether you
want to or not.
Tillman was succeeded by Gen. But
Ter, who had the crowd with him. He
began by expressing his wonder and
amazement at the manner in which
Governor Tillman insulted the audi
ence.
Just then there was llutter in the
crowd and without any premonitiou
another stampede, such as the one the
Governor had alluded to, took place.
Men and boys rushed wildly in every
direction, trampling and climbing over
each other in a scramble. Noone seem
ed to know who started it, although the
conservatives say it was started by q
handful of Tlllmanites brought on from
Berkeley who made the effort to break
up he meeting because it refused tc
hear the Governor.
Several hundred hats were lost in the
scramble and a score or more persons
were bruised. Gen. Butler finished his
speech after quiet was restored. The
other candidates all had Il hearing.