The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-02-14

mana Win only one man IN. want
to see what he is going to do now that
the betting is going against him little
and he will have to draw with care.
''SeDator Irby is a fuffer and fighter
from the old country, and he has with
him John Gary Evans, who is of the
same kind. Irby and She'll hate each
other with the warm enthusiasm which
marks the hatreds in laws and neigh
bors. They are from the same couoty.
Shell is with the Bowden, Koester and
Ellerbe party. Ellerbe is the present
comptroller general and the probable
candidate of his element for governor.
John Gary Evans, father Of the dispen-
sary law, is the Irby candidate for gov
ernor, but the first fight will come in
on attempt likely to be made to oust
Troy from the craftsmanship of the
State Democratic Executive Commit
tee.
"Irby claims that Bowden is third
party man and the movement be is en-
gagged in is an attempt TO carry the re-
formers bodily into the third party
camp. He says that he will fight this
this to the death and that Tillman is
with him.
"The other side deny this charge.
They say Bowden's position in federal
politics has nothing to do with his feal-
ty to the white mans party in the State
and that he is really the man whose
wisdom has kept the third party down;
that by conservative management and
intelligent recognition of conditions he
is in position to keep the third party
men inside the Democratic organiza-
ton instead of taking that organization
instead of taking that organization into
the third party.
Representative McLaurin evil
dently disposed to go with the Bowden
party. He has snag and grit and grit
and an eye on future senatorial level
opments.
Representative Shell, who did most
of the finest work in organizing the
original Tillman movement, is evi-
IDENTIFY in this new development and
the pretty way in which the machiR-
cry has moved off at the touch tells of
his workmanship. Representatives Lat
inner and Talbert are swinging their
legs on the fence so far.
"Governor Tillman is in and out.
Both sides want him, but both dis
trust him; and be seems to return the
compliment by warting and distrust-
ing both. Just now be seems to be
leaning toward Irby and Evans, but he
hasn't dropped permanently any
where.
The reformers are split. The con.
Fservatives are not much more harmon
ious. There is among them a strong
feeling against Senator Butler. II, is
not in favor of anybody. II is gen.
eral antagonism-sgainst the reform
faction generally and each fraction oi
the faction individually. Nobody can
tell how long this will last. Just now
| it looks as if the conservatives will &C.
cept the situation and stay out of the
fight altogether. They were invited to
retire by a majority of 10000, and, like
the man who was kicked down the
front steps, they can take hint.
"We have
81, The Bowden reformers.
"2. The John Gary Evans reform
ers.
"3. The Tillman element, which vii
60 with him.
81. The Alliance.
"5' The third party.
''6. The Butler conservatives.
~. The anti-Butler conservatives.
"S. Some thousand men up tree.
"That is fairly good complication
among $4,000 voters, Now add in th'
Tillman anti-dispensary people, thu
anti-Tillman dispensary people, the an
ti.dispensary people, the anti-Tillmar
dispensary people, the prohibitionists
Wage Workers League, some scatter
ing republicans, advocates and oppo
nents of a constitutional convention
and the normal supply of genera
kickers and aoaters and deadbeats, al
hating. each other like sin and furious
ly suspicious of each other and if W
haven't got political hell broth I wan
to know where you are going to fin
one.
"Yet the old State will scuffie through
it some how and turn up all right, jus
as she came through the reconstrut
tion stage and the row Of 1876, whel
we had one solid riot lasting si
straight months and dropped out of
into boom. You watch. Our luci
interval is coming out of all this thing.
SPARTAN MILLS BLOWN UP.
The Engineer Instantly Killed and Othe
> Workmen Injured.
Especial to The State.]
SPARTANBURG, February 6.-At 60
this morning, the large driving whee
of the Spartan Cotton Mill went t
pieces suddenly, and falling on some {
! the large pipes, broke them and cause