Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-27

to talk. I'll give it to him.
Hnrrahs an cheers.
Gen Butler raised his voise,
walked across the platform and
said: He must take his punish
ment like man. He said yes
terday, or if he did not say SO he
adopted a meaner form, by IN
sinuation innuendo and suggestion
that I had corruption fund in
Wall street or elsewhere with which
to buy my seat into the Senate.
Then turning around towards Gov
ernor Tillman he went on to say: |
say in reply that if Governor TILL
man or anyone else makes that
charge against me
he IS AN INFAMOUS LIAR.
The crowd was dumbfounded.
They looked at Gen. Butler and
Gen Butler at Governor Tillman.
Everything was as quie' as the
calmest sea. Then all of q sudden
there was all outburst of applause
a mixture for Tillman and Butler.
Chairman Barber asked for order
aud Gen Butler continued:
When he has charges to mako
against me let him make them
like man of courage and truth,
specify and not indulge IN the in
nuendo of a blackguard and bully.
Tnen rising up in front of his
audience: The man never will
live who imputes dishonesty to
me rHurrahs for Butler and Till
man. "Give him hellp'] Governor
Governor Tillman may 60 TO the
Senate, but be shall not 60 there
standering me. Let him go OH
there on his own merits and not
by villifying lampooning and mis-
representing better men than heis
[Hurrah] Talk about my having a
corruption fund. He says | am
no thu sympathy with you men.
Voice: "Were you at Brandy
station?"
Yes, I was, and I am here to-day
and will be with the Governor
every day, I hope I have not some
of the defects of character whereby
he accuses man behind his back
and the next day denies he said
it.
Voice; "be'll do it every time"
TRurrah for Tillman and Butler:]
He talks of my friends being at
Rock Hill as Coxeyites. There's
one of my gallant friends from
Edgefeld. as true man as ever
lived. He would no more under
take to tell that man he was a
tramp if he were on equal terms
with him than he would to fly.
These men simply did not get the
permission to do as they pleased
from "Marse" Ben. I did not pro-
vide these men with transporta-
tion and had nothing to do with
there coming. I could have had
nothing TO do with it. Governor
Tiliman perhaps thought he had
been bossing the State long enough
to think b. had a right title and
interest it.
"How about that blacklisting?"
Some one fired in.
I had no more to do with it than
you had. Then he went on: Gov
ernor Tillman says I declined to
make speeches in 1890. I do not
believe that committee ever made
the request in the first place. They
ignored me and
GOVERNOR TILLMAN DOES NOT TELL
THE TRUTH
when he says I was invited to
speak in that campaign. I waa
systematically ignored. Gen
Hampton went to Aiken, where he
was invited. and was ,,.owled down
by Tlllman's myrmidons, and they
tried to disgrace and humilate
that old man. I did not 60 because
I was mol invited. Then, too, in
1892, although I offered my SER
vices, there seemed to be design
to keep me away f1om the people.
There never seemed to be any
place for me. Governor Tillman
Gays I was elected because of the
Hamburg riots, and that he too
was there. Maybe be was, but !
was there and did not see Till
man, and I have been told that
when the shooting began he could
not be found.
uHou abo,1t Rrandv Station 2n