The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-08-16
THE ANDERSON MEETING,
ONE OF THE LARGEST HELD DURING
TIE CAMPAIGN.

1--WE of He LARGEST HELD DURING
TIE CAMPAIGN.
evans and Elleibe Go for Each 9th, r
and their Partizsns Applaud TIL. ILL.,.
The Senatorial Candidates arc ve,y
Mild.
ANDERSON, S. G., August. 1.-Two
thousand five hundred people sat on m
old cotton platform, with a contingent
perched IN the trees near by, to hear
ana Whoop up tho days performances.
ElIerDe gave Evans sheolic drubbing.
ana the slight but manifest prepOnder.
ance of the crowd was apparently in
sympathy with him. The two clements
were not altogether friendly with each
other, and they howled mutually and
all IN tumble in entertaining antago-
nlsm. Governor Tillman spoke last.
Ihe candidates, without exception, had
departed, leaving the field to him, the
reporters and the unanimous, voluble
ana Jolly Tillman boys. About 500,
however, Of the audience had left. The
Governor and the remainder had o row.
al old time together which they enjoy
ed immensely. josh Ashley composed
large portion of the audience and
was heard vOluminously.
CANDIDATES FOR THE STATE OFFICES
Gen. Richbourg spoke first, and was
willing to admit that che was wrong
IN Permitting his name to remain on
the!l1askell ticket In 1890"
-Four or five cheers hailed Gary
Watts, who stated that che had been
criticised and even black-balled for
ite." ''"
Next came Jones, Whitman, Keitt,
1eldell, Wilborn and Gray,in the order
named, with scintillations interpolated
from Joshua Ashley. Gray stated that
MS own county convention had endors
ed his candidacy.
THE GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES.
Mr.. John Gary Evans was made SUI
premely happy by long continued
cneers when be was introduced. Evans
Ieau an anonymous note inQuiring il
he had not said or intimated that he
would oppose w. A. Neal for re-elec.
tlon to his present Office. Evans as
serted that Neal had come to him and
asked him to lead his fight for superin.
tendent OF the penitentiary and he had
done 1t. Now he had heard that Neal
was lighting him, and (rassionately) 81
Will light any man that fights me-"
This raised the ire Of one Joshua
Ashley, standing twenty feet in front
OF the stand, who insisted loudly that
Evans should "return good for evil"
Evans: Josh and are together"
The crowd howled and counter. howl.
ed. Josh appeared inllamed and blared
sonOrously.
A citizen near the stand: "You shut
up, JOSH" A remark which he repeat
ed several times with gaudy red trim.
mings.
''Finally the chairman begged for
quiet, and Evans explained that Neal
had sent him word by his Evan's)
brother that he was not fighting him,
and that he would support Neal, as he
had always supported him, so long as
he was true to the Reform movement.
Evans referred to the fact that Eller-
be owned plantation and store, and
shouted. "All Of you who have paid a
lawyer $50 hold up your hands," Two
hands were raised Ga symptom that
law is cheap In Anderson.) "Now."
said Evans, call OF you who have paid
a merchant 800 or 300, hold up yours
and the shriekers shriaked.
MIR. Evans ended with tho usual hand
primary on the opening Of the dispen
sary, with the same old result. The
entire audience did not vote; it never
does. Mr.. Evans closed, ana an enor-
nous bouquet hurled from the crowd
narrowly missed crushing him.
DR.. Pope declared that he did not
want to be elected If he had to appeal
to passion and prejudice. This he fol-
lowed with hard blows in advocacy of
the constitutional convention, empha.
sizing tho necessity of a solution of
the negro question by the passage of q
limited suffrage provision. He defend
ed the sub-treasuTy valOrously. NV
friend Evana, said DR.. Pope, mai es fun
OF what | have said. He talks like he
could grease u mans ears and swallow
him whole. I'm not this sort of a man,
Here Josh Ashley'a hands clapped to
gether.
Mr.. Tindai, after going in the his
tory and theory Of the Reform move
ment and lmpressipg tho Importance
or education, asserted that he had come
into "the race to cringe and crawl be-
fore no man." He had fought IN the
ranks for Reform in the days when its
friends were q minority, and now that
all Its objects have been accomplished
they talk about turning us old horses
ont. VI don't believe you are p0ing TO
40 IT,, he said, with a confident air
Iouchng tho d1spensary he said, that
It should not be q partisan question,
because thousands Of Conservatives
favored the law and many Reformers
opposed 1t. 1t was not Originally a
reform demand. 1t was q moral uHes.
t1on and could not be enforced with
sentiment divided, but the great mn.
Jority OF tho people were behind If.
The people came to me two years aVo
and told mo that | was their choice Far
their next Governor. i'll have been
Whet died out of the Office 10y trump
cards played by political workers in the
state, L can't help 1t.
Ellerbe was introduced and q cheer
was given rivalling the Evans demon.
stratiOD.' There were counter cheers
for Evans. EIlerbe promptly began
the spanking process and tho Evans
crowd became restiVe. They ieered
Mr.. Ellerbe repeated his usual attack
on Evans, but spoke with unusual pow.
er. Ellerto people on the right yelled
and Evansites on the left shrieked.
The chairman advanced but ElJerbe
repelled him saying: "I can handle
this crowd" The fuss was kept up for
aeveral minutes, Ellerbe and the crowd
dividing time about puuallv. Noioo