The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-03
BUTLER VERSUS TILLMAN.
The Progress Of the South Carolina
Campaign.

Tillman Seems to Be in the Lead-But-
ler's Friends Talk Confidently of the
Outcome The Race for the Cover
norship-Hanging on to Tillman' s
Coat Tails-Tillman's Faction a
Party by Itself
Columbia, 8 c.. July 2-The political
temperature of the state is much lower
than it was two weeks ago. When the
campaign opened al Rock Hill there was
a general pricking up Of ears 1t was ex-
pected that something would drop with
the force Of a steam hammer and for two
or three days newspapers were really in
teresting things to most people At the
CHESTER meeting Senator Butler was in
clined TO be vicious toward Gov. Tillman
and the debate at Lancaster on the fol-
lowing day showed some evidences of
life. Gov. Tillman took his turn and re-
ciprocated the senator's ferocious compli-
ments. On one or two occasions in the
earlier meetings misguided persons in the
crowd rushed headlong to the conclusion
that the Speakers were in earnest and got
mad, but after little jostliug and scroug-
ing they were in all cases appeased or re-
moved
Both Iillman and Butler are now be-
having in a comparatively seemly man
ner The governor, of course, continues
TO belch forth words of burning and con-
Stunning wrath, but he is considerable
enough to aim most of his attacks at
Cleveland and Wall street, and nobody is
at hand to take up the gauge of battle for
either the one or :he other of them.
Unless the governor should train his
guns on some enemy nearer home there is
only the faintest likelihood that even the
turbulence of the first week will be re-
peated.
At nearly all the meetings the demon
STATIONS have been favorab BILE to the
"Blinker, as Gov. Tillmau's rustic fol-
lowers affectiOnately and admiringly de-
dominate him.
The governors friends are demonstra-
tive people. They have immeasurable
lung power and throats like steam
whistles, and when "Marse Ben" works
himself up TO about PIP degrees fahren-
helt, and begins to sing like a tea kettle
on fire of hickory limbs, the wool
hats invariably shatter the walls inclos-
ing all the demons of hidoous sounds.
Then the governor is man of hand
III mar ltS. u Is his OlQeSJ lfltk ana ne
cings to it with the tenacity of a whist
player TO favorite. Now all Of YOU
boys who think ! am right" he shouts in
the brief intervals that now and then oc-
cur between their cheers, hold UP YOUR
right hands - and always up they shoot,
the two or three hundred horny palms of
the plOw boys usually densely packed
about the platform down in the front and
beneath the platform from which he is
DnTllDCr his hpplQf n q ~ f,I ~
derbolts.
Thus has it been al York and Lancas-
ter, Camden and Sumter, Darlington and
Florence, and on and on from county to
county. Senator Buffers friends. when
the governor puts the negative. make it
rule to do and say nothing. looking on the
antics OF the opposition with sullen ST
lence The hand primaries have their
intended effect. The newspaper reporters
trim their pencils and say, This was
another Iillman day and away. on
electric wings across the country. sreeds
the news that South Cardinals pyrotech-
mic popullst is. as usual, carrying all
things before him with his fiery elo-
quence.
CONFIDENT TALK.
But Senator Buffers friends talk con-
fidently why, there is scarcely any
body at the meetings" they say The
crowds number from 500 TO 900 at most.
while two and four years ago, when Till
man was doing the state, always from
1000 to 5000 were out to see and near
him. Besides those hand primaries prove
nothing. Fifty or 100 of the rabid and
rampant shoot up both fists al the bidding
of their boss, to do which they have been
carefully trained, in order TO make a
great impression. The people the real
bulk of the people present, whose hun
dreds and hundreds of silent ballots will
weigh down the boxes and count, are
standing back and thinking
Thousand of other people are tired OF
Tillman, say the Butterflies, and in spite
of tremendous efforts made to rally them
they arc bldiug their time at home and
when the primaries arrive Gov. Tilman
will feel the torrent of their votes sweep
ing his feet from under him When one
hears a Butler man discuss the campaign
in their way he cannot out be impressed
that there Is not a little truth in that an
alysis of the situati
Senator Butler goes into this race hand
lcapped. All the odds are against him
The anti-llllmanites eye him Coollv with
an inqulring look on their faces. which
asks why he did not on Cleveland's inaug-
uration "shuck of his coat" and assist
them in the scramble Tor all the federal
patronage TO the everlasting disappoint-
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