The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-13
TILLMAN HOWLED DOWN.
Charleston Again Refuses to Hear the
Governor.

The Governor Loses His Head and
Lets His Tongue Fly Like an Asp's
stinR-The Crowd Stampedes During
Senator Buffers speeoh-John Gary
Evans Kissed Down-John Gary
Watts Also Greeted With Kisses.
Charleston, S. c., July l2.-The cam
paign meeting here tonight was full OF
Incidents 1t is not a difficult thing TO
get up crowd in Charleston with the aid
of brass band and Gov. Tillman on the
bills as star The hatred of the city,
which he has never hesitated to
avow whenever he has been called
upon to address Charleston audi
ence, renders him drawing attrac-
tion, hence when he was introduced
to speak tonight there was something
like 5000 or 5000 people packed in the
square at the intersection of Broad and
Meeting streets. The crowd was COM
posed almost entirely of white
men, although there was fringe
of black faces around on the OUT
skirts of it glistening under the flashes of
the electric light. 1t was a good-natured
crowd, and although it took part in the
discussion, Messrs. Whitman, Yeldell and
Zimmerman, three of the reform candi-
dates who preceded the governor, NAM
aged to get very good hearing.
TMLMAN TAKES THE STAND.
1t was about 80 o'clock when the gov.
ernor got up TO speak. He was greeted
with cheers and Kisses, about evenly di-
vided, and this lasted for some time.
Then the governor poured a can of kerr
osene into the seething crowd by shout
ing: This is the fifth time I've tried to
poke some sense into the heads of you
people, but suppose you don't want it,
and | think YOU had better beat your
drum and stampede like lot of towards,
as you did the second time came here"
This was alluding to the stampede
which occurred at meeting he tried to
address here Just after the earthquake
IL was a tender subject and IL made the
crowd mad The governor was mad
when he ustarted. For the fifteen min
utes he struggled with the crowd only dis
gruntled sentences of his speech could be
heard, but these were but gall and worm
wood to the crowd "You are a set Of old
fossils, said he, land you can go TO the
devil in your own way. l don't want your
votes"
WANTED HIM TO TALK LIKE A GENTLEMAN.
In reply to a request from the chairman
of the meeting for silence a voice In the
crowd shouted, Let him talk like gem
tleman and we will listen TO him. sug-
gestion which was heartily indorsed by
the crowd
Finally the governor said that he saw
the people did not want to hear him and
he would therefore give the rest of his
time to Gen. Butler. AT this there was
tremendous yell. Before retiring, how
ever, the governor, shaking his finger in
the faces of the crowd, shouted in loud
voice. Hear my parting shot. I'm go-
ing TO ram the dispensary down your
Threats with the constables and the mil
itia and metropolitan police. and you'll
have to stand 1t whether you want to or
not
BUTLER WELL RECEIVED.
Gov. Tillman was succeeded by Gen.
Butler, who evidently had the crowd
with him He began by expressing his
wonder and amazement at the way in
which Gov. Tillman had insulted the
audience Just then there was a hutter
in the midst Of the crowd, and without
any premonition another stampede, such
as the one the governor had alluded to,
took place. Men and boys rushed
wildly in every direction, trampling
and clenching over each other in a
mad and senseless scramble No one
seemed TO know who started It, although
the conservatives say that 10 was started
by a handful Of reformers brought on
from Berkeley, and who made the effort to
break up the meeting because 1t refused
TO hear Tilman talk. Several hundred
hats were lost in the scramble and score
or more persons were painfully bruised.
Gen. Butler. who is running for re-elec-
tion to the Senate, finished his speech af-
ter quiet was restored and evidently had
theiaudience with him.
1t is evident that the voters Of Charles
ton will not hear the governor
The crowd was noisy generally, and
when John Gary Evans was introduced,
attempted TO howl him down. He made
some very unpalatable remarks, and was
Kissed down finally.
Mr.. Tindall made sensible and brief
speech, mostly complimentary to Charles
ton.
John Gary Watts took occasion TO in
suit the Fourth Brigade, and was Missed
for his pains.