The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-09-26

efforts to defoat the will of tho people.
we are told that 1T was the disgruntled
oi1ico seekers who barkcd at his heels
like hounds and who retired him. You
know whether it Is true or not. We
have also been told that it is doubtful
If bis equal will ever be seen in the
United States Senate from this State.
| can meet the stab coming from
whence it does without u word. |
don't set up mysolf as being his equal
or superior. | have never blowed my
own horn. | have met all my OPP
ponents fairly and bravely in the forum
OF debate and the people have passed
on my record as Il man and as an officer,
and when they have given mo such
substantial recognition, | can afford
to pass this by. AS to my friend on
my right (Irby) who seems to bo in the
same boat as | am in the contcmptuous
comparison made by tho gentleman
who spoke ON Saturday, that is his
willing to acknowledge his infcriority
to Gen. Butler he can do SO. Perhaps
there are others here who will agree
with him.
wish now to pass to another phase
Of the subjcct-to do justice to the
dead. The assertion was made that
Mart Gary dieG under cloud Of pro-
judice. | say it is not true. He died
under cloud Of slander and lies
heaped on him by the man who dc
feated him by unfair methods in 1880,
who broke his heart, took snap judy
mcnt or him and the people and nomi-
ness who can disprovc this assertion
from personal knowledge. About two
weeks before the Edgetield conven-
tiOn, [ happened in Augusta, and
there mot Il man who was friend of
Gen. Butler and he lot it out to mo
that there was a scheme on foot to
beat Gary in his own county and that
he was being charged with indcpen-
dentism. | wrote to Gen. Gary anu in
formed him OF this scheme and asked
him by the memories Of 'I6 TO put tho
lie ON the insiuuatiOn that he would
run us an Independent by declaring
the State convention. On the morn
ing OF the meeting Of the Edgctield
convention went to Gary and he
showed me his speech in manuscripts
saying THAT is what shall print.
don't know what ] shall say" There
was Il phrase in it which might have
given his enemies chance to make un-
just charges against him, and at my
request he allowed me to change it to
q decided expression OF his determina-
tlon to stand by the result of the State
convention. He thereby pledged him
self and went to the convention tho
true choice OF the people OF the State.
AS soon us his enemies had gotten
hold OF the rope which | hal placed
around his neck, although the conven-
tlon had been called to nominate
delegates to tho national convention,
they tricked him and nominated
Hagood and we all had to submit
Nobody can shy truthfully that he was
accused OF lndependentism except by
his enemies.
Mr. G. D. Tillman: Did you ever
hear of tho letter he wrote to Gen
Cash
Senator Tillman Yes, have heart
of the Cash letter, and it had reference
| TO Gen. Buffers cOwardly and migrate
ful attack on Col. Cash about the
duel with Shannon. 1t had no ref
ference whatever to indcpendcntism-
and was not published until aftel
Gary's death. When the mass meet
ing was called AT Edgcfcld at which
my distinguished colleague paid his
tribute to his dead friend, the mass
meeting to consider the question OF
raising monument TO the bald eagle OF
lIdgelicld, it was Senator Butlcr's in
llucncc and that OF his friends which
| prevented action being taken. They
pursued tho dead hero even into his
grave and paralyzcd the efforts to
honor his memory. This it was and
not indcpenden which his enemies
had whispered and circulated.
If Mart Gary had run Us an Indcpcn-
don't it would have been nothing moro
than he ought to have done after
being swindlcd and cheated by Hamp-
ton, Butler, Hagood and that crowd.
| am not pursuing Gen. Butler.
After he was defeated last summer
did he submit? No. There arc men
on this floor who, if they would speak,
could tell you, because they have told
me, that he organized the movement.
of which Pope was the leader, and
travelled from county to county to put
independent tickets in the field; that
he abused all ItcfOrmcrs the nows-
papers charged that there was ring
and did everything that was disgrace.
ful and tried to use the negro. He Is
pursuing me in the Senate to keep me
from being seated as your representa-
tive in that body. Does this convcn-
ti0n want to aid him to stranglc me too
by giving bis name to this new county
No Butler but he is known outside OF
the State except to those who have
studied its history. You cannot
divorce him from his ancestry.
We arc asked to name Il county after
this traitor. Will you disgrace youl
self by giving his name to this county:
10 ramc this county Butler will be re-
garded by the outside world as Il vindi-
cation OF his recent action. AllusiOns
have been made to Butler and Gary
linking their names together as the
heroes OF '7G. | acknowledge that But
Ter did his full duty, but he was not
the peerless leader that the other maa
was and ! assert here from personal
knowledge that, it was Gary's bravery
and audacity which won tho fight for
Anglo Saxon civilization in that trying
period and redeemed tho State from
the thraldom and degradation into
which 1T had sunk. Memory brings to
mind two incidents of that memorable
campaign and | cannot refrain from
relating them as they will fcelingly
illustrate the temper and character
and services OF the two mon.
Those OF you who are old enough
will remember that after the famous
joint debate with Chamberlain at
lGdgctiold Court House on the 18th Of
August, in which that dirty carpet
bnO por had been sp ba1ly wOrstp1 tho