The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-11-23

The aristocrat took him by the hand
and said, "John, 10 you know You arc
a white man? "Yes, l do," was the
reply. "Thcn come on and help us to
down the negro, Or he will want to
MARI, in your family" This reused
the poor buckra and they .do1ned the
negro. What then? Listen TO me!
They sta, ed together until 1856. Then
there cSme another birlh--so horrible
they call it Ben Tillman. They say
lie came from Edgefeld. People! in
Gcd's name, Il don't know where he
came from! But they call the baby
Ben TiiIman. He tells the poor
buckra that the alistocracy is taking
their rights from them; got all the
Offices; that they are not free White
men. He SAYS, "Bsnd tugether; the
negro is sleep; let's put out the aris-
tocracy." They cleaned out the es-
tablishment by 1892. What lhen2
The aristocracy looks around; the
negro ai'nt sleep so much rs you think,
He says to tie negro: "BiIl, them
poor backra never did have any use
tor a nigger, Lel's pnt them out.
Well the negro went to work to do it..
| We had conference in Washing ton,
suca rs Was never known before.
While Rel ublicsns aud black Re-
public,Es, together with the aristo-
cratic Dtmoc. las # the South. We
barred the door and shut the blinds
and there we agreed that we would
form q combine to rid TIE State of
Tillman and Tillmanism. We laid
the plan in great secrecy. What did
the aristoc:acy do? One half went
with Tillman and the other half sulsed
in their tents. One white man, thank
God, has the i.erVe to say, "lt is fraud
they are after" | refer to Dargan.
Had our leaders acted we would
have won long ago. We would bave
cat Our ballots, stayed there and seen
them counted and would have mad
no convention. Now if you do rot
carry this law to the Supreme Court
you are done forever. If the regis
tration is wrong the convention is
illegal. Well, got two law ers from
your town, men who hate Ben TIL
man, men of character who are IA
miliar with the operations of tie regi:-
tra;ion law. We called a big con-
ference Of South Carolina Democrats !
and Republicans from all over the
country; we want to raise money, |
wont you help? EYES," loudly all
over tne room). Well, lei me tell you,
Gen. Wade Hampton is your friend.
He says "the wh'le thing is wrong,
the people wont listen to me, they
look like they are crazy" lie said,
if ne don't go to the Supreme Court
we are gone. Well we hare been in
court; you all know how things went,
but we are in better position now
than ever before. Had we imprisoned
the Supervisor he would have been
taken out on habeas corpus and dis
charged and then there was no appeal.
Pm GLAD Goff decided as he did the
last time. We will get into the Su=
preme Court now. Well, our lawyers
told US to get white man in our !
second case, that It it would have more |
weight, and the conservatives would |
back him up from Sou!h Carolina.
got white man in Charleston [
kuew him, but it took me three weeks
to find him. He did not vote, "luem
damned rascals would not register
him." be said, and he could not vote.
I was glad to see him you may know.
| explained matters-aSkcd him to
stand in u)urt He said yes, in hurry.
We tod him he was not 10 be out any
money. He said, "good, I'll 60" |
eent bin to our lawyers ia Washing
ton. But I got to thinking-that's a
schite man who amt got no registration
ticket-that wont de-! We are making
q mistake-Te want negro. II he !
goes, down goes our case. tele-
graphed our lawyers, "Drop that
white man at once" They did so.
But you know lawy ers want money.
l did not let our lawyera know we
were not raising any money. Then l
sent them my own money.
Well, when that grand old hero,
Golf, said the law was unconstitutional
We all shouted halleluyah.
But what sthen? The State said it
would not push the case without good
chances of success, and Chief Justice
Fuller must have been seen and must
have made promise. But our law
yers write ne very confidently and say
all will be we'll. But We want the
best talent in the country. The law
yers who defeated the income tax got
s275,00o. we must have a lawyer
who can present the case in its best
light. Then Levi Douglass called to
Murray and asked him "what about
Charley Douglass."] Murray replied
that Mr.. Douglass was a yound man,
.o.a b,,f 10 o1-o5 avp,a;anca