The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-09-09
The friends OF Judge Earle issued the fol
lowing on Saturday:
HERE THE TRUTH.
Read, Think and Act for Yourselves.

Read, Think and Act for Yourselves.
To the voters OF Abbevllle County:
A week ago Senator Tillman said he
was "hands off" in the race between
Evans and Earle for the United States
Senate. That was evident for Evans
received only two votes at Trenton,
(where Senator Tillman lives), when
SO votes were cast at that place, 81 OF
these for Earle and Duncan.
Senator Tiliman now comes into the
fight at the request of 81 men from va
rious sections of the State and has ad-
dressed an open letter to them. He
seems to haye lost hope for he candid.
ly admits his letter will rather explain
the "cause of the threatened disaster
than avert it," He says the election
of Evans is a political necessity"
and suggests that the Reformers vote
for him and that is the sum Of his
orders.
Why didn't Senator Tillman oppose
the election of Earle as Judge if bis
holding office is such a disaster? A
Reform Legislature made Earle Judge
against Breazeale-a charter reform
er-by a vote of 100 to 49 and neither
Senator Tillman nor Governor Evans
found fault with the Legisture?
Why didn't Senator Tillman come
to the rescue of Breazeale, good Re-
former, when Earle, whom he now
regards as so unworthy was taken up
and elected Judge instead of him?
Why didn't Senator Tillman come
to the rescue of Ira B. Jones, a good
Refdrmer, when he ran against Wither'
spoon, an Anti. for Judge?
Why should every Reformer in the
State be left to shift for himself except
John Gary Evans?
Senator Tillman and Governor
Evans agreed with Barnwell and
Hemphill to give half the
members Of the Constitutional
Convention to the antis? What right
had they to give away the Reformers
in any such manner? Is there Re-
former in the State who believes that
half the members of convention could
be given away to the opposition without
burying the Reform party and yet the
defeat of one man Governor John
Gary Evans will destroy the party?
Governor Evans will not represent
Reform in the United States Senate
any better than Earle, for Earle is a
silver man, opposed to "force bills''
aud he says himself
81 am in accord with Senator Till
man, in the positions assumed by MIN
in the Senate, and if elected l shall
supplement his able efforts to protect
the rights of the people with such
power as I may have and with all the
earnestness of my nature"
While it is believed that Governor
Evans made a good fee out of the
bond cases, Earle was turned down fol-
United States District Attorney by
Grover Cleveland because he was q
Reformer and Tillmanite.
The Reformers will not be ordered
about like slaves but will vote for the
man who will do the most good for
them.
In bis letter to John Duncan, only a
few weeks ago, Senator Tlllman
severely rebuked him for intimating
that he (Tillman) had it in his power
to have who ever he pleased elected to
the United States Senate, said that
such as that "smacked of Bossism"
which he disapproved of. He now as
sumes the sole of chief Boss at the
solicitation of 81 minor Bosses-pops
his whip and gives orders to the Re
formers of South Carolina to march ur
to the polls on next Tuesday and vote
for John Gary Evans.
1t was because the people had
becoming tired of Bossism which
gave rise to the Reform move
ment, and are we now to tamely sub