The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-08-05

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he bad known, AS an honorable man,
he would have had to dehnuuce him
lie Re fer,,d 10 john Gary Evans as
.,araA Oh of xrellence. aud said it
was s:r:,sge that those of them who
knew him best in the State house held
his r, cord up TO inspection. This race
he would run TO the end. (Cheers
and counter cheers.) He criticised
Judge Earle for entering the race after
ten meetings were over. Evans or
himself would beat him.
Voice Pretty we'll put in: Evans
will beat him.
Many men in the clubs at the last
primary, Mr.. Duncan stated, had said
they did not want Evans. That feel
ing was we'll grounded now. If Till
man had not come 10 Evans rescue he
would be beaten already. Cheers for
Duncan. There were few counter
cheers for Evans) He had always
been q farmer, and stood in his faith
er's SHOES. He would show them that
in 1890 he had helped to show Tillman
around over the State. He had intro
duced Tillman in Newberry county.
In the house journal they would find
the nomination of Tillman, Norris,
Bates and Sligh-our mentor mem
bers Of the board OF agriculture. Ev-
ans did not vote for 4 single one Of
them.
Voice-You tried to hold your seat
in the house, didn't your
Duncan-Yes, it was long after that,
and he said it was Gamnable outrage.
lie read the record showing Evans
voting against the bill to accept
the Clemson bequest and to postpone
the whole matter. He also referred
to Evans leading issue in the first
campaign for the legislature. Evans
had failed to carry out his promises.
Evans had promised to use his inhu-
ence for a separate coach bill, but he
never did anything in that line; he
may have used his influence to have
it withdrawn.
Voice-Old Bsn's gone, and Evans
is going too.
He said that Evans would have them
all believe that no good man could
give testimony against him.
lie then took up Colouel HaskelrS
card ard said Evans would i.smp the
track on these charges made by the
man who had hiri, appointed an attor-
ney of the road. Yet he voted with
Haskell on all these things when he
FIRST went to the legislature. Evans
went out in Aiken and looked at the
Reform procession to see If the move.
ment was large enough for him to
join. Yet he tells you about recent
converts on the mourner'S bench.
Voice-Tell US about the commits
sions
Duncan is what we are com
ing to.
lie went on and started to read from
Evans statement published in all the
papers, when some one asked him what
paper he had. He answered that it
was The State.
Voice-The State2 1t can't even
print his speech correctly, can it,
Mr.. Duncan-Why, my friend, are
you going to make such an argument
as that to try and put the paragon OF
excellence into the United States sen.
ate2
If Earle was not in the race, he said,
they would find one of the cleanest
sweeps of this young man (kvans)
they had ever seen. If Earle was not
in the race Tillman would scarcely
have written that letter. lie started
10 quote from Tillman's letter.
Evans-Read all the letter.
Mr.. Duncan said there were plenty
of men in the State who could testify
on this bond and dispensary business
if they were at all certain as to what
the outcome of this race would be.
A spectator asked him to tell them
how Evans got the money. The ques-
TONER said lie knew how Duncan got
his money.
He repeated his oft made remarks
about Evans trying to get control OF
all the dispensary business.
When he told of Governor Evans
earnest desire toget on the board there
were good many cheers for Duncan.
Mr.. Duncan then caused sensation,
As he proceeded the men gathered
closer around the stand. Col. Mixson,
who was concerned in what he was
saying, sat near by but said nothing;
neither did Governor Evans. Mr..
Duncan, after referring to the facts that
Commissioner Mixson had given about
the dispensary insurance, said that
Col. Mixson was present. He regrett-
ed to pull these fellows out little,
but did not waste the opportunity
when he had them on the stump. lie
then made the point blank assertion
that Mr.. Hubbell, the representative
of the Mill Greek Distilling company,
had offered Col. Mixson rebate OF
$562.5J a carload on 100 carloads OF
rye, which would be snug total OF
$50 $50. Col. Mixson had refused it,
and had told Governor Evans of it.
The governor had said You were
right Mick" Shortly afterwards the
governor had sent for Col. Mixson and
ordered him to buy whiskey from Mr.:
Hubbell's concern. Col. Mixson had
said to Governor Evans: You may
have the right to drop my head in the
waste basket, but III be damned If l
will ever bu a gallon of this mans
whiskey." C'Hurrah for Mixson.')
Voice Maybe Mixson got the re-
bates.
Mr.. Duncan said this cry OF rebates
was the old cry of stop thief. He said
that when Col. Mixson had refused to
take the rebates offered, and Governor
Evans was visited by that official, the
governor had said: by God, Mick,
/ know you are not getting dollar
of this money, but you know that Ben