The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-07-21


rected to the presence of Detective
Newbold, who has followed the cam
paign from the beginning. There
have been one or two other hangers
on, but they are not known to have
the job of protecting Governor Evans
The truth, said Duncan, was hard tc
take sometime, and when he told It,
Evans tried to blow ink over him.
} See him come with the lie again, y
said he. In Charleston, in 1894, Butler
had charged Evans and Tillman with
having finger in the bond pie. Al
Walterboro the next, day Tillman
swore no man in South Carolina had
gotten one cent. Evans had not told
him OF his connection with Rhind. He
don't dare deny that.
Evans-I do deny it; Tillman will,
too.
Duncan-Do you dare charge Senator
Iiliman with knowing your guilt and
trying to hide.
Evans-No, don't say / was guilty
you do.
Duncan-You don't dare say Tillman
would try to hide any mans guiltp
AS to the dispensary the law was all
right
A Voice--The hiskey is not, though.
Duncan-No, but don't hold the law
responsible for the bad management.
That's what | want to talk to you
| about.
After the darlington riot, said Dun
can. all the insurance on dispensaries
were cancelled. Mr.. Seibels, ansinsur-
ance agent, went to Governor Tillman
and offered to insure all the dispen-
saries. Governor Tillman told him to
do 80. Seibels went to New York,
made arrangements with his COM
panies and, placed all the insurance.
! This man." pointing to Governor
Evans, took it away from him when
he, got to be governor, and gave it all
to his brother"
Governor Evans will tell you am a
| clerk in the State house and that L
have brother in the States employ.
Is. X. Tillman appointed him.
Evans Did you not ask me to ap-
point him?
Duncan-No, for advised him not
to take the job.
Evans-You have a short memory
about some things.
Evans, lid Duncan, had singled out
three railroads in South Carolina to
attack in his annual message. He
shook the Southern road severely to
please the boys. just after that his
brother, George, a lawyer in Edgefield,
came through Columbia on his way to
Washington to get employed by the
Southern road. He ereturned from Wash
ington in the private car of the gem
eral counsel OF the road. (Mr. Duncan
did not finish what he seemed about
say. The inference is that as there
was nothing further said about the
Southern road during the session Of the
Legislature, that somebody was "in-
fluenced.")
Evans says he was watching some
one In the dispensary closely, yet he
only called one meeting of the board
of control in II months. That was a
fine way to keep watch. AS to the
bonding of dispensers, he reasserted
that after the new board had taken
charge, blank forms Of the company
represented by the governors brother,
had been enclosed in official cOmmuni
cations. The premiums from this
amounted to about $4,000
Governor Evans was received with
few hand claps. He was glad, he said.
to see General Earle here. He was
dlgnifed gentleman, judge who had
just laid aside the ermine. Governor
Evans was tired of going around this
State shooting at carrion crows and
sparrows. He had been endorsed at
Hampton. They said he was not guilty
OF any wrong. He could not put brains
in a numskulls head SO he could un-
ucESGtuu. IlC ndu HOG mduG DuUCun
and was not responsible for him. God
Almighty made him and he sometimes
wondered why he had. He had decided
to pay no further attention to him and
unless he was asked questions he would
me ke no answer to the charges. He
had letters from friends all over
the State telling him to pay no atten-
tion to Duncai. 1t is not possible to
satisfy his enemies, and Duncan was
his enemy. He had slept in his room
at Manning and he now realized that
he might have had cold dagger
plunged in his heart Why did this
man keep on in this way?
Duncan-I have asked questions and
you have not answered them. Did you
have an understanding with Rhind to
get fee before you recommended him
to Governor Tillman for appointment
Evans can't give you brains to un-
derstand. You must take my answers
as give them. (Cheers.) You can't
preach yourself into the United States
Senate by abusing me to these boys.
You must show that you have ability
and not only say, This man is not
worthy and Ben Tiliman is the great
est man that ever lived"
He was not his brothers. keeper, said
the Governor. One was lawyer in
Edgetield and had right to choose
his clients, and the other was an insur-
ance agent in Columbia, who had q
right to get insurance where he could.
Duncan-Did you not give him the
insurance on the dispensary In Colum-
bia?
Evans-No; If he got it, Nixon gave
1t to him.
Governor Evans then made reference
to the famous dispensary bill, about
the drawing Of which there has been
so much discussion.
Duncan said Governor, I propose
to face you with General Barber to
prove there was a bill agreed upon by
| you, that was not drawn"
Evans-Barber wont say it.
+, Here Judge Earle asked leave to pro-
pound a few questions.
"As chairman of the State Board OF
Con troll, how many meetings did you
cali in 1895 ?"
Governor Evans could not remember.
He did not know.
Earle-Was it not your duty to call
meetings.?
Evans-No; not unless there was
something to do.
Governor Evans did not know any
thing about cancelling OF insurance Of
State buildings. He had not done 1t,
nor given the insurance to his brother.
He did not know how many agents had
insurance on State property when he
went In, nor how many had 1t now.