Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-08
SIGNIFICANT STATEMENT.

Columbia State, Wednesday: Gov.
ernor Evans returned to the city yes.
terday from New York and Washing
ton, where he has been for the past
week on official business.
He was in good health and spirits
and talked pleasantly to representa-.
tive Of The State on politics, State and
national.
On the table in his library lay q
handsome goldheaded walking cane,
with "John Gary Evans, April "a,
1896" engraved thereon. 1t was pre-
sented by an admirer of the governor.
! When asked how he was pleased
with the actions of the different coun.
ty conventions, which were held on
Monday, he answered that he was
more than satisfied with the result.
When the State convention met on the
Goth inst, he said, Tillman would be
present with strong majority of the
delegates thinking as he does, and
ready to act with him. There was
no doubt in his mind about Tillman
being sent at the head of the delega-
ton from this State to Chicago. The
delegates would probably go uninstruc-
ted, but with a firm determination to
nominate man as candidate for pres
ident who stood for silver 16 to l.
As to boiling, he hardly thought the
delegation would find it necessary, for
there would be majority at the Chi
cago convention holding the same
views as they did on the monetary
question.
The governor was particularly graf
ified with the results in Charleston,
Greenville, and Laurens. One-half of
the Charleston delegation, he said,
were stalwart administration men, who
could be relied on. In Laurens, Irby
barely got in by the IA Anti-delegates
in the convention supporting him. He
would come to Columbia, but as a
member of the State convention, would
to use slang expression, mot cut any
ice."
Irby's inconsistency is being brought
out forcibly, he thinks, for last year
the senator would not hear of a divis-
ion of delegates with the Ants, while
now it looks as if he is trying hard to
get their support since he is about to
lose bis seat in the senate.
The governor is of the opinion that
he is the man who is about to unseat
Irby in the senate. Everything is
moving smoothly to that end, so he
says, and he entertains no fears of the
result.
When Greenville was mentioned,
Governor Evans could not repress a
smile. "Yes," he said, Gray and
Donaldson have been given back seats.
He thought that the fight in Green
Vile had been made on very much the
same line as it will be for the senate
and if it ends the same way he will
carry the county.
While in Washington the governor
said he had talked with many leading
men from all over the United States.
Almost every man thought Tillman
the logical candidate to nominate on a
free silver platform. TO win the fight
for the Democratic party and silver,
against Mckinley, it will take a man
who can arouse the enthusiasm of the
people in the West. No half-hearted
man would stand any showing, the
times requiring man of Tillman's
It is marvellous, he says, to note the
number of letters Tillman receives
from all over the country, telling him
how much he is admired. They are
not confined to the West; but come
from. New York and other Eastern
States.
Tillman was not candidate for the
presidential nomination; but if the
party demanded his services he would
of course make the fight for silver.
Tillman's name would, almost with
out doubt, the governor said, be pre-
sented to the Chicago convention, and
if it were, he would probably receive
the nomination.
AS for Tillman not ranking well in
that was all nonsense.
He was regarded by other senators as
a very able man, and was listened to
with great attention whenever he
spoke.
In conclusion, the governor said:
"Tillman's pitchtork will be the en-
blem of the victorious farmers of the
South and West and there is promise
of lively times ahead. Tillman stands
before the nation now as he stood in
South Carolina in 1890 and look for
the same result"
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