The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25

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and Irby
Irhy said it was Evans who did the
he first falling.
! McLaurin-I think Evans ought 10
hsve done it.
Col Irby said, in talking OF Evans
nomination, that TiIlman WAS sent TO
muzz'e him, hut that he would not be
muzzled. ard that ne told Tillman
that one March convention was all
that could be had, and there was no
use to try another for any one. AS for
Tillman now he said he seemed to be
giving all fair foot race, and he was
satisfied, and as for msslf, he had
no political daddy, for he was laid in
the sun ard hatched by an eagle.
Col. Irby repeated the charges that
McLsurin had said that Tillmsn ought
to be inpesched during the Darling
ton rebellion, and that the Reform
partv hsu gone to hell.
McLsurin said be never said Gny
such thing; that he had denied It be-
fore, and that there was no use to re-
peat ihipg he had often denied and
which be did not believe was printed
as chsrged.
Governor Evans gave little inside
history about his su5ernatcrial noml'
nation. Neal, be said. went to Edge.
field IS his professed friend and told
him that ths leaders were against him,
ord he had better not run for COVER
nor. Evans said he cid not care who
the leaders were for, he was going to
run. Tillman telegrsphed for him to
come to the mansion, ard Tlilman
told him the leaders were against him
and he had better not run. lie told
Tillman that he was going to run and
that the leaGers could not stitie the
PEOPLE, and he went to Washington to
see the congressman and eXplaia mat
ters to them, all the while determined
to make the race before the people.
He said that he first ''busted" the
March convention, ard that the Collie.
ton plan was not gotten up IN his in
terest.
Mr.. McLaurin spoke today and was
Justify cheered when he started, and
on concluding he dealt with State
matters for some time aud devoted
much time to denouncing be 'ism and
said that the people had repudiatsd it,
ard would do so again, and that lrbY
need not boast of what be had done to
make certain Offices. He never be.
lieved the Reform movement depend
ed upon any one man.
In his general discussion be said
hof oh 11n
money situation, and not TO the Will
son bill. In closing he said that il he
could not get office except by trying
| to blacken the character aud Demo
crscy Ct others he did not want it.
He ran ard wanted election for him
self on his record He justified his
vote for the Tilimap .Latlmer bill as
for States rights, and said he would
do so again. He said be always op'
posed the Populist party at home and
| nationally.
Mr. May field in addition to his gen.
eral line today, charged that there was
combination in the interest OF Nc
Laurir, and that it was made by the
press generally, Tillman and the State
administration. He elaborated this idea
which will be given later. He especi-
ally denounced TIE Record for what
| it had done against him, and said that
| it was under the money control OF
! Neal, Ellerbe and McLauriu. His
speech was we'll received
Col. IIby started ont with the pro
position that he would prove the Re
nubiic&uism Of McLausln. The ao
| breyiated statement abrut what he said
about the price OF goods may have been
misleading, but what Re beld was that
on account Of the free raw material
schedule in the Wilson bill clothes
| were cheaper than they had besn and
would be soon again in years. AS to
| re cords, he said that he was getting
McL.aurin' s and thought be could show
up with him as TO absenteenism. Nc.
Laurin in going back on free raw ma
terial, had gone back on the cardiual
principles of the party, which he had
never done.
Governor Evans spoke last and to
tired audience. He said he never
went back on his friends. and even
his enemy, The News and Courier,
| said he did not 60 back on his friends
and that they knew what to expect Of
him, which was not the case with Nc.
Laurin. After going over how he came
to run for governor, he said that if he
had been willing to have gone back
on Judge Wallace he could have been
elected attorney general instead of
Judge Wallace, but he never went
back on his friends, and McLaurin was
elected for supporting Pope and he
| Evars) had gone on McLaurin's bond
for attorney general, aud had, it ap-
peared, been repaid for mis- friendship.
All about McLaurin not supporting
him YVES a revelation to him.
MIR. Evans stated that the new tariff
would raise the price of sugar from
two to FIVE cents per pound He sad
that McLaurin was hacking pleading
the baby act By crying combination.
He went over most OF his tariff and
raw material argument, which was
very we'll received here, and be was
heartily applauded.
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