Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-07-21
LIVELY IN EDGE1ELD.
The Largest Meeting of the
Senatorial Campaign.

campaign ives he'd here to-day,
Between 400 and 500 people were
present. The usual routine was
broken when Senator McLaurin,
following Colonel Irby, went for
the later's career in the Senate. Nc
Luarin, armed with the Con-
gressional Records of the Fifty
second and Fifty-third Congresses,
frequently brought lrby to his feet
to make explanations.
CoLNEL IRBY.
Colonel Irby, the first speaker,
was greeted with some applause.
He was in Edgefeld for the first
time since 1890, said he, to see the
reception of the peoples great
tribune, Ben Tillman. He was
here then fighting combinations
and was here now fighting the
Estate House gang" which was at
tempting to parcel out the offices
of this State from Senator down to
croner. 81 am running as demo-
crat," declard Ireby. 81 am the
cnly original package in the lot y
McLaurin has patented his speech.
At Beaufort he wanted protection
on rice, at Charleston OIL rice and
long staple cotton, and so for every
comfy, but he didn't think he had
patented protection speech for
Edgefeld. McLaurin' had the
people fooled. He is not on the
same platform as Tillman.
Tillman had declared he wasn't. He
declared that McLaurjn had gotten
Gonzales for his political daddy
aid the world can's beat him. He
then declared haG he and Tillman
were the politcaI iaddies of all of
the candidates, but thought they
were treating him with disrespect
by opposing him.
He had been politically
assasslnated and thrown out for
dead because hs resisted the great
conspiracy last year against the
democratic party. He was demo-
crat. always had been and could
be nothing else, because he was for
the interest of the people.
Colonel Irbv then attacked Nc
Laurin's tariff views, declaring
that Tilliman had said they were
iniquitous, and II know you will
believe him if you won't me.
You people here love HIM and
believe what he says"
Colonel Irby attacked the news
papers. He declared that Mr..
Gonzales had prevented a
Conservative from entering this
race. Mr.. Gonzales had called
him q liar in to-day's paper.
which was unparliamentary; no
one usually called him that when
close to him, however. He attacked
the Forty movement. He believed
that every white man should be
allowed to vote and Therefore
disapproved of the con stiutonal
suffrage clause.
Colonel Irby made the assertion
that be and not Tillman had made
Evans Governor. He with Tillman,
he de clared, had saluda made into
a county and left Edgefeld
Conservative with Sheppard to run
it.
Reviewing past political history,
Irby asserted that last year he
could have gone to the Chicago
convention as a delegate. Can't,
said he, came to him at 2 o'clock |
a. m. and said that the State
convention had left a place open
for him. He sent word back that
he would not accept becauseThe |
was unalterably opposed to the
declared boiling policy of the
party.
Editor Ball next came in for
praise for coming out against the
newspaper combination at
Columbia. The Ellerbe- Watts
episode was repeatrd but elected
no applause. He declared that he
could prove that the estate House
clique"were going to turn out Nc
Iver and that Tillman knew they
we're plotting against him.
He concluded by reviewing his
record and declaring that he had
always been with the people, Col.
Irby was wildly applauded when
be took, his seat. He kept the crowd
in good humor and they listened
attentively.
SENATOR McLAURIN,
Senator McLaurin began by