Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14
SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN.
Candidates All Now Having Quiet
Time of 1t.


Time of 1t.
There have been only two campaign
meetings since the last issue of THE
ENQUIRER. One was held at Beau
fort on Saturday, and the other al
Hampton on Monday. The atten'
dance at Beaufort was very small
there being only few white voters in
the county. At Hampton some 300
people were present, making up the
largest crowd that has yet turned out
at any of the meetings.
AT BEAUFORT.
Colonel Irby was the first speaker
at Beaufort on Saturday. He went fol
the summer campaign idea and alleg'
ed that it was just plot. He then
attacked the newspaper arrangement
of all papers getting one report, and
said the daily papers had all formed q
trust against any man who would en-
ter the race except McLaurin. All he
wanted was fair play, and he would
have it. This syndicate was simply
muzzling the press against honest pol
itics; but when papers printed briel
reports and then editorially favored
candidates, it was not fair. He appeal
ed to the people to be protected
against this new trust. He said he
had waited to see Mr.. Duncan and Mr.
McLaurin, and invite them to con-
Jointly pay the expenses of reporter
and the tolls, and did not know what
would become of such plan to get
Justice. Even the weak and "willing
Register" as Tillman called it, was il
the trust.
The papers have gone in and closed
the doors against honest debate and
politics, he said. The people are kept
away from the meetings by the sea-
son, and then by the papers from
reading the speeches. When The
Register was in the throes of death he
said he helped it, and he now asked
that the paper be reminded of it. He
said no such combination could be
formed in his interest. He said he did
not speak of it in Charleston for fear
of being charged with soliciting votes
but he knew all about deal in which
Governor Ellerbe figured, and how
letters from Harrison and Ellerbe were
submitted to a conservative caucus
and how Ellerbe was supported on his
promise to remove the metropolitan
police, and how he failed. He said
the newspapers have kept up the fac
tional lines-they have done so to
keep up their business-and it would
have been best had Gonzales been
hanged and Cal Hemphill drowned
long ago. He said he was Reformer
and Democrat that he contributed
as much to the present confusion as
any one but now saw no use for fac
lional lines, and that he was Reform.
er in principle for all time. He said
he had as much as anyone to do with
calling the constitutional convention.
He said that he worked for Democrat.
ic postmasters regardless of factions.
There was applause when he said
Governor Ellerbe had broken solemn
pledge in not removing the metropoli-
tan police. He said a part of the plot
was to defeat Justice McIver, and that
he would stand to McIver for all time.
He said that McLaurin had been with
every party within the last five years,
and if defeated would 60 to the Anar-
chists. He spoke at length of his
tariff views, how he stood to Tillman,
Reform, his justice to Conservatives,
and how he expected to win.
Mr. McLaurin spoke briefly because
of indisposition, and got off some jokes
on the disturbing shrimp. He said
Senator Irby could better have told
what he did in the senate than what
he did in state politics. If he had
done so much to confuse things let him
remain here to straighten them out.
He said he knew nothing of politi-
clans. He said he would not partici-
pate in the TRADE or abuse of anybody
or anything. So far as the newspapers
went, he was in no deal and had no
understanding. The papers ran their
business to suit themselves as farmers
did. 1t was a plain business matter
with them. He felt he had been un-
justly treated at times, but, generally
speaking, newspapers and reporters