The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-08-11
The Senatorial Battle.

ANDERSON, August 4.-The campaign
meeting to-day was attended by about
| six or seven hundred of the five thousand
voters Of this county. The audience was
| good.natured, quiet and generally I'M
| demonstrative. It might be said for
whom this audience appeared to be, hut
| that might provoke the charge of partial
| ity, which is 80 s~tudiously aought 10 be
avoided. Mr.. Maytleld to-day was Wig
orous in what he had to say about the
reply of Governor Ellerbe and that alleged
way of supplementing what was printed
| Sunday. To-day Governor Evans CINE
| out boldly in defence of his cause with
the metropolitan police, and said that If
he was to be condemned Governor Ellerbe
was fully as liable to condemnation by
| Mr.. McIaurin. The meeting was alto
| gether harmonious and interesting.
MR.. MAYFIELD
began by saying he had nothing to do
with com limitations, and insisted he never
| response to the charge that he was in a
| combination that he struck back, and
that it was in the interest Of McLaurin,
and was made up Of Ellerbe, Neal, Nc
| Laurin and the Record. He repeated his
| story of how the stock Of the paper was
| subscribed, and asked whether it was fair
| that this paper, supported by these men,
| should attack him and he not strike back.
| He then repeated the statement made as
| to the removal Of the metropolitan police.
| and said he had q letter from Mr.. Ashley
| saving that Governor Ellerbe had promised
him to remove the metropolitan police.
| He could show that the fslsehood about
| the matter did not lie in his breast, but
In that of the Governor. On the 18th of
February Governor Elerbe told Mr..
| Crum that all Of the aldermen must sign.
| Martin wanted this in writing, so Mr..
Crum wrote Governor Ellerbe. This was
| before the Legislature adjourned. Gov
| ernor Ellerbe knew all the Aldermen
would not sign the agreement, and this
course was pursued, he believed, to get
An excuse for not removing the police.
He went over the whole matter, as printed
on Sunday. He thought some lawyer
wrote the "agreement )" Ellerbe did not
do so. In the body OF his interview FL
| lerbe said he wrote several letters, and i'll
a postscript he says he wrote Crum. Mr..
| Mayfield insisted that Ellerbe had a
secret agreement about the police, while
giving the masses to understand he would
remove the police. When Ellerbe accused
him of falsehood Ellerbe convicted HIM
self. Before the final bar Of justice Ell
lerbe would be convicted of double deal
ing with Charleston and utterly false.
MAY field said that he had proved his
| charges, every one, and that Ellerbe was
not worthy to occrpy the sea- Ex-Governor.
He would not have made these charges II
he had not been attacked by the Record,
owned snd controlled by McLaurin, FL
lerbe and Neal. Mr.. Mayfield went over
the whole matter and said his latest writ
ten proof was from Messrs. Ashley and
Ilderton. Ashley, Bacot n all could
prove everything he charged. Mr.. May
| field then branched off and outlined his
local option dispensary plan. He went
for the 'open-handed outrage" IN Spar
tanburg, and said he did not know by
whose orders they were there, but the
| constables were charged with walking
the streets ~electioueering for certain can
didates. The dispensary, be charged,
was dishonesty conducted.
Mr.. Latimer wanted to know how the
Latimer bill would extend the dispensary
| law at all. Mr.. Latimer said he believed
in local self-government, and that was all
there was In the bill.
Mr.. Mayfeld explained that the bill
| provides that the State may engage in
the liquor business, and that was what
he opposed.
MI. Latimer: "The bill simply gives
the right to the State to sell liquor"
Mr.. Mayheld said this was what he OPP
posed, and McLaurin favored the Latimer
bill. The law as now enforced Is a stencil
in the nostrils OF the people, and should
be abolished. He vigorously denounced
the constabulary system. He helped to
pass the law, but God knows he never
expected such use to be made of it.
What ba wantad Was nersOnal liberty.
| He then attacked NcLaurin's tariff views,
and made his fight regardless of factional
| lines. lie could point to three Republl-
can ideas of McLaurin, and nothing done
for the good of his people.
MR.. EVANS
| said that the people of Anderson never
wore any mans collar, and that when it
promised the old farmers showed differ
| emily. Some people will some time see
they cau't promise the vote of Anderson.
| He then branched of, and said no one
need to try to twit him about the metro
| politan police. No man can accuse him
Of duplicity or taking q back track, lie
wanted to say to Mr.. McLaurin that be-
cause he thought him unpopular In
Charleston there was 10 use for him to
tell him the metropolitan police was I'M
known to Calhoun. He wanted to say
that he put the metropolitan police on
Charleston, and had no regrets for it, and
stood to-day where he then stood. The
Legislature replaced the law on the books
to see tho dispensary law enforced, and
he had to use it to carry out the laws as
sworn to do. Charleston thought he was
blunipg and refused to bring in true bills,
but when he applied the metropolitan
police law he got seventeen convictions,