Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-21
Wednesday July q, 1897.
VERY TAME.
Senatorial Campaign Meetings Progress
| Without Sensations.

VERY TAME.
Senatorial Campaign Meetings Progress
without Sensations.
The campaign meetings during the
past few days have been rather tame
than otherwise but the understanding
is that Irby promises some startling
sensations during the present week.
The reports of the Saluda, and Lexing-
ton meetings, published below, are ia
ken from the Greenvile News:
SALUDA, July 16.-Four hundred
people in the terminating town packed
the courthouse today. Compared to
the Edgefeld meeting it was tame.
Irby's speech was decidedly the most
effective of the four; but Mayfield's
dispensary argument made distinct
impression and the dispensary system
is manifestly weak in the very heart of
Tillmanism. All cheering came from
not more than 40 men, slight major
ity of whom were partisans of Evans,
and most of the others of McLaurin.
But Irby seemingly had the serious
and unbroken attention Of every man
in the crowd. 1t was a listening audi
ence to Irby.
By agreement the candidates spoke
only 40 minutes each, which is great
improvement.
McLaurin read letter from T. G..
Brown, of Anderson, giving figures,
that Allen long staple cotton needed
protection.
Irby said the author must he an anti,
and Evans thought he was a rich
banker.
McLaurin responded elias it come
to this in South Carolina that antis
must not raise long staple cotton ?"
and in the lively colloquy, the advan-
tage was rather McLaurin's.
McLaurin followed with his usual
tariff views, speaking we'll, as he al
ways does.
Mayfeld announced himself for free
silver and the system of cashing,
known as the Baltimore plan, explain
ing it briefly. He told the story of
Ellerbe saying he would back McLau-
rim with the power of the administra-
ton. His speech was the best he has
delivered, was most effective, especial
ly as to the dispensary.
After Irby, Evans delivered his usu-
al tariff speech. He said If Egyptian
Gotten was used in a Marlborough mill,
us stated by McLaurin, it was for the
political purposes of McLaurin like the
tin mill in Ohio for Mckinley, at which
McIaurin smiled and asked the repor-
tiers TO take it down.
Irby, in discussing Ellerbe and the
cour, of inquiry, spoke glowingly of
Columbia's company, which disbanded
when Ellerbe reprimanded private
without reprimanding Watts. Every
mar of the company, thank God, has
u bigger heart than Ellerbe, he ex-
clairned, amid pronounced applause.
Irby said that prior TO the senatorial
race last year, after they had not spo-
ken for three years, McLaurin wanted
to make friends with him, he to sup
port Irby provided Irby supported him
for governor. Three days later Nc
Laurin was fighting him. When the
constitutional convention campaign
was pending, both Irby and McLaurin
were caucusing about running an in
dependent ticket.
II deny this" said McLaurin.
Here, McLaurin rising, said if any
one says I am in any trade or comb-
nation, or under any pledge, it is sim
ply untrue; and this was cheered.
Irby, with emphatic gesture, put Nc
Laurin on notice that the people would
not submit to the state being commit
ted to protection.
He declared that McLaurin admitted
at Edge6eld that Irby had never voted
against the interests Of the people, but
he could not admit as much for Nc
Laurin.
In his speech, Evans said this raising
of the protection issue gave the oppor-
tunity for Conservatives and Reform
ers to unite and on Democratic ground.
If there was an anti at the meeting
except the two reporters, he sang low.
LEXINGTON, July 1.-THE barbe-
cue and meeting, three miles from Lex
ington, was attended by many babies
and ladies and less than two hundred
voters.
McLaurin spoke last, and after din
ner had his reception; but the little
crowd was divided. 1t was an ex-
ceedingly good humored crowd and
there was lots of funny incidents.
Colonel Irby was unwell and spoke
about twenty-five minutes, closing by
intimating that there would he start
ling developments in the next five
days.
Evans made his usual tariff speech.
He had friends in the crowd.
Mayfield's dispensary views were
attentively listened to.
McLaurin eloquently denounced the
attacks on Ellerbe, saying it was un-
fair for candidates to pounce upon him
in his absence. Replying to the charge
that he wrote the Populst platform,
McLaurin said he was first elected to
congress largely by alliance influence,
that he believed in the alliance prin-