The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-07-21
The Senatorial Campaign.

COLUMBIA, July ls.-The first two
weeks of the State Senatorial campaign
have passed, and eleven campaign meet
iugs have been held in the various coun-
tics Of tho State. There are twenty-nine
meetings yet to be hold, and it is thus
seen that the campaign has really but
just begun. It is certainly too early to
attempt to say anything as to the results
Of the campaign work. All the speakers,
save Duncan, have been on b stump
and talked to the people, but the crowds
have been small thus far. Some votes
may have been changed by what the can
didates have had to say, but how many
and the character of the changes are I'M
known quantities. Col. Irby's friends
say that he has been making a very good
impression, although he has been devot-
slaps in various directions than be has to
argument on national issues. Ex-Gover-
nor Evans has been making very good
arguments on the real issues. Mr.. May
field sticks to his attack on the dispen-
sary law, and now an interesting issue
has been raised between himself and
Governor Ellerbe IS to what thelatter
said to him about the formation of q new
political party in South Carolina. Soma
tor McLaurin is said to be holding his
own, making strong arguments upon the
tariff. He Is considered the most practi-
cal speaker of all the candidates SO far in
the field. Mr.. Duncan has now compile
ted the trial of the case which has been
keeping him in Columbia since the cam
paign opened, and 1t is just possible that
he will take the stump at Winnsboro to.
morrow or wait until Tuesday, when the
party will speak in Columbia. It is gen.
orally thought that MI. Duncan will con-
fine his speeches to arguments upon the
tariff issue. He will, Of course, make the
most of his victory before Judge Benet
last week upon the Jurisdiction issue.
Mr.. Walt Whitman Is barred the privi-
lege Of running in the primary and ap-
pearing OH the stump as a candidate. 1t
is consider sd practically certain that he
will not be allowed to stand in the pri-
mary election. He has intimated, how
Democracy from State Chairman Tomp-
kins' decision, and this Is taken to mean
that he will be a candidate for election
before the General Assembly next win
ter.
After the Columbia meeting the party
will visit Orangeburg, Dorchester and
Bamberg counties this week, and the
week following they will 60 to tho up.
country, continuing the meetings in that
section until they come back to the Pee
Dee section for the finish.
To day three OF the candidates are in
Columbia-Senator McLaurin, Mr.. May
field and Mr.. Duncan. Senator McLau-
rim Is qusrtered at the Grand Central
Hotel, where he has been visited by many
of his political friends. To-day he dined,
in company with several others, with the
Governors family at the Executive man
sion. When I asked him to-day for an
expression as to the results Of the cam
paign thus far and his satisfaction or dis
satisfaction with them, he said that he
was taking a day Of rest, and declined to
have anything whatever to say. I also
asked Mr.. Mayfeld tor a similar express
sion. He stated that he was very much
tired out with his campaign work, and
was taking a day OF complete rest; he did
not care to have a word to say.
Ex-Governor Evans Is spending Sun
day in Augusta aud, of course, could not
be seen. Col. Irby is at his home in Lau-
rens, having gone there Saturday after
noon complaining of heing sick. He ex-
poets to attend the W%innsboro meetings,
however. if he is not too unwell.-News
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