Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-18

OF what ne had stated at Chester
and personal reasons be would
announce his withdrawal as a
candidate foc the United States
senate. This, he said, was not
in the interest of Mr.. McLaurin
Mr.. Evans or Col. Irby, but because
he thought it was right and because
be meant what he said. He said he
had not mentioned his intention
Of withdrawing except con.
fdentially, and did not expect any
mention of it, as it was unwarrant-
cd. He would not wave his hand
for or against any candidate. fol
he differed with all of them on
some matters at issue, and they
were all men Of ability, and then
with beautiful peroration as tc
the brighter day that was ahead
for South Carolina, and thanking
his audience and the people fol
the attention shown him, he
withdrew from the field, with much
applause.
Mr.. McLaurin, as Mr.. Mayfeld
was walking back to his seat, met
him, clasped his hand thanked
him for what he had said.
JOHN GARY EVANS.
Then, after the band had played
it's installment. Governor Evans
took the floor and said that the
audience had just witnessed the
dramatic retirement of his good
friend MayGeld, but that he would
pick his flint and try it again. A
public Office was, he said, trust,
and if Mayfeld had any conclusive
proof that cleared McLaurin Of
tie charge of populism it belonged
to the public. The people were
the masters and entitled to the
information. He said it made in
difference to him what Mayfeld
thought, for Strait was ali honora-
BILE man, and so were Latimer
and Tal5ert honorable men, and
they would all repeat the charges
made yesterday, and, moreover,
"that man" approached him and
for more than an hour begged him
to join the populist party with
him.
About this time there was
considerable applause for Mr.. Nc
Laurin, also for Evans, and
few Kisses. Evans quickly
took it up, said that nobody could
scare him and shat he could talk
all the better against such people.
He went on to say that Mayfeld
had no right to put Strait in
false light unless he produced the
proof.
Mayfeld said he believed what
Strait had said.
Then Evans jumped at him and
wanted to know how he could be-
lieve McLaurin and also Strait.
MaYfeld said that the whole
point was that McLaurin had
worked against and succeeded in
preventing IL populist organiza-
ton for South Carolina.
Evans said that McLaurin
threw Bowden out into the stream
to SEQ how he could swim in the
populist sea. and when Bowden
was swallowed up McLaurin let
go of his populist heresies, Gov.
Evans then went on to say that
be ran against the bosses for
governor and that the Colleton
plan was advocated by Koester
and others who opposed him.
at the outset said that Tiliman
vas made to send down a letter in
which he repudiated the March
convention, and that McLaurin
vent all the way to Spartanburg
% enter the race, and after he
came to Spartanburg and saw how
he wind was blowing, he returned
@ Washington and wrote that
lenunciatory letter against "me
md Tlllman." While he knitted me
never knitted him or any other
nan in the back, and if I had sold
ny vote against Wallace, I could
lave been attorney general, for it
7as offered to me first, but l {
lever 60 back on my friends. He {
epeated that he went on McLa- t
rims official bond and was still
n it. 8
Then he went on to speak of t
fcLaurin's voting for Duncan 7
nd Earle, and said that not only t
ad McLaurin told him that he a
,as going to vote for him, but /
hat Ellerbe had assured him that t
icLaurin was for Evans, and, L
borrower, he had consulted with /
i'm as one of his political friends.
It Edgefeld, when twitted, Nc
.aurin said that he had tried to F,
clip Evans out of a hole, and
aatardav he had eaid that ho had