The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-21
Especial to The Register.)

ably required the services Of moro
13-inch guns than did that of Or.
ageburg, which occurred today, but
1t was not marker in point of du-,
ration and rapid firing to that Of the
latter. For four hours the political
guns (this term is fourteen carats
fine and strictly Originally of South
Cardinals devoted and daring aspi-
rants for official knighthood shelled
Tho woods, but despite a terrific bonn
bardment the fair city is unharmed,
and it's citizens are still dispensing
hospitality and good cheer to their
we'll meaning captors. No "Hob-
sons CHOICE" in its ancient mean
ing, holds us here.
10 one who has had tho fortune
to portray three successive 500 called
Tillman campaigns, with all their
epithetical hurly- -burly, the initial
moeting of the campaign of 1893
comes as u mild tonic, without the
bracing and exciting features of it's
predecessors A small and rather
unresponsl, audience of between
ono and two hundred persons sat for
four hours beneath the fusilade of
moro than score Of candidates.
OTHER COUNTIES, ATTENTION.
A speakers stand, the admirable
Arrangement Of which is worthy
of particular commont, was reected
under the spreading oaks of the
Colorod State College, and on it
were gathered The candidates. TWEEN
ty. nine in number, but up to the
hour scheduled to the beginning Of
tho meeting, they outnumhered the
auditors, and it was / 80 when tho
speaking began. J.
The centre Of inte rest during the
morning was the Ordngeburg Hotel,
whore the candidates chaifed each
other in friendly rivalry and plumed
their wings for their initial fight.
THE FEATURE OF THE MORNING
was the positive announcement that
G. @. Foatherstono would enter the
gubernatorial contest instead of op-
posing Major McSweeney for the
Lieutenant Governorship, leaving
the latter without opposition.
All rumors TO tho effect that the
Hon. George D. Tillman I.ould not
make the race were effectually 81.
lenced when ho appeared on the
scene, cooked and primed for the
conflict. Tho meeting was called to
order by DR.. Lowman, county chair
man, who stated that the guberna-
torial candidates would be limited in
their speeches to fifteen minutes and
the others to fivo minutes. He then
introduced
GOVERNOR ELLERDE.
There was not q sound as the
Governor advanced, and from the
tomb-liko silence that prevailed in
the crowd for the next fifteen min
utos a Quaker meeting without the
amens was predicted.
Governor Elerbe said he had
been in tho Office only seventeen
months, but during that time he had
boon abused and misrepresented by
politicians who canvassed the State
while ho was in his Office at the
State house with his hands tied and
his lips sealed, but now, said he, ]
thank God ! am here to invite one
and all to come and put up or shut
up. | have been charged with be.
ing political trickster I deny that
have ever made political dea
and | invite any ono to snow the
proof.
Governor Ellerbo asked for TO
election on his merits. He woulc
not accept it simply because Of tht
honored custom Of giving the Gov
crnor q second term. Commenting
on the State institutions, he said the
penitentiary had been we'll managed
having paid into the State $4,000
Tho managenent'of the asylum wa:
all that could be desired. The col