Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-08-18
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Space sorbids ns giving a detailed re-
port Of the apaechaa u. nile e by = ! I.
candidates, But they wero all OH Ii AID
and made splendid speeches In the order
named: Comptroller General /: j ohm II.
Durham, of Horny, and. r. u. cpton, OF
Columbia; RAILROAD Commissioner, Gen.
j. Walter Gray, Of GreenYille, N. III,
Stansell, Of Barnwell, T. N. Berry, ,ot
Chester, B. b. Evans, of Columbia, q. w.
Garris, Of Colleton, Rev.. j. A. Sigh, of
Newberry, II. II. Thomas, Of Sumter, the
present incumbent. whose scalp his COM
potitors are after with o sharp stiok. He
soon got down to business, and was
pouring hot shot into them, whom lively
episode transpired. 1t was 10 exciting
for few minutes that all obseryanoo of
order and decorum was utterly lost. We
give our readers the report Of 1t in our
daily exchanges by Mr.. j. WilAon Gibbs,
stenographic reporter, whose onergies
must have been taxed to tho utmost to
got what ho did owing to tho wrangling
and confusion, He says.
| Again the vaudeville triumphs. AT
Piokens the performers had simply lost
thoir breath, Sunday which interyoned
gavo timo for recuporation and today,as at
Greonvillo. thoy ''unpaoked their hearts
with words and fell q cursimg like very
drab." IT was Con. Gary's turn to sit
and smilo, while Commissioner Thomas
touched up tho others, winding up in a
hurly-burly with Major Evans that
almost broke up tho moet;ng. There
was ii hot time, and tho crowd ciamoored
upon tho platform whoro tho row was
raging and forced tho contestants to sit
down. .. ... f, ~
! On tho samo spot gospel mootinrs have
boon going on for several days, and in
doforonce to tho speakers, this mornings
meeting was abandoned and tho hall ton
dorod to tho campaign party. Botwoon
tho angry disputants wore the various
accessories to religious seryices-Bibles,
prayer books, hymnals and an organ. So
for timo tho hallowod atmosphere of
religious and brothorly lovo was violated
with tho noisomo breath OF criminaton
and rocrimination. This is
HOW 1T HAPPENED.
All tho candidates for railroad COM
| missioner had spoken except Thomas.
Thore was nothing unusual in thoir ro-
marks oxcopt that Evans mado tho state
mont that at Groonvillo ono of tho oan-
didatcs had gono around saying that
Gar1is was tho only man to vote for for
commissioner. lie denounced this and
collateral occurrences as indicating q
combination. Garris declared this was q
surprise to him, as he had nevor sought t
tho prestige of any man on which to sail
into Office.
| If Gov. Ellorbo or Secretary Tompkins
or Maj. Evans hung on his coat tail, thoy
were welcome. Thoy know ho was popu-
lar and had made tho fight.
Commissioner Thomas took up his op-
pononts soriatim, shaking thom like q
terrier docs rat, saying Gray had out
cusscd an old fish woman and had wanted
| to kill him. Agontloman had writton him
| that Berry was an absolute failure as a
| farmor and an insurance man.
AS TO EVANS.
Evans was tho samo Barney who hung
around hiG brothers neck liko milestone
in tho Senatorial race and swamped him.
While in tho court house ut Columbia he
had seen on tho calendar Of ono of the
courts whore Evans had insured tho
State dispensary and put tho money in
his pocket and tho four companies were
now suoing tho State for tho money paid
to Evans. This brought Evans to the
front, shouting, "IIo knows that's untrue
and [ will provo him liar to this crowd"
Some of tho crowd didn't approve of
this interruption, while others cried to
Evans to go ahead and clear himself. In
an instant all WAS confusion, tho audi
once crowding forward and yolling.
Evans hold up two drafts which ho do
clarod would show whore tho money
won't. Both wore drawn against him by
G. M. Dingee &c Co., of Philadelphia,
one for 5000, dated October 20, 1906, tho
other for $3.50, dated Novombor II, 1906.
Both wcro stamped "Paid" by Columbia
bankers. Evans stated that Dngeo e.
Co., wore tho brokers who placed the in
suranco, and thoy had dooampcd with tho
money.
Thomas, continuing, cooliy remarked
that ho was chairman of the board of
stewards of his church. Sigh had said
he could beat any Methodist preacher
preaching his funeral, but his worry pro-
senco hero showed he was ministerial
failure. Stansell wanted to be one of
his pall-bearors, but as ho had gotten
only 250 votes for clerk of Barnwell
county in the primary, ho preferred to
have moro popular man.
Garris wanted to soil him his Boclsrogo
trunk for coffin.
Garris-You can have it for ono dollar
less than it cost me.
Thomas, continuing-I know it cost
the citizcns Of South Carolina about
$500, but it's Otgood enough for mo. All
these opponents of mino arc dead fail
ures in their profession.
With a chuclling smile no thon told
the crowd he was glad ho had Afforded
some iittio "nittsoiriont, adding that ho
had spoken only from tho record.
EVANS HAS a FURTHER IIEAnJNG.
Mr.. Evans thon demanded q further
hearing, and after considerable rowing
had occurred ho succeeded in reading M
extract from an old circular published
by Col. BenbOw of Sumter. in. which ho