The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-08-08
MEETING AT GREENv1LLE.
BIGGEST CROWD YET.
Hoyt Well Re ceiVed and Tillman
Fries to Stir Things np.

: The crowd that greeted the Stat,
campaigncrs, who spoke her. yeS'cr
day from Il stand erected i'm the cit,
park at the north end of Main stree
was larger than had gathered on amy
similar occasion in Grccnville here
toforc and twice as large as any cam
pagn gathering 50 far in this Stat,
this summer. Men were present not
only from this but from every neigh
boring county, some travelling oven
thirty miles in buggies to hear Srna.
tor Tillman speak, viii Ii. ul cou:Se
was the feature of the day.
Although there were number ut
Grccnville City people prescE; these
for the most part did not take
part in the hand primaries and other
demonstrations peculiar 10 II Ii'!man
campaign meeting. The crowd was
bastic admirers Of their "ohlics1
only" Ben and he voted them will his,
hand primaries in favor Of what
ever be wanted. Throughout the
| hand raising showed that the crowd
endorsed him by not less than 1G to l..
Senator Tillman estimated the
crowd Of $500, which was probably
ut least 500 above the number uc-
t"ally present. lie voted the crowd
almost Solidly for the dispenSaIy as
against prohibition and lr tn" same
way he made them endorse h;s pc
Sition that the preachers are in an
mholy alliance with the VIII: ,i;ey
men led by Col. Iloyt," although the
same crowd Il short time before that
shouted almost with unanimity for
lloyt, and this county will give him
II handsome majority in spite of the
way the crowd yesterday exhibited
its feelings and sentiments by means
of the hand primaries.
rillman was his iicrccSt and he
made his most ugly faces in express
ing contempt for those opposing him
and his God child" the diSpcns ..ry
law, which he dramatically declared
was Il legitimate offspring of II mar
riage between Reason and Prohibition
and not II cheat for prohibition aS
had been charged. Prohibitions, he
said, wanted to marry that old hag,
fauataciSm, but he prevented this,
which was his duty to do as governor
in the interests of the people, over
10000 Of whom the returns showed
had not voted on the question. y
ma iority of the people, thcrcforr, hId
not voted for prohibition.
He characterized as Sncal<ing and
cowardly Sinking the efforts made
on the part of certain politicians to
have the liquor question voted ur,m
separately. BY II peculiar coinci-
dcncc this scheme was adopted in
GrecnviIc county at the suggestion
Of one OF Senator Tillman's Staunch.
est friends, Capt a. Blythe.
Senator Tillman handled the Rev.
DIR. {. 5. Gardner roughly and said
that his attack in II recent sermon on
the diSpcnSary law was false. lie
was interrupted with hurrahS for DR..
Gardner. lie spoke with fine scorn
and contempt of priest craft and
quoted scripture to show that there
was no foundation there for prohibit
ton, but that drunkenness was con-
dcmncd.
The campaigncrs speak today in
i'ickcnS. n majority of them left
yesterday for that town. The others
get out Of GrccnviIlc this morning at
& o'clock on Il freight train.
Colonel lloyt opened the speaking
by pleasantly introducing his oppo-
nentS to the people of his home coun
~ and concluded his rcmarkes by
saying:
Give them all an attentive and res
pectful hearing and be sure to vote
for lloyt.'
This met with cheers and applause
and
"Sit down, Colonel! you're all right;
YOU nccdn' t say Il word We'll vote for
You anyway"
WOULD-BE COMPTROLLER GENER-
AIS.
N. w. Kroolter, for comptroller
general, said he was not unknown to
many of the crowd. lie volunteered
when 16 years old and spent several
years in the Civil war. lie served six
years as Il director of the peniten-
tiary. For five years he was an eX-
pert in the tax department. He re-
viewed his work in the field. He
charged the incumbent will, vicious,
violent violations of the law" lie had
checked and stopped his (Brooker's)
| work. lie charged that Mr.. Derham
passed $4,3O4.04 to the credit of the
sheriff of Clarendon county in clear
VOCATION OF tnc law.
j. p. Derham, candidate for re-
election as comptroller, said that his
statement as to Mr.. Brokers' charge
was made by the gentleman
who made the settlement in
question. 1t didn't do the speaker
any good to tell why Mr.. Brooker
should not be elected. Mr.. Dcrham
was vigorously applauded.
FOR SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
Ellison Capers, former Grcenville
man, as n candidate for superintend
ent of education, was received with
hearty applause. 1t was here that
he got his first business experience
as clerk in a store in Main street
and his first teaching experience a:
II tutor in the White Horse school
From here he went to Columbia ant
graduated at the Sonth Carolin;
college. He presented his claims as ;
practical man as against a thcoreti
cal man. He believed his opponent
administration had not onl.
been a failure but that tw,
years more OF it would disrupt th
whole school system. He attacked
Mr.. McMahan for fathcring the ac
,, to take the choice of thee ounty su
pcrintcndents out of the hands q
the people. This was 'sruthlessl
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