Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-07-28

been allowed to pass. The officers
feared to carry the men to the Flor
ence Jail despite the fact that they had
strong military guard. The people
were determined to lynch them and
the soldiers did not want to resist to
the point Of firing on their relatives
and friends. Today the people of
Florence held mass meeting, adopt
ing resolutions condemning the action
of the governor in removing the pris-
oners from that county and demanding
their return. The governor replied
that they were safer in the penitenti-
ary. Ten years ago Governor Rich
ardson surrendered prisoner to rep
resentatives of such mass meeting
held at Lexington, who pledged the
honor of their county that he would be
protected. He was murdered by some
of the delegation. Two years later
Governor Tillman had a like expert
ence.
TIllman and the Preachers.
Says a Greenville special of Tues
day: DR.. Charles s. Gardiner, pastor
of the First Baptist church of this city,
preached q strong sermon Sunday
night on prohibition, in which he de-
nounced as false Senator Tillman's
charge that "the preachers and liquor
men are in unholy alliance led by Col
onel Hoyt." He said: "Senator Till
man, who made the charge, knew it to
be false when he uttered 1t. The charge
cannot be interpreted as anything else
but mean and contemplate effort
to break the force of the almost unan-
nous advocacy of prohibition by the
preachers, and served its author as a
good occasion also to throw contempt
upon class of men for which he has
in many other ways expressed bis con-
tempt" DR.. Gardner is considered
about the ablest preacher in the Bap-
tist denomination in South Carolina,
and he is immensely popular not only
in Greenville, but throughout the state.
He is we'll qualified to represent his
denomination on this or any other sub.
ject. His name should not be con-
founded with that of DR.. George w.
Gardner, editor of the South Carolina
Baptist, whose home is at Greenwood.
Tillman In Chester.
Chester dispatch of Thursday to the
Greenville News: Senator Tillman
threw himself into the breach today in
behalf of his "baby," the dispensary.
He defended his use of the word "al.
lance" as applied to the combination
between the ministers and the bar
keepers by quoting from a standard
work the definition of the word as "a
combination to effect a common pur-
pose." He asked what becomes of
Colonel Hoyt's underlying principle if
he accepts the whisky votes and is
used to effect their purpose. Gonzales,
who hated the dispensary and who
hated prohibition, which is the oppo-
site of local option, had come out
openly and boldly as he always did
when he has an object in his support.
Colonel Hoyt and Bishop Duncan lad
said that he, Tillman, had lied. The
speaker himself, he said used to indulge
in bad language; but since he had be.
come senator he had reformed and
Bishop Duncan was welcome to his
opinion. About DR.. Gardner's strict
ures, he would say nothing now; but
would have something to say about
them when he reached Greenville. He
was accused of meddling in something
that did not concern him in the discus
sion of the dispensary; but he boldly
proclaimed that he had something to
do with the dispensary. And when a
combination was formed to defeat it,
be would tell the people what he
thought about it, so help him, and
then if they choose to vote for prohi-
bition, he did not care, he would have
discharged his duty; and if anybody
did not like it, they would have to
lump it. When ministers of the gos'
pei 60 into politics they lay themselves
open to be criticised and he would do 80.